I'll bite. It was awesome

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This is spot on!

Thank you for continuing to show us this media weirdness

You mean book bans, comedian silencing, women's health care rights ended, tax breaks for corporations, and military policing? I may have missed something...

This is one of the two best posts today! This was the other (for me): bsky.app/profile/pipe...

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Also add Sarah Kenzior's They Knew to this list.

I read 1984. And Fahrenheit 451. And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale. And The Giver. And The Road. And The Lottery. And The Parable of the Sower. And The Hunger Games. I know what I’m seeing.

Hey Brian Kilmeade, Check to see if your hands have blood on them. This is the second mass shooting on a homeless people within 12 hours.

wow

Unbelievable stuff

It seems insane to me

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

The other night, driving with my son, I thought about all of the stresses on us right now, hitting us from every angle and settling heavy on our hearts. Just then, the Arch –all lit up and sparkly– appeared before us. And I remembered a fact about arches. To steady an arch, you increase the load.

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

Let's stop talking about these soon-to-be gerrymandered districts as foregone conclusions. Instead, let's talk about them as opportunities.

So sad, so unhinged

Republicans who support Trump's anti-American policies had better realize that Americans are sick of the incompetence of the Trump Regime. And we are sick of the Trump Crime wave.

We had a horrific emergency involving our kids today and right now I'm just sitting at my computer in a daze and in shock. Thankfully they are okay but others are less fortunate.

Something about how Democrats have been talking about the gerrymandering in Texas, Ohio, and Missouri has been nagging at me. Because Republican victories in these newly gerrymandered districts are not a foregone conclusion. Unless we make them so.

Yes!

If The Handmaid's Tale is a warning about how quickly women can be enslaved, Andor (Star Wars/Disney) is a warning to those who have what an oppressive regime wants; how they control technology and the media rhetoric, & how little the lives of ordinary people matter, except to give their power away.

@nikitagill.bsky.social @misanharriman.bsky.social I'm grateful to have seen some flower-hearted people lately. open.substack.com/pub/hansjor/...

NOW: Judge Xinis is presiding over a writ petition filed by Mr. Abrego. She's proposing the government respond by Wednesday, and a hearing Friday at 11 AM. She says extending a TRO is necessary because there appears to be a violation of the law. 1/

@nikitagill.bsky.social @misanharriman.bsky.social I'm grateful to have seen some flower-hearted people lately. open.substack.com/pub/hansjor/...

This is sick and twisted action by the govt

This! This! Live by our principles.

The Big Interview, a new weekly series from WIRED’s Uncanny Valley, launches August 26. Every week, WIRED’s Global Editorial Director, @katie-drummond.bsky.social will sit down with influential figures in culture, politics, business, science, and beyond. Learn more here: swap.fm/l/wired-unca...

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.

I am buoyed again and again by the writing of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social who helped me with the idea of cathedral thinking. open.substack.com/pub/hansjor/...

I am buoyed again and again by the writing of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social who helped me with the idea of cathedral thinking. open.substack.com/pub/hansjor/...

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

I wrote a thing, a roundup of some of the resistance going on.

A needed perspective!

Justice?

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25

@amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov - can you help correct this misuse?

They are a plague.

Agreed on this awesomeness!

This was helpful to show the need for context!

I have a book coming out on Niels Bohr’s underground railroad for German scientists in the 30s

There is much goodness that happens when we do what we can. open.substack.com/pub/hansjor/...

There’s … a lot going on. But here’s why I’m especially concerned about the ACA subsidies expiring:

Apparently we need to keep listening

This whole thread is gutting, and we know it is just one story. There are countless human beings who are dealing with the inhumane treatment, without due process.