A huge loss to Madison and local journalism. Tone has been an amazing source of impactful and insightful local journalism for over a decade, an an important voice in Madison politics and culture. I'm hugely grateful for the work they produced. It will be sorely missed.

Anti-Muslim extremist Tommy Robinson has been allowed into the U.S. despite past assault convictions, immigration fraud, and a history of rhetoric tied to real-world violence. The founder of the English Defence League now claims allies close to Donald Trump helped secure his entry. Read more:

Robin Vos not seeking reelection LFG

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

NEW: Wisconsin Eye going offline is a disaster for transparency and public access to state government. Republican leadership enforcing antiquated rules is making a problematic situation a whole lot worse. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/wisconsin-...

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Abolish ICE is a fine sentiment but not enough. The entire DHS needs to go and we should say it. It's not like it's some sacred long-standing institution (though even if it was it wouldn't change anything)

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

A definitional element of extremism is that harming an out-group is inseparable from the success or survival of the in-group. For extremists, such harm becomes an intrinsic need. They come to believe that denying them the right to harm out-groups is the same thing as denying them the right to exist.

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

Strikingly, of the 45 Minneapolis Police officers whose videos we've just released, more than 24% have killed community members while on duty, and a large swath of other officers had numerous accounts of egregious actions against the community. 🚔

Neo-Nazi “Youth Clubs” are using TikTok and Telegram to recruit teens with white supremacist propaganda, MMA training, and conspiracy theories like the “Great Replacement.” Inspired by violent figures like Robert Rundo, they now have presence in 42 U.S. states. Read more:

The West’s favourite genocidal state, Israel, pointing its guns at unarmed citizens from multiple countries who were just trying to deliver baby formula and other essentials to the besieged civilian population of Gaza

BREAKING: Many of the live feeds from the vessels participating in the Sumud Flotilla have now been cut as suspected Israeli vessels surround the ships trying to break the blockade on Gaza. #GSFUpdate #GSFAlert #BreakTheSiege #FreePalestine #SailToGaza #GlobalMovementToGaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla

Boat Alma has confirmed being intercepted. All eyes on the Flotilla. Do not let them take them in darkness without witnesses.

We have lost the livestreams of all the flotillas 40 miles from Gaza. The IoF gaslighting while committing war crimes in international waters. The flotillas are humanitarians delivering aid to Gaza where Palestinians are forcibly starved. Document it all. #gaza #freepalestine #palestine #flotilla

All eyes on the Global Sumud Flotilla, currently being illegally intercepted and kidnapped in international waters. Novara currently has good live coverage from Kieran on board.

What centrist libs can't seem to internalize is that the US contains a large, longstanding, well-funded political movement that *wants political violence and authoritarianism*. It does not need to be provoked in any way in order to pursue those goals.

i don't trust people my age who start calling it a pfp. that's not your term. we call it an avatar, god damn it

Gencon time

enormous violence is being done to us by unaccountable elites. they rob us blind, they send our neighbors to foreign dungeons or murder them in the street. they cut healthcare to build concentration camps and conduct a livestreamed genocide. they rape and traffic and brazenly get away with it all

i genuinely dont know what other industry has failed as speculatively as journalism has failed at meeting this moment we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like

If you want to know the real story:

WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT ON SEAN FEUCHT This is wild! A full-blown website written & sourced from ex-employees & ex-leaders in Sean Feucht's various ministries detailing his abuses, financial misconduct, & general scumball-ery. Let me detail why this is important... 1/ truthandfreedomstories.com

The U.S. has not had a president with a functioning brain since January 2017

just checking in on the president before bed… he just reposted some qanon brain rot about how joe biden was secretly executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone and/or robot 👍

Agents descended on an attorney’s home, used an electronic jamming device to kill his Wi-Fi, disabled his Ring camera, and refused to show ID. All because he did some pro bono immigration work to help out an undocumented family. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

you are loved, we will win

Gonna be a frightening, weird couple years. We aren’t fucking cooked, though. Plenty to do, plenty to organize against, plenty of people to protect and pick up, and joy to be had. In the face of uncertainty in this grim moment, one thing is for certain: the only way out is through, together.

E-reader apps suck. Why can't I have a decent folder structure in any of these things? I don't want a list of every book in a grid, I want to be able to find the one I want to read. Give me a folder structure or something. Let me do storage in a way I can actually fucking navigate for once.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...

A while ago I removed twitter from easy access on my phone (now have to scroll in the apps list), and had logged out on my desktop. Made me less likely to use it. Now that I've largely migrated over to bluesky, I'm thinking it was a mistake restore easy availability to the scroll.

OK new scrolling app.