I assure you @moderation.bsky.app this is not an image of "self-harm" 😬

The Greer Center was supposed to be a refuge for people with developmental disabilities. But accounts from inside the secretive facility in Oklahoma paint a starkly different picture, depicting a place where helpless patients faced beatings, waterboarding and constant fear. nyti.ms/4mcQZR9

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

Missouri Republicans approve gerrymandered map

Good to see Elon out there doing his best to calm things down in a moment like this

Immediately after the shooting, audience members screamed and fell to the ground, with some attendees lying on top of others to protect them. “Where is my son?” a woman in the crowd yelled. (Photos by Trent Nelson) https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09/10/charlie-kirk-shot-was-fired-utah/ 

Man mourns his dog shot by trooper clearing encampment near Tulsa Day Center tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked

Today, Brandon Russell was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for his involvement in a plot to destroy Baltimore area power plants. He encouraged others to do the same through a loose, violent neo-Nazi network, Terrorgram Read my coverage of his trial from earlier:

It’s amazing how quickly the incipient dystopia of ubiquitous private surveillance bloomed into a real dystopia

Without photojournalism, the news stays out of sight. @nppa.org fights to protect the lens that keeps the public informed. Their work is more important than ever, but they need your help. Read about their work and support them if you can.

The FBI released its Uniform Crime Report *today* showing that all categories of violent crime are down in Washington DC, returning to pre-2020 levels.

Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

New: I identified Johnathan Christopher (Chris) Booth as the man behind the openly neo-Nazi Shameless Sperg YouTube channel. He had gained 52,000 followers in just two months; YouTube shut the channel down after we contacted them for comment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So wait, let me get this straight…they didn’t want to forgive our student loans but they want us to forgive theirs??????

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

Cannabis farm worker in California dies day after chaotic federal immigration raid www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Rep. Jimmy Gomez has replied to the White House’s AI image of him with a photo of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

The official White House account.

Trump is deploying 200 Marines to support his secret police force in Florida in actions targeting immigrants... as he increases the militarization of this effort.

Happy Fourth of July.

How is the "Free Press" handling the fact that it's their ideological allies who are very clearly posing the most significant threat to free speech and the press? With assurances that, actually? Everything is as great as it has ever been.

Peace demonstrators have been beaten, foreign students have been disappeared, and educational institutions have been broken and tarred for being "antisemitic" through a series of tortured jingoistic inferences, while Donald Trump constantly and explicitly tells us what he thinks of Jews

"No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people."

Imagine someone paying top dollar for you to stay in a hotel room and still going hungry. That’s the reality for many homeless families in New York who are placed in hotels. Listen to ProPublica and @nysfocus.bsky.social reporter Spencer Norris break down his investigation ⤵️

Let’s assume what she’s saying here is true. Calling senior intelligence officials and using a non-personal phone to do so is just called reporting with good opsec. I’d expect that from someone trying to keep sources safe when reporting on national security.

The domestic policy bill championed by President Trump calls for cutting $295 billion in federal spending over the next decade from SNAP, according to the Congressional Budget Office. New York City food banks aren’t sure how they will survive.

Looks like Elon's threats ended up being less effective than Trump's threats.

The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France www.politico.eu/article/meet...

Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."

The Trump admin has freed Jose Hernandez Reyes because he can testify against Abrego Garcia. Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for: —DUI w/ a handgun; —cocaine possession; —illegally transporting migrants; and —drunkenly firing a gun. Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt

BREAKING: Trump's big bill clears key test vote in Senate as Republicans race to get measure to president's desk ahead of his July Fourth deadline.

Listen to my conversation with @elizawell.bsky.social about my experiences covering protests and extremism

Thousands attend Bernie Sanders' 'Fight Oligarchy' tour Saturday in Tulsa tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...

Chants of no more war break out during @sanders.senate.gov Fighting Oligarchy rally in Tulsa as it is announced that the United States has struck Iran @tulsaworld.com

Thousands of people wait in line as the doors are opened at the Arvest Convention Center in Tulsa to see @sanders.senate.gov speak at his Fighting Oligarchy event today @tulsaworld.com

CBP under Trump: "I encountered a young woman, in tears, begging the guard for information. He told her he had no information to give her and that none would be forthcoming. 'That woman,' he said, pointing to a bundle of blankets in the corner, 'has been here for four days.'"

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

New: Southern Baptists just voted for the first time to call for the overturning of Obergefell v. Hodges, with strategists citing the successful (if long) push to take down Roe v. Wade. #SBC25 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Alina Habba tells Fox News that Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested and is being held in a secret location right now. Martha MacCallum: "Where is he being held?" Habba: 'I'm not going to speak to that right now. He's obviously in New Jersey."

NEW: White House considering suspending habeas corpus, Stephen Miller says

THREAD: As India launches strikes against Pakistan tonight, misinformation is rapidly spreading online. I'll fact-check viral falsehoods in this thread. This video, viewed over 660,000 times, shows Israeli air strikes on Gaza in October 2023. It's unrelated to Indian strikes tonight.

Bigotry aside, this whole stunt is also lame because it's not even original. You know who else did the exact same thing at the exact rally in 2015? Christine Weick, who you may know as the "Monster Energy Drinks are Literally Satanic" Lady of 2014 internet fame. Bottoms up. And the Devil laughs.

Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia forced into safe house after government posts address online www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...

Three users on X who feuded with Elon Musk in December saw their reach on the social platform practically vanish overnight, The New York Times found, signaling that Musk or others at the company have the power to punish critics and that they may be willing to use it.

The Trump admin is demanding universities institute anti-mask laws for student protesters, holding the schools’ funding as a ransom, while sending secret police in balaclavas to disappear immigrants

Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected]. Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.