For-profit deals between prisons and private fast food companies force incarcerated people to pay for their own poor health. Story via @prismreports.org.

Angelenos face fines for sprinklers. Silicon Valley’s servers face none. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ai-zuckerberg-tech-regulation-data-security/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Nobel Peace Prize 2026 https://www.gocomics.com/pedroxmolina/2025/10/20 🖼️ Pedro X. Molina

Federal immigration enforcement is reported to be increasing in the Bay Area. If you think you see ICE in our county, call Alameda County Immigrant Legal Education Project ACILEP at 510-241-4011 to notify & confirm. Together we can protect our communities while also avoiding spreading too much fear.

In May 2023 this article came out and exposed that Rep. Paul Gosar’s digital director, Wade Searle, was a dedicated Groyper who was literally a mod for Nick Fuentes’ livestream and stood behind him at AZ Stop the Steal. Anyway, Searle says he’s now part of the Pentagon press corps for LifeSite News.

You simply cannot be a political journalist today if you don't know the deep ins-and-outs of the nonsense conspiracy theories. Because people will just constantly say stuff that is blatantly false and you NEED to be ready to call it out with receipts.

The shutdown had already forced SED to stop communicating with its foreign partners, who were confused and had to learn about the situation at CISA from news reports, a person familiar with the matter told me.

New: The recent layoffs in CISA's Stakeholder Engagement Division have virtually shuttered SED, eliminating teams focused on critical infrastructure support, nationwide partnerships, and international coordination. My story with details cuts and impacts: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-st...

Even though overdose deaths apparently declined 27% nationally in 2024 according to the CDC, deaths continued to rise in states that voted for Trump across the US. "I WONDER WHY," she said sarcastically. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The nutty thing abt Trump telling ranchers they don't understand their business: 27% of ranchers and farmers rely on ACA exchanges. www.kff.org/affordable-c...

“.. 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ..” 🎶 - King George, “Hamilton” #NYC @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

This is how many conspiracy theories work, by exploiting real anger from legitimate grievances (often downstream from complex, unjust systems) and redirecting it onto scapegoats through simplified “conspiracy” narratives.

oh no... i regret to inform you another Maine Democratic Senate candidate has revealed his tattoo

People really need to wrap their heads around HOW ATTENUATED our election cycles have gotten. They're acting like the Maine primary was a race between Platner and Mills only and it's too late for anyone else to jump in. The deadline to REGISTER FOR IT is in MARCH! Go out and recruit SOMEONE ELSE

This is Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and architect of the Holocaust. That symbol on his cap is the totenkopf. This isn't just a nazi symbol, it was the symbol of SS guards who mass murdered millions. Just to be clear, no one who gets this as a tattoo should ever be elected.

In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility.

I'm not sure which world these people (the person Derek is clowning on, not Derek) want to live in, but a world in which working class people cannot occasionally spend $200 on a nice night out (and this was his birthday!) is a world in which every business suffers except Walmart.

I’ve been a prosecutor. There’s a huge difference between wiretaps and what were called “pen registers,” which only provide number called and length of call. If you don’t know the difference, you don’t belong on the Judiciary Committee. www.cbsnews.com/news/jack-sm...

newrepublic.com/post/202072/... #nhpolitics Mooty will join a growing faction of federal judges who have symbolically pledged their allegiance to Trump. During Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Mooty made his ideological stances known by refusing to answer who won the 2020 election.

"Argentina already owes the IMF $60 billion. If banks were willing to lend to Argentina, the initial $20 billion swap from the U.S. government would not have been necessary. Bessent stepped in because Argentina had run out of options." popular.info/p/update-tax...

Just a bunch of normal Oregon conservatives out here reporting on the chaos of leftist Portland for the benefit of the good citizens of Twitter. Oh wait, who’s that friend of theirs who seems to be flashing the white power symbol….

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

All across the West, lawmakers are skipping over the will of voters and yanking fluoride from municipal water systems. My latest story for @highcountrynews.org takes a deep dive into the fight over fluoride in the age of MAHA. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

1. outrageous and offensive 2. speaking as someone who's spent eight years running an organization with a very clear rule that "when the primary's over we get behind the winner, no matter what", I do not think centrist Democrats understand the pandora's box they are unleashing with this bullshit

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

FINALLY. One of the most trusted energy assistance organizations in the country issued a call for a total ban on utility shutoffs TODAY. It's about time. neada.org/wp-content/u...

Hey the house of reps has had all of Oct and most of September off because Speaker Johnson is desperate to not release the Epstein files. Have they been filling the time with town halls? I mean they have a full month off… maybe a couple town halls each right?

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

Maria Lvova-Belova — Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, wanted by the International Criminal Court for the abduction of Ukrainian children — has revealed new details about kidnapping a boy from Mariupol whom she later claimed to have adopted.

NEW: Jack Smith has responded to Chuck Grassley and the Senate Judiciary, and it's 🔥🔥🔥 Jack Smith reminds Chuck Grassley: 1. Toll records aren't wiretaps 2. Trump's DOJ got toll records on Schiff and Swallwell and 43 congressional staffers 3. Hur got toll records in the Biden investigation 1/

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

I honestly think that trying to legislate what was in Platner's heart and what/when he understood is a trap. It doesn't matter to me. It's actually okay to just go, "man I'd love to believe you've changed but I'm going to need to see proof of it in a place with lower stakes than the US Senate"

Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre review – a devastating exposé of power, corruption and abuse

Mike Johnson: "We don't have a political strategy here. I don't have a strategy."

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A Tarrant County resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the county’s move to cut more than 100 polling sites. “You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.” With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org

EXCLUSIVE: Pardoned Jan 6 rioter is charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries Let me walk you thru the charging document ====> www.youtube.com/shorts/xVwhk...

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

"A news special on Britain’s Channel 4 titled 'Will AI Take My Job?' investigated how automation is reshaping the workplace and pitting humans against machines. At the end of the hour-long program, a major twist was revealed: the anchor...was entirely AI-generated." variety.com/2025/tv/news...

“Frequent transfers of migrants between states have disrupted medical treatments & allowed prescriptions & records to be lost in transit. Migrants have died of infections, Covid, injuries, uncontrolled diabetes & suicide” Nearly as many immigrants have died in 9 months as during entire Biden admin

The number is impossible to measure since Congress let lapse a requirement that ICE report how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants are in custody.

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails — leaving workers on their own in old age.

Capital B’s @laurenwilliams.bsky.social talks about the future of local news in a new documentary by @charlesmblow.bsky.social with the MacArthur Foundation and Press Forward. youtu.be/N5bDrjYcvGs

Colin Woodall, CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association: "This plan only creates chaos at a critical time of the year for American cattle producers, while doing nothing to lower grocery store prices.”

It is not widely reported, but Medi-Cal (Cali’s Medicaid) is set to end at the end of December because of the Government shutdown And CalFresh (Cali’s food stamps) is set to end at the end of October So millions of people will lose their food assistance & healthcare in a matter of weeks or months

The phone records were obtained through grand jury subpoenas. This is a legal process to obtain telephone records in the course of an investigation. It’s important to remember that just the metadata was obtained, not the substance of the calls. No search warrant is necessary in this circumstance.

so i study fascist messaging for a living, like it's my job to do it Trump's messaging is an incredible combination of "so straightforwardly evil and cruel that it doesn't need much commentary" and "so convoluted and asinine that it'll take decades to decode"