Blaming the entire Democratic Party for the actions of three individuals who weren’t, as far as we know, even Democratic voters and then telling Democrats they need to tone down *their* hateful rhetoric is a hell of a combination
Blaming the entire Democratic Party for the actions of three individuals who weren’t, as far as we know, even Democratic voters and then telling Democrats they need to tone down *their* hateful rhetoric is a hell of a combination
The shooter is still alive and turned himself in. Why do they need to “reproduce” it when they can just ask him?
Four Black girls were murdered in a church for daring to exist in a desegregated America. Decades later, justice came, because people refused to let the story die. Watch Sen Doug Jones and historian Heather Cox Richardson break it down. History isn’t past. It’s a warning. youtu.be/bccqUo0mZvQ?...
USA Today: The DC National Guard asked local leaders to identify projects where guardsmen can pitch in on neighborhood beautification efforts. "We want to build relationships & strengthen the bond between the guard & the community we proudly serve." ❤️ #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Don't forget that Trump and his allies wanted to be able to blame January 6 on "Antifa" -- but allowing time to pass for an investigation to show that was not the case made it hard for that claim to get traction. Seems like they aren't going to make that mistake this time
Dem Lives Matter bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Excellent post by @jvl.bsky.social at his substack, arguing that modern "conservatism" isn't conservatism at all, it's a movement aiming at domination. Also a repost of an @hcrichardson.bsky.social essay from 3 weeks ago discussing Movement Conservatism. Both insightful, highly recommended.
Trump saying “I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize investment into 🇺🇸” is how you know he knows that’s exactly what he did by raiding the Hyundai plant and mistreating hundreds of South Korean workers
Trump WANTS a shutdown.
Not hard to imagine, really. Charlie Kirk literally called Floyd a “scumbag” and blamed his death on taking fentanyl.
"More Americans are facing stretches of unemployment of six months or more, a worrisome sign for the U.S. economy." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Welcome to Trump’s America, where they fire Karen Attiah and Matthew Dowd for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s right-wing extremism and applaud Brian Kilmeade for suggesting we murder the homeless.
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We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Miller is Joseph McCarthy if McCarthy had been fully in control of the United States government.
CD1 gerrymander is still an active case in the S.C. Supreme Court while Norman wants an even more lopsided gerrymander. Yes, it is is technically possible to map so that 40% of S.C. voters have no congressional representation. But they shouldn’t. www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-...
omfg other korean LG energy solutions workers in tennessee are preemptively leaving apple.news/ADhXzmk7nTJm...
Republicans refuse to confront these inconvenient facts: - Young men are being radicalized online by hate & conspiracies - These young men have access to guns - There are mass shootings in America, majority white men - #1 domestic terror threat is right-wing extremism - Maga's Groypers problem
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed regret on Sunday over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia and said those who returned home will face no disadvantage when re-entering the US
Lol. A year ago these same people insisted that any effort to label foreign propaganda was an attack on free speech, and forced the dismantling of multiple orgs studying foreign disinformation
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
"Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, October 31, 2024 ( ht: @luiszanger.bsky.social )
Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
"Regret" for what? Every bit of this was Trump admin policy, including the arbitrary rounding up of everyone in sight, the appalling conditions of their confinement, and the delayed release. Is anyone in the Trump admin / DHS / ICE getting fired over it? No. Are any policies being changed? Also no.
High prices. No relief. Zero yardage gained. Another fumble from the Trump Admin.
This is one feature of the deprofessionalization of the DHS under Noem. Employees have encouraged to treat prisoners as lesser beings, undeserving of basic human dignity. Aspects of the organizational culture that already believed this are being empowered.
If ICE is mocking legal South Korean detainees with slant-eyed gestures, you'd think (1) Congress should do something and (2) what is this org going to look like in a year?
Have you heard the good news? California finished a project that will create tons of clean renewable energy & help prevent evaporation and algae formations while keeping solar panels cooler & more efficient. This article made my day! www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
hundreds of millions of dollars vaporized from the georgia economy because a bunch of good ol’ boys who would have been too racist for the 1990s wanted to impress kristi noem
I do not know how to fix it, but I cannot say enough how much we in the news need to figure out how to handle the “flood the zone with shit” strategy.
I think the risk now is greater than that of 60s state repression. There are parallels in US history—60s/ early 70s, 1930s, 1870s, but to state the obvious 2025 is 2025.
President Stubb: Power politics is back, spheres of interest is back, Russian imperialism is not gone, so start adjusting. Right now we're living in a 1918, 1945, or 1989 moment in world history. And now we're in a similar situation. We just don't know where the world is going to go.
Most Americans/US media are aware of K-Pop and know of Korean-US population. But have not lived or worked in ROK. Lack a sense of on what points, and why, Korean history, dignity, and self-respect are at stake. If the US *wanted* to offend a crucial partner, it could not have done worse.
I've followed the F-35 story for almost two decades. This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.
A federal judge late Friday ruled that the Trump administration’s mass firing of probationary employees earlier this year was illegal, a victory for the labor unions and nonprofit groups that had sued the government over the terminations.
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.
Stephen Miller: "The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven was he said that we have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence. That was the last message that he sent me ... we are gonna do that."
This is an important point. Also an important point: the media keeps referring to what Trump is doing as a “domestic crime push” when it FLAGRANTLY is not that. It’d be easier to resist Trump’s autocratic moves if the media stopped parroting his nakedly bad-faith “crime” framing.
"We need a tough guy, they say, because the Democrats are so dangerous. But now they find themselves defending Trump against the one sin that has given their movement its chief moral stature: child abuse." That was an easy about-face. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-epst...
I have no words for this.
A lot of people are talking about the fact that Kilmeade won't be punished and you're all right but that's bc the left doesn't have the means to mob Fox and make them worry. Unless we start tagging their advertisers.
Bots and AI tools confirming false information - True. Generative AI amplified misinformation (misidentifications, partisan claims) as the story spread. Media knew in advance - False. No credible evidence; supposed “foreknowledge” headlines/images were fabricated or taken out of context.
In an interview on Fox & Friends, Trump was asked how to “fix this country” and “come back together.” His response included: “I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less. The radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime …
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is seeking to eliminate a 2009 regulation that obligated large polluters to report their carbon output.
The Trump administration has put forward a plan to roll back rules that require corporations to disclose the amount of greenhouse gases they release. If approved, the change would prevent both the government and the public from knowing the scale of emissions contributing to climate change.
- After the piece ran, that person admitted they weren’t sure about those details. - The Guardian then removed the quotes and added a note explaining the correction.
In plain terms: - The Guardian originally included paraphrased comments from someone who said they knew the suspect in high school. They claimed, citing an unnamed high school friend, that suspect Tyler Robinson was the lone “leftist” in a family of “very hard” Republicans.
In our effort to push back against so much misinformation, we wanted to flag an important update on a story that’s been widely circulating. The Guardian ran an article that was later corrected. The outlet acknowledged it had to update the piece after realizing part of the reporting wasn’t accurate.
A draft memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to top officials outlines the Pentagon’s “unique advantage” in “aiding” police. The plan would allow Guard units in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Pentagon documents show the Trump administration is weighing a plan to deploy 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops to major cities for law enforcement, a significant expansion of the military’s domestic role.
substack.com/@gavinrocks/... @piperformissouri.bsky.social The people!!!
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday that he has “confidence” in the country’s ambassador to the United States, who faces mounting criticism of his links to the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. https://to.pbs.org/42rXIQb
A collection of personal notes penned for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday offers a portrait of the convicted child sex offender through crude drawings, images and messages filled with sexual content or innuendo. https://to.pbs.org/4geXWQi
Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."
Like many Never Trumpers and other people with a public profile, I have been on the receiving end of death threats for years just for speaking my mind. No one in America should risk being killed for exercising their right to speak, no matter how despicable you think their views might be.
What a mess.
As they claim to be the censored underdogs Trump’s billionaire allies are taking over the flow of information
News just broke that the Venezuelan boat that Trump struck was not, in fact, headed to the U.S. with drugs. But this story is disturbing for other reasons, and you need to know why. It's another sign of Trump's growing lawlessness. And it's bad counter-narcotics strategy.
Oh the Thanksgiving-dinner price indicators are going to be fun this year. 🦃
To the women of Texas and medical providers throughout the state: You are welcome here. And your rights are protected here. www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/u...
When Trump said "I am your voice," this is who he was talking to.
Before knowing all the facts, voices on the right are now exploiting the tragic death of Charlie Kirk & calling for all-out war on the left. This is sad, but not surprising, at a time when we should all be denouncing political violence. They were not so upset when Minn. Democrats were assassinated.
I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.
The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence. For an actual public servant. Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.
Gerrymandering is a form of voter suppression. Voters in gerrymandered states find out quickly that their vote doesn’t count toward their representation, so they become apathetic.
Trump’s Treasury Secretary Threatens to Punch Housing Official in the Face www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u... Share far and wide!
Protesters Call Out Trump as He Dines Out in Washington www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u... Don’t let them rest!
“It’s not his signature” is the new “the election was stolen” A loyalty test
Ukraine's air force has warned Poland that Russian drones have entered its air space and Zamosc is under threat, Reuters reports.
The Trump Administration is once again failing to do its job — and California is cleaning up their mess. We're deploying state resources to protect the 2,000-year old sequoias on FEDERAL LANDS from the wildfires the federal administration are supposed to handle.
Another vote for the Epstein petition.
INBKs first (but certainly not last) highway visibility over the Prospect Expressway! So many honks from cars and applause from passers-by! #NoTrooosInOurCities @indivisible.org
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
I am very glad to see that Monarez will get a chance to share what actually happened. This promises to be much more enlightening than anything RFKJ had to say.
Trump kept White House reporters standing around for hours for nothing
Donald Trump was supposed to make remarks from the Oval Office 90 minutes ago. It still hasn't happened, and there's no sign it's happening soon. C-SPAN dropped the event from their schedule. Is it canceled? Is the president running late? Who knows!
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Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements in modern medicine. Protecting access is vital to the health and safety of Minnesotans. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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Trump: "I think we may have learned something, because when [immigrants] come here and there's nobody who can do what they're supposed to be doing and they bring people, those people could teach our people...Something very interesting could come out of that."
Like clockwork. 🤡 www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
Wait isn’t this the war Grandpa Don dodged?
over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone
Canadian tourists gone 'from a faucet to a drip,' Las Vegas mayor says | On Aug. 7, Las Vegas Shelley Berkley mayor spoke about the tourism downturn in the city, which is seeing fewer visitors from Mexico, Canada and abroad.
After the Trump administration slashed the US international aid budget, an outbreak of Ebola in Congo is testing the global health community's emergency responses
Thousands of Americans gave their lives to free Korea from Communist occupation. Now Koreans are watching these videos and learning that, as long as Trump is president, the US is no longer a friend and ally to Korea. Shameful.
Nashville man pardoned for Jan. 6 role now running for Congress in Tennessee special election
"US Migrant Raid Jolts South Korea, Stirs Investor Anxiety" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The reason this ad works is not just that it appeals to a lot of Americans, but that Mallory looks and sounds like someone who genuinely cares about this. We need more relatable and authentic candidates. Mallory is that.
This undersells what insurance exchange policyholders will feel if Congress doesn't act. The 18 percent increase is on the raw cost of insurance. But many will also lose enhanced subsidies that expire at the end of December. Those people will feel an average increase of *more than 75%.*
Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."
WHATS UP WITH THE ECONOMY ⬇️ Unemployment has risen to its highest level since the height of the pandemic to 4.3%. And, this is the first negative month since Dec 2020. Is this what Trump meant when he said the U.S. will be “flooded with jobs?” 🤔