As of this morning's update (tracking through 9/20), the number of people killed by the police in the United States this year has crossed 1,000. This number will continue to rise, as it always does, with no meaningful attempts to slow it by either major party. This is all still happening.

How many videos have you seen of protesters being brutalized? Pretending this imagery still changes the math the way you wish it would is an insult to the people whose bodies you would treat as props. Ghandi's era was more complex than many of you make out. This is not the 60s either. Things change.

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.” Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

NEW — The remaining American members of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla being held in Israeli prison have been freed, a family member of one confirmed to me. They were driven to the Jordanian border and will be staying the night in Jordan before flying home. Video of them today saying “Free Palestine”:

I don’t know what’s the meaning of Phillies But just Im from gaza help me to survive

A life update: this wound up paying off. I'm still applying to several jobs that are hopefully careers, but I've got my survival needs covered by a job at the airport that I'm apparently pretty good at. And instead of being in an office alone, which was driving me mad, I see 20k people a day.

Sick with worry over the ongoing detention of Alex Colston, journalist at @dropsitenews.com. I have known Alex for nearly a decade as a student, teacher, colleague, editor, publisher, and dear, dear friend. He and his comrades must be let free, now. Please read this, share, it and demand action.

Ireland, man. They are doing the thing.

I'm so proud of my sister, who was head writer for Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and is now the showrunner of this brand-new HORTON! series for Netflix. Please watch with your family! It's hard to get preschool shows made these days, and the algo isn't built for this www.netflix.com/title/81388347

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

I don’t want to believe that Stanford Brain Disease has come for the Bluesky people but I’m gonna need some counterevidence

Watching alleged ICE agents break into people's home while declaring they don't need warrants definitely makes me feel safe.

This serves absolutely no purpose other than to reduce vaccine uptake: www.reuters.com/business/hea...

A message from my dear friend Tasneem in Gaza, whose daughter was hurt in an attack: "Alma has wounds on her forehead and front teeth. She can't eat because of the severe pain." The civilians rely on our direct donations to survive. Please give to Tasneem and to others. ❤️🙏 tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

New column by me — ICE's War on Schoolchildren migrantinsider.com/p/ices-war-o...

let’s fucking goooooo “…he was critical of party leaders and declined to say whether he would back House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries if elected. “I don’t think anybody in Democratic leadership has necessarily draped themselves in glory in this cycle””

Baker & Taylor folks, I am so, so sorry. This is terrible news.

I'm going to keep re-sharing pieces from my book on here way more than seems comfortable to do every day for the next couple months. I don't care if anyone doesn't like it. I will stop once it sells 10,000 copies so the ball is actually in your court if you think about it.

and yet the guy who gutted it and laid off half the staff as they were unionizing keeps his job, huh. crazy how that works.

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

Beirut, 1970. The interviewer was Richard Carleton. 2 years later Israel planted a bomb in Kanafani's car, killing him and his 17-year-old niece Lamees

Breaking: over 3,000 people joined @greenparty.org.uk over conference weekend. Membership now stands at over 86,000. We’re just getting started. join.greenparty.org.uk

longshot, but can anyone find me a pdf of the following paper: Angola : La sépulture de Caotinha / M. Gutierrez.

New Yorkers won't just be electing a new mayor come November. Six measures that could ultimately amend the state’s constitution and revise the city charter will also be on the ballot. Learn more about them here: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b...

FYI: The free horror movie streaming services have gone absolutely batty with the terror for the most wonderful time of the year, which is, of course, the scary season.  We are adding another service this month, Kanopy,  which is totally free, so long as you get a library card from your local…

Absolutely maddening that this isn't a bigger news story outside of NI tbh. Loyalists are literally threatening to burn shit down over dual language signage, but Palestine Action are the big scary terrorists that we all need to be talking about, right?

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

i think it would be neat to hear like even one story of these fucking people being like, “nah, i’m not gonna invade another city or state in my own country. i’m out.” do we have those yet? and are we at full “you can’t expect people to not just follow orders when they have a family to feed” still?

Dems who have already done so: Durbin Schiff Whitehouse Klobuchar Coons (up next year) Welch

fascinated by how the structure of conspiratorial mania is the same across contexts

“I fear for public health in our country.” Former CDC Chief Medical Officer @drdebhoury.bsky.social says that the national US public health system has been subjected to a “hostile takeover” and she’s right. We should all share her fears. Kennedy must go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Some ppl seemingly misreading this as "consider the consent rights of the 'AI' literally created to fulfill/via tech dudes' desire for total degrading control over everyone & everything" rather than what I'm actually saying which is that a Lot of tech dudes seem to want that total degrading control…

the fact we’re even debating this feels like exactly the kind of distraction these tech ghouls want while they do shit like this:

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

What’s absolutely terrifying about what’s happening right now, and is always true at the beginning of fascist regime: ICE has always been awful, but now they’re so abhorrent that *only* evil people want to be ICE agents, it’s a Brownshirts spiral of who wants to zip tie a baby

At the Asheville regional airport. Fuck these people.

"Headlines Matter" part six million -Every part of this very good story is about MAGA/Doge/Vought *imposing* politics on civil servants -Not what headline implies www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u... -What could it have said? Same line length: In Shutdown Civil Service Is Turned Political

I think my fav part of this is the bit where she thinks Saudi Arabia is in Gaza

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just found out if you tell the staff at PDX you have autism they will let you borrow a nice laminated plane spotting guide unique to our airport with comprehensive charts and diagrams. that's fuckin service

For Spooktober I’m going to try to recommend a sleeper horror movie each day. Today’s is ‘Cam’, which is not just a terrific horror movie — not just smart about what it explains and what it doesn’t — but also has quietly smart cultural politics about sex work. Learn nothing, just jump in.

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

being an american on vacation is reading headlines like “ice agents tear gas puppies, infants on orphanage raid” and wondering why you’re even going back

"When I saw Marwan Marouf’s face plastered on my Instagram feed, under bright red letters announcing he’d been arrested and detained by ICE, the first thing I remembered was his distinctive, gentle voice." www.texasobserver.org/ice-marwan-m...

It really feels like the way forward for journalists is forming cooperatives. There are many good examples!

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.