Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

We need YOU to be a real-life superhero by fighting for #Prop50! So suit up and join us for our phone bank this Monday as we call union members and tell them the importance of voting YES on Prop 50!

Republicans won't hold the executive branch forever. Democrats should commit now to matching these purges of the civil service with purges of their own to remove any vestige of MAGA influence.

Gonna lay down a marker here: if they do in fact rule for Trump here, it will be properly considered Dred Scott II, and will in an important sense mark the end of the Union

Holy shit.

Famous American citizen Wernher von Braun.

until there's a Republican congress and a Democratic president, in which case it will suddenly be very important. the country cannot function as a real democracy with corrupt, partisan serial liars controlling the Supreme Court; it has to be the first priority of a new administration.

So I won't be surprised if that ICE supervisor who suspended that ICE agent is herself fired.

"The point of this kind of flex isn’t Jim Comey any more than it’s Tish James or the New York Times. The point is that after he comes for them, he can come for you. That’s how authoritarians work, how they have always worked, and it’s why it’s useful to read the Niemöller poem backward."

Mom at the park just told me she wasn’t going to finish her baby’s vaccine schedule because “of the new information that has come out from the CDC”. Robert Kennedy is a fucking monster.

Elon Musk went to Pedophile Island www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Unbelievable. And yet sadly completely believable.

The Daily Caller has put this disclaimer on the article, which I strongly recommend you read just to see how sadistic it is. Needless to say, the Daily Caller Editor's Note is bullshit. dailycaller.com/2025/09/26/i...

He'll release the Amelia Earhart files before he'll release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

This is the point of the new EO: it is to make people think twice before they provide their honest evaluation of the Trump regime. You called them fascist? Well, you must be antifa. You call them authoritarian? You are inciting terrorism.

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

Yep. Not a journalist anymore, so I can speak more freely than I could before. I feel that this is a moment for editors to lead the way for their reporters, to let them know they can and should call this moment what it is.

Just a bunch of powerful folks laughing heartily at the president’s racist comments about black congresswomen, including a threat to deport one of them, who is a U.S. citizen, all while he signs a corrupt order to break up a foreign company and give pieces of it to his biggest political donors.

This is happening today, y'all! Put on your cowboy hat and join us as we call union members across the state about voting YES on Proposition 50 to fight back against the Trump Administration! Don't mess with the West!

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

The way to stop being treated like a Nazi is to stop acting like a Nazi.

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

scoop: Karen Attiah, The Washington Post opinion writer fired by The Post earlier this month over social-media posts related to Charlie Kirk's death, has responded with a four-page letter, saying she was wrongfully terminated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/b...

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

I'm sorry, they celebrate executing people on the high seas without even knowing who they are and then joke that they're so bloodthirsty that people won't even dare go fishing

Sorry, not taking lectures on civil political rhetoric from the guy who accused his own constituents of eating pets. And then admitted he was strategically lying after destroying tens of thousands of lives.

When you erase peoples' identities, it makes it a lot easier to erase people period.

U.S. intelligence has removed "T" from "LGBT" in their reports - including those intended to warn of threats to the community. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-disap...

Unmask ICE. Record ICE. Abolish ICE. Prosecute ICE.

One million Disney+ subscriptions to protect the human rights of a rich white man. How many people will cancel their HBO subscriptions once Harry Potter is released in order to protect the human rights of trans people everywhere?

How it's going / How it started

In perhaps related news, upon the Democratic victory in AZ special election tonight the U.S. House now has the needed 218 signatures on a discharge petition to force a floor vote on the release of the Epstein Files

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

I'm pissed that they're blaming women for a nonexistent "autism crisis." I'm pissed that they're lying about what autism is and that mainstream people are normalizing what they're saying about autistic people. I'm pissed that this murderous grift is continuing. I'm just pissed.

These are the weirdest weirdos that have ever existed. Truly. Just absolute freak shows.

Legacy media are failing us.

Hours after Charlie Kirk was shot, I emailed my editors at a major American newspaper a potential column focused on the role of Christian Nationalism + radicalization of young white Christian men. They killed it. This is what they published instead. The last line: The Show Must Go On.

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

Be an Enya, not a JK Rowling.

LOL and also LMAO

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

Current subhed vs original

politico has now edited their story to eliminate references to “the autism problem” and deleted their bsky post about it someone got caught

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

This should play well with all the Virginians he personally laid off from the federal workforce.

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

a) autistic people are not a problem b) trump does not actually want to solve problems, he wants to hear people on television say "thank you for solving our problem sir we love you sir" which is not the same thing