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I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

CNN has a solid, well-funded newsroom, regardless of the network’s editorial slant. a lot of good reporters will lose their jobs, and the public will lose all the stories they would’ve reported. and they are one of the last newsrooms to pay for costly but critical on the ground war correspondents.

A senior CBS News staffer expressed sympathy for employees at CNN who are frustrated and upset over the Paramount news. "I need to keep reminding myself it can - and will - always get worse," the staffer told me, adding that CNN staffers "should" be freaking out since "it's hell over here."

A legally blind, 65 yr-old woman: has unintentionally lost 28 pounds because she can't afford food under Trump. "The end is coming near. Under Joe Biden I received $80 SNAP per month & was able to put away $100 per month for food. Trump took that away from me." #sheshed

i dont know if its always been like this but among the elites theres just no sense of responsibility to be good stewards of the society thats given them everything

TikTok Shop continues to be the wild west of unregulated pharmaceuticals. We found what appear to be black market GLP-1 injectables and tretinoin — both require prescriptions — being sold openly on TikTok Shop www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/peopl...

"The cops can drink as much as they want there...The bartenders serve them till they're blackout drunk and let them leave." Quote from a woman who was hit by a drunk-driving cop *while sitting in her living room.* This story from the @inquirer.com is a hell of a thing. share.inquirer.com/yynTQX

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

There’s a lot to investigate and report on from today’s stunning deposition of Les Wexner. But here’s something I can’t get over. I asked Mr. Wexner if the DOJ or FBI ever contacted him to ask him about Epstein and his crimes. He said NO. That’s outrageous and unforgivable.

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Yikes!!! More here from @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/com...

Nick Shirley is rebooting old James O'Keefe myths about voter fraud and serving them up to a new audience. Did either of them find fraud? No. But did they come close? Also no. But what if you simply imagined the fraud? Well, now we're talking!

This is so spot on

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

"The federal government is killing people in the streets, so sports are canceled," is the point we have reached.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026

i suppose it makes sense but it is completely demoralizing that we live in a moment where there is more video/photographic evidence (often from multiple angles) than ever before and also a durable system in place for propagandists to gaslight or convince others into not believing their eyes

Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis. This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

The 37-year-old man murdered by DHS today in Minneapolis was named Alex Jeffrey Pretti. He was a nurse so had attended the University of Minnesota. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

NEW: An ICE officer killed a person in broad daylight in Minneapolis today — with posted video appearing to contradict the DHS statement claiming self-defense, as the driver appeared to be attempting to drive away when shot. MPR: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... Video: bsky.app/profile/dani...

I am going to kindly share, as a Black person used to dodging these types of things, if you have your settings set to autoplay video, today is a great day to turn them off. You can be very informed without having to witness murder.

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

👀 Right-leaning podcasters call out the Trump administration’s 2016 election claims as a “distraction” from Jeffrey Epstein

Matthew GERTZ has a good thread reminding us that Pirro is actually a bigoted nightmare so it’s actually not as funny as you might think that she’ll be the U.S. Attorney

Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

The single most clarifying piece of journalism about Russell Brand that I've encountered is this video from @abbierichards.bsky.social. She charts Russell Brand's political evolution through his video content, and shows just how profitable a right wing grift can be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4g...

Al Green once told me: "Only God knows what he will do when he believes that he has no one to answer to. Right now, he knows that we are there, but if we don’t do our duty, the president will do unthinkable things.”

one thing i think people have slept on a bit is that before and during his first term, trump clearly watched a ton of fox news. but in the years since he's been marinating in even more crazy fever swamps and he's now the oldest president ever elected. we're gonna have a lot more events like today's.

1/ Trump’s executive order banning trans people from serving in the military isn’t about “readiness” or “lethality.” It’s about cruelty. And right-wing media wasted no time celebrating the ban with some of the most vile rhetoric imaginable. 🧵

Great illustration from the Heritage Foundation about how the push to defund the Department of Education is at its heart an attack on organized labor. The word "union" gets mentioned 22 times in like an 800-word blog!

Buried lede: could end HIV if they charged $50 per dose and not $42,000

The Fox News write-up of Kimberly Guilfoyle getting nominated to an ambassadorship does not mention her work for the network, possibly because her departure came after she was reported for sexual harassment with Fox paying a reported $4 million settlement.

Trump has now named at least 10 high profile administration roles to be filled by Project 2025 contributors Tom Homan Brendan Carr Stephen Miller Karoline Leavitt Russ Vought John Ratcliffe Pete Hoekstra James Braid Peter Navarro Monica Crowley www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

if i were a democrat politician i would spend all day every day pointing out that 9/11, the iraq war, the housing collapse, the great recession and covid mismanagement all happened under republican presidents

Nancy Mace is a "huge attention getter, so this is part of her attention-getting fetish," says Rep. Maxwell Frost of Mace's bigoted attack on Rep.-elect Sarah McBride. "I just don't understand why bathrooms are top of mind for her, why she's thinking about … going to piss and shit." t.co/sBd6rX3NP3

once again we have people lying about the campaign we all witnessed

kicking off a new era of transparency in the govt by hiding the report detailing the alleged sexual assault of a minor by the attorney general nominee

Pete Hegseth is an anti-Muslim bigot who has warned followers about the Muslim birth rate in states like Michigan; criticized the election of Muslims to public office; and praised President Donald Trump’s call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

It feels really good to be here. It's so important for journalists and researchers to have a platform like this one. @mmfa.bsky.social is on Bluesky, and I hope you'll give us a follow ⬇️ bsky.app/starter-pack...