Jay once again forgetting that ALMOST LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON BLUESKY IS HERE BECAUSE WE ABANDONED A SITE

I left twitter cause it became a nazi cesspool. This place seemed a good alternative. But if it nose-dives that’s it for me. Hard as it may be to remember, there was a time before social media. We *can* all just stop

He sexually assaulted a child multiple times and is only serving SIX MONTHS. Make it make sense.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Not only has Trump driven a spike in ICE impersonators, his DOJ is letting them get away with it. Out of 24 cases, only ONE impersonator has faced federal charges. The regime WANTS this. www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/u...

New @rfunkfordham.bsky.social report on the 15th anniversary of Citizens United. The evidence is now clear, in part through Rachel's research, that CitUtd has: -increased the influence of billionaires -reduced state democratic performance -made state governments more rightwing -increased corruption

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

The anti-DEI crusade is fundamentally a *rejection* of merit. It’s about protecting mediocre white men (and the people who cape for them) from fair competition. They want the playing field to be so tilted that a white guy as glaringly unqualified as Trump could be president.

Sam’s Law of Media: The media treats Democrats as the only political actors with agency, responsible for everything happening Republicans, by contrast, are treated like zoo animals: odd, fascinating, but never to be judged and, perhaps more importantly, never responsible for their own decisions

The size of the divide between the average American liberal and the average American liberal pundit on one of the defining questions of foreign policy today really can't be overstated.

They say people fear what they don’t understand, and I feel like that’s especially true when it comes to chronic illness and disability. People understand acute illness. They understand terminal illness. They can’t fathom being sick “forever”. So they turn away from us 🧵

To be clear, saying you're going to "avoid politics" is an INCREDIBLY political statement, especially in an age of fascism.

Helluva thread from farm expert Dr. Sarah Taber

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."

This is an absolutely extraordinary, revelatory quote. Why is the NBC affiliate in Portland the only place reporting it? www.kgw.com/article/news...

Dude appears to have declared war on Portland because he was watching Fox News, saw footage from 2020, and thought it was happening now. What a time to be alive.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

I listened and it was one of the most chilling conversations I’ve ever heard.

Insane that our President just published a fake news report in which he falsely claims a major public program based on entirely fake technology.

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

This is the same guy who complained about the ADL’s history of (accurately) identifying and criticizing right wing extremists who thought the US was a blood and soil nation that belonged to white Christians.

Notice how he smuggled the idea of white genocide into this. Truly noxious. He’s a Christian nationalist trolling Jews, in language coded for other Christian nationalists to fully appreciate.

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

What in the absolute FUCK. The only words I have right now are F-bombs.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

"Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture"

This rally was just announced maybe 10 days ago? I want you to know that you are not alone. Find the people who are standing up in your community and join them. We are going to win.

Will the nyt ever get as mad at trump about anything as much as they got mad at a black lady being president of Harvard

"Those aren't needs, that's just normal", they stammer. [Goose meme] But how did they get to be normal?

27. We will break the laws of a sovereign state to protect ourselves from being held accountable, but your complaints about our crimes must stop. Indeed, such complaints might be something that the government should “identify, disrupt, eliminate and destroy” in order to “make America safe again.”

25. Yesterday, for instance, ICE agents held a 5-year-old girl hostage in pursuit of her dad, who has been in the country peacefully for 20 years. www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/23/i...

1. I want to pick up on a point I made in yesterday’s edition, about how the president and his co-conspirators, inside and outside the regime, do not mean what they say. They do not care about the truth behind their words, only whether those words can achieve a desired outcome.

Sharing my @npr.org 1A interview w/ Jenn White from earlier today- a fantastic discussion about Man Up, misogyny, masculinity, and mass violence, & what I hear from so many parents and teens about the world the want to see (and some things we can all do to get there): the1a.org/segments/the...

It is a core belief of the far right that they are rubber and we are glue

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

one thing i think about @moiradonegan.bsky.social's point is that you never hear people go from "male loneliness" -> why don't we get men involved in collective projects of meaning for the most part. instead it's usually a discussion about how society is too "feminine"

They're all domestic abusers with badges.

WaPo is constantly trying to convince Americans that Trump's lawlessness and complete lack of fealty to democratic norms and procedures is mirrored in the Democratic Party. This is a lie intended to provide cover to Trump's illiberalism, and it's why the paper is more Pravda than Post these days.

My mom woulda sent me straight to my room if she caught me talking to people like this This boy wasn't raised right and maybe we should talk about that more

Here is something you do not hear on the MSM that for millions of Americans, Medicare is life or death. Thank goodness there are so many people out there that care and will help educate.

Speaking of corruption and SCOTUS, here’s an anecdote from Sarah Chayes’s On Corruption in America. It concerns the Court’s vacation of Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell’s conviction for fraud (McDonnell v US).

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

Some major personal news:   Things have really changed. Now I need your help.   On why I left academia, why I left America, and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:   Onward. Forward. Steady:

Can’t think of anything more maga than blaming something you did on a conspiracy involving a large group of foreigners

I can't stop replaying this...

Trump could literally walk around naked and the press would say he “wore a controversial outfit”