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“There’s a lot of talk about teen boys and the internet, but there’s plenty of sexist influencers for women, too.” Read an excerpt from extremism researcher Dr. @milleridriss.bsky.social‘s new book ‘Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.’ www.teenvogue.com/story/how-tr...
"Locked up in the unfinished [Texas] facility, migrants were subjected to conditions that violated at least 60 federal standards for immigrant detention, the detention oversight unit of [ICE] found earlier this month in a contractually required inspection." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
On Friday, the Trump administration claimed that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children. They are doing this to gin up a reason for their unnecessary restrictions on COVID19 vaccines. We explain the science for how we know these vaccines didn’t cause pediatric deaths in our report.
"At Harpers Ferry, staff flagged more than 30 signs...that highlight information potentially in violation of Trump’s policy. They include signs referring to racial discrimination and the hostility of White people to people who were formerly enslaved." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Oh my goodness, what a gorgeous, beautiful, difficult story.
I loved this piece. God, gorgeous. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
History repeats, nobody notices. archive.nytimes.com/thecaucus.bl...
We have 2 vaccines that prevent cancer, the HBV vaccine that prevents hepatitis B related liver cancer and the HPV vaccine that prevents cervical cancer and other HPV associated cancers. On Thursday, RFK.JR's ACIP will attack one of these vaccines (HBV) and restrict access to it. Let that sink in!
I just saw a patient with liver cancer from hepatitis B that was acquired at birth. Vaccination would’ve prevented it. There’s been a 99% reduction in annual childhood hep B infections since 1991 thanks to universal birth dose vaccination. We can’t afford to roll back that progress.
u know who are skeptics scientists are skeptics being anti-science is not being a skeptic
Klein earnestly believes we all have to learn to live together even if we "believe different things." For him, it's ONLY about belief and opinion. He is not in a category in which his reproductive rights would be abridged, his marriage would be nullified, his accomplishments dismissed as "DEI." >
“In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s DOJ deleted a study from its site stating right-wing violence ‘continues to outpace all other types of terrorism & domestic violent extremism’ in 🇺🇸 — The study was available online until Friday.” newrepublic.com/post/200537/...
Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵
The first artist in residence for this program (organized by my friend Angelyn) just published his work with Inventory Press, among my favorite presses...
From the brand-new worker-owned Bay Area media collective Coyote! Read and subscribe: www.coyotemedia.org
Paying attention yet?
BOOKER: Have there been FBI agents who investigate crimes against kids who have been reassigned to immigration enforcement? PATEL: The premise of what you say is entirely false B: You are not denying that FBI agents who investigate human trafficking have been reassigned to immigration enforcement
NEW: Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer spent almost no time at a traditional university, but the killing is fueling renewed attacks on higher education from the right. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
PSA that She Gets the Girl, which is an adorable sapphic romance set at Pitt and written by two Pitt alumnae, is on sale for Kindle today!
NEW: Reuters asked the Michigan Tax Authority whether Lisa Cook violated any mortgage tax rules for her home in Ann Arbor. They said no. That's in addition to Reuters earlier reporting that nothing was wrong with the documents for her home in Atlanta. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...
I feel like the fact that Donald Trump took a $2 billion buy off from the Emiratis brokered by his lead negotiator with both Israel and Russia isn’t getting the attention it deserves www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Biggest story of Charlie Kirk’s murder is that Trump (and his Republicans in Congress & Supreme Court) plan to use it for a massive crackdown on Democrats. And that Media & Political Elite are downplaying this attack because they are active collaborators.
donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
The right ignored the murder of the Minnesota House Speaker by a guy who had a hit list of Democrats he was targeting to flip control of the chamber to Republicans. Asked about that assassination today, the president said he didn't know who she was and a Fox host said he didn't care she was killed.
It's Baby Safety Month.
Violent right wingers stormed the Capitol on live television and beat the shit out of cops to try to stop the peaceful transfer of power after Trump lost. The fuck is he on about
The Pennsylvania insurance commissioner just predicted the cost of an ACA plan will go up *82%*! Affects 500k people whose budgets are already stretched to the breaking point. Yet neither of our senators seems aware. The radical left didn’t cause this one fellas.
1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
The @washingtonpost.com has changed its slogan again, from “Democracy Dies In Darkness” to “Know Your Place.”
We often worry about the wrong things. People killed annually by Sharks 10 Elephants 100 Hippos 500 Snails 10,000 Dogs 25,000 Snakes 50,000 People 475,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 🧪
Many mainstream news outlets don't post much on Bluesky. The Associated Press does. I find the vast majority of AP's reporting to be more accurate for breaking news than other outlets. And, their long-term investigations are often paradigm-changing. Bonus: they're nonprofit. Follow: @apnews.com
I've never wished violence on Charlie Kirk. Who do you think I am, Charlie Kirk?
2. Over the last 6 months, dozens of hospitals in blue states have stopped providing trans youth care because of funding threats and bogus investigations by the Trump administration. Blue state AGs have let them do so in violation of state laws protecting trans youth. Not in Boston, though.
“He argued with civility.”
I just think if your definition of civility is about the volume and tone of speech and ignores the content of the speech you probably need to start over
TSC: What does the Gov. intend to do? DOn't tell me you don't have control over Ghana, because I know that. You turned them over to Ghana with the express understanding. You're telling me there's nothing you can do. For one thing, you can take custody and bring them back.
The point of college is not to enter with a set of beliefs and stick to them, defending them in debates. Students learn to question received wisdom, understand multiple perspectives, and value evidence, guided by expertise. In fact, that's what many attacking higher ed actually object to. Thread.
Defensive: 1. Sign yourself and your family up to a service like DeleteMe that will pull your name, email, address, etc off as many public databases as possible: joindeleteme.com/refer?coupon...
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
Y'all should be following independent photojournalists. Not just for their dramatic photographs, which abound. But, because they're on the frontlines of culture and politics. Stuff that you can't read about in major news outlets? They're out shooting it every day. Follow: @madisonswart.bsky.social
Flew across the country to hang with two of my sisters and see my youngest kid play double bass in their college philharmonic. Program includes Florence Price and George Gershwin, should be excellent!
NEW: A judge warned Friday that the Trump admin is "with a wink and a nod" deporting people to Ghana, only for Ghana to quickly re-deport them to countries where they face torture and persecution. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
one of my earliest memories was hearing the Oklahoma city bombing from miles away
The Golden State Valkyries just finished 8th in the Western Conference in the WNBA. Their average attendance for the season was 18,064. That is higher than the average attendance of 2025 NBA Champion Oklahoma City Thunder which was 17,972.
Also firings by the Carolina Panthers and by NASDAQ and others, which frankly suggest to me that, to the extent normies know Kirk, they found him contemptible. And he was! There's a reason the fawning columns gloss over him in general "conservative" terms: his stated beliefs were repugnant.
Can't agree, this was the gateway to classical double bass for our youngest kid (j/k but my god that instrument is a beast).
One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.
RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are preparing to do exactly what many of us feared they would. Next week, they are planning to present data that have been misused or manipulated to make it *appear* that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children.
Thank you for finally admitting it! (attempt at humor on a crummy day)
"Charlie Kirk was a passionate advocate of his beliefs!" And what were those beliefs? "Ha ha, uh ... you know the ones."
Another important detail in this story: RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers are considering lifting the minimum age for coronavirus vaccine recommendations from 65 to 75 wapo.st/47LFKvL
What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨
Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
Donald Trump lost New York by 12% -- 1.1 million votes. Everyone needs to understand that Trump will insist there were irregularities and fraud anytime he or a Republican loses any election. Now is the time to start preparing for this in 2026.
Hey #FOIA nerds wouldn't it be cool if a bunch of agencies got FOIA requests for all call logs of agency bigwigs to or from this number? @muellershewrote.com @annabower.bsky.social
Red flag in this wasteful move: a USAID spox falsely claimed that birth control pills, IUDs, and arm implants cause abortions. “The administration will no longer supply abortifacient birth control under the guise of foreign aid.” 🚩🚩🚩
We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
The way the mainstream media is treating Charlie Kirk’s bigotry is the way a highly dysfunctional family treats racist crazy pedo grandpa. “Oh come on, that’s just how he is, he doesn’t mean It, that doesn’t count.”
I also said yes since I smoked briefly in college some 40+ years ago. First time I felt happy to be a former smoker (I'm a better smoker than I am a liar).
In 2025, as of September 9, there have already been 300 mass shootings in the U.S., according to CNN. www.jezebel.com/there-are-ov...
From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
ICYMI: Your favorite young economist spoke with THE @kairyssdal.bsky.social on @marketplace.org yesterday! I am so grateful to Kai for always platforming important issues affecting Black women and Black folks at large. #blacksky FIVE MORE DAYS TO GO AHHHH!!! Pre-order #TheDoubleTax: annagifty.com!
Matthew Dowd — strategist of the ugly 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign that railed against gay rights and swift-boated Kerry — thought Charlie Kirk practiced a hateful politics. The “liberal” cable network fired him for saying that. We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files.
Remember the West Wing episode after Bartlett was shot and CJ listed *all the other people* shot that day and closed with “lest anybody think a gun would have prevented these crimes, let’s remember that the President was shot while surrounded by the best armed bodyguards known to man.”
If you don't want to read about Charlie Kirk, might I also suggest: www.huffpost.com/entry/jeffre...
America Is Now A 'Show Your Papers' State The obvious end point of the Supreme Court’s logic is something normally associated with fascist regimes. www.huffpost.com/entry/americ...
Trump orders flags throughout the United States lowered to 'Half Mast' until Sunday evening in honor of Charlie Kirk. (A courtesy not extended to Melissa Hortman and her husband.)
Does America care about these kids? Will tears be shed in Washington D.C. for them? Will people even know their names?
A white supremacist "accelerationist"—ie cause race wars/chaos to bring about downfall of state and rise of a racist new order—plead guilty to attacking a power substation www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
This is the story of the government's unlawful effort to deport migrant children under the cover of night during a holiday weekend. It’s also the story of how district court judges are watching each other grapple with the administration—and adapting in response: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
NEW: The law is supposed to protect unaccompanied migrant children from being summarily whisked out of the country by ICE in the dead of night. But that didn't seem to matter on Labor Day weekend, when the Trump administration tried to do just that. My latest: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Republicans are racing to get Trump's Fed pick confirmed before next week's policy meeting despite mounting concerns over his plans to take a temporary leave of absence from his job as one of the president's top economic advisers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/b... @nytimes.com @tonyromm.bsky.social
Oh hey look, an actual reason to remove a Fed official.
wow no one could imagine this company might be involved
Got both of mine yesterday, no regrets except a little extra tired this morning. Thank you, science.
"Workers in right-to-work states earn about 7% less in wages, accounting for local differences in the cost of living..." Some voters support Republicans for being "better on the economy" but those same union-busting politicians are responsible for them earning less
This is striking. Sen Adam Schiff's lawyer, Preet Bharara, writes to DOJ accusing FHFA head William Pulte in detail of corruptly and unlawfully weaponizing the bureaucracy against him for Trump. The letter also offers exculpatory evidence for Schiff. Here are some key excerpts:
This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.
Your regular reminder that the once-a-decade U.S. census does not ask about people's income. The Census Bureau's monthly Current Population Survey does, and that's the source of the new data on household income and poverty measures that are making headlines today
Absolutely! Absoeffinglutely!
I wrote about how RFK Jr.'s supposed linking of Tylenol and autism are nothing but a return to the dark days when society used to blame autism on unloving mothers. via @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Who needs drug enforcement anyway? “ICE Has Diverted Over 25,000 Officers from Their Jobs” www.cato.org/blog/ice-has...
Remember 24 hours ago when the president of the United States excused domestic violence?
BERMAN: There's no reason to think Trump's involved in wrongdoing w/Epstein MIN: We have lots of reasons to think he was involved B: What proof? M: A girl claimed she was raped, then withdrew it after she was apparently threatened B: Ghislaine said she never saw Trump engaged in wrongdoing
oversight.house.gov/release/over...
If the best person your party can find for its leadership positions is a rapist, you are in a party of rapists.
I concur.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Don’t sleep on the other insanely creepy stuff in the Epstein birthday book!!
smart analysis from @sifill.bsky.social on why the Supreme Court has "all but declared war" on district courts: Trial judges are closest to the facts, and those facts pose obstacles to the GOP justices' preferred outcomes "Inconvenient facts expose the game" sherrilyn.substack.com/p/scotus-ice...
The country’s most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation. JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender. Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
NEW: The Census Project tells the House Appropriations Committee that a funding bill provision that takes away the Census Bureau's ability to "inquire" more than twice to get a response would "adversely affect the quality & availability of census survey data—especially for small populations & areas"
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
This is the guy the Supreme Court continues to grant an ever-expanding set of powers to. Just today that included: Firing an FTC commissioner in violation of federal law (preemptively overruling Humphrey's Executor) & racial profiling in immigration raids. (Before there was immunity & more....)