News Analysis: For President Trump, a wide-ranging crackdown on mainstream media institutions and political opponents is not about hate speech, but about speech that he hates — namely, speech that is critical of him and his administration. nyti.ms/3VsCyO4

lol www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Not to be so bold as to give anybody a reason to live through this next week BUT! By this time next week there will be a bunch of 5-month-old hound puppy photos attached to this post from an upcoming rescue relay. Stay tuned

Also, it seems worth noting, if it was important, strategically, to have Bagram - which I don't think it was, but follow me here - well, to hold Bagram you need to hold quite a lot of Afghanistan. So if it were important, than the guy that signed off on Doha would have to be a pretty big idiot, huh?

I read Robert Draper’s big profile in the NYT on the wife of the white supremacist who was murdered. It’s a little strange in that it doesn’t really describe the project that was his life’s work, and it leaves the impression of a couple whose lives were pretty alienated from one another.

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

Horseshit in the service of fascism

when they used to say "twitter isn't real life," what they meant was they thought progressive viewpoints were overrepresented there.

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

Mix in a “racism over,” and you’ve got a very cool highest court in the land right there

This chaos also speaks to the growing awareness of the profound corruption of the Supreme Court. The excessive H1B fee is clearly illegal according to the text of the applicable statute. But no one can have any confidence anymore that it will ultimately be thrown out.

I’d never seen this one.

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

I have no idea what this headline means

lol they really done fucked it huh?

I guess it’s good to know that inside the panopticon tower, it’s also hell.

I know we’re pretending there aren’t any laws anymore and Trump can just pull whatever sweaty grift he wants now, but what the everloving fuck is this?!

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

This is pathetic "Hey guys! I got to go to a castle! What's that? My 'reporting'? Sorry, can you define that word for me?"

It is a travesty that physical movie rental options disappeared at the same time that Blu-ray quality became amazing

Possibly the best byline I’ve ever seen. www.akc.org/expert-advic...

Photojournalism by the Tribune's @staceywescott.bsky.social

A first-semester freshman at Auburn -- who has not even experienced one month as a student -- is demanding universities purge faculty members who dared to be critical of the man who created the Professor Watchlist. Calling college presidents & donors ... as one does their first month in college.

Right now, there's a budget showdown in Washington. Democrats are in the minority. It's most likely that the next Democratic US Senator from Michigan will come into office in the minority. So what do we do? Exactly what we did here in the Michigan state Senate.

You almost certainly aren’t going to get out of the war crimes tribunal by producing a letter that you solicited because you were aware that the legality of your orders was questionable.

Almost certainly illegal and likely to be struck down in court. Congress has only authorized the government to set fees to recover the cost of adjudicating the application. There is no statutory authority to impose fees designed to limit the use of a visa.

This is how the most epic side quest begins. Do NOT miss this chance.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

“I don’t know what’s going on, and no one does.”

now the dutch are scoring on us

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.

Conservatives keep posting about how the Kirk murder has radicalized them like never before and we have no idea what’s coming and so far that’s mostly meant harassing Starbucks baristas, their number one activity for at least the last 10 years

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

I really think that Dems should demand firing RFK Jr. as a condition to fund the government his negative value over replacement cabinet member is undoubtedly the highest in the administration

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

real macho man we got here. threat neutralized soldier, good job. looks like you really needed that call of duty max loadout

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

This is a clearly impeachable offense he’s reportedly going to finish committing tomorrow. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters

Lex Luthor sold LexCorp before he ran for president to avoid an appearance of impropriety

Lol

Jacobs must resign as chair of the NY Dem party if he cannot support what Dem voters have chosen. He should resign today, or continue to do very serious damage to the party. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Suffer the little children

Farmageddon is breaking contain

Pope after my own heart

they’re such comic book villains

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."