listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social You are an American treasure!

This is a strong report, and I encourage you to watch it and share it with your Trumpy relatives. Because he's right: This is wrong, and it's tyranny, whatever Brett Kavanaugh says, and no decent American should stand for it.

Journalism, the job where when someone powerful lies you describe it as "not strictly true" because describing facts would be bias bsky.app/profile/atru...

Hmmmmmm....

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

Take the good news seriously too

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

Expect any non-citizen (for now) in any position of power to be harassed and abused on pretext by the secret police.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

"I want folks to be very aware that they're attacking these Black-led cities...that have historic reductions in violent crime.” On @revealnews.org's “More To The Story,” Brandon Scott says Trump's threats to send the National Guard are a distraction from the city’s historic efforts to reduce crime.

The incredible Dr. Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social is out with a new piece about the impact of having a charlatan in charge of science and healthcare. As usual he pulls no punches.

I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.

Multiple peer reviewed studies done by medical researchers indicate that Tylenol does not seem to be a cause of autism. But one heroin-addicted nepo baby says that it is. For pregnant mothers it can be hard to know who to trust.

Just a reminder that if you are considering taking extra Tylenol to own the cons, also do not do that since it IS toxic in large quantities. Take as doctors direct, not as recommended by reality TV stars or activists with brain worms.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Ok, this one is too good and has to be shared! @jaybird54.bsky.social Goodnight & Sweet Dreams!

Vanity Fair's hiring of Olivia Nuzzi and WaPo's firing of Karen Attiah in the same week is a bit on the nose. Deeply unsubtle times.

Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.

Thank you for this.

Obama: So we have to extend to people during their period of mourning We can also at the same time say I disagree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake I can disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power.

1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.

NEWS: The courts once again make clear the President cannot undermine the Fed’s independence. This is critical for our economy, for fighting inflation, and for preventing interest rates from spiraling.

61 years ago today, in 1963, the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church stole the lives of four young girls and shocked us as a nation. It remains a brutal reminder that hate, if tolerated, metastasizes into violence. Ignoring extremism doesn’t make it disappear, it makes it grow.👇

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

"Kirk was not just putting on a show. He was a dedicated proponent of ... an authoritarian politics that backed the repression of opponents and made light of violence against them." @jamellebouie.net again says it precisely and with receipts. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

The Charlie Kirk assassination is that little dot on the map of gun deaths in 2025.

Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

Everyone should be held to the same standards.

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

Christina Taylor Green was born the day the twin towers fell. She was shot to death in the mass shooting that grievously wounded Gabby Giffords. She was one of those gun deaths that Charlie Kirk believed were the “cost” of preserving 2nd Amendment rights. The second cartoon was published yesterday…

As Americans struggle to make ends meet… www.forbes.com/sites/martin...

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.

From Denver to Utah, our country experienced two preventable & horrific public shootings today. We cannot continue to live alongside gun violence & accept that losing lives every day is normal. Thoughts & prayers are not enough. Congress must pass gun safety legislation now.

The conservative majority simply blocks off reality to justify its ends. Today’s decision is as chilling as it gets. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1