Julia B. Chan

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

All of this happening one day after Comey pleaded not guilty—Comey and James, a Black woman, are two of the most high-profile targets but Trump’s playbook in seeking retribution against political enemies has been used on many others in the past—including >> other Black women in positions of power <<

From Letitia James to James Comey, Trump is treating the DOJ like an instrument of revenge The New York AG and former FBI director are two of the most high-profile targets, but the president’s playbook in seeking retribution has been used on many others in the past — including other Black w...

“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system,” James said in response. “These charges are baseless and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.” 19thnews.org/2025/10/leti...

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

SCOOP: Dominion Voting, the voting machine behemoth that Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election, has been sold to a company run by an ex-GOP election official.

These women are among the top five most banned authors in schools From horror to manga, PEN America reports thousands of books are being pulled from school shelves, with three southern states leading the pack.

“No book shelf will be left untouched if local and state book bans continue wreaking havoc on the freedom to read in public schools,” Sabrina Baêta, senior manager of PEN America’s Freedom to Read program.

The Trump administration is making the country less safe for domestic violence victims Slashed and paused funding, mass firings and information purges have destabilized an infrastructure that took 40 years to build.

It's Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Over the last eight months, the first administration led by a man found liable for sexual abuse in federal court has endangered survivors even as it professes to "protect women."

19thnews.org/2025/05/dome... #DVAM

1/ October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, first observed by activists nearly four decades ago. It took more years of advocacy to pass the Violence Against Women Act for the first time in 1994.

didn’t take long to see what would be first to come out of this

this copy irks me. why is survivors in quotes? you know damn well people won’t click to read the story to see who said it and why. it just reads like the chron doesn’t believe or agree that the women are survivors — big yikes.

it’s 2025 and we live on the internet PLEASE let’s write like it

Inside of me there are two lions. Both have anxiety.

ok good luck to all of us getting back to sleep

i guess this was one way to realize i wasn’t following the same quakebots i followed on the bird site..

View on OpenStreetMap 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California

A 4.6 magnitude earthquake occurred 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California!
🗺️ Coordinates: 37.858800, -122.239800


This is an automatic report and may be revised.

that was a fucking strong one!!

i screamed

holy shit is everyone ok??

What’s Sinclair Media? Take a tour through our archives www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

Fearing Violent Threats, CDC Medical Experts Are Scared To Talk About Vaccine Safety "I have many that won't speak about vaccines now and have removed their names off of papers," said former CDC chief medical officer Debra Houry.

We've reached the point where CDC medical experts are declining to speak publicly about vaccine safety because they’re afraid of being violently targeted by anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-ex...

There is no legal category as “major terrorist organization.” It does not exist. And he can’t do this.

Just an administration of posters, basically.

Nexstar, the largest owner of ABC stations, has business before Carr's FCC: Not only do they need him to bless their $6.2 billion merger with Nexstar, but they also need him to relax the national ownership cap that prevents them from getting bigger.

mhmmm

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Kat Abughazaleh’s punk-rock House bid The 26-year-old Chicagoan is betting that empathy and righteous anger can remake Democratic politics.

"If now is not the time to challenge who is in power, when will there ever be a time?" Inside Kat Abughazaleh’s, punk-rock, Chicago-area House bid grounded in radical empathy and righteous anger: 19thnews.org/2025/09/kat-... via @19thnews.org

guessing what got bleeped became a game — and now we know

“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys

damn just saw who else was nominated and no shade but ayo, quinta or uzo should’ve won and i wouldn’t have mixed up their names with gene hackman

me just now: oh yay jean hackman won

anyone else say jean hackman instead of jean smart ever since she started on hacks? no just me?

there’s A LOT of news right now but if I were to recommend you read one powerful piece of journalism today (and not watch certain videos or look at birthday books) it would be this story by Chabeli. She masterfully tells one family’s story to show us the direct impact of immigration policy right now

Charlie Kirk, right-wing activist, is fatally shot The prominent 31-year-old media personality encouraged young women to have more babies, called for a ban on gender-affirming care and advocated for gun rights.

The prominent 31-year-old media personality encouraged young women to have more babies, called for a ban on gender-affirming care and advocated for gun rights.