Listening to #NikoleHannahJones break down difference between #DEI and #CivilRights & how Administration weakening civil rights. open.spotify.com/episode/2zAd...

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

Pentagon Press Association: "Make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom"

The GOP spent years screaming about a manufactured Biden bribe but says nothing about this. Tells you all you need to know.

Americans have gotten more than $21 billion back in their bank accounts after being cheated and scammed by big corporations, thanks to the CFPB. But Trump and his Administration love grifters and scammers. So they're trying to kill the agency holding them accountable.

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing. And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power. When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

Registration deadline Friday! Join ASA for a FREE in-person event in DC @JHUBloombergCtr on Oct 21 w/Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social & Beth Pearson @warren.senate.gov to understand how sociological expertise can influence policy outcomes. Networking at 5:30 pm. https://bit.ly/ASAMoment

If you’re in New Jersey and not yet registered to vote, do it today! Voters have until the end of the day to register in time to help choose the state’s next governor.

The stunt briefly disrupted autonomous rides and ignited debate online over whether it was harmless mischief or a warning about vulnerabilities in self-driving systems.

⚠️ STATES, LOCALS, TRIBAL NATIONS, TERRITORIES ⚠️ HHS has eliminated EVERY SINGLE SAFEGUARD FOR DATA PROTECTION AT CDC. Giving data to CDC is no longer safe and puts your residents at risk. Unless and until all CDC’s data protections are restored you should consider CDC a bad actor.

Smithsonian museums, research centers, and the National Zoo temporarily closed Sunday due to the federal government shutdown.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Healthcare premiums are about to double or triple for millions of Americans. House Republicans don’t give a damn. You deserve better.

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time. Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense. 🧵

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

80% of experienced leaders gone from CDC!!!

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This would bring much needed life back to Downtown.

This decision puts hundreds of thousands of our community members at immediate risk of deportation. Our government shouldn't put families in harm's way.

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland over the governor's objections. This decision reinforces one of our country's core principles: The military has no place policing our communities.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Too bad they furloughed or fired all the workers who could remove it.

PSA for folks visiting any National Public lands (parks, forests etc) during the shutdown: PLEASE take everything you brought in with you, including trash! Don't leave it in the bins if you can avoid it - those are emptied by National Parks/Forest workers. If they're furloughed that job isn't done.

If I see y’all being disrespectful to black people on here, issa block immediately. PERIODT. I don’t want or need the context. You’re gone irrelevant dust past tense less than palimpsest.

Last I checked, Congress makes the laws, not the White House.

Same guy who declared bankruptcy 6 times shut down the U.S. government 4 times in 5 years of being President. They wanted him to run the government like his businesses and that’s exactly what he’s doing.

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DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files. My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA. I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.

Generals getting lectured by a draft dodger and a drunk. Welcome to MAGAmerica.

The Interior Department has told its staff to bring their government laptops and phones home so they can monitor updates about potential mass firings.

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

Seeing so many people spreading the word about the No Kings rally on October 18th. Trump is scrambling to mobilize as much of the National Guard as he can to control the narrative, he was rattled by the last one on his birthday.

This captures much of the frustration of today.

They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Good night from halfway through a week. Sometimes we’re literary, sometimes we’re inspiring. Tonight we’re just gonna go flop face first into a pillow to rest before getting up to do it all again.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance. Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna. See how this works?

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

These round 1 @wnba.com playoff games have been thrilling to watch. All with CC playing if I may add.

Since Donald Trump first gave tax handouts to the rich in 2017, billionaires have seen their wealth more than DOUBLE. So what did Trump do? Give them even more handouts in his Big Beautiful Bill.

Saturday, Sep. 20, marks the 30th Creek to Bay Day, where Oakland residents express their love for the city by removing trash from its parks and waterways.

I imagine my dad in the 1980’s, watching Johnny Carson at night in his Lazyboy recliner. He tunes in after the local news to find a screen saying Carson has been suspended because he hurt some powerful person’s feelings. That reaction. That’s where we all need to be right now.

I’ve been sending $25 a week to the @aclu.org since Inauguration Day. It will add up to over $1K by the end of the year. Using tithing philosophy to support this crucial org.

Measles cases hit record highs with RFK Jr. in charge. Now, his hand-picked vaccine panel just voted to make it harder for little babies to get vaccinated for measles and other diseases. How does that keep our kids safe?

Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore. Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.

Federal officers took 11 Democratic officials into custody inside a federal building in Lower Manhattan after the group demanded entry to Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cells where migrants were being detained.

Atrocious! We don’t want to follow in the steps of dictatorships that disappeared their dissidents.

In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER. And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin. Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.