These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

all these paeans to MLK ignore that at the time the right was as hysterical about his protests as they are protests today. the non-violent protest Peggy lauds now was universally presented as riots by her side in the 1960s. www.wsj.com/opinion/amer...

What kills kids in America: 1. cars 2. guns Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

I don't even know where to start with the illegal...The Executive does not have the constitutional power to raise revenue. The Executive does not have the constitutional power to make decisions about expenditures. The Executive does not have the power to privatize the functions of the US Treasury...

Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules

ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.

FBI historian here. Basically all of the FBI’s greatest scandals across history come from attempts to criminalize First Amendment rights. It never works out well for the bureau and ends a lot of careers.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

genuinely stunning image

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

there are a bunch of big names on this list, including multiple beard award winners, and some places i never would have guessed in a hundred years (the malt shop?!) and i'm genuinely floored and delighted to see so many participants bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

WELKER: Noem called it an "act of domestic terrorism." What's the evidence? HOMAN: If they didn't have sanctuary policies-- W: To be clear, is anyone who protests ICE a domestic terrorist? HOMAN: It's case by case. If you look at the definition of terrorism, it certainly could fall within it

I think about this July 2024 threat from the head of the Heritage Foundation quite a lot these days.

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

The fantasy that LLMs are "artificial intelligence" is pushed for a few reasons, mostly notably that "AI is like magic" helps memory-hole the rampant, deliberate theft of intellectual property. But it also works to obfuscate legal responsibility for the ongoing illegal and harmful effects of "AI."

There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.

1/ WSJ reports that Trump is always dozing off, struggles to hear, refuses to wear compression socks, get adequate sleep, or follow medical advice, relying intead on his “good genetics” to keep him alive. www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...

I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Crazy how all these places that are overwhelmingly white keep on refusing to hire white people because they’re white, other than all the other white people who already work there bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

Nonprofits drive change daily, but how healthy is the sector itself? Discover key trends in the 2025 Sector Health Report compiled and authored by @independentsector.bsky.social's @kevindatamiller.bsky.social. 📈 Read the full report at healthysector.org.

Some people have asked what I mean when I talk about the need for anti-corruption reforms. Here are some ideas.

It's impossible for many college students to attend without debt, and we told them they had to go to college. Our system demanded they take on debt. The Trump administration wants to punish people for going to college, but that's not a new impulse; it's how the system worked before, too.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

"You can spend about $40 per employee per year of increased ventilation costs and that will give you $7,000 of gained employee productivity per person, almost a 200 to 1 gain."

It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

this raises an important point: do states or localities have laws against seeking to be on the ballot for a third term for president? if not they should consider passing them, or other clear, firm measures to enforce the 22nd amendment.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.

If you are interested in what is happening in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant these days ‪@maustermuhle.bsky.social‬ ‬ at @51st.news has written the best article I've seen.

I think someone at this DC McDonald's is making a statement with flags. I'm wondering if management didn't notice or if management made the call.

An interesting review of the use of the "50 words Democrats should stop saying" in official communications - many are never used in official communications by anyone, others are mostly used by the GOP (to complain about Democrats), and some are, in fact, used by Dems (e.g., "housing insecurity.")

the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

To say that only data accuracy matters, and therefore statistical agencies cannot be independent of the administration, is to redefine accuracy as alignment with the administration.

If completely preventing disease, as we used to do with measles, is less profitable than letting people die from disease because treatment is more profitable than prevention, are corporations legally obligated to deliver value to shareholders by supporting policies that kill people?

Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

You must coöperate with your inner élitist if you want to make it big in The New Yorker