My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT

EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The idea that the "beer summit" was a point of radicalization for right-wingers is utterly incomprehensible.

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

Though nice to see Jon Finer and Philip Gordon catch up to bare minimum of where activists and the public have been for nearly two years on restricting US arms to the Israeli government, their article erases their own role in abetting the Netanyahu government’s genocide.

This should remind you of when Thabo Mbeki said vegetables could cure AIDS.

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

It's funny that Ta-Nehisi Coates actually pulled off the "retreat into the fortress of solitude so every time you emerge to say something it feels like a big deal" thing that Barack Obama tried but failed to pull off in his post-Presidency

I’ve seen arguments that the fascists don’t need a reason to use the power of the state to punish their political opponents. I disagree strongly with this sentiment. Public opinion absolutely matters. They can and will get away with more attacks if people buy into their lies about collective guilt.

oh wow, almost as if the whole thing was a blatant lie that was obviously cooked up from the start, and should have been reported as such by any responsible news organization.

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

Special Report Inside the CDC director’s ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

Leon Thomas - The Creator Has a Master Plan youtube.com/watch?v=uoYn...

People in the comments saying the play is that if there are no vaccines then chemo makes money and nope! The reason someone you know will die of an vaccine preventable disease is some academics with twitter followings felt they didn't get enough NIH respect in 2020 and came down w/ poster's madness.

D.C. Don’t Stand for Dodge City youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2M...

Reading about Shuggie Otis 😂

If the federal government can simply seize privately held patents then that is the end of the U.S. patent system, the legal basis for American innovation.

Reality check. Headlines describe Trump approval: "crashing", "record low", "major decline". These are driven by cherry picking single polls The polling average HAS shown a decline from Jan but nothing that justifies "crashing". Apr low, small recovery, recent slip Now 43.6-52.1

Unbelievably corrupt things are happening over at the Trump DOJ when it comes to antitrust. Gail Slater, Trump's anti-monopoly czar, is under pressure because she objected to the HPE-Juniper merger, hashed out between officials and company executives over cocktails. unherd.com/2025/07/the-...

“Before the second Trump era, it would’ve been seen as a ridiculous violation of the First Amendment to have some kind of monitor making sure the media was being nice to the president.” @gizmodo.com $PARA gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoi...

pretty telling comment here. Britain and America absolutely did feed and clothe Nazi and Japanese POWs during WWII. and they provided food and supplies to occupied territories as the war was won. the Hunger Plan by contrast was a Nazi thing

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

the epstein footage is missing a minute because jeffrey started singing hey jude in his cell. justice dept doesn’t want to pay for the licensing. somewhat understandable

"Was this an act of malice?" "No, brother West. It was an act of whimsy." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4HE...

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

This remains an incredible case of red state Attorney Generals preferring loyalty to Trump over the material outcomes of their citizens. Trump illegally cut off resources to their universities and state economies and they were fine with it.

When you’re super duper seriously concerned about the rise of antisemitism.

As far as congressional primaries go, I frankly don’t give a shit about a candidate’s view on Medicare for all. The only thing that matters is electing democrats in group 3, not group 2. that’s the only way to beat group 1.

This is a must-read story (including full text of letters from a FOIA request) by the Daily Cavalier about Trump admin's efforts to misuse federal antidiscrimination law in support of its ideological agenda against DEI at UVA. Kudos to the student journalists! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.

Seeing a lot of racist pinkwashing bullshit about Muslims and homosexuality and it’s a good time to share how I was on the gay marriage beat for a decade and racist gays never believed me when I shared how US Muslims favored equal LGBT rights (52%) over Christian evangelicals (34%)!

obviously this is a big sickos haha yes dot jpg moment but i have to say that elon threatening to start a new political party and then primary every republican in congress seems to indicate that he may not know how any of this works www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

I just don't understand this. George W Bush, Barack Obama, and Bono just recorded videos commending the staff of USAID for their work and lamenting the agency's destruction... And those videos were not released to the public.

Basically ever since UVa desegrated and became co-ed, groups of right-wing alumni have been trying to run it behind the scenes. That's what's happening here -- the lead in DOJ is of course a UVa Law grad, and the Trump admin will have lots of right-wing UVa alumni. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

Former President Barack Obama issued a warning about the future of American democracy, while speaking at an event in Connecticut. Obama cautioned that the country is “dangerously close” to normalizing behavior “consistent with autocracies.”

To demand both absolute power and absolute impunity is the demand of a tyrant. New from me in the NYT, on the Trump administration’s attempt to zero out noncitizens’ rights, and how that inevitably implicates citizens as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

In this sobering conversation, @peter-wehner.bsky.social —former Bush advisor and longtime conservative—explains how Trump’s executive orders have effectively dismantled PEPFAR, the lifesaving global AIDS relief program. 🎧 Watch now: youtu.be/Y_srO5k5-Yo

Suprematist Design for a Façade, by Vera Ermolaeva, 1920, 📸 by @kelcgrant

Take some time to read this really powerful portrait from @gabrielleemanuel.bsky.social on the difference PEPFAR has made in one little girl's life, and how it's unraveled after the Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid, which the House voted to codify yesterday. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

We heard directly from more than 150 researchers, scientists and investigators about their terminated NIH grants and the science that’s being lost. Full story ⤵️

Ka - Iron Age ft Roc Marci youtube.com/watch?v=TMcU...

The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Pathetic: ABC’s GMA, World News Tonight, This Week, CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, Face the Nation, NBC’s Today, Nightly News, Meet the Press, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to cover Trump's new office for ethnic cleansing.

Incredible reporting. As part of the deal to send peeps to Salvadoran gulag, USG stayed silent on Bukele’s peeps stealing US aid money, which they sent to MS-13 as pay offs to gang leaders as part of the show of fighting crime — & the US has also agreed to return gang leaders from US custody. WUT

The Free Press getting caught with bad data on Twitter and a correction that sources the correct data from . . . the Daily Wire . . . is amazing. x.com/thefp/status...

Education-related travel to the US brought in over $50 billion in 2023,making it one of America’s largest service exports—almost as much as the totality of US exports of goods to France www.cgdev.org/blog/trumpon...