If patterns mean anything, extrajudicial killings of people who supposedly have narcotics … there’s another president who did that: Duterte of the Philippines, who’s now been indicted by The Hague.

Did no one else think #Sabrina Carpenter‘s karate theme performance of one of her songs on #snl was completely cringe, if not …. other stronger words I could use for dressing up in someone else’s culture as performance…(not to mention for no reason)?

Regime media reported on Friday that Myanmar refugee rights activist Thuzar Maung, 48, and her family were arrested on an unspecified date after their “illegal” return to Myanmar from Malaysia english.dvb.no/myanmar-refu... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #malaysia #EnforcedDisappearances

UK media regulator sanctions the BBC for a "materially misleading" documentary on Gaza children because it failed to disclose that the teen narrator’s father was Hamas’ deputy agriculture minister. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...

Susan Stamberg, an original NPR staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died at the age of 87. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/118488...

Sometimes folks at NPR still keep it fun and weird —- How big a deal are Taylor Swift's vinyl sales, really? www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...

Interesting idea. A entire news market will get a public editor. Indianapolis will be the first local media market to get its own Public Editor, who will monitor all the newsrooms in town. tinyurl.com/2s44zxe8

In a first, #Myanmar dictator acknowledges they won’t be able to carry out the sham election in the whole country bc of the resistance. they were only able to do the census/create voter lists in around half the country english.dvb.no/myanmar-reeg...

West Virginia teen who started a nonprofit bringing books to preschoolers in book deserts— now across the country #MorgantownLove www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...

NEW for @washingtonpost.com: Fox News will not sign the Pentagon's press policy. The broadcaster joins ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN in condemning the Defense Department for a policy they say violates their "core journalistic protections.”

Politico - Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘NPR will lose access to the Pentagon bec we wont sign an unprecedented Defense Department document, warning journalists that they may lose their press credentials for "soliciting" even unclassified information from federal employees‘ www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

The spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority Security Forces, Anwar Rajab: Hamas is now laying the groundwork for a civil war in Gaza…. As Hamas continues carrying out executions in Gaza and the leaders of Gaza’s clans issue a joint statement condemning Hamas

“Netanyahu has abandoned his most basic values and decided to lead us all straight into hell. History will judge him as the man who turned his back on his people." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

As Trump addresses Knesset, left-wing lawmakers thrown out of session after waving sign calling him to 'Recognize Palestine' following release of all living hostages www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

former GOP member of Congress:

Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):

Earthquake in #Japan politics. The longtime ruling party, the LDP (who recently elected far right PM) broke up w junior coalition partner, Komeito. That coalition ensured LDP’s political dominance. Komeito, party of Buddhist org Sokka Gakkai, had been increasingly at odds w LDP. 👇the person to read:

“We are on the edge of being buried alive.” Taliban shuts down Internet & phone for 2 days. Not mentioned, but unless or until they establish eg ’a great firewall, Taliban can’t turn it off for wo affecting themselves, eg, they need Internet for intl banking. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/a...

#BTS' Suga donates $3.6 mil. to build autism center www.koreatimes.co.kr/amp/entertai...

The White House abruptly terminated a large share of the council members advising the National Endowment for the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency, retaining only four Trump appointees.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

An American governer calls for citizen journalists to document the federal government’s abusive behavior #HereWeAre

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

#Myanmar junta revoking citizenship of artists as cudgel - good to see this covered. Not mentioned but Phyu Phyu aside, one of the most prominent cases revolves around Kyar Pauk (Big Bag) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Dear world, we apologize. The US Presidency is away from its desk. Please come back in 3 years.

Last year and even into this we had sustained, loud protests, protests covered practically everyday in the news… for another country in the U.S. (eg Hannah Einbinder). Yet nothing like that has happened as the U.S. is systematically dismantled. Where are college students? theyre usually the 1st

How Arjen Lubach (Dutch late night talk show host) reacts to Kimmel being canceled by Trump

As a journalist focused on the evolution of politics, media ( and pop culture) in an evolving totalitarian regime over several decades, looking at what’s happening at home in the United States is extremely depressing

It’s reassuring in this moment to hear what a President of the whole United States sounds like

BREAKING: - Jimmy Kimmel jokes about Charlie Kirk's killer - FCC's Brendan Carr threatens to pull licenses of TV stations airing Kimmel unless ABC fires him - Nexstar owns a lot of TV stations - Nexstar says their stations will stop airing Kimmel - ABC does this www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after Trump’s FCC head didn’t like his reasonable remarks about Charlie Kirk and MAGA. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...

Insta therapist: the incredible thing 6 yr olds in Japan learn but Americans only get with the help of therapy in their 40s. Ready for it? the art of gaman. #omfg 🤦‍♀️😓🤮🤮🤮

Department of Justice deletes study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

NYT response to lawsuit filed by Donald Trump against the newspaper and several NYT reporters. share.google/oTnqn8SIgHFV...

Americans and US media can separate Trump‘s crazy actions from America- themselves, citizens who don’t want that. Why cant they do the same w Netanyahu insanity & Israel? Israeli headlines: IDF, politicians, etc disagreements w Netanyahu. Americans/media- Israel is extremist ethnonationaliat state

“In some ways, we were doing a late night comedy show about loss. And that’s related to love, because sometimes you only know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it.” #Colbert on the state of the #USA in his Emmy win speech.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

$10 Million in Contraceptives Destined for Low Income Countries Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Re today's fatal shooting: 'Under the changes in HB 128, which went into effect on May 7, individuals who are 18 years old or older and have a current Utah concealed weapon permit (CWP) may carry a weapon on campus, including in an “open” fashion.'

This is an interesting turn #ArakanArmy #SuuKyi #KimAris #Myanmar

Crystal clear signals here

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

Trump signs executive order establishing ‘specialized’ National Guard units for all American cities — www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/p...

‘Military commanders have coordinated w police, balancing the unusual directive to deploy troops domestically w Trump’s desire to involve the military in a federal crackdown on .. crime.’ slippery slope to that last word being swapped w others. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...