The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
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The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
Gee, I wonder why. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
A coalition of higher ed unions jointly filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin for the threats to the University of California including @uaw4811.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @uptecwa.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @uaw.org and CUCFA.
Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
The law allowed one (1) extension and only under certain circumstances. That's it. What is happening here is make believe. With no consequences thus far.
Best. Ever.
A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.
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-...
Kash Patel is pressuring FBI agents to make bogus findings that align their investigation with whatever the White House says. This is a characteristic of totalitarian states and reflects the intensifying corruption of the FBI.
They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.
January 6th is crucial context to so much of what the Trump regime says and does. The way it’s being erased by large outlets is complicity at a staggering level.
New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."
We aren’t one step away from Stephen Miller going in the radio and telling his supporters to kill all the Democrats, but they want you to think that so you’ll be afraid. This is a propaganda exercise to make them seem more powerful than they are and some of you are dangerously susceptible.
Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah
The Washington Post can't claim to defend free speech while firing Karen Attiah for exercising hers. The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.
Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
@washingtonpost.com @karenattiah.bsky.social Post! Stand up to censorship!!!
Channel your outrage about @washingtonpost.com firing @karenattiah.bsky.social into support for her work
This is outrageous.
The right wing makes up 76% of violence but remind again how the left wing is unacceptably violent again?
Einbinder on saying 'free Palestine' during her Emmys speech: "It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."
Anyone proposing that an official be allowed to revoke the passport of a citizen for criticizing *this* country would be rightly regarded as batshit insane and deeply hostile to this country's laws and traditions. Proposing that they can do that if we criticize some *other* country? Fuck. That.
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Washington Post Book World has a review of Amy Coney Barrett’s book by Noah Feldman without revealing that they are friends and he endorsed her nomination and confirmation. Oy.
Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.
"Now an extraordinarily successful scientific research system — one that took decades to build, has saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits for American companies and investors — is being dismantled before our eyes."
I am sooooo tired of Why Is Child Care So Tough to Afford/Find/Staff/Operate stories that center anything other than this fact.
So the Utah governor is saying publicly that the trans roommate has been very helpful in the investigation and the GOP governor says the roommate had nothing to do with the murder and … that is the human being the a large chunk of the right including very influential corners of it are using as…
Instead of the media’s lazy posthumous takes, I am in favor of Kirk’s actual words being spread far and wide.
Pulte should resign
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
We are horrified to learn of the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Political violence has no place in democracy. The foundation of democracy rests on the principle that differences can be debated vigorously, but peacefully, without intimidation or acts of violence.
Trump gutted the FBI, ATF, and other federal law enforcement agencies dedicated to monitoring extremist violence, to dump endless resources into pointless immigration enforcement. ICE got tens of billions of dollars while the FBI got gutted top to bottom to settle political scores
Political violence is never acceptable. I disagree with Charlie Kirk on just about everything, but in America, he has the right to speak his mind. Heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Korematsu as well.
As Sotomayor writes, "carry your papers if you're Latino and work a low-wage job" is bad enough -- but then consider headlines about ICE agents roughing up citizens while either seizing or ignoring their REAL IDs, e.g., www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump had a bad week in court last week: 1. Broad Tariffs without Congress - illegal 2. Harvard funding freeze - illegal 3. National Guard to LA - illegal 4. Alien Enemies Act - can’t use 5. Cutting $12 billion in funding that Congress already approved - illegal
NOT APPEARED TO BE @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...
BRUTAL JOBS REPORT: Just 22,000 jobs added in August. Unemployment rises to 4.3%. Broader jobless rate jumps to 8.1%. Slowest 4-month growth since 2020. Plus, downward revisions for June and July of -21,000. Yikes.
Chilling and poorly written. Wow.
My grandfather was an East Tennessee hillbilly farmer. He had dairy cows. And yes. They always boiled the milk before they used it for anything. Have these people ever been around actual cows?!?
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Guess which network is ignoring the survivors? Fox isn’t news.
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🚨Governor Pritzker is calling Stephen Miller OUT! 👏🏻The👏🏻Cruelty👏🏻is👏🏻the📌
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
“We have a message for the rest of the nation as well: This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American.”
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
Utterly obscene
This is obscene thehill.com/policy/defen...
native washingtonian here. i've lived in this area my whole life. i've never felt less safe than i have in the past couple weeks.
We always said the Department of Justice was the only cabinet agency named for a virtue. Revenge is just the opposite.
The public can’t be sure whether the John Bolton search is a legitimate investigation — and this very fact highlights the current crisis of trust in federal law enforcement, writes @asharangappa.bsky.social, a former F.B.I. special agent.
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
Worth remembering (and pointing out where necessary) that drawing equivalence between raiding Bolton’s house for documents and raiding Mar-a-Lago requires Bolton to have similarly dismissed and worked around demands for their return for months.
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Every tyrant in history has sought to stifle criticism of himself and his regime. But America was founded on criticism. American democracy was built on dissent. Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s wanton tyranny invites more of it.
"I know more about grass than any human being anywhere in the world." I DARE YOU TO TRY TO TOP THIS, GAVIN @govpressoffice-m.bsky.social
Whitewashing history.
1. We have normalized having a toddler in the White House who uses random " marks ("HOTTEST"?). How is any of the below normal? How are we okay with this? 2. We have a president who doesn't want us to cover, in our museums "how bad Slavery was". Was it not bad? Imagine if Reagan had said this? FFS
Why is she alone? Where are all the elected Dems currently in the state? What the fuck is happening here?
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
BREAKING: The Trump administration began detaining people in tents at Fort Bliss in El Paso, set to become the nation’s largest immigrant detention center. It revives a shameful legacy of racist internment and severe abuse at the site — and will rip more families apart.
Don't poke the bear.
Megadonors are dominating election spending like never before, using their special access and outsized influence to warp policy in their favor. Here’s what can be done about it: bit.ly/4mcMsPL
This is exceptional, especially so on a day when I am incredibly weary.
1/Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, seems interested in making women 2nd class citizens. A tweet he posted late last week isn’t getting nearly enough attention. In any other administration, there would have been swift calls for his resignation. Here, mostly crickets.
Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies. Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.
Trump on January 6: Nancy Pelosi stopped me from sending the DC National Guard to protect the Capitol. Trump tomorrow: the President of the United States has complete control over the DC National Guard. Make it make sense.
Yes. Horrific
Welp
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.
Nope, still not distracted. Release the Epstein files.
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Don’t look away ….
Remember when Vice President Harris bought a few quality cooking items at a French cookery store with her own money and legacy media melted down? J.D. Vance literally used the Army Corps of Engineers to manipulate a public waterway, so he’d have an easier time kayaking and it’s a blip on the radar.
NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.
BREAKING: Convicted sex trafficker who taught young girls how to blow old men says sole person on earth who can pardon her did nothing wrong.
The tea the tea
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.