"They took my daughter, she’s 5-years-old. She has autism spectrum," the girl's mother says in the video. "Give me my daughter back." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Making my way back here as I prepare my exit from TikTok. They destroyed something so beautiful and powerful that informed and connected so many. I watched community form in ways I’ve never seen on social media, in a way that was truly global and far-reaching. They were ecstatic to steal that away.

The @newrepublic.com actually does very useful and helpful REPORTING. How about @propublica.org? Excellent. The @51st.news is doing excellent actual reporting. So is @thetriibe.com in Chicago. There are so many other places to get actual useful news.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

My friend in Gaza, Ahmed, has had to leave his home in Gaza City. He tried his best to stay, but then dozens of people were killed in a bombing just near his home. He has worked to rebuild his family home. It’s gone. This is all he has. Please consider giving to him: bit.ly/help-goalie-ahmed

Google Earth / Maps is now updating its satellite imagery of Gaza. We now have a top-down view of some of the worst atrocities committed since the Second World War.

La boxeuse Imane Khelif conteste les tests de féminité et attaque World Boxing devant le Tribunal arbitral du sport

If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.

NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:

#OtD 31 Aug 1944 Maria Dimadi, Greek interpreter and anti-Nazi resistance activist, was executed by members of the Greek collaborationist Security Battalions. She worked as a spy passing information to the resistance before she was caught and killed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1035...

going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago

“Despite Trump Dying From Heart Failure, It Was Really Death By A Million Cuts On Bluesky”

Is it time???????

Seeing this on Naylor Rd is the reasonable compromise people have landed on.

NEW — A group of Texas Democrats are returning to the state House in Austin, where they will spend the night on the statehouse floor — the latest step in broader protest over Republican plans to redraw congressional districts in the state. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

CALIFORNIA: tell the CA senate to reject SB 771 and stop trying to erase dissent, masked as “fighting hate” Link for contacting your state reps: support.adc.org/a/sb771

NEW: Rep. Ro Khanna told Drop Site he has secured 20 signatures from fellow House members on a letter to President Trump and Sec. of State Marco Rubio urging U.S. recognition of Palestinian statehood. He is aiming for 50.

NEW— ICE vehicles chased a landscaping truck through Takoma Park, MD, on Monday about a mile from DC, which ended with the truck crashing on someone’s lawn and narrowly missing another car, multiple residents confirm to me. Video shows ICE going into a backyard to find/arrest the men from the truck.

Update: Schiff and Padilla betray their humanity and vote to continue a massacre. Show an inch of spine and act like you care about starving children, the bar is literally on the ground @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov

Age verification laws are spreading in the US. The tools are often easily beaten performative trash but they're still a danger as goldmines for bad actors, holding PII data from anyone who obeys these laws. The laws also invariably get weaponized against all LGBTQIA+ content. Fight them as you can.

ZERO HOUR CONTACT YOUR SNEATORS TO MAKE SURE THEY VOTE FOR JRD 34 and 41!!!!!! I got through to Adam Schiff but left a message for Alex Padilla. DO IT!!! Here’s an easy link that does the dialing and script for you www.imeupolicyproject.org/stop-weapons

This can happen to any of us at anytime and it's unconscionable. It should be mandatory that every mayor and city council member watch this interview and read this book.

ICE agents lied about LA protestors

Will never forget the people who claimed they were defenders of human rights, of justice, of people and were silent for nearly two years while Palestinians were dehumanized and annihilated.

Their preferred “remain perfectly still, fascists’ vision is based on movement!” strategy has a glaring flaw and you are looking at it here. You cannot simply assume voters are going to sweep you back into power because Trump is unpopular when you are also very unpopular.

Two million people are being threatened with forced starvation in #Palestine, as the US government continues to support ongoing ethnic-cleansing. We've created a list of on-the-ground mutual aid groups in #Gaza that you can support, amplify, and follow. itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-o...

NYT posts an opinion piece by an Israeli scholar saying it’s finally a genocide w/ irrefutable evidence. While I understand the reach this will have and the uncomfortable truths stated by Omer Bartov are the POV many need to hear, I need everyone to evaluate why this perspective is more accepted….

lol snuck a little mention in there that the guy who says a bunch of New York Times shit only got 14%, but yeah obviously the big takeaway is that people really want New York Times politics

John Rawls, perhaps the most influential American political philosopher of the late 20th century, famously argued that the supreme court is the avatar of the polity's public reason & that reason is the court's only legitimate power. When it doesn't offer reasons, it's failing its most basic function

The Niche Machine is here. We are now not just seeing AI slop about current events and natural disasters, we are seeing hyperpersonalized AI slop that combines "news" and disinformation with any interest / celebrity / hobby you could possibly imagine www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...

Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.

A very big study from Denmark generates some reassuring findings about aluminum in childhood vaccines, finding no association between aluminum and development of a number of illnesses, including asthma. www.statnews.com/2025/07/14/a...

i give it a year tops before some administration account is tweeting pro-slavery propaganda

The Supreme Court is just functioning as another arm of a lawless presidency. The courts legitimacy is over and done with.

It’s been two days since Israeli settlers killed a 20-year-old American. Donald Trump and JD Vance have still not said a word about it.

if the U.S. had a functional press it would have been 10 years of wall to wall merciless coverage about the fact this man operates at a third grade reading level and has absolutely no fucking idea how even the most basic things work

If you still trust the NYT for your main source of info, you can’t be trusted. You’re being sold lies.

A US citizen was shot and killed in Ramallah yesterday. NYT puts in More News... Two Palestinians killed in West Bank Clash with Israeli Settlers. The Guardian and BBC have similar headlines too. Now imagine the front page banner headline if a US-Israeli settler had been killed.

If you're American, consider this series of events — Wednesday: We ask Republicans if they knew how many Americans have been killed in Palestine and Lebanon since 10/7. None did. Thursday: Republicans & Democrats smile alongside Netanyahu. Friday: Israeli settlers kill another American.

headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights." the article:

Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.

Every immigrant worker in California has felt the impact of unconstitutional raids based on racial profiling. This legal victory will help protect workers from being stopped, harassed, or detained simply for looking brown and working hard.

"Speaking anonymously, the soldier said troops killed civilians arbitrarily. The soldier said the criteria of opening fire on civilians shifted depending on the commander."

This was twenty months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 14,186 kids since.

There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.

NWS timeline for Texas flood alerts: - Thurs 1:18PM: Flood Watch - Thurs 6:30PM: Heightened forecast for flash flooding - Fri 1:14AM: Emergency Alert System triggered for flash floods - Fri 4:03AM: Flash Flood Emergency - Fri 4:45AM: River surged 22+ feet Officials did nothing for 15+ hours.

so to be clear, Microsoft is using a tool it's embedded into its operating system and many (all?) of its softwares to promote conversion therapy against trans kids, disguised to fool their parents into thinking it isn't purely anti-transition

You know what would have been a good story, @nytimes.com, is that a member of the board of trustees of a public university was using private student data hacked and stolen from another university You could have published that! You had all the information you needed to publish that!

They think you're stupid.