Erik Gunn

How Journalists Are Reporting From Iran With No Internet After strikes killed senior Iranian officials, Iran cut off internet access. Journalists are relying on satellite links, encrypted apps, and smuggled footage to report from inside the country.

After strikes killed senior Iranian officials, Iran cut off internet access. Journalists are relying on satellite links, encrypted apps, and smuggled footage to report from inside the country. www.wired.com/story/how-jo...

As a Christian, I find this beyond disgusting. Frightening. Decidedly un-Biblical. And, obviously, completely inappropriate in the military..

Honestly really tried to warn ppl about #ChristianNationalism.

I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous

Is ‘America First’ Over? Trump promised to stop wars. His grip on his base is being questioned now that he’s started one.

America First was always about bigoted and belligerent unilateralism. Pacifism never had anything to do with it, so could journalists please stop repeating Trump’s framing as if it was real? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

This is the problem with so-called "right to work laws" that the name obscures.

After Rubio seeks to revoke their visas, Chinese students say U.S. resembles the country they left “In China, the government can control education, high schools, colleges, universities. We thought that the USA could be different," one student said.

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Tulsi Gabbard released a fundraising video in 2019 titled "Trump's Path To War With Iran"

"We've gotta stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran."

People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil

Americans are less safe due to US military regularly kidnapping & murdering world leaders.

The War Powers Resolution needs a complete overhaul because it's obviously failed, but at the end of the day, there's no procedural trick around having a Congress that's willing to stand back and watch a president flagrantly break the law and the Constitution and do absolutely nothing about it.

Back before I joined States Newsroom and the Wisconsin Examiner, I wrote for The Progressive about how the system ignores the pleas from loved ones of murder victims who opposed the execution of the person who committed the killing.
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Alabama provides the greatest arguments against the death penalty | Alabama Reflector The state wants to execute a 75-year-old man for being present at a murder he did not commit. It's not justice. It's bloodlust.

My column from Monday. Alabama plans to execute a wheelchair-bound, 75-year-old man who did not kill anyone. There is no reason to do so except a cruel and pig-headed insistence on process, one that a daughter of the victim opposes. It’s another example of the injustice of the death penalty.

The UK has the rotating presidency of the Security Council today & will preside over this meeting. Tomorrow, the US assumes the rotating presidency.

Another aside: Russia held the presidency in Feb ‘22 & was presiding over an emergency meeting literally during the start of its invasion of Ukraine

Well, that's the name they go by here but it's not gonna stop me from eating them...

The White House Correspondents’ Association has announced that entertainer and magician Oz Pearlman will be the headliner for April’s Correspondents’ Dinner, not one of those mean, mouthy stand up comics who might mix in some social criticism. The Correspondents judged themselves too weak for that.

I do think it’s important to note that Judge Tunheim repeatedly discussed the importance of the December rescission memo along with the February one — something that was discussed at length in Law Dork’s coverage but went unmentioned or was breezed by in other coverage.

🎼 The Finding Out is the Har…dest…Part 🎶

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

Can he wave his magic wand and turn some of those White House correspondents into bulldog reporters

New Moms in Wisconsin to Get Extension of Vital Benefits After GOP Powerbroker Ends Holdout State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had repeatedly blocked lawmakers from voting on a bipartisan bill to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage. The legislation now goes to Gov. Tony Evers, who is expected ...

If Gov. Tony Evers signs the bill as expected, Arkansas would be the only state in the U.S. that has not yet opted into a federal program that provides free health insurance to low-income mothers for a year after giving birth, up from 60 days.

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In my time at Princeton, we've had several Army officers in our doctoral program. They've all done excellent work.

When this former Princeton undergrad says we're actually teaching them "the enemy's wicked ideology" I have no idea what the hell he's talking about but, of course, neither does he.

Indeed. New grants are not getting funded, already funded grants are not getting paid, and non-competitive renewals are being held up.

Focusing on the top line budget, instead of looking at what is really happening on “the ground” is deeply misguided.

The government illegally took your money.

They won’t give it back.

Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees "The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote.

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees.

"The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Brooklyn Public Library ends passport services after State Department order • Brooklyn Paper Last fall, the U.S. Department of State sent cease-and-desist letters to hundreds of nonprofit libraries across the country, telling them they were no longer

So right when the regime is pushing to require ID like passports to be able to vote, they're limiting the places where you can get passports.

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Evers demands Trump restore grants for jobless pay upgrade, focuses on fraud, waste and abuse • Wisconsin Examiner In May the Trump administration canceled $29 million in federal funds that were awarded to fix Wisconsin unemployment insurance system.

Evers demands Trump restore grants, focuses on fraud, waste and abuse. @erikgunn.bsky.social on the impact that the loss of funds had on Wisconsin's Unemployment Insurance system.

Denver Mayor Bars ICE From City Property and Orders Protection for Protesters

Denver Mayor Bars ICE From City Property and Orders Protection for Protesters www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System A New Miami Herald Investigation

How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/how-jeffre...