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At the Jones Beach Outlaw Music Festival, Lucinda Williams dedicates her song “You Can’t Rule Me” to the so-called King of America. Wonder who she means?

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

Recently ICE agents appeared on a Little League field in Manhattan. Coach Youman Wilder told a group of kids who were being interrogated to get behind him and said to the officers, “You don’t have more rights than they do.”

Just so people understand, if a batter hits a ball to the outfield, there's nothing we can do. We don't have the technology to put baseball players in the outfield.

Check out this article in which @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social and I discuss the cowardly cancellation of @colbertlateshow.bsky.social and share how our protesting is even more important as a result.

We said release the files not the accomplices, idiot.

Academic with history of incendiary remarks to lead US Institute of Peace Darren Beattie once said on X that “competent white men must be in charge.”

Are you fucking kidding me. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

The Scots giving our President the warm welcome he deserves.

A D.O.J. Whistleblower Speaks Out

Longtime DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni was willing to argue on behalf of the administration, until they ordered him to lie. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/p...

Mentions of WSJ’s Epstein story on:

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@fordfoundation.org I just had the privilege of hearing your outgoing Pres. @DarrenCWalker interviewed by @charlesmblow.bsky.social about his upcoming book The Idea of America. So many great stories, insights and inspiration. Please post the video!!!

@filmmakerjulie.bsky.social brings the SCIENCE!!

The story could have/should have been spiked when they got Mamdani’s explanation.

It’s more galling given the Times’ lackluster reporting on NYC news. Don’t they have something better to do?

Spot on. It’s happening right now…this is how it starts.

"I struggled mightily with the impact on the most vulnerable in this country when you look to the Medicaid and the SNAP provisions," she said. "We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination," she added. "My hope is that the House is going to look at this and recognize that we're not there yet."

To the surprise of no one, except possibly a senator from Alaska, the House of Representatives did not send the budget bill back with improvements

Sounds about right to me!

Re CNN broadcast tonight. Bret Stephens may be a free thinker, as he says, but why is he trotting out old tropes about the biased liberal media when alarm bells are going off in our democracy as journalism is under attack.

I hear your name in certain circles
And it always makes me smile
I spend my time
Thinking about you
And it's driving me wild

And it's my heart that's breakin
Down this long distance line tonight

I ain't missing you at all
Since you've been gone

I ain't missing you
No matter what my friends say

What a night on @cnn.com: broadcast of Good Night, and Good Luck about Edward R Murrow and the CBS journalists who helped turned the tide on McCarthyism 70 years ago, followed by stunning interview with CBS’s Scott Pelley standing up today…

The Hungarian government is about to pass a law that will allow it to destroy the tiny online outlets that represent the last vestiges of independent Hungarian press

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

A grim story about PBS demanding edits to a documentary about Art Spiegelman, insisting the creators remove a clip in which Spiegelman described the one time he drew Trump: www.documentary.org/online-featu...

As the Republican Congress prepares to defund Planned Parenthood, I am posting this favorite picture of me and my Mom, a lifelong Republican and staunch supporter of reproductive rights. Mom, who would have turned 100 on Monday, is still with me on this: #IFightForPP Call your Congressperson!

Head of CBS News Is Forced Out Amid Tensions With Trump

Disgusting to see the bosses of CBS News prepare to bend the knee. Inspiring to see resistance. This is not over.

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Opinion | Trump Is Destroying a Core American Value. The World Will Notice. His overhaul of the State Department’s human rights bureau will make the United States weaker.

There are consequences for making human rights a dirty word. @michaelposner.bsky.social

An Afrikaner Refugee Has Thoughts About the Jews The Trump administration is clear: Antisemitism from brown people will not be tolerated.

In case you were wondering if the administration really cares about Antisemitism, about who they are welcoming with open arms…

Note the reference in the Pulitzer designation to her "fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years"

My Time on 60 Minutes and Why I Refuse To Stay Silent From Marc | From the opening words of Judge Beryl Howell’s opinion to the 60 Minutes closing credits, this has been an emotional weekend for me personally.

So many of you wrote to me about my appearance on 60 Minutes and offered such kind words of support. Thank you.🙏

I hope you read this, consider how you can speak out as well, and share with others. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-t...