Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake. I voted NO.

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

"The removal eliminated a passage that read, “Our founders established ADL with the clear understanding that the fight against any one form of prejudice or hate cannot succeed without countering hate of all forms.”"

Love a goal in the first minute #USWNT

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... "A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

So not for cause, or to address fraud, waste & abuse. For partisan political pain.

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this: "You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

Now this is a clear rejection! Thank you MIT

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

This is heavy.

Imagine if Obama had said this in front of military personnel about Republicans.

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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this story is all over TikTok and IG — a young man storms into this human sexuality lecture (the largest, most popular class at UW) and starts yelling ableist and gay slurs and throws a Nazi salute… and then the prof and students chase him down and pepper spray him. www.kuow.org/stories/uw-i...

This was expected, but is also going to be a disaster when it comes to dealing with bias in algorithmic tools for employment. Source: AP News search.app/kuYRD

The Hatch Act of 1939: an Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a federal law that prohibits civil service employees of the federal government, except the president and vice president, from engaging in some forms of political activity. It became law on August 2, 1939.

Federal law doesn't recognize the concept of a "domestic terrorist organization." That hasn't stopped President Trump from trying to use the concept to authorize investigations of (and necessarily suppress) lots of constitutionally protected speech, protest, and advocacy. Me in today's "One First":

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Now that’s bleak.

Let’s open our eyes. This isn’t a functioning democracy any longer when - in the middle of a high stakes funding fight - the President illegally suspends federal projects in states run by Democrats as a way to punish the political opposition.

"The documents explicitly show that ICE is choosing this product over others offered by the contractor’s competitors because it gives ICE essentially an 'all-in-one' tool for searching both masses of location data and information taken from social media."

🚨 New Bright Line Watch report on state of US democracy brightlinewatch.org/violence-red... -Expert ratings ~= since April but ↓ substantially since January -US now most closely resembles an illiberal democracy -Partisan gap in democracy ratings highest since 2017 Full thread of results below

Feeling grateful the address I delivered upon receiving the Lewin Memorial Award has just been published in the September 2025 issue of Journal of Social Issues! It appears as an open access article, for any and all who may be interested: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Systematically undermining mechanisms of transparency and accountability throughout the government

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.

Article:

Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling. Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.

I will never get over the fact that we had a national debate over a President's mental capacity and it wasn't about Trump.

Politicians/governments are now PAYING your social media influencers to bend messages their way www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... This means: people DRAWN to social media to avoid official or state "bias"....end up with it in a more subtle, indirect form. Did you think Power would sit on sidelines?

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Up is down

People who have studied the downfall of democracy in other countries recognize exactly what is happening in the U.S. The parallels are unmistakeable; the only difference is the speed - we are going *faster*. apnews.com/article/trum...

As I expected Trump will attend the unprecedented gathering of top generals this week www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

who could have predicted that arguing for class-first race-blind affirmative action policies would *also* run afoul of the neo-segregationists?

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

We aren't on a slippery slope to a constitutional crisis. We are IN the crisis. Time for leaders - political leaders, business leaders, civic leaders - to pick a side: democracy or autocracy?

The National Archives under the Trump administration released @mikiesherrill.bsky.social full, unredacted Navy personnel file to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign. This is an unprecedented and illegal weaponization of the National Archives and private, personal records to attack a political opponent.

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Kavanaugh thinks this is a minor inconvenience, not something of concern under the 4th amendment