Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

I really like the soap opera comparison I landed on in this piece about Trails

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

My doctor is at a rural Virginia health clinic. Consolidating them means longer wait times and the degradation of care. Rmember: everything the GOP says is a lie.

Holy shit, this is We Are the World levels of artist collaboration. The number of names on this list. Weird Al and Tom Hanks are both on this list. So is Meryl Streep, Zooey Deschanel, and a significant portion of the Arrested Development cast.

CSS `field-sizing` on a `<textarea>` is obviously awesome. But the horizontal growth using it on an `<input>` is less clearly useful to me. But check out this design pattern I cooked up. I don't hate it. Keeps the name area compact until you need to see more. Just a bit of flexbox wrapping.

WASHPOST: Surveillance in DC from the air: Nearly 80 helicopters were identified flying over D.C. as Trump crackdown continues, with the flights most intensely focused on majority Black neighborhoods. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

It looks like academia dot edu very quietly deleted this clause, today, possibly in response to the increased reporting and documentation on this, including here: dailynous.com/2025/09/22/w... Which is not *less* shady as hell, so i stand by my recommendation to leave that place 🤷🏾‍♂️

WIRED talked to six H-1B visa holders who made last-minute decisions to return to the US from vacation or work trips before the new policy took hold. “I think this is going to change many people’s long-term plan about staying in the US.”

Reminder of Bush and Nixon era media censorship (including self-censorship) by @dankennedy.net. One thing different today, he writes, is the party's check on their own president being non-existent. dankennedy.net/2025/09/22/m...

There's this idea that this puts Dems in hot water w/independents & the right but the problem the Dems have is energizing their base to come out. The way to do that, clearly, is demsoc candidates that meet the core of the party's interests. This is basic. We've seen the GOP do exactly that.

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...

So what’s happened to Silicon Valley? Why did the Ayn Rand–loving heroes of tech become Donald Trump’s bootlickers? How did one of the supposedly smartest VCs wind up posting a manifesto that declared war on “trust and safety,” “tech ethics,” and “social responsibility”?

Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

30 years of craigslist: public profile and reputation (1/6) Unfortunately, I've learned things the hard and sometimes very painful way. In school of any sort, they just don't talk about social skills required to be successful at anything.

to the art director at Wired who made this unholy image.... you will not see heaven www.wired.com/politics-iss...

It is wild to think about how much the world has changed in the last decade. When I worked in academia in the 2010s we were fighting to get professors to put syllabuses online & share them. Now people are justifiably afraid that doing so will make them targets thecurrentga.org/2025/09/19/p...

Right now, media lawyers and newsroom leaders are evaluating a memo spelling out new rules that would sharply restrict reporting at the Pentagon. Several of the country's biggest news outlets are publicly pushing back on the new policy, foreshadowing a potential legal battle. Here's my full story:

"Should the Pentagon be in charge of deciding what reporters can report on?" No. And when a White House reporter shouted that question to President Trump yesterday, Trump said, "No, I don't think so." But that's what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is trying to do.

What the Democrats need now is to double down on bloodless calculus, the thing that people crave even more than principled leadership. Bonus points if you run anti-abortion candidates in states where anti-abortion ballot initiatives were defeated.

This just isn’t true. My audience is bigger here than it was after 15 year in twitter, and, for mostly better, they are real people, not bots and sock puppets. Do I wish this place was bigger and more ideologically/tinalky diverse, yes. But also we are not fueling Musk.

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

Vivian Wilson talks about how accessing gender affirming care as a teen was lifesaving at the Teen Vogue Summit.

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

It frustrates me how few people seem to see it this way. Yes, it's hard to stand up for what's right. No, victory/vindication is not assured. Yes, you are expected to do your job, whether that's telling the truth or representing your constituents and their values as an elected official.

someone said of Wikipedia: “it is a thing that does not work in theory but turned out to work in practice”

*sigh* XML I fear

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I feel really comfortable being Jewish right now. Unlike all the other times in history, I am sure this is going to end well!

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many of us who specifically covered those victims & worked to center those targeted & harmed by people like Kirk and his allies were pushed out of mainstream media in the past few years. it wasn't always a loud public firing, but the stories of how folks who did this work were treated would shock u.

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

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...

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Y'all, please call, email, and/or write your representatives, then share WIDELY what this administration is doing to scapegoat, oppress, and violently erase trans folks. We need EVERYONE in on this.

I wrote about who should get mad and why. aramzs.xyz/essays/i-wan...

83% of US adults haven't paid for news in the last year. About half (49%) say their main reason is they can find plenty of free news elsewhere. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

I’ve been getting some PhD inquiry emails that struck me as v odd so I asked ChatGPT to list my books. It came up w/four—all COMPLETELY made up, including on topics I’ve never written on. And these are the only ones listed! Lesson = please don’t use AI/LLMs when writing grad apps and inquiries &c

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

if you really want to stick it to Disney, and other corporate media giants, become fascinated by things they would never produce, so that they might fade into the background noise of life.

I think it's sorta funny. If national Democrats just went along with the will of the people there'd be a pretty normal election and Mamdani would have a pretty standard mayoral election of small national interest. But because they keep trying to push creepy Cuomo, he gets to keep making huge dunks.

he's winning. cuomo's dusty ass has woody allen, zohran has mr. "driving miss motherfucking daisy" there's just no contest

I’m very interested to see this too, and also: There is NO credible evidence that Tylenol causes autism. It’s appalling our federal government is apparently planning to say anything otherwise.

All I can say is, this whole Charlie Kirk shit is weird and embarrassing.

Wow, so academia.edu has become ecen scammier than it used to be and is ACTIVELY PROMOTING "AI" "reviews" of papers, so I'm gonna go pull all my stuff off of there.

"Corruption is sometimes described as a victimless crime, just skimming from a bottomless pool of government cash. The story of the [NYPD] under Mr. Adams should put that idea to rest" Great column on how SCOTUS's gutting of public corruption laws helped get us here www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

i've been thinking a lot about the historical record on this and how hard it will be to communicate that this guy was a fucking nobody

a beautifully illustrated and deeply troubling piece that is well worth your time to read

On this Charlie “Horst Wessel” Kirk Day, scroll through Brad’s great thread of things Kirk said. And remember that this is all theater, a clunky and ham-fisted design to make people mad and to make people forget all the terrible things Trump and GOP are doing.

Third time (at least) Trump has made a joke or light of killing fishermen, and Vance did it too. They’ve made joking about killing fishermen an effing talking point.