There have been two standards of justice since the dawn of America. They're just making it more obvious now that having money and influence protects you from accountability of all kinds. Corporations, defense contractors, politicians, cops, judges, etc have always gotten away with shit here.
Holy shit. The administration might be evacuating the ICE facility we've been protesting for weeks. If this ends up happening, it's a huge deal. Protests matter. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...
I suspect a lot of the ceremony around Kirk is an attempt to leverage Christian nationalist symbology in order to convey the messianic fervor of MAGA from Trump to Vance.
NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
I have to admit I underestimated how much Elon buying Twitter would influence our politics - not because of its influence on ordinary people, which I predicted accurately as "significant but not extraordinary," but because I didn't realize how addicted all our journos and politicians are to Twitter
HBO max auto played Bill Maher after I finished the most recent Last Week Tonight. Not today Satan!
This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings
No one could’ve seen this coming
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
Republicans refused to hold Trump accountable for extorting Zelensky. Now Trump is back in power with a lawless administration of extortion crimes gleefully out in the open. Republicans did this, the complacent/corrupt Dems in the party did this, people who refused to vote strategically did this
🧵For those who missed it, Larry Ellison is on the verge of becoming one of the most powerful media & entertainment moguls America has ever seen If you fear Brendan Carr, fear Ellison more He's already a major stakeholder in CBS & Paramount. Now CNN, HBO & major share of TikTok are in his sights
While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:
I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.
For people who don't know about this, here are some details. www.desertsun.com/story/news/c...
Anyway, the operator also mentioned that the system to cancel Disney+ subscriptions is down. So if you think you canceled, double check. The process involves multiple confirmation emails. If you only received one, you might be stuck halfway.
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The White House Peace Vigil, widely considered the longest continuous act of political protest in U.S. history, was dismantled by federal law enforcement in what activists described as the most direct attack on the protest in its 44-year history. https://wapo.st/47L6OLw
Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension wasn’t “cancel culture.” It was government coercion. Brendan Carr told Benny Johnson, “we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” and affiliates panicked. Regulatory threats can’t be the answer to speech we don’t like. If we let this stand, no voice is safe.
A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.
Hearings in Congress on Epstein's real life QAnon that convicted felon Trump was a part of. That's why he's extra crazy, breaking the Constitution to have Kimmel fired, using Kirk's murder. Don't stop calling for the release of the Epstein files abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)
Trump depended on dirty Russian oligarch money for decades, because no credible bank would lend to him. Two major investigations confirmed Russia illegally helped him come to power in 2016. Russia poured gasoline on America's far right crisis. Trump could not have made it this far without Russia.
Zelenskyy accuses allies of ‘wasting time’ as he prepares for Trump meeting
That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.
FACT: When the 1st Trump administration cut the budget for ACA Open Enrollment information by 90%, Jimmy Kimmel used his platform to make sure that everyone on the marketplace in America knew that you needed to sign up or change your marketplace plan. That speaks for itself. Miss you, Jimmy Kimmel.🙏
Aaaand this is why Bondi has dismantled the public corruption unit at DOJ. It’s now pay to play
of course they shut it down. how they gonna keep a penny ante bribery case like THIS alive when trump’s out there accepting whole-ass planes from foreign governments.
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
No evidence of association between Charlie Kirk shooting and left-wing groups so far, according to officials. Interesting chart here in the NBC piece of ideology and domestic terrorism, 70% comes from far-right groups. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
A white man killed another white man, but Black people are catching death threats. So, instead of talking about white feelings again, I explored my own death threats, and tips for others who are unused to white America. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
Colbert nailed Brendan Carr right between the eyes.
"If successful, it would enable federal prosecutors to seek charges against and seize the assets of organizations and individuals who fund or coordinate riots that result in violence." So then the regime sends provocateurs to turn your protest violent. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
I served under Wheeler at FCC. The FCC I knew was rigorously impartial and adherent to the letter and spirit of the law. Its staff was knowledgeable and meticulous. Carr is violating constitutional rights and the Communications Act. He is abusing agency power. Congress should impeach Brendan Carr.
Then do something you performative dipshit.
NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Let’s review. X: owned by Trump’s largest donor Facebook: owner gave Trump $1M TikTok: soon operated by billionaire Trump donors ABC: fired Kimmel, gave Trump $15M CBS: fired Colbert, gave Trump $16M This isn't normal. Free speech doesn't belong to billionaires.
Nexstar CEO praised Trump last month. Today Nexstar removed Jimmy Kimmel. @justinbaragona.bsky.social reported: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
Trans rights are human rights.
the trump administration is counting on enough people not caring about Ayman soliman’s fate so they can deport him as soon as they can get away with. That is true for an exceedingly large number of people and families, but to make this very simple: It’s not an exaggeration to say his and others’…
Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise. That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump. My latest
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...
True, now actually do something to combat the general fascism.
Maybe Ezra Klein should have asked Ben Shapiro about his friend and fellow Daily Wire podcaster, Matt Walsh, who is calling for the death of everyone on the left and LGBTQ people.
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.
Infant Mortality Rises in States With Restrictive Abortion Laws—New Research
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.
all of this makes me want to scream, but the part I'm going to be up all night rage-spiraling about is accusing her of "potentially endangering the physical safety of our staff" just flippin' those narratives right around so the Black woman, a TARGET of violent hate speech, becomes the aggressor
Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.
RFK Linking Tylenol To Autism Could Harm Pregnant People’s Health, Doctors Warn
As I've long warned since 2016, Trump built a fascist movement, aligned with Russia, to turn our country into a mafia dictatorship, like Russia. Attacking NGOs for "terrorism" is what Russia does www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
The perfect eulogy for Charlie Kirk.
Daniel Raab, originally from the Chicago suburb of Naperville, was part of an Israeli military sniper unit unofficially known as the “ghost” squad that was found to have shot six family members in Gaza, including an apparently unarmed 19-year-old Palestinian in the head.
This text is buried in a larger bill. Don’t want Marco Rubio to be personally responsible for revoking people’s passports based on thought crimes? Call your reps about it!
'The left have to tone down their violent rhetoric!' This is Valentina Gomez, Republican, 2026 Candidate for U.S. House, Texas district 31.
"Shadow Sec Def.” “The REAL Attorney General.” “President Miller.” Trump officials and Republicans close to the president are paranoid Miller will catch them gossiping behind his back — but they still whisper his unofficial titles. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
"Loomer falsely suggested that Paul Pelosi and his assailant were lovers, calling the brutal assault on the octogenarian a “booty call gone wrong.” Speaking to a television audience a few days after the attack, a grinning Kirk called for the intruder to be sprung from jail."
The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
When 100k far-right supporters march through London it's all over the news. When 1.5m marched, also in London, for a new #PeoplesVote we had to bring our own TV screens. #Brexit
Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.
We aren’t talking enough about how the ATF failed to recognize that the marking on a bullet was just a headstamp (basic ammo ID) not a “trans symbol,” that someone leaked that misinfo to right wing extremist Steven Crowder, and that the WSJ reprinted it as fact. Total clown shoes
Ashley St. Clair, the Nazi influencer used by Musk for breeding, was at center of drama between Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes. Read this piece from 2024 now making the rounds, with Tyler Robinson's groyper red flags. It explains terms found engraved on the bullets brewminate.com/the-backgrou...
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Scientists trace heat waves back to individual fossil fuel companies, with potentially sweeping courtroom implications www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.
I know folks are feeling defeated after all of this Kirk revisionist history. In my opening segment yesterday, I had to set the record straight. Charlie Kirk Murder; Russia v. NATO & Other Cause for Concern youtube.com/live/adYF-uV...
National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes
Today's bonus "One First" goes deep into Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in the ICE roving patrols case: "If this is the kind of analysis that’s driving the justices’ votes in the other Trump-related cases, perhaps it really is understandable why the Court is so often declining to explain itself."
Former podcaster and author of 2022 children's fantasy book depicting himself as wizard and Trump as king faces scrutiny over leadership of entire FBI www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
We’re peacefully protesting for our neighbors. What does ICE do? Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.
IL congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh is also on scene, sitting in front of the main driveway leading into the facility. She says she isn't here as a candidate; describes being tossed around earlier by federal agents (verified in another video). Behind me, a lone counter-protestor is chanting.
1/DC occupation/Trump policies causing a sudden stop to regional economy. These policies are not creating a sense of safety but far reaching harm to families, workers, and the nation. www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...
I see, fighting antisemitism by putting Jewish names on a list and giving it to the government so they can decide punishment.
It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."
Threats were just called in at the DNC and HBCUs across America. We must come together, and with one voice overcome the forces of hatred that seek to divide us. Trump is stoking the flames of hatred and violence but we can’t succumb to it.
Democrats Call for Congressional Probe Into Ties Between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
Democrats block prayer for MAGA Nazi Charlie Kirk on the House floor: "House Administration Committee ranking member Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) told Axios that saying a prayer on the House floor in response to a tragedy is something 'we don't even do for fallen members.'" www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...
so i can just report people who tell me to "enjoy the camps" and you'll ban them?
@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.
Does it get any more convincing that the FBI is incompetent than them releasing two statements that they had the shooter in custody, only to have to immediately turn around and say they made not one mistake, but two. Kash is a disgrace and an embarrassment to the agency. What a joke.
A beautiful, haunting story about Ukrainian farmer Oleksandr Hordienko, who became a master of downing RU drones because he was tired of Russians killing Ukrainian farmers The Russians kept targeting him directly until they took his life We can do more for Ukrainians www.wsj.com/world/a-ukra...
I mean apnews.com/article/chin...
Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
Ezra Klein isn’t theorizing Charlie Kirk. He is theorizing politics. And he is saying that Charlie Kirk’s brand of white supremacy was a good way of doing politics. I hope you all recognize now that Ezra is a total fucking ghoul
NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
We all know that you've got 2 kitchens. I just assumed you had 2 basement levels. 😉😆
The Justice Department's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people."
This thread is an interesting read
(NYT) - Some of New York City’s richest landlords are done sitting on the sidelines of the city’s mayor’s race. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...
