Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

It’s funny because it isn’t 😕 🇺🇸

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

This is not only fundamentally wrong but incredibly dangerous to the existence of the Republic. (2/2)

Troops to Portland? Illegal and absurd. But the absurdity is the point. Trump policy is to ignore real threats to US security coming from abroad and use the armed forces to pursue imaginary threats from within, thereby creating an atmosphere suitable for personal rule. (1/2)

The beatings will continue until morale improves!

Sending troops into downtowns that still haven’t fully bounced back from the damage wrought by Covid is just exceptional leadership.

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

DOJ submitted a sweeping petition to the Supreme Court late Friday, asking the justices to uphold President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order that would deny birthright citizenship to children born in the United States, if neither parent is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.

The “alarmists” were and are right about COVID and climate change too. Maybe we should stop calling them alarmists and start calling them the people who can correctly read a room.

Why Don’t Data Centers Use More Green Energy? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/b... One day, sooner than we’d all like, AI anthropologist chatbots will tell us that insatiable greed and soulless nihilism were the reasons humanity burned up its only habitable planet to feed a monster of its own creation.

September 26, 2025

Kind of would like a world where one of the President’s staff accidentally triggering an escalator safety stop doesn’t trigger calls to bomb the UN.

i’m so old, i remember when going on the internet made you smarter

To the dozen (mas o menos) people who follow me, I have to scream this into the void now with a time/date stamp since I know it will be stolen shortly: Henceforth, Tylenol shall be known as “Epsteinaminophen.” Good day.

I’m sure Trump changing his tune on Ukraine is totally meaningful and there’s no way he will do a 180 after one call from Putin.

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

On "Today with Jenna and Friends" about the benefits of #phonefreeschools www.today.com/video/jonath...

The preventable illnesses and deaths that this administration’s medical misinformation campaign have brought won’t end when it is no longer in power. People will needlessly suffer and die for generations to come — it is criminal negligence.

Rigging the voting maps. Coming after vote by mail. Demanding ransom from news outlets. Forcing Kimmel off the air. It's all part of the same authoritarian project to silence those who disagree with this admin's harmful agenda.

If you're a cable host interviewing Tom Homan, at the very least you need to ask him about accepting bribes to influence government contracts. Or -- hear me out -- you could wordlessly pull a thick envelope from your coat pocket and slide it to him across the table with a stage wink.

Citizens United has turned our democracy into a government that serves the ultra-wealthy. We thank @repsummerlee.bsky.social for her leadership and taking an important step forward in the fight to ensure government works for the people, not billionaires and corporate special interests.

There will be a point at the trials when the prosecutors are going to want to prove a depraved indifference to human life, and man are they going to be spoiled for material.

Republican senators: “Putin is playing Trump like a piano.”

Championing the legacy of “free speech” by trying to destroy anyone who doesn’t agree with him

The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus. We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/

this is fucking horrifying

September 11, 2025

Lowering the temperature.

So the press could’ve cared this much when Melissa Hartman, her husband AND THEIR DOG were murdered by a Trump supporter. They just chose not to.

France will send three warplanes to protect Poland's airspace, President Emmanuel Macron announced today.

The weakest president in US history. We are an absolute joke to the world. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Brazil just showed the world what accountability looks like.🇧🇷 Fmr President Jair Bolsonaro has been found guilty of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election. The Supreme Court ruled he incited the Jan. 8 attack on Congress, the Supreme Court, & the presidential palace. Democracy held.

September 10, 2025

This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight. nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

On September 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned President Richard Nixon:

They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.

Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”

AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.

As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting

Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."

Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home

August 31, 2025

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.