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I'll be honest: I enjoy reading articles about how unqualified ideologues selected for their loyalty to an authoritarian president are suffering at their jobs.

Even though it's tiring, I think it's essential to consistently point out that this is illegal.

I have a lot of issues with Gavin Newsom but he is calling out Trump in a way other major leaders aren’t and if he causes Trump to have a stroke I will buy him a latte

What happened yesterday was part of a much bigger effort to try and silence anyone who dares to question what the Trump administration is doing.  But we will not be intimidated and we will not be deterred. We must hold this administration accountable.

History will not be kind to Speaker Johnson. Nor should it be.

Notably Ramos was treated pretty much exactly like Padilla at a Trump press conference during his first campaign

Fuck yeah! Congratulations to the Vox Union!

tests like this are sort of worst case for camera-based systems because those systems are trained on footage of real people and that dummy neither looks nor moves much like an actual person HOWEVER--and this is FUCKING KEY--that's irrelevant if you have REDUNDANT SENSOR SUITES INCLUDING LIDAR

Sourcing the dispute to Padilla even when the video proves Padilla is right is an explicit endorsement of the White House's credibility by a news organization

A new podcast from the New York Times left out patient stories that could have best illuminated its topic, those of trans youth but also of detransitioners, argues @evanurquhart.bsky.social. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

NEWS E. Jean Carroll wins another round against Trump, as a federal appeals court declines to reconsider an appeal of the $5 million verdict en banc. Two judges of the 13-strong bench dissent. Both Trump appointees. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

But then they couldn't insinuate we're the crazy ones.

Like Secret Service agents, the median voter also does not recognize Alex Padilla, so the tackling and cuffing of a US senator may not be the political winner Democrats think it is. by Matthew Yglesias

Seems important: "FBI ‘Escorted’ Him To Trump DHS Presser They Claim He Crashed" Padilla says he "didn’t “barge” into the presser, he was signed in and escorted, and was listening in the room for 10 minutes before he tried to ask a question" www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...

My 3 year-old was reading the Times when he turned to me, gravely, and asked: "Daddy, why did the senator ask mean questions to the nice plastic surgery lady?" And when I told him "because that lady pledged to liberate LA from socialists," he started crying.

Less than 5 months in: ☑️Arrested a judge ☑️Arrested a Democratic mayor ☑️Arrested a Democratic Congressperson ☑️Detained a Democratic Senator ☑️Threatening to arrest a Democratic Governor ☑️Investigating other political enemies ☑️Deploying Marines domestically They are not hiding their intentions.

Cool!

Reached ZERO trade deals. Ended/stopped ZERO wars. Militarized troops AGAINST citizens.

Not that it even matters terribly. But one of their claims was that he had no identifying lapel of whatever. But I just noticed in the photo on my article he’s literally wearing a US senate shirt.

This is so important it hurts. This is the tiny area of a massive sprawling city that Trump is attacking and the entire propaganda machine is churning to make us believe more is happening. Don’t fall for the lies.

This is amazing!

We see regularly scheduled articles about why Bluesky is bad. But what about the obvious point that Twitter is Elon's Machine for Fascism and it's breaking reporters' brains? I decided to write it. Reporters need to get off Elon's Twitter

So there is a profile of me in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

“.. Levin said organizers intentionally avoided Washington so Trump couldn’t use the protest as justification to crack down on demonstrators .. “.. ‘We didn’t want to play into his hands,’ he said. ‘We’re going to be in 2,000 communities all across the country.’” www.wsj.com/us-news/no-k...

🚨New: “Trump Org Keeps Bringing In Foreign Workers To Staff Its Clubs And Winery” It’s sought to import 1,880 foreign workers since 2008, per Labor Dept. records—including 31 farm workers for its vineyard this year. me, for @forbes.com 1/

Just released this free post. Its clear after statements by Rubio and Hegseth over the last few days that Putin has won. The US government is now operating under his almost total reflexive control. Trump has made the Russian narrative the US mindset. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Guess who was right in the thick of the assault on @padilla.senate.gov? Corey Lewandowski. (He may have been the guy instructing that there's no recording at a press conference and seems to have realized how badly they fucked up.)

I'm gonna be in Jersey tomorrow, so I'm going to this. See you there, Newark!

A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.

That’s…not the way this works

You have to add up all the red bars and stack them on top of each other to pay for the green bar.

This is one of the deescalation tactics @righttobe.bsky.social talks about in their bystander intervention training! They've got a free online session coming up - sign up here! Essential for 2025. righttobe.org/events/bysta...

I’m sure Noem’s husband has nothing to worry about with Corey and Kristi doing road trips together.

For everyone who was sad to miss it, the recording of the Data & Society event about THE AI CON (me and @alexhanna.bsky.social) and EMPIRE OF AI (@karenhao.bsky.social) moderated by @tamigraph.bsky.social is now online! datasociety.net/events/chall...

Have to drive a wedge between Trump and Miller

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Look at Trump’s Truth Social post. Consider his call with Newsom. He is incoherent, insane. Failure of corporate press to say that every day as he is taking us down the road to a police state is the gravest journalistic malpractice in American history. They will never redeem themselves.

every time I have said this on here I have had people [usually the same ones who cite Chenoweth's 3.5% statistic (which she points out isn't to be interpreted in the way many people interpret it)] screaming that this isn't true. It isn't true 2 them because it doesn't FEEL like people are protesting

Solidarity with the Vox Media Union and congratulations to the Bargaining Committee and everyone they represented at the table!!!

Legendary activist Cleve Jones, who was close to late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, has been among advocates speaking out in Andry’s defense, saying his “situation brings home to me something about the brutality and horror of what we are facing.” More👇🏽 #FreeAndry

Don't miss this one (or any of them, really). About the outrageous assault and cuffing of Sen Padilla and the use of NG and military across the country.

We love to say things like "cop excellence" around her, but folks,

L.A. TACO has confirmed that ICE has detained two taqueros at Jason’s Tacos , a taco truck specializing in al pastor located on Whittier Boulevard and Bradshawe Street in East Los Angeles. @theglutster.bsky.social reporting for L.A. TACO

NPR, PBS give back far more than they receive in nuggets of education, journalism, enrichment, ideas, and PUBLIC GOOD. They are a well on which the entire world can draw, for free. Our tax investment is, quite literally, a drop in the bucket. A molecule of a drop. www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g...