Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

After making claims that Tylenol hurts fetuses, RFK Jr announced a new review of mifepristone, the abortion pill, based on a junk study from a right wing think tank. I took the occasion to survey the status of abortion rights and women’s health in the second Trump administration:

So fuckin stupid and bad. Vaccinate your kids, vaccinate yourself.

wow, now up to 38 in custody deaths this year in the LA jails

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

It's important to realize what precipitated this was Nexstar announcing they pulled showing Kimmel on their affiliates. They're currently waiting for the FCC to loosen restrictions to enable their massive merger. This was as much pay to play by a corporation as it was censorship.

They are literally canceling culture

i’m gonna fuckin lose it

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.” Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.

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This is incorrect: (1) Department of War was just the Army, not the Navy and Marine Corps; and (2) the President does not have the authority, only Congress can make that change in the law. Be better, @npr.org.

oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop

That is the end-of-May meeting where Stephen Miller brought every ICE Field Office Director into a room and screamed at them to start rounding people up at Home Depot and to stop focusing on people with criminal records. The Los Angeles raids started a couple weeks later.

NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

this is a scene straight out of a war zone. the president has declared war on his own country.

A bit farther ahead, it's increasingly looking like a rather extreme late-season ridge & heatwave event may develop over Pacific NW & British Columbia in about a week--with some degree of anomalous warmth extending across most of the West (including California). #CAwx #ORwx #WAwx

🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:

Why are some still spreading misinfo that "masks only work when everyone wears one," & use it as an excuse not to mask as "no-one else is." It isn't all or nothing. While it's safer when more mask because there's less virus in the air, a well-fitting mask protects you even if no-one else masks.

Now imagine if this was everything

SCOTUS has released the October and November argument calendars, with the big news being that the big Voting Rights Act case reargument is set for October 15.

it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Trump is invoking Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, which authorizes him to seize control of the entire DC police department for a maximum of 30 days. This is insane stuff. D.C. is not in the grip of a crime wave. Crime has been falling for three years now. Violent crime is at a 30-year low.

My newest piece at @boltsmag.org is all about the democracy voucher program, the first of its kind, that just got renewed here in Seattle. A workgroup will be convened early next year to start looking at possible improvements, especially to the independent expenditure issue.

Also, Andrew Cuomo spent $20 million of NY taxpayers' money to subpoena phone (& gynecological records!) of women who accused him of sexual harassment. How else might those 20 million have been spent? For instance: on resources and services for needy New Yorkers?

GOP Rep. Mike Flood at a town hall: "Do you think that people who are 28-years-old, that can work, & refuse to work, should get free healthcare?" Crowd: "YESSSSSSSSSS!"

😬The Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments. If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.

For @slate.com, I wrote about one dimension of the totalizing Trump/Miller immigration crackdown that's not getting enough notice, which is that they're moving to make indefinite detention — with no release dates and few options to get out — a norm

The Trump administration has quietly released the first stage of its plan to revoke birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants. It uses dry legalese to conceal the barbaric reality of ICE agents in maternity wards and deportation flights for babies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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looking at the "this is not a placr of honor" sign and realizing with growing dread that wasps can't read

Just to show how much the anti trans side is driven by conspiracy theory bs, the FTC is investigating whether trans "influencers" are getting kickbacks from gender affirming care providers and pharma companies. This is absolutely insane.

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

Both the Trump administration and Florida have been lying through their teeth about who is being detained at the Everglades detention camp.

DHS's proposal for what to do with the children of people here on temporary statuses (including TPS and DACA) if the illegal birthright citizenship EO ever goes into effect is a bizarre plan to grant the same status to the children held by parents — which seems itself obviously an illegal plan.

Secretary Kennedy posted a lengthy tweet about vaccine court. As is common, he misrepresented the facts in his claims. A thread. Here are his claims - screenshot and text below. x.com/SecKennedy/s... 1/n

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

They tried and failed to do this in Trump 1.0, and it’s still the same judge in charge of making the decision.

What the actual hell was CBP looking for? This suggests a very specific pre-existing investigation that was done in coordination with the FBI to target him in particular.

The systemic wage abuse of care workers is so infuriating. Care workers make it possible for us to live in our communities. For family to have support so they're not on their own. For people to be safe. They should be making so much more and getting much more robust labor protections overall.

The Trump administration just awarded Virginia-based Acquisition Logistics a $1.26 billion contract to operate a 5,000-bed tent camp on Fort Bliss in El Paso. The company previously got just $29 million in DOD logistics contracts over 5 years; now it'll run the largest detention camp in the US.

About 99% sure this violates the Olympic charter when it comes to government interference!!!! Also I’m going to be sick.

It's wild that this guy's constantly popping up to tell us all about the horrible problems he plans on causing for the world and he's somehow not universally treated as a villain.