NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

like i was saying

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Beware fascism's most effective cheerleaders: Those who screech constantly that the battle is lost and action is hopeless. Their cowardly panic is a virus that aims to infect others with the same demoralizing terror. Shun them, shame them, block them—mercilessly.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Hey, Autism is not a disease. While not all Autistics have food aversion, it is found in a lot of Autistic and neurodivergent folk. If you want to stick it to the people sharing and celebrating the spreading of misinformation about Autism, share stuff made by Autistic folk. Like my book:

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

MAGA, because it's a cult, doesn't realize the majority in America and around the world think today's spectacle was truly weird, sad, and unhinged. In no way did it honor Charlie Kirk. It abused his murder as a political rally in honor of their King, Donald Trump. Hella weird.

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

It's like they made a clone of Goebbels but somehow the volume got stuck on "screeching banshee"

In 1983, 90% of U.S. media was owned by 50 companies. By 2012, that number was 6. Today, it's just 5. Decades of media consolidation made it "a lot easier for authoritarian government to exercise control," consumer advocate Gigi Sohn says. Much more in my new piece: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

MAHA vs the U.S. corn lobby is going to be a real Let Them Fight situation

AP-NORC poll | 9/11-9/15 President Trump approval Disapprove 60% (+7) Approve 39% (-6) (shift since last poll) apnorc.org/projects/pes...

People legit yelled at me for 24 hours when I said it's extremely dumb to RSVP to a protest. Why hand your name over to a group organizing a protest/rally? Do you *want* to have to talk to the FBI? Treat anyone encouraging you to RSVP to a protest as a fed. End of.

One thing that's absolutely f---ing unbearable on this site is that if you dare to point out that Trump is not actually successfully oppressing all of us on every conceivable front, that not *all* is irretrievably lost, a parade of doomers materializes to denounce you. It's counterproductive. Stop.

Ok, so: I was raised in Boston and my first beat was in Rhode Island so I KNEW: the rule you learned growing up as a kid, and then as a reporter, was this: NEVER FUCK A KENNEDY. NEVER GET INTO A MOVING CONVEYANCE WITH A KENNEDY. NOT A BOAT. NOT A PLANE. NOT A CAR.

I got called paranoid and hyperbolic when I said this would happen because one of the long-term goals is to push cis girls out of sports and it would happen because ppl only see the transphobia so they get in board, but they don't realize how they're hurting cis girls too.

want to support someone who could be very different? Bethany Andres-Beck is running to defenestrate the Democratic party's most obnoxious transphobe, Seth Moulton. bethfordemocracy.com

Right wing crazies want me arrested because they know I won't back down. Too bad.

Much of the violent, racist rhetoric from the man arrested for allegedly threatening the life of Zohran Mamdani is almost indistinguishable from what top GOP politicians were saying in the days after Mamdani won the primary. (Also similar to what Girdusky said to me on CNN!)

“There,” said Toad. “Now my day is all written down.”

Two babies have died of Whooping cough in Louisiana, a vaccine preventable disease. All pregnant patients and their families should be vaccinated to protect the newborn. This is Louisiana's worst Whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak in 30 years. buff.ly/pez25q3 #medsky #pedsky🛟😷

look at this weird fucking bitch.. a fucking freak show who eats bananas like this is trying to get you fired for not glazing charlie perc

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

I believe that a lot of this could be solved if white people would just listen to Black and brown people. Find some community with Black and brown people. And then shut up and listen to them. A lot of you do not have any actual Black and brown friends/comrades/etc and it's painfully obvious.

It should be noted that the response to @angryblacklady.bsky.social and her correct point that signing your name to RSVP to an antiregime action is dangerous is very similar to the way that white society and men specifically have reacted for generations claiming they’re opposition is just hysterical

It’s increasingly clear that there is a large group of white moderates on this website who claimed they are progressives and other flavors of neoliberal that cannot stand when they are confronted with the reality that they don’t know what they are talking about and get very angry when their canned

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One of the most fearless candidates out there. When she says she'll do something, she does it. We need 50 more like her.

“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.

"Taking away a broadcast license has so many legal obstacles and takes so long that the FCC doesn't even try." This is important to understand. The real action is in self-censorship and merger approvals. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Dems ought to be telling people now these letters are worth absolutely nothing.

19 Sep 25 -- Video from Natl Women's Law Center, 9 Dem state Atty's Gnrl (CA, DE, MA, MD, MI, MN, NY, OR, & VT) declare "I promise to fight for trans students" & do "whatever it takes" as school year begins. (There are 50 states folks-- it's not enough.) @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Again, I'm just describing the situation. If we want to transform it, there's pretty much only one thing for converts to do: shut the fuck up and listen. But even that might be too much to ask.

I'm beginning to think the endless right-wing focus on letting comedians make transphobic, sexist, violent, racist jokes without professional consequences wasn't about protecting the freedom to make jokes.

Survivors call into questions Kash Patel's testimony on the Hill.

First the grand juries, now the trial juries. This Admin is not winning.

Sometimes trolls on other platforms accuse me of promoting the trans agenda. That is the perfect excuse to talk about MY trans agenda: * Prosecute Corruption * Medicare For All * Abortion Is Healthcare * Government Software Should Work For You * Block The Bombs * And more!

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

They are terrified and flailing and lashing out. These are not the actions of competent people secure in their power. All the more reason to keep up the resistance, and especially mockery.

Vermont may join Utah as a balcony solar state! Sun Day on a roll! vtdigger.org/2025/09/17/v...

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

Lot of (powerful!) folks out here treating this political moment as forever more, and not a cobbled-together, rickety ass, *fragile* coalition like any other movement. The emperor gets to appear clothed if *we* make it so!

"As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. The Herald had obtained the names from two detainee rosters." Uhh, hello?????????? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Fun fact: Texas is a one party consent state when it comes to recording conversations, which means that you can legally record any conversation of which you are a part — and can share it with a journalist, such as me