A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.

"The goal is to control information so thoroughly that the administration becomes the sole arbiter of "truth" in ways that preserve power and advance a particular narrative and agenda," writes Allie Cashel on the authoritarian strategy to silence the scientific community.

“It is a civic duty to give people joy.” —Steve Kerr Happy holidays, from the @jmooallem feed

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

As we wrote in @columjournreview.bsky.social, the Orban playbook was to pressure media companies, find an ally to purchase them when that pressure made them financially vulnerable, then have the ally install loyalists to turn the outlet in regime propaganda. #BariWeiss www.cjr.org/analysis/ant...

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

"On two other flights, two of the passengers, respectively, were women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case," the assistant US attorney said in the email.

Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

".. when all the white collar jobs are going away pretty damn quick .."

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 5/5

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Floor's crackin'

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It's actual policy. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

It sure looks like Bari Weiss is now acting as censor for an authoritarian regime, and getting rich for doing it. #Principles

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Make no mistake, this is competitive authoritarianism. The regime is using the power of the state to coerce the press away from critical coverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious

the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now

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to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.

At this point it’s an insult to coverups to call it a cover up.

the index of consumer sentiment (current expectations) is at an all time low because trump voters are catching on to the facts the rest of us have been covering for a year

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”

As elected Republicans make their calculations about how to cling to power, you and I do not enter the equation.

The Trump administration and its supporters have made numerous threats to revoke the citizenship of political foes who are naturalized citizens — but if the government tries to follow through, it will have an uphill legal battle. bit.ly/4rh6WJT

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

So the Trump FBI has let a serial killer get away

the republican obsession with trans people is creepy and fucked up

"When an entire sector faces such direct and harmful political interference, what can its members actually do?" Allie Cashel writes on anticipatory obedience in the science community and the way out.

“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” 🤡 @rani.bsky.social $TSLA @mims.bsky.social sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

when you read this it is very clear that Wiles thinks she is flexing the administration's muscle. relatedly, it is also very clear that the White House is completely delusional about its standing with the public. they are high on their own supply.

No. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

“When scientific independence and integrity are under attack, defending science is not a political act; it is a professional obligation and a civic duty.” Good stuff www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/courage-is...

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.

When I wrote below that we, the forces of democracy and freedom, are going to win, it was based on this. Autocrats need allies to help them consolidate power. That doesn't happen when they're weak and bleeding support. He's now losing ground w his own base. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/we-are-goi...

The President everyone. The original police statement that the shooter was in custody was issued over an hour ago. The correction was issued ten minutes later. Clearly no one is bothering to brief Trump at all. They’ve just left him with his phone.

And he’s telling us he’s a white nationalist.