liberal democracies will never be safe with musk this powerful—they must unite to break him my latest with @newrepublic.com c/a @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Since I do not see the New World Screwworm issue going away any time soon, I’m just gonna make a thread I can pin to my profile. Do you want to know why the screwworms have come back? Check this thread: bsky.app/profile/tkin...

The Trump administration has taken steps to make sure that the United States is a safe space for money launderers, drug cartels, and international financial rogues.

I waited a while to write this one. The time finally felt right.

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

You can't judge the Iran war by its stats, writes @davidcorn.bsky.social. "For sure, the US military can be rather successful in killing and annihilating. That might look like winning to some. History tells us otherwise."

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

I found the first investigative file from the first complainant against Epstein in 2005. There are descriptions from the officer, over several interviews of the girl, of her pulling her knees up on the chair, drawing doodles, & the officer high-fiving her to keep her calm as she speaks of horror.

Happy Saturday. It's time for another Casey Kasem American Top 40 flashback #AT40. This week, we travel back to January 28, 1978. Who will be #1? Listen to Casey on SiriusXM 70s, and follow this 🧵 to find out.

We asked 10 Minnesota residents to tell us about life under ICE occupation. Read their stories, and put yourself in their shoes. We may all find ourselves experiencing what they are, whatever the city or personal circumstance, before too long.

Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:

Still up. Glad I posted here and not YouTube. This is what Bari Weiss and CBS tried to hide from us.

Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable. Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate. Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

I wrote about Bari Weiss newrepublic.com/article/2037...

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

“I did not create a pub crawl with people who barf in playgrounds.” The secret history of Santacon, America’s most hated Christmas Party.

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

putting chuck schumer where he belongs: thread

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

From The Archives: The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Grok, Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-grok-elon-musks-ai-chatbot/

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Far-right political activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead on September 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University. Here's what you need to know about the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA's background and views Content warning: This story refers to a viral, violent video of a shooting.

Welp, that didn't take long.... www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

English translation of Ayala Metzger’s powerful speech from the Jerusalem protest last night: “Yesterday morning, I took a few hours to tidy up the house. I live just ten minutes from the northern border of the Gaza Strip. I hear the planes flying over my house on their way to bomb 🧵

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

📣 Now that the #MAGAMurderBill is back at the House, I'm completely updating my House District-level healthcare enrollment pie charts w/the latest data, 2024 partisan lean & the population at risk of losing healthcare coverage highlighted. First up: #ALABAMA: acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...

"Hegseth’s take on the operation was a literal erasure of the woman involved, of course, but it was his doubling down that it’s fine to refer to a woman as 'a boy' that raised eyebrows."

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

donald trump as prison jumpsuits: thread

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

My new favorite scientist “I’m not screaming, ‘aliens!’” said Nikole Lewis, an exoplanetary scientist at Cornell University. “But I always reserve my right to scream ‘aliens!’” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

NEW — The Trump State Department is using the *same language* Columbia used to smear & punish the school's Students for Justice in Palestine & Jewish Voice for Peace groups (for a protest Mohsen Mahdawi condemned an antisemitic disruptor at) to *now* justify deporting him. Read on —>

the muppets in famous works of art: thread

HEB is a Texas gem. Best grocery chain in the country. Sadly, I just discovered I have a massive trade deficit with them. I buy their stuff, they never buy mine, no matter how dank or kind! So, I’m slapping a 40% tariff on them. I’ll be charging myself 40% more from now on. That’ll show em.

Elbows up, Canada.

The most telling data point of what drives Elon can be seen in this video when he preens and does his shoulder shimmy after saying, “I’m not just MAGA….I’m dark gothic MAGA”: Musk is desperately needy for validation, and to be “liked”. 1/

I've seen this question come up a few times, and some of it is answered in this post from a few years ago, but let me try to answer @opinionhaver.bsky.social's question directly since he asks this every time 230 comes up. www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/h...

When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

the muppets crashing the red carpet at the 2025 oscars: thread

1/ Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine should hold a presidential election in wartime. Nazi Germany demanded the same of Britain in July 1942. This is the story of why the UK delayed holding elections throughout World War II. ⬇️

I'm probably pissing in the wind, but I have little time off because of the holiday, so I'd like to offer a thread arguing against an ugly, ugly habit rising on Bluesky: Screenshots of articles without links. Stop it. Just fucking stop it.