NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Last prop of #Halloween 2025.

NEW: NC GOP enacts a "racist" gerrymander. Maine Republicans push a ballot measure to gut mail voting as USPS delays ballots. Trump’s DOJ, led by election deniers, set to deploy agents to state elections. What legacy media probably missed this week👇

Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office. n.pr/47ll5Nc

Add #JonnyQuest robot spider to my Halloween collection this year.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a $20 billion package to rescue the Argentinian economy. Too bad that it's basically a gift for one hedge fund manager with ties to Bessent himself.

The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion."

It is with great sadness that I awake to find #CoxComm no longer has #MeTV listed in the line up for #Pensacola. There aren't a lot of reasons for keeping cable at this point and losing MeTV makes for one less.

UC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.

Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.

One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”

Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

One man, the son of Holocaust survivors, said, “People being kidnapped without arrest warrants, without trial, without recourse, by the president of the United States’s ICE armies ... We are not headed toward an authoritarian fascist government; we are already there” trib.al/MGjPFH2

Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism.

President Trump made false and misleading claims about crime in Washington, D.C., during a news conference on Monday as he announced that the administration would take federal control of the police. Here’s a fact-check. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

President Trump's tariffs are expected to cost households an average of $2,400 per year, according to the Budget Lab at Yale University. They estimate food prices could rise more than 3 percent and car prices could rise 12 percent.

"Trump and everybody around him belong in jail... There is no sane human being who can look at the situation and not see a pile of war crimes." A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation

Some of the world’s most prominent researchers are laying off young researchers and shelving years, or even decades, of research into everything from opioid addiction to cancer.

If anyone needed a reminder that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no background in science or medicine, look no further than his recent social media posts.

GOP lawmakers have used the threat of noncitizen voting to justify harsh voting restrictions, claiming noncitizens are illegally swinging elections. But investigations across the country unanimously concluded one thing: noncitizen voting is a nonissue.

"Mr. Kennedy continues to use words that make it sound like he knows what he's talking about. But, in fact, he doesn't," Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said of the HHS secretary.

Ghislaine Maxwell DOJ Cartoon by @Andertoon for Raw Story #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Trump #USPolitics

Redistricting happens every 10 years. But Abbott & Trump aren’t waiting. They want to redraw the map now—mid-decade—because they’re afraid of 2026. This is a surgical strike on democracy. Every voter should be pissed. #MessWithTexas

The BLS did exactly what it's supposed to do: provide accurate, nonpartisan data. When the numbers showed Trump's "economic boom" was actually a bust (33k jobs vs claimed 291k), he fired the messenger. After all, when it rains too much, true leaders fire the meteorologists.

U.S. military veteran Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a security contractor at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, says he was horrified by war crimes being carried out against starving Palestinians. "The sites have not only become death traps, they were designed as death traps."

In the aftermath of every disaster now, social media abounds with nutbag conspiracies: The Dems are responsible. No, DARPA! Or maybe, as @garrisonhayes.bsky.social explains, it's simply that Texas hill country is prone to epic floods—and climate change ain't helping.

The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.

A reminder: FEMA is no longer going door-to-door to assist disaster victims [From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]

Received this carefully worded piece of propaganda from social security today. Trump promised no taxes for social security benefits. What they delivered was a temporary tax deduction which would reduce taxes for seniors and end 2028 (surprise surprise) the year Trump leaves office.

This provides an astounding insight into the level of incompetence and "fly by the seat of your pants" approach of the Trump Administration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnjH...

Let me fix that for you. "Check the taxes. $88 billion came in from taxes." Bragging about how much he's taxing us and pretending we should all be happy. Because there is nothing Americans like more than paying more taxes to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

The "Big Beautiful Bill" is the grift that just keeps on grifting. They are literally selling out America. Call your senator and tell them to vote NO! (202) 224-3121

The exception to the rule...

“Perhaps they should change the name of the agency if they are no longer about protecting the health of Americans.” from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org

My favorite #Wisconsin #NoKings sign/flag from today. #wipolitics

This is what a real leader like President Biden does and says after the appalling act of politically motivated violence we have seen in Minnesota. As of now, the White House and POTUS pages on Twitter have said nothing and are busy celebrating the birthday of the abomination they call president.

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

Is this a good time to remind everyone we had a deal that eliminated Iran's stockpile of medium-enriched uranium and cut its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 98%, but this Dumb A** tore it up?

Instead of worrying that the guy who isn't President any more, maybe we should be more concerned about the mental state of the guy that holds the office now.

Procter & Gamble said it would cut 7,000 jobs or about 6% of its total workforce over the next two years, as part of a new restructuring plan to counter uneven consumer demand and higher costs due to tariff uncertainty.

Exclusive: Morning Consult finds that due to trade policy, global favorability of China is rising, while America is falling

RFK Jr. has bragged his “Make America Healthy Again” report, released last week, is based on “gold-standard” science: In reality, its citations are error-ridden, with missing links, incorrect conclusions, and sometimes even made-up studies. https://trib.al/D5miniT

The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Modern to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.

President Trump pardoned a man sentenced for tax crimes after his mother went to a $1 million-per-plate dinner at Mar-a-Lago. His pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.

What I imagine Rocket would look like after being buried in Stephen King's pet cemetery. #lego #petcemetery #Rocket

Many of the major changes Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction.