More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks @timothysnyder.bsky.social @marcishore.bsky.social and Jason Stanley - Historians, professors, authors - They left Yale University to continue their work without interference or danger. Fascism is Here. Trust Us. @nytopinion.nytimes.com youtu.be/IXR9PByA9SY?...
Cancelled. But with consequences.
Facts 💯
"Rhodes’ book provides an important critique of the billionaire class as well as suggesting new avenues of collective resistance [...] an insightful and beautifully written book" Iain Munro reviews my book 'Stinking Rich' journals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.lib.uts.edu.au/doi/full/10....
For everyone saying this is an impeachable offense and worse than Watergate: Of course it is. But that doesn’t matter in the slightest, because this GOP Congress has completely abdicated their duty and will never do anything to hold him accountable.
Why does it take a BRITISH newspaper to break a story like this? Where the hell is the American media? 🤨
What a piece of trash.
This is so messed up.
Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.
Who is in control of the Epstein files? Has Trump removed himself from them? How much has been redacted or simply thrown out? If it’s the FBI in control it’s hard to have faith that the fool in charge has the public interest in hand.
according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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Australia‘s ABC’s John Lyons has fired back at Donald Trump’s “absurd notion” that asking legitimate questions could damage relations b/w the US & Australia “If our job as journalists is to hold truth to power, then surely asking legitimate questions politely…should be acceptable”🔥💯
“Children from Ukraine have been put in schools and cadet academies with military training oriented toward the fight against their own homeland.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
They are literally beating the shit out of each other calling them 'antifa' 🙄 leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/naz...
If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.
The British🇬🇧👇
Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks. Joy Reid nailed it.
Gee, I wonder why. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
Sorry. My mistake. Thanks!
Is that Naomi Klein or Ezra Klein?
'After Bolsonaro’s conviction on Thursday the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, hinted the US would further punish Brazil and “respond accordingly to this witch-hunt”.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
I seem to recall the right storming the Capitol on January 6th and beating police officers with the U.S. flag.
So the white dude from Fox News said we should kill mentally ill homeless folks, he apologizes and they’re good; @karenattiah.bsky.social posts an accurate quote and says she’s not in the mood to mourn and gets bounced.
I can't show this pic enough. This depicts Trump's best friend for many years and his social world. This is where the Lied Piper's head is at, where it all starts. Eventually even all his cult will understand if we stay in the fray and never stop fighting.
I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
Striking off a company means its debts are never paid. His partner purchased a £885,000 home in cash. Here she is refusing to pay £11,000 The Sunak's had £600,000,000 and they used this same con to save themselves £300,000. This needs to be stopped.
DEVELOPING: Trump claims any personal correspondence with his pedophile friends is protected by the Posse Grabitatas Act of 1468.
@leahlitman.bsky.social said it best: “Political culture imagines that the Supreme Court safeguards the Constitution, when in reality it is chipping away at the constitutional rights of historically marginalized groups."
WSJ releases their own analysis of the letter, comparing the signature on the Epstein birthday note to Trump’s signature on letters to Hillary Clinton and George Conway.
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
Douglas Dietrich of Grifton, NC, was so comfortable with his racism and ignorance that he decided to put a public bullseye on his brown neighbor - who is an American CITIZEN. That's where we are in 🇺🇸. If you live in Pitt County, NC, pls take your auto repair needs to Mr. Garfias! #ncpol 🎥 NBCNews
This is contrary to the separation of church and state demanded by the authors of the US Constitution: Public schools cannot promote or conduct religious activities, such as school-sponsored prayer or Bible readings. These schools are neutral rather than partisan in respect of religion.
Deplorables doesn’t even come close
Dear Bluesky, Which two people do you think it is?
That a government agency would say such nonsense is further proof of an administration with no interest or control own bureaucracy. They are only interested in appointing uneducated and unqualified people who will always say YES.
After Congress clawed back public media funding, PBS says it's cutting 15% of its staff, or more than 100 jobs.
It's mind-blowing that every single physician in the country isn't screaming at the top of their lungs to fire RFK jr. Implicit in being a good physician is not only to "first do no harm" – but also, you cannot, you must not, stand by and allow others to come to harm by your own inaction.
RFK lied to my face. He said he hadn’t fired any scientists. RFK has fired over 3,000 scientists from HHS. It’s shameful. He must resign.
CRISIS GROUP: “It is hard to imagine the plight of Palestinians in Gaza getting worse, but that is happening… Unless world powers make Israel stop, this next phase of fighting could usher in the end of collective Palestinian life in the strip.” www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
When he got to court he didn't have a leg to stand on
The President is a convicted felon DHS Secretary is puppy killer HHS Secretary is an ex-heroin addict and antivaxxer Education Secretary can't read Defense Secretary is a drunk DNI is a Russian asset WTF happened for us to end up here?????
Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings
Trump DOJ is now looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns. Worth noting that the Nazis did the exact same thing to the Jews. Also worth noting they have no plans to ban right wing white supremacists from owning guns, even though they commit a vast majority of all mass shootings.
Spencer Kuvin, Epstein's victims' lawyer, says the FBI interviewed 40+ girls, some just 14, and prepared a 54-count indictment. Then came the secret plea deal that let Epstein walk. Those interviews are in the files. Kuvin says Alan Dershowitz scoured the girls' MySpace pages to smear them as liars.
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Steps away from the Capitol, victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender, on Wednesday demanded that all people who received sexual favors through Epstein be identified. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?
Imagine how Epstein's rape victims feel about Trump calling it a "hoax." In February, AG Pam Bondi said the Epstein list was "sitting on my desk." Later she said it didn't exist. In July, Trump said without evidence that Bill Clinton "went to the island." Now Trump says the whole thing is a hoax.
This isn't the storming of Fallujah. It's downtown LA this week. The same scenes are playing out in DC and soon here in Chicago. Anyone who thinks this is a 'crime crackdown' and not an authoritarian power grab is fooling themselves. Photo by @melbuer.bsky.social
The Unchecked, Unbalanced Reign of King Donald
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
For those of us who live in LA, this is beyond parody and veers into insanity in pursuit of authoritarianism...
District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s emergency order follows a legal complaint brought on behalf of 10 children.
We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
Democracy DEPENDS on respect for the rule of law. The impunity of the Trump administration makes a mockery of the old adage that Republicans are the party committed to "law and order".
ACLU pushes to revive criminal contempt proceedings against Trump officials In an exclusive interview, ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt tells All Rise News further appeal is necessary because a lack of consequences for defying judges is "dangerous." go.shr.lc/45HewF9
The Economic Reform Roundtable means that policymakers are finally beginning to directly confront economic. inequality. Meanwhile corporate Australia has its head in the sand peddling trickle down economics. My thoughts in today’s Independent Australia independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Criminalizing the inability to find affordable housing. This, from @motherjones.com and worth reading.
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This is textbook mendacious colonisation and erasure of a people. This man is also a war criminal. But where are the consequences? We live at a time of impunity.
Australia is one of only 25 functional democracies left in the world. America is not one. Autocracy typifies the world order. We are at the most dangerous time since the eve of WWII.
Trump is threatening tariffs on any country that enforces digital rules. But this isn’t just about trade, it’s about destabilizing Europe’s democracy. Alexandra Geese, a Member of the European Parliament, argues it’s time for Europe to wake up, enforce its tech laws and build digital autonomy.
"I craved talking to someone and not being judged. I craved the ability to choose who I wanted to be around rather than to fit into a team."
New Trump Order Among 'Scariest Things I've Seen in US Politics,' Civil Rights Attorney Says The new order, he says, would essentially allow "random fascist vigilantes" to "sign up to be a Brownshirt" for Trump's militarized occupation forces. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-v...
Trump appointee Judge Thomas Cullen has forcefully rejected the lawsuit the Trump admin filed against 15 other judges whom the DOJ accused of hindering the president’s mass deportation agenda. Cullen lamented what he described as the White House’s months-long “smear” of the federal judiciary.
Anyone who believes Trump is fighting a war on drugs probably needs some meds themselves.
Donald Trump’s Assault on Capitalism Authoritarian governments often seek power over, or take controlling interests within, corporations. Welcome to Trumpistan.
It gets worse. The Deloitte report suspected of using AI contains a fake quote and erroneous citations to one of the leading cases on Robodebt. www.afr.com//companies/p...
Social Security Administration chief data officer Charles Borges made the allegations in a whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday.
This is the sort of boot licking you expect in North Korea.
Congratulations 🙌🏻
Tesla rejected $60 million settlement in Autopilot case that ultimately cost it 4 times that amount
[Gift article] Fire hose of falsehoods: “Modern-day authoritarians erode truth, not by convincing people to believe lies, but by just wearing them down with so many: This tactic—the so-called fire hose of falsehoods—ultimately produces not outrage but [fatigued] nihilism.”
They are typically owned by billionaires, and therefore ‘owned’ by the right.
53 cities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia had higher crime rates than D.C. in 2024. Despite this, these states deployed their own National Guard troops to help address D.C.'s newly declared "crime emergency."
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
A “we were wrong” correction would be nice.
This strategy distracts from the white collar crime being perpetrated by those wielding decision making power and authority. There are literally few guard rails left to curtail the emperor, so the deployment of the National Guard to elicit fear is a demonstration of the move towards absolute power.
This will infuriate those who insist Cummins is too woke and should shut up and play cricket. 🏏 However, he has the strength of his convictions and looks out for others.
#Sport: Australia's men's Test cricket captain has lobbied Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to contribute to a $100m fund to help sporting clubs withstand the effects of climate change www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
That’s good to know. I realise it’s nigh impossible for you to secure streaming numbers from Stan and Paramount, but you don’t need to be Nostradamus to know which way they’ll flow. And with Western United’s future up in the air, whither the Paramount deal?
This doesn’t feel very free speech-y
The Second Amendment wasn’t written for executive orders and barbed wire around the Capitol—it was written to ensure a well-regulated militia that answers to the people and their states. Today, that balance is being pulled apart. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-really...
Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This hits right on time… My wife and I had the great privilege of visiting the African-American Museum in DC, and let me just tell you if you have not been…It is a masterpiece—go.
I hope that is true. The local game needs exposure.
Comparisons of sports products are rarely exactly like for like. My original point still stands: Channel 9 is showing the EPL because they know it will rate. They wouldn’t make the same choice with the A-League. Or, for that matter, the NBL over the NBA if that was on the table. It’s not good for Oz
Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
Whoopsy
The A-League has rated softly on FTA Channel 10. But even if you look solely at PayTV streaming numbers, which admittedly are rarely released, the A-League hasn’t come close to EPL viewers. Mind you, if you get into other PayTV products, such as NRL, AFL, and BBL, the paywall hasn’t damaged them.