Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

The US side. Mexico is taking a different approach.

On this week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social with @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social, a history of VOA and how it’s been politicized. Plus, hear why Russia, China, and Iran are celebrating. Listen to the podcast by @wnyc.org Studios 👂

What is it called when government owns the means of production again?

Oddly, this gives me a lot of hope

President Trump has ordered the entire southern border wall to be painted black to stop migrants from crossing because it’ll be too hot to touch, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Donald Trump’s interventions and intrusions “reveal a presidency determined to expand executive reach into virtually every sphere of national life,” Thomas Edsall writes.

Looks like someone went into thrift stores and bought tasteless castoffs.

Joining with our friends @knightfoundation.org and others in a new philanthropic effort to help stabilize, support, and revitalize public media. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

George Will : As flaccid as a boned fish, Donald Trump crumpled quicker than even Vladimir Putin probably anticipated. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

President Trump in April abruptly canceled nearly $400 million in active AmeriCorps grants across the United States that fund volunteers who embed in communities, in exchange for a small stipend and education award. Here's what's happened since. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/18/r...

French President Macron tells @kristenwelker.bsky.social that any deal with Russia must allow Ukraine to live in peace.

Is the idea to get rid of all the officers who actually know how to fight a war- and prevent wars worldwide —and replace them withTrump flunkies who will concentrate on internal US policing? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Jim Crow 2025

@indivmocowomen.bsky.social is so excited to welcome you to Silver Spring, MD on 9/18/25. Join Us! bit.ly/WeAreAmerica...

💥 ICE Brutalizes High-Profile Female TikToker Who Documents Raids. Sends her to Hospital after putting their knee on her neck, in the same way George Floyd was murdered. [source below]

GOOD TWEET. GOOD MOOD. FIGHT.

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has posted statement saying: “American soldiers and airmen policing American citizens on American soil is UnAmerican”

Looked like a normal Sunday brunch day. I drove through a good swathe of DC NW, NE, SE on errands etc. No patrols, no military vehicles, just one guy pulled over by a cop on upper 16th St NW. Is the show over? Was it too hot (95) to be out in that gear? Or were they pulled back so EU leaders won’t 👀

Europe will get a first-hand look at Trump’s militarization. European leaders to join Zelenskiy in face-off with Trump over Ukraine - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Over 300 protests held Saturday against Trump redistricting push - www.reuters.com/world/us/ove...

Maybe their inherent incompetence wii save us. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.

Very very troubling to see that Trump clearly still worships Putin- applauding him as fe walked toward Trump. Ive never seen him treat any other world leader this way - except Kim Jong Un.

Please Canadians 🇨🇦 avoid going to the US at all costs. It is so dangerous! Data shows that so far this year 150 Canadians are being held in ICE custody including two toddlers and a 77 year old. One man died in a Florida detention center. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AYB9b8Yh8S9W...

Fully half of the cognitive load of living in 2025 is the labor of logging into apps and websites.

ALABAMA: “The verdict is in. The state’s tough immigration law just isn’t working out… American workers not mentally or physically fit enough to last one day…”

They have to provoke disturbances in peaceful areas to justify as Kingsley Wilson, the Defense Department’s press secretary said, “remain(ing) until law and order is restored in the District.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Happy 90th Birthday, Social Security. Since 2007 I've been on SSDI. I'm GRATEFUL that even though I live on a fixed income, I HAVE an income b/c of Social Security. It's saved my life by providing me with Medicare through cancer 2x, Lupus, 2 brain surgeries. I want to live!🙏💜

What’s craaaazy to me is that a Minnesota state rep was ASSASSINATED and nothing even remotely close to this happened there

Did Trump cede Alaska to Russia in advance of Friday’s meeting with Putin? Of course not. But he did say twice on Monday that he is going to Russia on Friday.

Yep

Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for $1.5 billion Trump golf club - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Another Tennessee community is dealing with the same developers who are part of the Christian nationalist effort in Jackson County. MONDAY on @NC5 at 6PM, we travel to that county to investigate.

Inslee: If you need more energy, the dumbest thing you can do is disallow access to wind, solar, and advanced batteries—three of the most productive ways of producing new energy. And yet, that’s exactly what he’s done.

Trump wants to evict homeless from Washington - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

They just keep out Right Winging each other

We still have not felt enough pain for putting this administration in power. Red Voters have more coming and it’s unfortunate that the rest of us are along for the ride. Tony

CBS agreed to Trump censorship. They may call it a “truth arbiter” but it is a government censor to ensure only one view gets out - guess who’s? docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

Note to Kristi Noem: It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.