EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

All babies belong to God, some people are just in more a rush to give Him sole custody than others

For anyone who dismissively says the #NoKings marches are just rallies, not protests: that's cool, 'cause RALLIES ARE GREAT! :-) Mass rallies like this are KEY if you want to eventually build to a general strike, for example. This is organizing, step by step. See you on 10/18!

Trump was caught on a hot mic arranging a meeting between a foreign head of state and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business. Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing GOP members of Congress used to care about? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead-- newrepublic.com/article/2016...

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them. If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: The Jerusalem Post article below, titled “Israel, Hamas not to participate in Gaza deal signing ceremony - report,” speaks for itself. You can access the article by clicking the link here: www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

This is a really important point. They want “meme authoritarianism.” They want rage. They’re getting frogs & aging hippies. Not great optics—for them. But great for us: you build a movement by showing folks that they’re part of an energized and hopeful “us.” Let’s go!

Note to baby lawyers: If you go to work for these people this is the position you will be in all the time. Either you will find yourself lying to the court or, like here, confessing stupidity and incompetence. There will be no other options.

No surprises here - removed or altered data sets include health data, and other data related to climate change, air pollution, etc., which enable threats to health and wellbeing and health inequities to be tracked and intervened upon.

Using ChatGPT

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Government workers 👇🏾

Since this offer is a free benefit open to all federal employees not one that discriminates based on paygrade or type of duties, it's not considered a "gift" and can be accepted by any Federal employee under the ethics rules at 5 C.F.R. §2635.203(b)(4).

UKIP's new logo looks a bit Far Righty.

Wait. We get paid?

a) screaming "antisemitism" at everything robs the phrase of its meaning, opening the door to real hatred; b) the internet is lowering the planet's collective IQ.

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

I knew it would be bad, but... so bad! So quickly!

You officially live in a “show me your papers” nation, if you were wondering how far along things are now. And ICE took his unhoused friend.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

When authoritarians tell you they like authoritarianism, over and over and over and over and over again, believe them

By the time you get to the point where the Transportation Secretary is complaining about political protests, you know the administration is truly scared of the public backlash.

One lesson for pro-democracy advocates currently sitting in opposition around the world -- hammer incumbents on corruption and link strengthening liberal democracy (aka accountability) to anti-corruption efforts.

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend. Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

Trump just installed Michael Ellis as CIA general counsel, possibly to green light legally dubious CIA ops to do this as an end run around congress.

CBS is now just reposting third-rate right-wing bloggers, instead of news. Partisan attacks on Mamdani, and they can’t even spell his name right.

Jebus, they didn't even spell his name correctly.

The complete ignorance of anything Trump is doing is not great for someone second in line to the Presidency.

But we cant have healthcare. bsky.app/profile/atru...

A surprising sight in St. Clair County, Michigan: A man waving Fixodent denture cream before the county commissioners at an August meeting. “I am an unfluoridated child,” he declared, “with a set of uppers and lowers.”

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages www.propublica.org/article/trum... www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

And has built an Army of unqualified ICE thugs who are terrorizing our blue cities. This isn't going to end well.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

“The agency’s entire Washington [DC] office, which was laid off on Fri, will not be rehired. Nor will employees of the office of the director of the center for injury prevention, or those at the division of violence prevention policy.” 🧪🛟

When your country's secretary of health is desperately trying to make you ill by spouting total nonsense about vaccines because of his non-scientific ideology 🤦‍♂️🤬

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As Heather Cox Richardson points out, creating Columbus Day to push back against the Second Klan during an era of anti-Italian violence & lynching (a subset of anti-Black Jim Crow violence) was good, just as challenging the way we remember how Columbus advanced Indigenous genocide is also good.

we need to abolish this shit

What I find particularly interesting is that quarter of a century ago we had a realisation, as a society, that even minor issues in widely-used code could potentially have devastating consequences... ...and then we learned, societally, almost nothing from the experience.

i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.