Seguidores españoles, he encontrado este análisis de crimen en España ambos informativo y graciosísimo: youtu.be/LiLLKdoxIRI?... El crimen en España se encuentra en primera mitad de 2025 en niveles bajos históricos. Aunque como dice él, no puede ser si en redes sociales somos peores que Afganistán 🙄

HUGE HUGE NEWS FROM EGYPT!! Egyptian President Sisi has issued a presidential pardon for activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah.

NEW: In a break from decades of history, the Trump administration has started detaining virtually everyone facing deportation — even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades. Dozens of judges, with increasing alarm, have ruled the policy shift illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Is there a bigger news story than Donald Trump’s demonstrable detachment from reality? Why is legacy media still not covering this? “Objectivity” does not mean don’t cover important news stories. There is no “surge” in Memphis, TN. h/t journalist @philinvestigates.com bsky.app/profile/phil...

Good post by investor & NYC community-builder Charlie O’Donnell on the unfriendly environment the U.S. has swiftly become for investors & talent alike. He quotes Marc Andreessen circa 2016, advocating for attracting immigrants; & wonders where that MA went. www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2025/9/...

Labeling an entire class of people extremists based on one shooting would be bad enough - but the shooter wasn't trans. The only trans person involved in this was surprised and horrified by what happened and began cooperating immediately with police

Facts since January, though also failing to disqualify from office over insurrection a large hack at democracy.

Un sábado cualquiera, la administración Trump acumula más escándalos de los que destruirían un gobierno por completo que cualquier otro ejecutivo. El resultado es que nadie puede seguir lo que sucede. www.4freedoms.es/p/un-sabado-...

El auge del acoso ultra en España: los periodistas en el punto de mira de la extrema derecha @elsaltodiario.com www.elsaltodiario.com/periodismo/a...

Joan Miró, Spanish (1893-1983), Femmes, oiseau, étoiles (Women, Bird, Stars), 1942, oil and pencil on paper, 103 x 75 cm, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA

The weather in Barcelona is absolutely perfect after off-and-on downpours yesterday. The water temperature this time of year is also sublime.

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

The women's game has exploded in recent years. Arenas are full. Ad revenue is up. TV contracts seem to be on the order of 100x higher. The value of teams has surged. And yet, the player salaries are still below (accounting for inflation) what the ABL offered 25+ years ago. That needs to change.

Barack Obama: “In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.” www.instagram.com/reel/DO1CwHv... Donald Trump: “I HATE my opponent; and I don’t want the best for them.”

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

If you're not familiar with QAnon conspiracy dogwhistles, then you won't know that Stephen Miller just rattled off a bunch of them in a row, including "I am the storm" and "Light out of darkness." While these sound like dumb cliches on the surface, they're coded messages to Q cult adherents.

Recomiendo sumamente esta columna en La Vanguardia: “En qué momento se jodio 🇺🇸?” ¿Es demasiado tarde para retener una democracia? El autor ofrece varios momentos como fracturas, incluso, quizás, el origen del país, cuando construyeron un país solo para blancos. www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...

I highly recommend this opinion piece in 🇪🇸 La Vanguardia (translate if needed). The author asks if U.S. is past point of no return. He offers multiple moments as breaking points, including, perhaps, the origin, in which they built a country only for white people. www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

“…President Trump is remaking the country in his image: crude, harsh, gratuitously mean.” (Gift link)

This is the Trump thug who wants to deny due process rights to everyone else. Turns out he was being investigated for taking $50k cash in an illegal scheme, but Trump’s DOJ dropped it. This double standard and corruption is infecting our justice system.

More 🦇 💩 crazy and diabolical acts.

Yes. In "Hitler's American Model," James Q. Whitman wrote about Nazis seeing USA as a blueprint for implementing a legal system of Nordic supremacy. It is quite telling that the Nazi officials also dismissed NYC as "not Real America."

2 powerhouse reporting jobs surfaced by The Sunday Long Read: 1) by @propublica.org on sexual assault & other abuses in H2A visa program for farm workers projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far... 2) in @elpais.com (this in English) on a brutal crime war in Sinaloa, 🇲🇽 english.elpais.com/internationa...

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Over to you, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela… www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...

Cuánto tiempo aguantará EEUU este régimen? Que sí, parece imposible, pero nosotros nos comimos a Franco hasta su muerte, y eso pueden ser 10 años tranquilamente. Lo más grave que he vivido en política, de lejos.

Another great, chilling column by @mashagessen.bsky.social, one of the great chroniclers of what’s happening in this country right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

I always have mixed emotions about Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month, but this year, given the harms the Trump administration has inflicted on Latino communities, it is much harder than usual to feel celebratory. My column: www.inquirer.com/opinion/hisp...

Todas las alarmas. La ultra-derecha en auge, incluso en Cataluña. www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...

In my blog in English, "Real Progress:" "The attack on freedom of speech is part of a wider reconstruction of institutions in a dystopian direction" @politicaprosa.bsky.social realprogressinenglish.blogspot.com/2025/09/free...

Cursa de la Mercé.
Beautiful course, but jungle-like today with high 70s F temps and humidity above 80%.
Not sure what happened on my registration, I put estimated time 45-50 min, but it had me starting in the back group. At least got to pass a lot of people 😝

Did this story not get any traction because it turned out to be about gendered violence? Really weird for 3 police officers to be killed in a shooting and it not be plastered everywhere. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

The journalism inside baseball here is what an amazing hire Carol Leonnig has been for MSNBC (part of the mass exodus from the Washington Post)

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

Maria Ressa going on the Daily Show and being like, "we tried to warn you [colonizers] this shit you created is bad and self-destructive [but you never listen brown people and women]" is basically the story of "western civilization" in a nutshell

Oh my GOD. This is the first official confirmation that the new H-1B entry ban does not apply to people with current visas (despite the text not containing ANY exception for people with current visas), and it’s not even something on an official website, it’s a passive aggressive tweet!

This afternoon they seem to be trying to walk it back and say the EO only applies to new visas. Would you stake your job, your ability return to your family, your freedom not to end up in CECOT on hasty clarification emails to news outlets and ICE’s willingness to follow them instead of the EO?

The Trump administration is canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food.

Absolutely shattering details in this Sun-Times piece chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

Can somebody please teach him what asylum means? 😫

I wrote long today. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

“So far for 2025, the Trump Organization has posted to hire 31 foreign temporary workers for its winery.”

In his effort to bring the media to heel, Trump could not invent a better ally than FCC Chief Brendan Carr. interc.pt/46zp4VT

As America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”   For @zeit.de, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.   Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.