We've been in a slow-motion government shutdown for months, as the Trump administration withheld appropriated funds and engaged in mass firings. Now we're going to finally admit it. From me and @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: prospect.org/politics/202...

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

seems way more disrespectful to Charlie Kirk to completely bungle the case and let the guy who killed him escape than posting an uncouth hot take online imo

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

Trump and Republicans are kicking 17 million Americans off their health care. Health care costs will increase, once again, next year. Trump is literally stealing from the sick to give tax cuts to the rich.

"[Andrew Cuomo] doesn't know that no means no... he doesn't accept no for an answer. He doesn't accept reality and he's going to have to be beat and emasculated again." Former Cuomo aide @lindseyboylan.bsky.social calls him out for staying in the NYC mayoral race despite voters rejecting him.

“In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, she has alleged that Trump accosted her outside the bathroom of his VIP box at the US Open tennis tournament in New York in 1997.”

Pretty wild that Bari Weiss made a name for herself by claiming she's silenced for her beliefs and then just quit and then started a media company and is going to be getting hundreds of millions of dollars to merge with and control CBS. If that's censorship I'll take some please

Don’t look away

“The interview has resonated deeply across the internet.” newrepublic.com/post/199737/... If you haven’t see the interview where Friedland exposes Torres yet, here are some highlights: www.instagram.com/reel/DN5_ePk...

Hakeem Jeffries: Lullabye alarm clock

You know the US healthcare system is a scam when people are getting charged for emails

Every week, we at Zeteo compile a day by day list of Trump’s authoritarian excesses, abuses, law-breaking, fascism. He wants to flood the zone and numb us; we won’t let him. Read/share/subscribe:

Kilmar reunited with his children and family the Trump regime has kept him from for half a year

How many taxpayer funded extremist lawyers can I find? This makes two this year and that seems two too many.

DATA: “TN = highest violent crime rate in the south, 4th in 🇺🇸” @TNSenateDems point out “tough on crime” @GovBillLee & Republican policies to flood the streets with guns and block anything to help regular people + underfunding schools make us less safe projects.csgjusticecenter.org/justice-data...

NEW: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days.

Critics have long described Andrew Cuomo as the Democratic Party's Trump. Now he's giving credence to this by running as the de facto Trumpist option. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Mail-in ballots let seniors, working parents, and service members cast their ballots safely. Trump’s push to ban them is voter suppression. Plain and simple.

A North Texas lawyer notorious for his involvement with far-right extremist groups — and his legal representation of members of white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups — is working as a court appointed attorney in Denton County. My latest for @thebarbedwire.com. thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/22/c...

If corporations didn’t own office buildings they’d be the first arguing for people to work from home. “Why should we buy a place for you to work when you can work from home??”

Shahed Ghoreishi was fired from his position as a press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs at the U.S. State Department after he pushed for language expressing condolences for journalists killed by Israel.

“I was obviously very scared of being deported, but my principal fear was being deported without my baby,” Galvis said. “I don’t think I could have survived that.”

"I don't give a shit what DJ Khaled thinks." Anees, the Palestinian-American rapper and musician, on Gaza, resistance, joy, political music, breaking down taboos, Zohran Mamdani, and more. Watch the full episode of the latest 'We're Not Kidding': zeteo.com/p/i-dont-giv...

“My budget has become double for food shopping”

during the Wendy Davis protests i entered the capitol building with several female friends. i told the guards i was carrying a concealed firearm and showed them my license. they waved me through without a search. my friends had their purses checked and their tampons confiscated.

NEW Vet & oysterman vying to beat Susan Collins "Why can't we have universal healthcare like every other first-world country? Why can't we take care of our Vets when they come home? Why are we funding endless wars & bombing children? Why are CEOs more powerful than unions?" zeteo.com/p/meet-the-d...

Roger Alford, former #2 at DOJ Antitrust, unloaded on the Department for undermining merger enforcement with lobbyist deals. He named names, & hinted that he'd be the star witnesses in a legal proceeding that could expose the dirty details. He also intimated that the Live Nation case was at risk.

The site did an “investigation” into preexisting conditions in starving kids in Gaza — the same logic that would have you believe typhus killed Anne Frank.

Once again tapping the sign that reads “the alternative to collective bargaining is dragging out the factory owner from his house and beating him to death in front of his family,” because that’s what we had before collective bargaining Unions are there for *your* protection too, management

“I don’t know why they’re attacking Zohran. I think it’s stupid.” @gallego.senate.gov says Dems can disagree with certain policies but attacking Mamdani when he’s bringing in new ideas and exciting people and “shrinking the tent” is shortsighted. (H/T @atrupar.com )

Please read this

Hundreds of billions of dollars spent on making pedophile robots www.reuters.com/investigates...

this is such a depressing misread of why Trumpism wins American voters aren't drawn to parables They want an enemy and they want to see that enemy hurt

ANCHORAGE…

Since mid-May when it began flying for ICE Air, Avelo operated 10% of the agency’s deportation flights and 20% of ICE flights overall, according to aviation researcher Tom Cartwright. interc.pt/45AGDUY

This headline justifying Trump's war on homeless people appeared THE VERY SAME DAY we learned Musk's company is pocketing billions in government handouts without paying taxes.

What if we vilified billionaires and their corporations the way the poor have long been stigmatized: as the "parasite class"—Musk's own favored term—trapped in an "endless cycle of dependency." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...

We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.

I just finished "There Is No Place for Us" by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social It's a modern, non-fiction, "The Jungle", about the purposely designed-to-fail housing system in this country - an unholy abomination of government & corporations - and the resulting dystopia www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today. I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.

PHILLY DA @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social : “Let's not get lost in his silly distraction from the fact that he doesn't want to give up information on his own involvement in a pedophile ring. Did we all forget about that? Trump is the public safety emergency.”

WHAT A MESS — WSMV now says the contract with ICE for a detention center was approved by MASON, TN along with the core civic contract, and votes were miscounted🤔 “mayor admitted he did not know the final decisions” His email: [email protected] www.actionnews5.com/2025/08/13/p...

We’re not getting there. We are there. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

The silence of the United States media on the murder of Al Jazeera journalists in a targeted attack by Netanyahu & the IDF speaks to the lack of integrity that now pervades our media. To date, Netanyahu & the IDF have murdered over 200 journalists & their families. The cowardice is telling

A congressional stock trading ban passed a Senate committee last month. It's something that's been talked about for years. But the latest iteration has so many exemptions that trading experts tell @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social it can easily be manipulated by would-be insider traders to make money:

🔥 Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social to Will Cain : "Do you know how many Republicans joined Dems in Congress to ban gerrymandering? All the Democrats voted for it. 0 Republicans voted for it. Spare me your both sides rhetoric."

Here's D.C. resident Harold Meyerson on the Trump militarization of policing in the nation's capital, which is entirely designed to provoke a response for purposes of escalation. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...