All these folks fired for posting facts, doing mockery, or sharing political cartoons after Charlie Kirk’s murder. Meanwhile Fox & Friends suggested killing homeless people, and The Daily Caller is explicitly calling for bloodshed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

🚨 New paper: Will global environmental governance survive Trump? @rakhyunkim.bsky.social and I argue that its high complexity makes it more resilient than other governance systems. We give hegemonic stability theory a complexity science twist. 📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/1758...

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

Ciattarelli is vulnerable on corruption charges and ran ads in the primary vowing to be Trump’s most loyal sycophant. The Democratic ad writes itself but given how anemic @repsherrill.bsky.social’s campaign has been, the ad might actually have to write itself.

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

A new senate report is full of *shocking* details about DOGE activities inside the federal government. Including, unfortunately, the disturbing access that DOGE affiliates had to our SSNs: "One whistleblower noted the possibility that the agency may need to re-issue SSNs to all who possess one."

Tucked into the Appropriations Bill is a limit on the right to sue pesticide manufacturers for harm. As always, Carey Gillam has the details. www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/in-w...

2025 is a record-breaking year for claims filed by fossil fuel and mining firms against democratic policies – marking a grim milestone in a surge of polluting industries seeking compensation for lost profits via a secretive tribunal. For @ftm.eu with contributions by ao @anilyilmaz.bsky.social

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i’m so incensed by the Tylenol thing that i can’t even write a well-worded post. the 2 major things that are at the root of the announcement are: 1. the idea that autism is sth bad, & 2. that women are the cause of this “bad” thing Both are obvs false, but it’s an old play from a very old playbook

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Why Won’t America’s Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump? www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Another example of the same phenomenon; they are killing people so they can make videos of them killing people. There is not actually any policy that Venezuela or Colombia can enact to satisfy them, because the purpose is just content creation. Podcasters with the power of the Federal government.

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

Senate went nuclear and it barely made the news: apnews.com/article/sena...

Fascism is actually principled conservatism Violating 🇨🇦’s sovereignty is good If Dems really believed democracy was under attack, they’d offer more policy concessions Ron DeSantis is the way to “move past Trump” When people show you who they are, over & over & over & over again, believe them

What ICE is doing in Broadview is really fucked up.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Yeah that pretty much sums it up.

To all the comedians who stood for free speech in the face of wokeness

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This would destroy many graduate programs and is likely to be strongly opposed by tech companies, who rely on these visas for a lot of their technical workforce

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Dutch late night TV has its take

This really is worth your time. Well done, @thedailyshow.com

Oh you didn't hear? Climate is "woke," we're over that now.

Exactly this

This is jawboning. This is what the Freedom Caucus fascists of the Weaponization Committee and their Substack lackeys pretended was happening under some “Biden regime,” but it wasn’t. It was always projection.

I asked a Meta whistleblower: Did Meta stop research projects on child safety? Did Meta restrict info researchers collect? Did Meta modify research results? Did Meta require researchers to delete data? His answer: Yes, yes, yes, and yes. That says it all.

Paying attention yet?

Stephen Miller was directly involved in one of the largest acts of organized domestic political violence the United States has seen in modern times, the Jan 6 insurrection. Any news org that doesn't make this fact central is helping Miller deceive its customers.

Americans from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly oppose Citizens United and would like to rid the U.S. political system of corporate and dark money. Learn more from CAP's @thmoore.bsky.social: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

One. Special. Boy.

truth is now “corrosive ideology”

On his podcast today, the Vice President of the US threatened to revoke the non-profit tax exemption from the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundation because they “funded” an article in the Nation. Ford last donated to the nation in 2019. OSF never did. (Gift link) wapo.st/4mXenU2

When I was a kid, bullies would hold you down and slap you with your own hand while saying "Stop hitting yourself." Today authoritarians just drink a beer in an easy chair while they watch liberal institutions bludgeon themselves into a coma entirely of their own volition.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that would allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech ‼️ www.commondreams.org/news/rubio-t...

"Their propaganda is now official government policy."

In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.

Thank you @vanhollen.senate.gov 🤩