Joan Walsh

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

“Slurs Filled a Chat” as if by magic! Who can say how those slurs teleported into that chat! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

@joanwalsh.bsky.social
Happy 7-year anniversary of the Belafonte taping. Thanks always.
NYT, Mar. 5, 2019, 6 pm.

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

The FDA webpage had a stark warning: Some purported autism “cures” or treatments, including chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk, are dangerous and make misleading claims.

Now, under RFK Jr.’s leadership, that advisory is gone.

Keep saying this: @people.com understand the assignment when it comes to headlines + clarity.

Give them their props!

It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”

Sending a message back to 2015 would be something huh.

Hey guys, if you elect this washed-up reality tv star then ten years later People,com will end up leading the resistance against his fascist dictatorship.

Wut?

He exchanged text messages about the stench of Black people. Now he's running for a U.S. House seat in Georgia to support Trump. This morning,I woke up to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about Ryan Millsap's GOP bid for an open U.S. House seat. I covered his racist and antisemitic text exchanges in a 2024 investigation.

In 2024, I investigated a powerful film studio/real estate executive and his racist, antisemitic communications.

He exchanged messages about the stench of Black people.

Now he’s running for Congress in Georgia to support Trump. I wrote about it here: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

"Kristi [Noem] did a great job of setting us up for success," said Pete Hegseth.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.

Eager to see Senator Wyden seated on the Renee Good and Alex Pretti Truth Commission.

Firewater?

Update: Was not, in fact, relevant to the worthless Republicans and Jared Goldens in the House.

So adorable...

My feelings of schadenfreude are fathoms-deep and wide for the consequences she’s earned, and for her apparent nonunderstanding that she was only an object to be used, used up, and discarded at the wave of the malignant narcissist mob boss’s tiny mottled hand.

Kind of what I wrote (always happy to line up with Tom): www.thenation.com/article/poli...

red card for Messi in selling out every Inter Miami fan who has to stay inside for fear of being disappeared by Trump's gestapo

Donate to Mni Owe Sni Sovereign Camp Community Fund, organized by Zachary White My name is Zachary White. I am an Anishinaabe father and community organizer b… Zachary White needs your support for Mni Owe Sni Sovereign Camp Community Fund

This is the official gofundme if anyone is interested in supporting the prayer camp at Mni Owe Sni: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

How big is Eggsy now, may I ask? Only with admiration and love of course...

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

new portrait just dropped

Celebrate Kristi Noem’s Firing. But Keep Protesting ICE. Finally, someone in the administration is paying for their cruelty and incompetence.

Finally, justice for little Cricket! I know, Mullen will likely be just as bad, but to my knowledge, he never shot his own puppy: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

In the Shadow of Fear, a Moment of Peace An unexpected encounter near the federal building DHS has been using near Minneapolis.

I missed this beautiful Native camp adjacent to the cruel Whipple Building when I was in Minneapolis last week! So moving. www.thebulwark.com/p/in-the-sha...

god help me and fuck Chuck Schumer, but it's genuinely bullshit that Schumer is the key image here. it was a party line vote, with Schumer voting against. only Dem that broke ranks was Fetterman, of course.

[WARNING: This is a bit graphic.]

A Marine Corps veteran protesting Trump’s War on Iran had his arm broken by Capitol Police and GOP Senator Tim Sheehy. It appears to be a compound fracture.

In ominous sign, Texas Republicans changed voting rules, then blocked efforts to protect voters “We can’t let a small group of conspiracy theorists set the rules for Texas voters anymore."

Texans in two counties struggled to find their polling locations for primary voting Tuesday after a GOP-driven change. The secretary of state’s office failed to provide accurate information. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The DOJ has been taking down Epstein files. Here's what remains. The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released.

The Trump DOJ has been taking down Epstein files.

The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released, according to a CBS analysis — and the number continues to fluctuate.

For best use of the word "wokeness" in a caption, the award goes to @atrupar.com 🏆

Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."