photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

The Big List of Protest Signs for #NoKings 10/18 Instead of talking to MAGA or each other, focus on winning the hearts and minds of the unaware and undecided.

Instead of talking to MAGA or each other, focus on winning the hearts and minds of the unaware and undecided. The best signs tell people what we stand for and do it simply.

Not to be overly dramatic but don't ever say what happened to Khashoggi can't happen here. We've had a lot of things happen here already that "can't happen here"

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

People saying the fascism we’re seeing is unprecedented, unimaginable etc miss the larger point.

We‘re not experiencing anything new. We‘re experiencing an *expansion* of existing realities targeting Black people especially. Until we get that, we’ll miss how to fight US fascism at its core.

The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

Evil

it's absolutely fucking crazy that "retroactively legalize Watergate" and "exclude Black people from literally every area of public life" are the two primary a objectives of the chief justice and yet he is never reported on like the vicious gutter racist he is.

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Robert Redford on the phone, plus Dustin Hoffman. From All the President’s Men

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

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This is shameful. As a proud alumna of the Merrill College of Journalism, my college self would never believe that the paper responsible for exposing Watergate and publishing the Pentagon Papers would punish, and attempt to silence, an OPINIONS editor for stating the truth.

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.

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.

My senior Senator is just consistently on point.

Charlie Kirk’s death can’t distract us from the scandal that Trump wants to go away. Violence has no place in a civilized society, but the violence is ongoing to the Epstein survivors. Young girls were sex trafficked and not believed. They’re still looking for justice. Release the #EpsteinFiles

1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert

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).

This week's news:

* many male elites approve of & participate in raping girls

* POTUS is a pedophile serial rapist voters chose TWICE over more qualified women

* he wants to decriminalize domestic violence bc it's so common it's driving up crime stats

Male pundits: "Misogyny is a side issue."

better things are possible!!!!

just sitting here thinking about the courage and determination of E. Jean Carroll compared to the abject craven collapse of the pretty much every silicon valley CEO

They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal

Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others.

Journalists everywhere need to stand in solidarity on this killing spree and resulting news blackout. See below in this thread for some actions and stay tuned here https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-hits-gaza-hospital-killing-least-20-people-including-five-journalists-2025-08-25/

We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.

The “Do Not Associate” List – NEW for Aug 2025 How to stop helping MAGA spread their lies. (Print version incl.)

Condemning and correcting just spreads the disinformation we are trying to defeat. Here is how to stop doing it, with a list of terms we should never use in association with Trump, ICE, Washington D.C., immigrants, etc. and what to say instead! reframingamerica.substack.com/p/dna-august...

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- 1984, George Orwell

JOURNALISM MATTERS!!!!

This is a beautiful column that centers victims and the dedicated first responders and divers who try to bring closure to victims' families. Also a tragic reminder of how vulnerable humans are to the forces of nature. Water is scary and life is random...