NEW: Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found. By @emcahan.bsky.social

The whole global power structure is built on the flimsiness and vanity of a Proustian dinner party, apparently

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Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A tenants union is organizing renters at apartment buildings throughout the portfolio of a single private equity firm owner — an attempt to bring sectoral bargaining to negotiations with large landlords www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

FBI agents caught Tom Homan accepting $50k in bribes, but “planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Ted Kennedy Jr. takes on Robert Kennedy Jr., arguing that his cousin "is unraveling" the family's legacy of promoting immunization, expanding health care access and protecting the most vulnerable. "It will undermine the health of our children." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/19/o...

A 42-year-old man died in ICE custody yesterday on Long Island, in Nassau County, where Bruce Blakeman gave ICE 50 local jail cells to hold detainees. The man's name and cause of death not released yet. He was found not breathing, police said. www.newsday.com/long-island/...

If you're cancelling certain streaming services today, remember that your library card gives you access to Kanopy, which has heaps of great programming! www.kanopy.com

A Kansas sheriff's deputy has been charged with murder in the death of an inmate who sustained broken ribs after his back was kneeled on after he was wheeled from the infirmary to his cell.

The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

Call it the MAGA-to-earnings ratio

This story isn't just a look back at what happened last hurricane season. It also looks forward at the threat today. bsky.app/profile/zhir...

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

After they were shackled and detained by US immigration authorities despite being here legally, Korean engineers employed by the battery plant ICE raided in Georgia are on leave — to deal with their traumatic experiences. Great story by @bloomberg.com’s Gaby Coppola www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.

Couldn’t sleep last night, but dozed just before my alarm went off—it woke me up from a dream in which I was in a shouting match w/2 airline agents who wouldn’t give me a refund even though our plane had to make an emergency landing. Five more minutes & maybe my brain would’ve given me my money back

Steve Witkoff has yet to divest his crypto assets, including those linked to the Trump family, potentially posing a conflict of interest for Trump’s special envoy for peace missions.

"The only question is why I have stayed with them for this long." Will Bunch puts the Washington Post behind him. www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

"She became famous first among the children of Harlem as a storyteller. 'All children’s librarians were expected to tell stories and tell them well.' Baker feared she was not naturally good at storytelling. It was a skill she worked hard at until... it became 'the great love in my life.'"

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

"Authorities in Utah say two men have been arrested on suspicion of placing an incendiary device under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City. The bomb didn't go off." abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

“I will never visit the United States again,” Mr. Jeong said. @nytimes.com #Hyundai www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

Michael Mallinson is a retired banker living in Toronto. But thousands of posts on social media claimed he was a registered Democrat from Utah who had shot and killed Charlie Kirk.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to more than 27 years in prison after Supreme Court panel convicts him of attempting coup.

All I knew is that I was fucking taken. No one told me what I was there for. I thought no one knew––that I was literally gonna just disappear in there and never see my fucking kids again.”

South Korea adjusting their "Invest-in-America" playbook.

A third of jobs related to race, diversity, and equality that were created in U.S. newsrooms since 2020 are gone as of this summer. 
 @hanaatameez.bsky.social with a months-long investigation and new data on American journalism's turn away from DEI initiatives. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

“A group of boys brought in a transistor radio to listen to music. They didn’t realize they had to lift the antenna, so I lifted it for them. The music wasn’t that loud and it was quite sweet.” gothamist.com/news/from-bu...

You gotta see this. My amazing @bloomberg.com colleagues reveal the inner workings of the creep machine: the expensive, complicated and finely tuned effort to get Jeffrey Epstein unfettered access to unprotected teenage girls. Revolting, but important to understand. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

How @bloomberg.com Vetted the Epstein Emails Methods included cryptographic analysis, metadata analysis and corroboration with external sources. By the brilliant trio @jeffkao.bsky.social @suryamattu.com & @dhruvm.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Not picking on Solomon specifically here, especially because Dimon did this yesterday, but isn’t it far less impressive to warn of a slowdown AFTER the jobs revisions?

I’m downtown near Pace University and a pack of skinny, baggy-pantsed, cardigan-and-band t-shirt wearing skaterboys just ambled past me and wow, it really is the 1990s again.

A charter plane has left for the U.S. to bring back Korean workers detained in an immigration raid of a battery factory at a Hyundai auto plant in Georgia, South Korean media reports.

My latest story - Trump administration rolls back tax shelter crackdown: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

Fed gov. nominee Miran notes in new disclosure form a property he mortgaged in 2022 is now an investment property/rental, document endnote says "previously reported as a mortgage on a primary residence; began renting out the property during the reporting period.”

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

The White House wants foreign investment in manufacturing. Raiding a Hyundai plant in Georgia is a strange way of getting there, writes @maryellenklas.bsky.social

At an alarming pace, the Trump administration has fired climate scientists, rolled back regulations, interfered in data collection, and cut planning and emergency response funds. That puts all Americans at risk. Read The Big Take ⬇️

“The changes mean that about 10 million fewer people are expected to have health insurance over the next decade,” per CBO. Important story from Yasmeen Abutaleb and @maevereston.bsky.social on the costs and consequences of Trump’s budget bill — and, especially, the big decisions looming for states.

Tulsa is raising $105 million to compensate victims of the Greenwood massacre as part of what the city’s mayor calls a “road to repair” the damage to Black citizens and their neighborhood that endures, 105 years later. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In 2018, Anthony Scaramucci tried to raise $3b for a fund that would invest in opportunity zones, where new projects got tax breaks under Trump’s tax bill. Things aren’t going well. Investors haven’t gotten a dime back, but the Mooch is still collecting his fees www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pitched in on our coverage of the giant ICE raid on an EV battery plant in Georgia, where the Trump administration's immigration enforcement agenda is coming into conflict with its U.S. manufacturing ambitions. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...

Massie: "I don't know if the Speaker misspoke when he said Donald Trump was an informant ... the Speaker needs to clarify that. And if it's a hoax, why was Donald Trump an informant to a hoax?"

BREAKING: Trump’s global tariffs found illegal by US appeals court