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This kicks ass. Bravo @aft.org @rweingarten.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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A felon in the White House is making crime legal Meanwhile, he's creating fake crimes to punish the law abiding.

the Tom Homan bribery scandal is the latest example of how a felon in the White House is making crime legal

Just watched the film *2073* and I find I can't breathe very well.

Anyone else seen it? Did it affect you that way, too?

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He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison. Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to ...

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.

By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

Nazi Germany managed it.

Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity

Trump administration's message to anyone who isn't rich and corrupt is pretty obvious: You Don't Count. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash.

Pam Bondi knew.

Kash Patel knew.

Emil Bove knew.

And they made the investigation go away.

A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York Times A federal judge in Tampa dismissed President Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, calling it improper. Judge Steven D. Merryday allowed a new complaint to be filed within 28 days.

It looks like this Republican appointee junked Trump’s complaint on his own, offended by its various abuses of process. That’s a first for a President.

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

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

WHOA.

Tom Homan was being investigated for accepting a $50K bribe from undercover agents before Trump and Pam Bondi shut it down.

The $$$ was in exchange for access to government contracts in Trump’s 2nd term.

HUGE scoop.

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

They Tried to Snuff Out Hawaii's Native Board Game. Meet the Man Keeping It Alive Kōnane was once a national pastime, played by peasants and rulers alike. Now John Kaʻohelauliʻi has made it his mission to bring it back.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

Look at academia giving me a little hope

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.

BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down. The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.

Inside Medicine -- BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down

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by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social

The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.

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.

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

I don't really care about Jimmy Kimmel, but it is worth noting that one of the jokes he got fired for was basically a late night comedy version of this headline, something that disrupted the dominant Reichstag narrative that is being constructed around Kirk.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Justice Eddins went even further in a concurrence joined by two other justices. He flamed the U.S. Supreme Court for choosing to "steamroll" the First Amendment's separation of church and state by mandating government support of religion. He wrote: The federal wall cracks. The Supreme Court's recent religious clause cases wreck the relationship between free exercise and non-establishment.... The Roberts Court casually dismisses the lessons of American and world history, the warnings of prominent early Americans, and the judiciary's storied legal minds. Bad things happen unless government and religion are completely separated. Justice Eddins also wrote about something you and I have been talking about for a long time, which is the conservative supermajority making up facts. He called out Kennedy v. Bremerton, the notorious "praying coach" case, writing: "As it often does, the Court repackaged and whitewashed facts to achieve a desired outcome." This is the same point that Sherrilyn Ifill has made on the show about how the record in that case, and so many others, is ignored.

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court.

He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Great article.

25 Years Ago, Russia Had Its Own Kimmel Moment Why a puppet show could predict America’s future.

Dictators don’t have a sense kf humor:
www.persuasion.community/p/25-years-a...

While 🇺🇸 farms go under…

The thing about unchecked power is it often makes grave mistakes. One of the reason Putin decided on the folly of war with Ukraine was the lack of those willing to tell him he was making a grave error. I fear @realDonaldTrump will stumble into a war, costing troop’s their lives.

Right wing crazies want me arrested because they know I won't back down. Too bad.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

Top Democratic Leaders Ask Trump for Meeting to Avert a Shutdown

Trump attacks 1A, demands opponents be prosecuted without legal basis, imposes tariffs and visa fees. All very bad, all unpopular, all divide parts of Trump’s base.

What should Dems do?

Some of us: Dunno, attack Trump?

Dem leaders: Could we have a meeting, sir?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Chalk messages at Arlington home of top White House official strike a nerve with GOP heavyweights | ARLnow.com A sidewalk chalk protest at the North Arlington home of a top Trump administration official became a talking point for powerful Republican voices this week. The Sunday demonstration around the home of...

The fact that these people are this upset over chalk drawings tells you how easily they’ll cave when faced with actual mass resistance. Bullies fold when you stand up to them. www.arlnow.com/2025/09/19/c...

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Why Washington Post fired me Read the official termination letter for yourself.

New from me:

There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo.

Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post.

Read and judge for yourself.

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Republicans think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/npr....

Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.