I think we see once again how ordinary citizens are grappling better with this situation than sundry political and business elites. the jury pretty clearly was like "this is bullshit" www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...

To understand how we've gotten so close to rising authoritarianism and a crumbling Fourth Estate, Sunday's 60 Minutes interview with Trump tells you everything you need to know. @notaaroncraig.bsky.social explains how we reclaim the airwaves. READ: https://pressingissues.org/good-night-and-wtf/

Tbh I'm not even mad about 'On Your Marx, get set, Zo!'

Here’s the full speech youtu.be/kOQT_4A1eb8

New Pressing Issues: 60 Minutes, the death of hypocrisy, plus Andy Rooney! Toss a few softballs, avoid fact checking and provide a little sane-washing of Trump’s more unhinged rants, and you can apparently do all the editing you want. You might even get a multibillion-dollar merger out of it.

The Black Future Newsstand is headed to Texas! www.freepress.net/blog/front-p...

Uh oh, the FCC Chairman is podcasting again. Brendan Carr’s supposed efforts to “reinvigorate the public-interest standard” are really about bullying timid media executives and transforming their newsrooms into Trump mouthpieces. New Pressing Issues out now! Subscribe!

The great @timkarr.bsky.social explores why our nation's legacy media outlets are so allergic to covering protests in the newest edition of Pressing Issues. pressingissues.org/to-the-natio... (You'd already know how great this piece is if you were a subscriber!)

You should just go ahead and stick this on a yellow banner above the door like Ted Lasso in every Democratic office: "The largest mass protest in American history was called No Kings, not No Health Insurance Premium Increases."

"OpenAI has subpoenaed a wide range of nonprofits that have been critical of the company’s controversial for-profit restructuring. ... But in practice, recipients and legal experts say, they seem more like a campaign of intimidation with very real costs." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting “No Kings” in perspective. Some thoughts from my new piece:

As millions of Americans prepare to take the streets to peaceably assemble at #NoKings protests tomorrow, I take on the GOP’s mounting threats to this core constitutional right.

Welcome @jgo4justice.bsky.social of @freepress.bsky.social to the growing list of PressingIssues.org contributors! The GOP Escalates Opposition to Peaceful Protest

Less than 48 hours before protests kick off across the country on Saturday, the LAPD is [checks notes] begging a judge for permission to assault journalists without being held in contempt of court laist.com/news/politic...

NEW for @washingtonpost.com: Pentagon reporters exited the building in unison Wednesday after turning in their badges, having refused to sign the Defense Department's press policy. @nancyayoussef.bsky.social called it a “sad day for those who support a free press.”

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.) Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear. But… no “kids”!

This guy is going places. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform? Is it...requesting content moderation?

On the 575th pitch! What. A. Game.

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Shame on Apple. Tim Cook's commitment to capitulation is remarkable. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

National Digital Inclusion Alliance files suit over Trump administration killing Digital Equity Act grant program. www.digitalinclusion.org/blog/nationa...

The central figure in Trump's push to silence Kimmel et al is now in full damage control, trying to rewrite the history of what just happened, while offloading onto Democrats blame for his unconstitutional campaign of censorship. Free Press' @mattfieldwood.bsky.social exposes all of Carr's lies:

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner. www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Note also the role of Kimmel-canceling Nexstar (owners of NewsNation) riding along to film ICE-in-action propaganda

New Pressing Issues w/ debut of @mattfieldwood.bsky.social on the hypocrisy and dishonesty of a certain FCC chairman and South Park guest star. Subscribe!

In case there’s still any confusion between what I do and whatever the hell just happened over at Bari W.’s FreeBS h/t @timkarr.bsky.social www.freepress.net/blog/this-fr...

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

The real @freepress.bsky.social will never be bought by an Ellison, a Murdoch or a Musk. act.freepress.net/donate/suppo...

New on @techpolicypress.bsky.social from @freepress.bsky.social advocacy director @ruddock.bsky.social: Amidst a violent crackdown, the Trump administration has set its sights on anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations—and it’s turning to major tech companies to help:

Mario was simply doing his job as a reporter when police targeted him. He was detained 108+ days, muzzled by the admin. Today, the US govt is deporting him to El Salvador, which he fled for safety reasons. This chilling practice seeks to silence dissent & truth. www.democracynow.org/2025/10/3/ma...

the Trump admin just deported an award-winning journalist known for his reporting on ICE and got Apple to block ICE-spotter apps — all while churning out highly-produced social media content from violent ICE raids in Chicago. it’s their media or no media. www.techpolicy.press/amidst-viole...

"When faced with actual, explicit, documented government censorship—the kind they’ve been breathlessly warning about for years—they have nothing to say. Because this censorship serves their agenda, targets their enemies, and advances their political goals." www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/d...

Thanks, Google AI: "There isn't a single, common English word that perfectly captures both 'evil' and 'stupid'; however, words like cretinous, idiotic, imbecilic, and fatuous strongly imply that actions are both unintelligent and harmful or morally reprehensible. ...

AAUP President Todd Wolfson unpacks the dangerous consequences of the Trump administration’s compact, which aims to exert ideological control over universities and colleges. As Wolfson makes clear, this partisan incursion into higher education affects ALL sectors. @proftwolf.bsky.social

"This is not an industry problem. This is a society problem. How do we make vibrant and well-supported this essential service that is the lifeblood of democracy?" @julito77.bsky.social talks with the director of the new to PBS doc "Stripped for Parts" about hedge funds and the future of news.

“This case is chilling for us all,” said Free Press’ senior counsel Benavidez. “And that’s the point — the administration will stop at nothing, not even the First Amendment, to bully people into silence.” cpj.org/2025/10/jour...

"What's clear from this fiasco is that the Trump administration doesn’t know what a joke is," writes @notaaroncraig.bsky.social. "The only laughable thing has been Carr’s attempts to cover up his unconstitutional actions. We know what he said & saw the coercion & censorship with our own eyes."

Right wingers in 2017: Dumb libs think words are violence Right wingers in 2025: Words are violence and we're going to throw you in jail for saying the wrong ones, which is terrorism bsky.app/profile/atru...

Chants! T-shirts! Corruption! Censorship! Awkwardness! It had it all.

It has been a day. But i believe we will win. Plus fun T-Shirts! New Pressing Issues! pressingissues.org/face-to-face...

Commissioner Gomez jokes about “the era of quill and candlelight” being gone but the Trump FCC majority apparently wants to return our kids to darkness, cutting of poorer families from services their wealthier peers take for granted. And for what? So they can say they deleted some regulations?

The main thing missing from Brendan Carr’s statement about cutting off funds for kids to have Wi-Fi on school buses and in their homes is concern for or mention of any actual children. Heartless.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Public Knowledge opposes legalizing any cellphone jamming, even for correctional facilities. Read more in our statement from Senior Vice President @haroldfeld.bsky.social: