Matt Jordan

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

You cannot be fucking serious

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

If you can't beat'm in a fair election, cheat!

Deepfake Doctors: How AI Spreads Medical Disinformation AI-generated doctors, some fabricated and some mimicking well-known physicians, sell sketchy products and bad medical advice on social media. Here’s how it works.

"Deepfake doctors ... are increasingly being spotted on social media. These faux doctors peddle everything from false medical info to dubious products, like oils to treat hair loss or supplements for endocrine disorders."

➕ Read more about #AI fakes in The Sift: go.newslit.org/Sift6Oct2025

"Where's everyone else?"

Excellent point from Marc Elias on the complete lack of elite revulsion to Pam Bondi's sycophantic performance in the Senate yesterday.

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Remember, you paying exponentially more for electricity so that the oligarchs can spew A.I. bullshit trained on copyrighted data at your cerebral cortex all day to distract you while they empty the US treasury is the price we all must pay.

Murray: "If House Republicans were here, I'd make sure they understood over 3/4 of the families on the exchanges actually live in R states. And I'd make sure they understand the 10 states where families will face biggest average premium increase hikes when the ACA credits expire are all R states."

Has anyone asked PenFed, Navy Federal, or USAA about this?

The FBI analyzed Republican lawmakers' phone records during Jan. 6 probe, GOP senators say Republican senators said that the analyzed info included participants, dates and times for calls around Jan. 6, 2021, but that no content of the conversations was reviewed.

The public needs to see this data…sure sounds like everyone was clearly involved in this coup…

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

"Bucking tradition" sure is a supplicant way to say "illegal."

Trump defunds public media & they respond by framing him like a tough-guy maverick willing to innovate, exactly the kind of coverage authoritarians demand.

Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Allies are a good thing when resisting a Junta taking shape before our eyes. Full stop.

The sign of their sincerity will be whether any of them actually use their platform and their oversized sway over young fasc-curious males to make amends.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Narrator: The president wants to take over American cities with the military

"Journalism is not a crime": Chicago reporters sue Trump over violence at ICE protests Press groups say Trump's agents used force to silence reporters.

NEW: ICE is attacking journalists in Chicago, and the @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social is fighting back.

"Journalism is not a crime," @jschleuss.com told @axios.com.

The 1st Amendment makes press freedom a cornerstone of our democracy, and we will fight to defend it.

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/d...

OpenAI should be sued into oblivion

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

David Ellison

Cover of Devo's album "Q: Are We Not Men?"

Presented without comment.

Text from "They Knew" by Sarah Kendzior: As I wrote in Hiding in Plain Sight, the oft-recited claim that "nobody saw it coming" is an admission of whom the speaker considers to be nobody. In the United States, "nobody" historically included women, immigrants, poor people, and anyone who is not white. People dismissed as nobody are those most likely to be affected by a terrible situation and therefore the most likely to warn about it in advance. "Somebody" is a similarly convoluted category. For centuries, to be somebody in the United States meant to be a wealthy white man or to be treated like one. This idea of "somebody" is baked into the founding of the country, in which only white male landowners were granted the right to vote. White, land-owning men who deviated from the establishment were often punished for their efforts: castigated as troublemakers or conspiracy theorists. The goal was to reduce them, at least in their ability to gain institutional support, to the status of "nobody."

I always think of this quote (from They Knew by Sarah Kendzior) when people say this.

"'nobody saw it coming' is an admission of whom the speaker considers to be nobody"

Outspoken propagandist

CBS has finally turned away from Edward R. Murrow's charge that TV news should aim to educate & enlighten.

It will now be only wires & lights in a box, designed to entertain, amuse and insulate the public from a nasty & mean oligarchic reality

Much of corporate media now is now becoming a means to the ends of oligarchy. Profits will flow elsewhere from having Ellison's CBS News turned into a relentless divisive propaganda mill to make public opinion. That will be the metric, not whether CBS news itself makes money.

If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.