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Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance A secret report shows that Florida underwriters were banking massive profits while stiffing customers. Welcome to insurance in the era of climate collapse.

Just published a big piece about insurance, climate collapse, and how McKinsey turned a system based on mutal aid into another way to pick our pockets.

The result is a zombie industry that is doomed to fail & take down the economy along with it. In @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1997...

How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance A secret report shows that Florida underwriters were banking massive profits while stiffing customers. Welcome to insurance in the era of climate collapse.

Just published a big piece about insurance, climate collapse, and how McKinsey turned a system based on mutal aid into another way to pick our pockets.

The result is a zombie industry that is doomed to fail & take down the economy along with it. In @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1997...

How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance A secret report shows that Florida underwriters were banking massive profits while stiffing customers. Welcome to insurance in the era of climate collapse.

Recommended: deep dive on the insurance industry in an era of climate-fueled catastrophes. @aarongell.bsky.social @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/1997...

reality tv pilot. they're going to hand out leadership roses

no idea what this guy's ranting about (sometimes clicking is just too much effort) but the title gave me a chuckle

Just checked x and the cava social media team is totally out to ... lunch

can @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social go a day without showing his ass?

this guy has been performing sagacity so hard he's forgotten how to think. take a little break, pal, we'll save your seat

Furr(y)st they came...

Alt text: A screenshot of a news article excerpt. The text quotes a person making derogatory comments about transgender women, saying they have "an underlying level of aggressiveness" and claiming left-wing media tells them daily that they are victims. The speaker argues that transgender Americans face psychiatric issues and that society needs stronger mental health interventions. He continues by saying, "We have to treat these people. We have to get them off the streets, and we have to get them off the internet," calling transgender identity a "virus" and a "cancer" spreading across the country.

Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer.

www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...

At this point, if you’re a journalist at the Washington Post who *hasn’t* been forced out by the new idiots in charge, you should probably take a hard look at your work to see what you’re doing wrong

The media made a bad situation even worse At a time when serious people are calling for calm and reconciliation, the media’s failure to follow the most basic rules of good journalism made America less safe.

Great analysis on how the media took a bad situation and made it worse — and threw trans people under the bus — by @newsjennifer.bsky.social.

eapmstyleguide.org/9-14-2025-me...

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart

Gift article. Venezuelan speedboat not the 1st but apparently the 3rd time Trump's reckless military actions resulted in failed missions and civilian deaths.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Joe Rogan anoints a new progressive star – can James Talarico triumph in Texas? The state house member seemed like an unlikely aspirant for the US Senate battle, but an appearance on Rogan sparked the question: can he turn Texas blue?

“You need to run for president”- Joe Rogan anoints new progressive superstar. My interview with @jamestalarico.bsky.social in @guardian

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

In a powerful first-person account, Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up for the first time about her shocking arrest and 45 days in an ICE detention center.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

My interview with author @tim-weiner.bsky.social is doing numbers on @theguardian.com! Can we make it to three?!

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

ok, red on positive…

I wrote a My Favorite Murder spec script

Is it OK to support a media entity that you know is a malign influence on society when you know many people who work there who are awesome and doing good stuff

Epstein is to MAGA what Gaza was to the Harris campaign, i.e. unmistakable evidence of complete moral bankruptcy.

This is salient and we need to work with it !

I think Epstein is to MAGA what Gaza was to the Harris campaign, i.e. unmistakable evidence of complete moral bankruptcy.

CIA historian Tim Weiner: ‘Trump has put national security in the hands of crackpots and fools’ The longtime chronicler of the spy agency on his Legacy of Ashes follow-up and what keeps him up at night

Legacy of Ashes author @tim-weiner.bsky.social has never been a big defender of the CIA. But in a recent interview about his new book, The Mission, he expressed genuine horror at Trump’s anti-Langley revenge crusade.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

She deserves it (derogatory)

The U.N. Expert on Palestine Who Captured the World’s Attention AIPAC ​h​ates her. Social media loves her. Amid a bitter​ war, Francesca Albanese became an unlikely star.

@aarongell.bsky.social profiled Francesca Albanese for us back in February

newrepublic.com/article/1914...

Are we the baddies but with a mask.

South Georgia library manager fired for trans-inclusive display The branch manager at the Pierce County Library was fired after displaying a trans-inclusive children's book in a public display.

Lavonnia Moore, the librarian fired for including one of my books on a display after a child requested it, sounds incredible and what happened to her should be a crime. roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/07/05/l...

Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

By Anas Baba

the only human thing they have done

It's not hard to figure out what the journal stands for, but they mostly stick it in the opinion pages