Huge week here @wired.com as we're rolling out our Politics Issue. First up, check out this cover, which we're also posting all over cities across the US.

OLIVER: “I’d argue @disney & Bob Iger need to stand by @jimmykimmel and his staff — history is also going to remember the cowards who knew better. Giving the bully your lunch money doesn’t make him go away, it just makes him come back hungrier each time.” 🎯

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p #TAF25

As of noon ET, Fox News has not mentioned reports that its then-employee Tom Homan accepted a bag of cash from undercover FBI agents as part of a corruption probe closed under the Trump administration. www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...

How is immigration law different from affirmative action law? Hmm. slate.trib.al/ZbVNJGN

Why Democrats can’t match Trump’s gerrymander push before the 2026 midterms.

President Trump has spent months chipping away at the barriers that have long protected the Justice Department from political interference. Federal prosecutors are bracing for what comes next as he escalates that effort rapidly.

Happening here now. Gift article.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/business/china-censorship-jimmy-kimmel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n08.GYap.m9mpnFA0QC3Z&smid=bs-share

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Deport this MFer.

“It’s very clear that they’re using this as a Reichstag fire moment…as an opportunity to further persecute and prosecute political dissidents.” Streaming star Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he’s warning of a “Reichstag fire moment.”

Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan is a hot topic after a blockbuster MSNBC report claimed Homan had accepted a $50,000 bribe from FBI undercover agents, and one senator says Pam Bondi and others knew about the scheme.

Wall Street banks and tech companies big and small were scrambling on Saturday to figure out how their tens of thousands of employees would be affected by President Trump’s proclamation imposing a $100,000 fee for visas granted to skilled foreign workers.

#FloridaCapitol #ImmigrantRights #DueProcess #Tallahassee 9/20. #NoKings is just around the corner Oct. 18. Stand up for what's right.

So Trump gets DOJ to drop an obvious bribery case against Tom Homan, then fires the US Attorney who found insufficient evidence to prosecute Letitia James, then threatens to fire Pam Bondi and replace her with dunce Lindsey Halligan unless she immediately indicts his enemies.

Murder on the High Seas: Trump Orders Killings of Venezuelans in International Waters youtu.be/ns8av0r475c?...

Rand Paul Reveals Venezuela Boat Attack Was a Drone Strike. The senator told The Intercept the attack defied rules of engagement and came from a drone. A legal expert calls it murder. theintercept.com/2025/09/10/t...

According to 6 justices, “reasonable suspicion” = brown skin + work boots. The new legal test after today: Are you brown in the wrong ZIP code? Then you’re suspicious. The Court didn’t rule on law. They ruled on appearance. Let’s call this what it is: Stop-and-frisk for anyone who “looks Latino.”

In light of today’s SCOTUS decision, every person of color with an accent in the US should probably carry proof of citizenship with them at all times - while working and everywhere they go. If you don’t want to be in a detention facility awaiting a friend or relative to bring it.

Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator appears to be trying to con GOP lawmakers with the same strategy she used to victimize multiple young girls, according to one expert.

The Trump administration is politicizing intelligence, law enforcement, and other government functions while pretending to be punishing politicization.

Parker was shot in the head back in June. She spent weeks in the hospital with a broken skull and a blood clot in her brain. Now she’s back in Los Angeles protesting Trump’s illegal immigration policies not far from where she was shot. Why? Because people shouldn’t be taken.

A recent study that mapped marine coastal algal blooms between 2003 and 2020 found that globally they increased in size by 13 percent (1.5 million more square miles), and frequency by 59 percent during that period. Mass die off marine life Its not a #climatescam www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AEMET says the 16-day August heatwave was part of a ‘trend toward more extreme summers’ due to climate change.

We could eliminate this problem by having many more doctors, if we just made it affordable to go to medical school. Many students with an interest in medicine don't become doctors because they don't want to spend decades working 80 hours a week to pay off a massive debt.

America now

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board bashed President Donald Trump's latest business move, arguing that it models China's "statism."

After sending the National Guard into Washington, President Trump this week waded into the most parochial of municipal chores, vowing to clean up city parks, improve lighting along roadways and attack the population of rats that have bedeviled residents.

CNN has really improved its chyron game

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/h...

#Tallahassee #LaborDay #SolidaritySeptember #Indivisible Share this widely!

Yesterday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described the Israeli government’s plan to “annihilate everything” in Gaza. In 1939, Hitler began threatening the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.” We all know what that led to.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

American demand for tropical wood used in motor homes is accelerating the disappearance of some of the world’s largest forests, conservationists say.

“A multi-agency operation targeting child sex predators led to the arrest of eight individuals over the last two weeks,” the department said in a release published on Friday. The release lists the names of 38-year-old Tom Artiom Alexandrovich and seven others.

I’ve read all the posts, watched all the speeches, interviews and press conferences for years, and I don’t recall a single time when Trump has blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Putin.

Florida is now the 2nd most financially distressed state in the US — topped only by Texas: With prices rising on everything from groceries to rent amid a backdrop of economic uncertainty, many Americans are struggling to pay the bills. finance.yahoo.com/news/florida...

For decades, “South Park” has been crude, cynical and childish. That may be what makes it perfect for this moment, our chief television critic writes.

Beyond the risk of drowning, floodwaters are often full of sewage, medical waste, industrial chemicals and more. And even after the storm is over, many hazards can remain. Here's what to know.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy is in an impossible bind: risk Donald Trump's wrath or give up land to Russia for vague security pledges

The very obvious point here is to have a more pliant and compliant “national police force.” It’s going to become the Stasi/FSB (but dumber and more trigger-happy)

The Incredible Disappearing Human Rights Reports. If #Trump likes the country, it gets a pass. If a country questioned Trump they get picked on. Not impartial. theintercept.com/2025/08/14/s...

Don’t panic — organize. Courage was contagious at the Outside Lands Music Festival! #IFoundMyMission #OutsideLands

Our groups in the Dallas-Fort Worth area showed up in a big way during rush hour to support Texas Democrats.

If these Bozo's setup a check point in my neighborhood - I would protest too. What would you do? Sincerely, Todd Byars, Tallahassee, Florida, USA www.facebook.com/reel/1110002...

A small but deeply dedicated contingent showed up today to stand in the Tallahassee swelter and protest Trump's tyrannical takeover. #TraitorTrump #StopTheTakeover #Tallahassee #August16 #PissedOffOldPeople!

“The extraordinary power that we grant police officers, it just has to be matched with equally powerful transparency,” said @rcfp.org's Gunita Singh. [via Tallahassee Democrat]

Many of us came together to celebrate Social Security (90 years old!) & Medicare. The federal elected officials for my area: Dunn (CD2), Moody, & Scott do NOT vote to help seniors. Voting records of Florida's federal officeholders in terms of retiree issues: retiredamericans.org/wp-content/u...

SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY. On the 90th birthday of one of the best federal government programs in history, we must preserve, protect, and EXPAND Social Security.