(AP) — The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, three people familiar with the matter said Friday. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/fbi-...

A movie can no longer be sold on his name alone. Now, like every star hoping for a shot at success, he has had to give in to short-form video and podcasts to promote his work.

The deeply antisemitic Zohran Mamdani is giving an excellent history lesson here about Fania Mindell, an unsung Jewish feminist heroine from early 20th century history.

Feel like if this is how the law works, there’s no reason to make a budget deal because there’s no reason to believe anything that you win via Congress will actually happen anyway.

They're going to use the Comey case to break the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia, just like they used the Adams case to break the office in the Southern District of New York.

NEW - Kamala Harris to me this afternoon: “It’s painful to see. I mean what’s happening with Comey: Are you fucking kidding me? The United States Department of Justice?” www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

Having an egomaniac lunatic wannabe-king as president is so fun

WSJ reports that Jared Kushner, the Saudis and Silver Lake, the company helping Larry Ellison buy and MAGA-fy TikTok... are tag-teaming on a deal to buy EA. As in the EA that makes the Sims, Madden, EAFC and the College Football video game. www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Sterlin Harjo’s new series, “The Lowdown,” starring Ethan Hawke as a citizen journalist determined to expose the crimes of the élite, is at once rollicking and timely, @inkookang.bsky.social writes. Read her review.

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

IMO Ezra is being a bit obtuse about the criticism, ignoring the violence Charlie’s language and targeted harassment caused. And also: his call for a Dem return to Obama era coalition politics, rooted in hope and aspiration, is spot on.

“One Battle After Another,” “as great an American movie as I’ve seen this year, doesn’t simply meet the moment,” Justin Chang writes. With extraordinary imagination, “it forges a moment all its own, and insists that better ones could still lie ahead.”

Within a few minutes of talking to Graham Platner, “I was, like, ‘This guy owes it to the country to run for Senate,’ ” a top political strategist for Zohran Mamdani said. Can Platner win Susan Collins’s seat?

NEW: SCOTUS's Republican appointees let Trump ignore Congress, cut foreign aid. Justice Kagan, dissenting for the Democratic appointees, noted the majority's "preliminary" order means $4 billion in aid allotted by Congress will be blocked "for all time.“ This evening, at Law Dork:

“At the time, many of us recognized the summit for what it was—a reckless display of amateur diplomacy .. “But hindsight has clarified .. it was worse than a blunder. .. A green light .. and handed Vladimir Putin the legitimacy of a bilateral ..” @andrewjweinstein.com substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Unprepared, unserious, and completely unhinged. By every conceivable measure, Donald Trump has decimated American leadership on the world stage.

It speaks to the interest in Epstein that a detail from Dems today has created a frenzy about Peter Thiel. But anyone already following knows there are many ties between Thiel and the pedophile. As my colleague @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social reported: Epstein invested w/ Thiel as recently as 2016.

Important thread from the group leading the fight against antisemitism and for pluralism in the US right now, when too many other groups have abdicated that responsibility.

Feels illegal

Grand corruption

Des Moines is the semi-liberal bastion in Des Moines, and the Des Moines Public Schools are one of the particular bugbears for the Iowa GOP. This is absolutely a specific political attack on the DMPS, on the African community in Des Moines, and on the most diverse city in the state.

Video shows an employee at the downtown Iowa City business being tackled, threatened with a lit Taser, handcuffed and marched into an unmarked minivan by plainclothes agents.

Imagine being an admiral or whatever and scrambling to fly 16 hours back from Manila in order to listen to a Fox News host berate you for 15 minutes about warfighters www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

What happened to wasteful spending being bad? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Woke fascist far left trans ideology mob wins

This graf does so much work. @nytimes.com #Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Slipped into a 10:40pm email last night: USDA is “repurposing” $285 million to start a farmer assistance program 1 year earlier than Congress authorized. They don’t say where they are taking the money from — aka the program Congress actually wanted the $280 million to fund

NEW: Meta is introducing a subscription model in the UK. Users will be given the option to pay to avoid ads on Facebook and Instagram. The subscription will cost £2.99 per month on the web or £3.99 per month on iOS and Android. (1/2)

As Trump threatens to prosecute his political opponents, DOJ files new lawsuits against CA, MI, MN, NY, NH & PA to get their full unredacted voter lists to further Trump's voter suppression agenda. Chilling abuse of power www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“.. days after President Donald Trump issued a public demand for his Justice Department to act ‘now’ to bring prosecutions against Comey and other political foes ..” abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

You can't make this shit up abcnews.go.com/US/ice-relea...

The newly minted prosecutor that the Adm got to pursue this case is a 36 year old former Miss Colorado who was an insurance lawyer in Florida and has ZERO prosecutorial experience at any level. Literally ZERO.

Not even 20 minutes later and I guess we’re doing 50% tariffs on IKEA for some reason. He’s a man with a plan to make life more expensive and he can’t be stopped.

Newfound enthusiasm about Jimmy Kimmel’s show is not evaporating after just one night. His Wednesday night follow-up monologue has topped 5 million views so far today, enough to rank as one of his most-watched videos of the year...

They’re literally giving prosecutors the names of people and organizations, and telling them to go find crimes. It’s clear from the NYT that the directive came from Trump. This is a direct consequence of Roberts explicitly immunizing weaponization of DOJ in Trump v. US.

The Pentagon is demanding news outlets sign a policy not to report on anything without its permission. @status.news has learned no major outlet, including Fox, plans to sign Hegseth's pledge, setting up a showdown just as top military brass arrive for a rare meeting www.status.news/p/pentagon-p...

ICE official confirms that the detainees who were shot were restrained when they were shot

Shane Gillis turned down the Saudi comedy festival. www.pajiba.com/news/shane-g...

I thought Ross Douthat's recent explanation of how late night became more political was off. So I dug into the history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/a...

Bathroom vanities are now “national security”.

“Never would have happened if I were President.” 🙄 www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Not sure there is enough coverage of Larry Ellison and Rupert Murdoch’s involvement in this US TikTok takeover

If reviews hold up, think this will have legs …

Republicans can’t win on their policies, so they are trying to dodge accountability by rewriting the rules. These lawmakers are going out of their way to silence the will of the people and deliberately undermine our democracy.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Vance will have infinite resources and a lot of time to prepare, but there are immutable Trump characteristics (being so rich he "can't be bought," seeming moderate to low-info voters, coming off as funny not whiny when he argues) that he can't inherit.

No mention of the CDC shooting. No mention of burning down the PA governor's home. No mention the Colorado school shooter apparently expressed neo-Nazi views. They included Luigi as getting "leftist" support when his support was bipartisan b/c every american has been screwed by health insurance