🎯 @markjacob.bsky.social: National media have "often done a decent job of reporting Trump's individual steps toward autocracy but it's rare for them to publish a sweeping story that sums it all up." This is "not an amazing innovation," it's "basic journalism." www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-news-c...

"In a 40-page filing to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, the administration insisted that being forced to spend money Congress has already appropriated is a graver injury than the hunger and disruption that would follow from withholding it." abcnews.go.com/US/snap-appe...

If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:

Record levels of meth are flooding Asia. This doesn't just mirror the fentanyl crisis in the Americas; it's directly linked. The companies supplying Mexican cartels are the same as those supplying Myanmar warlords. A year-long investigation out on the @washingtonpost.com now: wapo.st/3LmdDdo

NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war -top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back -talk of "very likely" US liability -Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing" www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

“At a time when masked agents of the state act with impunity, emboldened neo-Nazi groups march in the streets, and one institution after another legitimizes authoritarian consolidation, there’s a need for unflinching reporting to hold these forces to account.” 👏 @decoherence.media decoherence.media

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Today marks International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists which serves as a reminder that we still have a lot of work to do to hold those accountable for the violence, including murder, committed against many of our colleagues in the press.

Don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight and reclaim what they’ve taken from you

A classified report by a U.S. gov’t watchdog found that Israeli military units committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of U.S. human rights law in the Gaza Strip that would take the State Department “multiple years” to review. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... @johnphudson.bsky.social

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Scoop - Trump has fired all the sitting members on the Commission on Fine Arts, an independent agency expected to review his construction projects.

NEW: The Trump administration is racing to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia as soon as Friday, conceding it does not intend to follow through on his criminal case despite earlier assurances. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

New with @natashabernal.bsky.social: ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok have all been founding citing Russian sources—including Russian media sanctioned by the EU—in response to queries about the war in Ukraine

where they were operating* <sigh>

Just weeks before a ceasefire, Israel killed 5 Palestinian journalists at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, twice firing high-explosive tank rounds at the stairwell where they were operated. Experts said the strike fit a "pattern of recklessness" on the part of the IDF. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

“CBS News declined to comment on whether Ms. Weiss’s expression of strong opinions on major news events ran afoul of its ethics rules, or belied CBS News’s efforts to appear nonpartisan.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NYT - A 155-millimeter shell fired during a live-fire demonstration at Camp Pendleton prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a CHP vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President Vance's protective detail. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us...

Thank god for @abuaardvark.bsky.social — this is the most clarifying read so far on the Gaza ceasefire agreement, a sobering antidote to the declarations of a “new dawn,” even amid widespread relief that, at least for now, the mass killing has stopped foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/16/a...

"Operation Move Earth": a two-year secret operation carried out by Bashar Al-Assad's regime in #Syria From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings". www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Gazans will return to a shattered city after Israel leveled its high-rises wapo.st/4q6j4g8

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

On Orwell, the unbelievable stupidities of our era, and how the press can rise to the moment. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

It was a long time ago. Different soldiers, different leadership. But the 82nd's absolutely boneheaded bro-ness was what lit the Fallujah powder keg circa 2004 and all the bodies that piled up as a result. bsky.app/profile/bcfi...

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

New from 404 Media: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells me "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump’s proposal for Gaza provides “little or no detail” as to how its 21 points would be addressed. Oh, and no one has given a copy to Hamas. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

According to @unraveledpress.com , their reporter Steve Held has been detained during a protest near Chicago, Illinois. Steve is a fantastic reporter, a very good man and doesn’t deserve to be harassed doing his job.

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict. They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning" When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

“In the 100 years before eradication, half a billion unvaccinated lives were lost to smallpox, 300 million of which occurred in the 20th century itself. When it comes to disease, human memory is fallible — the dark shadow of smallpox has faded.” on.ft.com/4pE1IXS

For the third year in a row, the number of people living in the Washington region facing the most severe form of hunger has increased, with more than 820,000 adults regularly skipping meals and struggling to find food in the last year. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either,” Former F.B.I. Director James Comey says

Once again, as Israeli forces pummel Gaza City, the area's already threadbare health-care system is unraveling at a rapid pace, with patients and doctors forced to flee the bombardment and residents burying their loved ones in hospital courtyards. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

"We see where this is all going, correct?" www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

⦁ Created watch list of professors while preaching free speech ⦁ Captured internet with viral videos playing liberals for laughs and sound clips calling George Floyd a "scumbag" and the Civil Rights Act a "huge mistake" ⦁ Made tens of millions in dark money to boost Trump to victory wapo.st/3IjwuEC

Important to be clear-eyed about the reality of Charlie Kirk's social media machine: ⦁ Built movement that mocked diversity initiatives, called trans identity a “mental delusion," sowed baseless suspicion about vaccines and election fraud ... wapo.st/3IjwuEC

Exclusive: Trump health officials plan to link coronavirus vaccines to the deaths of 25 children as they consider limiting who should get the shots. The findings appear to be based on unverified reports submitted to an online reporting system which is open to anyone.

It’s really striking when you see the side by side video footage of how RFK Jr. contradicted himself at the Senate hearing. www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...