Erika Kirk & Trump embrace multiple times. Trump does a little dance to the music. They walk off. A lot will be written about this, i suspect - please hire people who can adequately contextualise and analyse the heavy religious & political implications of this,the theology behind it-that’s all I ask

“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” said Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University @katiefallow.bsky.social

yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Thanks, tho I shld say courtesy of me only in that I had the sense to turn to @annneumann.bsky.social & @audiosand.bsky.social

Thanks for this conversation!

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

I’ll have some words to say about the Charlie Kirk assassination tonight on @allinwithchris.bsky.social & here are a few preliminaries: open.substack.com/pub/slowcivi...

being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

Desperate times call for The Baffler. Subscribe now. thebaffler.com/subscription...

What’s Unmentioned in the Intra-Dem Shutdown Debate talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com How does the Make America Healthy Again movement turn some health-conscious people against all healthcare? In this new Opinion video, we analyzed thousands of videos by MAHA wellness influencers — and interviewed their former followers — to find out.

A new campaign from the Tenant Union Federation is uniting hundreds of tenants in four states to take on the mega-corporation that owns their homes. New report from @thomasbirm.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com on how tenant unions are taking on private equity landlords.

BREAKING: @lambdalegal.org strongly criticizes the federal indictment of one of its lawyers in Alabama, calling it "an outrageous act of governmental overreach" that followed "unprecedented and abusive judicial proceedings." "We unequivocally stand behind Carl and all of our attorneys ...."

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.

SCOTUS allowing ICE to racially profile will embolden Trump to use ICE & military against his political opponents, potentially demanding citizenship checks at polls & intimidating Dem voters in 2026. Already seeing such tactics with occupation of LA, DC & Chicago www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip. And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)

People in the state of Pennsylvania can book their appointment for covid boosters for the 2025-26 season now. No notes necessary (unless pharmacy makes such a request), flu, RSV, or any other vaccination or booster you need. Check with pharmacy to make appointments. Not all have stock yet.

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!

This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations “has opened a Pandora’s Box for military use of force against them both on foreign soil and in international waters,” Wes Bryant, who was directly involved in counternarcotics activities against ISIS in Afghanistan, told @theintercept.com

Happy to take the birthrate people seriously the second one of them is like omg, have you seen the black infant mortality death rate? We’re losing out on so many lovely black babies!

Some important “What to expect when we’re electing” messaging from the Brennan Center. Election fraud lies are integrated into the administration’s strategies of election interference going into 2026. What we need to be aware of… and what we can do:

One hell of a read:

And that explains why the U.N. is moving out of the U.S.

we’d love to turn off the machine that convinces children to kill themselves, but we can’t really justify losing our ability to lay off customer service agents, now can we?

“Protest, I once said, is when I say that something doesn’t please me. Resistance is when I ensure that what doesn’t please me stops happening.”

BREAKING — Dept. of Defense civilian employees all received an email a short while ago offering them the opportunity to support ICE and CBP “as they fulfill the President's intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system.” Full text of email and attached memo from Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth:

US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children… www.reuters.com/business/hea...

I wrote about the lost world of alt-weeklies, papers that loved cities *as* cities, for my splendid local alt-daily, Daybreak. “The first time I saw a stranger’s corpse was one summer night, 1992…” news.daybreak.news/p/enthusiasm...

It's being reported that another protection & advocacy agency, Disability Rights Michigan, is missing federal funds. www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...

"...federal Medicaid cuts could drive three million people who are 50 or older to receive care in institutions rather than at home. Imagining the future, Carrie told me, 'I don’t think people realize how bad this can get.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/m...

"We need to alter our mindset and make structural changes to how we operate and how we advocate, or we will watch our colleagues be wiped out in place after place and conflict after conflict," @nickturse.bsky.social tells @columjournreview.bsky.social.

As federal authorities sweep homeless encampments in D.C. , I want to resurface the reporting we @propublica.org did last year on the possessions people lose, which include the things they need to survive: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...

Israel, and countries like El Salvador and South Sudan, which have agreed to accept U.S. deportees as part of Trump’s growing global gulag, got a soft touch. South Africa, which has led the war crimes case against Israel at The Hague, received a more pointed report. theintercept.com/2025/08/14/s...

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

Republican lawmakers in Texas have opened a new front in their efforts to crack down on abortion, this time with a bill that would enable lawsuits targeting the use of medication to terminate pregnancies.

One Pennsylvania county ... where those same mushroom workers now live in fear of ICE raids. HT: @gwensnyder.bsky.social

The internal memo also instructs the agency to “identify and delete references to discrimination or violence against ‘LGBTQI+’ persons, ‘transgender’ persons, or similar framing.”

We hear a lot about immigration-heavy industries like agriculture & construction. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social writes about caregiving, one of the fastest-growing industries in the nation, where immigrants are at least 1/3 of the workforce & mass deportation might lead to a crisis of accessing care.

So many of you wrote asking for a primer on how to push back against ICE's presence where you live! So this week's Tuesday post skips the usual history lesson. Instead, I talked to Oliver Merino of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, who offered a lot of specifics on how to take action near you.

Living through the apocalypse is a really surreal experience.