Hardrock???? 😭

My latest premium newsletter is about the Trump administration's plans to use the IRS to target its opponents, and the media's failure to cover Trump scandals.

These guys were the last horse to cross the finish line when it came to condemning the Gaza genocide, I don’t know why we’re expected to listen to them ever again

"The White House account has drawn only around 12,000 followers. More than 100,000 users have the account blocked."

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:

A pile of broken, colorful concrete pieces was all that remained of Texas’ first gay pride crosswalk as the sun rose on Monday, along with a few messages from protestors: “we are lucky to witness queer love,” and “don’t erase us.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/20/h...

Please help if you can

A measles outbreak along the border of Utah and Arizona has sickened more than 100 people. A majority of the cases are in unvaccinated people.

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

I don't think we should let it go that the president posted a video of himself shitting diarrhea on us. It should be on his wikipedia page

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

AI was born enshittified.

it's funny how their 'big tent' only extends right, never left, and how they always blame its failure on dirty hippies refusing to come inside, not their own embrace of TERFs, fascists and other exclusionary demographics

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings. In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.

Three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices will face an up or down vote next month in an election whose outcome will likely impact the midterms. @douglaskeith.bsky.social explains everything you need to know about the high-stakes judicial race.

so this torture camp is what @govpritzker.illinois.gov ‘s isp are protecting. he’s a nazi collaborator. www.threads.com/@ryannkm/pos...?

I for one do think it's possible for America to find a president better than one who, faced with claims he is dumping shit on Americans, posts a video showing himself dumping shit on Americans.

gestapo whining that people don't like them, incredible stuff from america's biggest fucking losers

My little girl is sick with malnutrition and poor hygiene. Her body is exhausted from the heat and pimples. She needs treatment and proper nutrition now. There are no hospitals for treatment and to buy medicine. Help me. gofund.me/a9a610a4e

At least 10 districts in Idaho reported in 2023 that their bathrooms, gyms and cafeterias weren’t all accessible for students with disabilities, with some unable to get their lunch or attend classes on second floors. With @idahostatesman.com

This government suffers from severe loser stench. Everything they say and do is a barely veiled form of "I'm the BOSS and you have to RESPECT ME!" and nobody does. Millions of people are going outside tomorrow just to say so

The hay drive is almost to $22,000 - can you donate an $8 bale to help them get there!? donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

Current* conditions near Pentwater, MI:

i love how being with other nazis on a site that caters to nazis just doesnt scratch the nazi itch

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

there was never a time when this was not going to happen not even one single day

oh my god

I also need help to get the word out to: - job seekers - employers with 4+ stars on Glassdoor making the world better (especially employers) I *cannot* do this alone. I do not have the energy. So if you can, please share / reskeet this post and tell everyone you know about www.greenglassjobs.com

Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family. What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory. On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers. www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary. This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

New political platform

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

EMS called to ICE facility bc protestor has broken collar bone (!). ICE agents then refuse to let EMS ambulance leave. EMS driver puts ambulance in park, which makes the vehicle lurch slightly. ICE agent then get up into the cab threatening to shoot driver in the head www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

BREAKING: The bodies of 29 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks have been brought to Gaza's hospitals over the past 24 hours, reports the health ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0

At the Chicago area ICE detention center in Broadview this morning. These aren't detention vans—they're vehicles full of Illinois State Police. Local cops are staging for a morning of protest. Supposedly, demonstrators will be banned from 25th St today. Fence on Beach came down a few days ago.

I am dead serious, OpenAI should be held criminally and financially liable for the fire

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

lol. LMAO, even.

Two Trinidad citizens identified as victims of US airstrike that destroyed a boat off the coast of Venezuela. “According to maritime law, if you see a boat, you are supposed to stop the boat and intercept it, not just blow it up."

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help. My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes. I hate having to ask this

This is the best editor's note:

Worth a read if you have a uterus. Or have friends with a uterus. You don't always plan to get pregnant, and it can be extremely overwhelming (especially right now) when so much is stressful and you don't know how to trust. We keep us safe.

I can't believe we're still talking about this aftermath.site/hasan-piker-...