Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

"On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Since 2015, at least 116 people have died in the New York City jails — including the brutal Rikers Island complex. Here are several ways Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can address the troubled institution. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE. "Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

If you’ve supported us in the past — and holy hell did BlueSky come through in June — thank you. And if you haven’t, consider a monthly donation as low as $5. We love our sustainers.

"President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement crackdown has hit a disgusting new low, after federal agents reportedly pepper-sprayed a 1-year-old in Chicago and then lied about it."

Inspired by @prisonculture.bsky.social, we made a handout for trick or treating tomorrow with local resources for food assistance and places to donate!

Listen I’m always glad when I discover there’s still people managing to live without being Too Online but MA’AM Freida you gotta be careful with the hearts of a nation

Alabama is scheduled to execute Geoffrey West today for the 1997 murder of Margaret Parrish Berry. Berry's son, Will, opposes West's execution and has expressed a desire to meet him (which the state has denied). In this commentary, Will Berry explains why.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

There’s a lot of nonprofit media out there doing the work. Like (cough) @statesnewsroom.com but also @propublica.org, @insideclimatenews.org, @19thnews.org, @mississippifreepress.org, lots of local organizations, independent journos, etc. Reader-supported journalism is thriving.

Hey, it's me, clever white liberal man, here to give you real talk: [insert standard conservative talking point for decades not backed by actual data] Check out my podcast for more brilliant insights like this. ✌️

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

This isn't abstract. Ending vaccine mandates will kill children. Any one who is trying to do this should be removed from office immediately.

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

Breaking via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: A federal judge ruled Friday that Alabama’s current state Senate district map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and said an additional majority or near-majority Black district would need to be drawn in Montgomery.

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident. She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

This is the organization Theo gf which I give to help those suffering in Gaza — they do good work. Support them if you can

Oh, just thinking of all the brothers from inner cities who put their bodies on the line for this ghoul.

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

We feed you. They hunt us.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

ICE raids Poconos pizza shop. "It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy." www.wnep.com/article/news...

What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

IMPORTANT: Nationwide ban on Medicaid covering gender affirming care is in the House bill.

👏 Hoover High School graduate Rotimi Kukoyi has been selected as one of 54 college students named a 2025 Harry S. Truman Scholar, which for almost 50 years has recognized college juniors who demonstrate exceptional leadership potential and commitment to careers in public service.

we live in data privacy hell www.404media.co/license-plat...

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

I cannot tell if time is passing because Rihanna is always pregnant.

The PBS Kids app is one of the few things you can trust your kids to play around with on a computer. All the shows that you can stream are good and entertaining. Nothing positive comes from getting rid of this, they're just trying to make life worse for everyone www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

because alabama prisons aren't bad enough???? www.al.com/politics/202...

In a world of Elon Musks, be a Robert De Niro

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

For my fellow weenies: SINNERS is intense and violent but NOT the kind of horror movie I tend to regret seeing. ENDORSE

the word 'deported' is being pretty commonly misused

Happy to be corrected, but the only Alabama institution of higher learning I see on this list is Talladega College, an HBCU that has faced financial struggle over the last few years.

bear in mind the current state of federal capacity

Van Hollen: I should also just say, I mentioned the fake margarita, they actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool in the hotel. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar. Which of course is a big, fat lie.

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

Palestinian, Turkish, Indian, Iranian, Gambian-British, Korean — they’re coming after all in a real way. Black, brown, Asian, Muslim or not, this is a story of rounding up, kidnapping, people of color. If you are a member of these groups or an ally, and you’re a citizen, you need to fight back.

These notes from universities aren't just useless and cowardly, they're actively dangerous at this point! Your university isn't a "community" if it's allowing people to be abducted off the street because of an op-ed. Real answer is to reallocate all university resources until the student is freed.

"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?" (From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)

POV you are the attorney general of a state with perennially high maternal & infant morality rates, poor scores on many measures of health & well-being, and your major research institutions are being defunded. And you are “deeply saddened” you can’t kill a man. www.al.com/news/2025/03...

Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: Gov. Kay Ivey will spare the life of Robin “Rocky” Myers who used to be on death row and would have eventually been executed. alabamareflector.com/2025/02/28/g...

Trump and Elon just began firing hundreds of NOAA workers serving “mission-critical and life-saving roles.” These climate experts and forecasters are crucial to tracking natural disasters like hurricanes. Make no mistake, their terminations will cause preventable deaths.