She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

9/13/26 Chicagoland ICE activity update: rapid responders report an abduction in the South Loop this morning and another (photo-corroborated) in the far southwest community of Country Club Hills. Further activity reported today in the suburbs of Bensenville and Addison.

Look at this paltry sum of money, that they hold over these kids' heads. Phony debt accrued at made up rates. It's extraordinarily generous and it should shame the rest of us.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4d ago

30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"

Yusra, the super genius who is working with fellow PhD students to turn this into real research, and I are very excited to talk to other places, foundations, and governments, about how funding rent in a time of crisis is one of the most impactful investments you can make

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · 2d ago

Program's up! 30+ teams share evidence abt impacts on health, educ, & econ + community response. Great folks @ziibiing.com @ottergoose.net @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @chrisuggen.bsky.social @casemcnich.bsky.social @ngraetz.bsky.social @craigstetter.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Someone should tell the Attorney General. Which is easy to do, because he’s there, speaking at the convention.

Jeff Lazarus@jlazarus.bsky.social · 4d ago

18 U.S.C. § 597 Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Trump: "If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate...I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000."

‘Springfield is under siege right now.’ ICE agents in Ohio have detained 2 Haitian pastors. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/31/s...

'Springfield is under siege right now.' ICE agents in Ohio have detained 2 Haitian pastors. • Ohio Capital Journal

More than 40 Haitians in Springfield have been detained by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement after President Donald Trump revoked their legal status earlier this summer.

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Airlines are offending people charging for shit like bag check when they could be rolling in it by offering a service where the racists and homophobes all get duct taped live

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · last wk.

😭😭😭

brb writing a screenplay for a heist movie where a crime syndicate installs a chaotic U.S. president to stoke geopolitical instability, prompting foreign countries to pull their gold reserves from the NY Fed, and then steals the gold en route www.ft.com/content/1749...

Dutch central bank moves gold bars out of New York over ‘geopolitical unrest’

DNB prefers London over the US city, pointing to better ‘tradeability’ of bullion

ft.com

So this all happened yesterday

That *Rep. Jim Clyburn* is announcing his support for SCOTUS expansion is huge.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Rep. James Clyburn says he supports expanding the Supreme Court: "13 is a pretty good number. A baker's dozen would be a good number to have on the Court."

So Christina Hendricks living her best goth/shoegaze life by going to Glasgow to see the Cure/Mogwai/Slowdive and hang out with Rachel Goswell is a perfect boost to my spirits, really. www.instagram.com/p/DcqYzCzDigx/

amazing stuff

Emily Gorcenski@emily.gorcen.ski · 2w ago

Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields concert raising $20m for abortion care nonprofits (among others) while putting on an absolute banger of a show should be getting more play than it is in the millennial retirement home that is Bluesky

Very lovely. And poignant and thought-provoking.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2w ago

"What could be more remarkable, more humanly admirable, than the impulse to create a world of happiness for the people you love most to do so without any workable model to draw on, any inherited template for how that would work +how it would be done?" always lovely pete defector.com/dolly-joseph...

Oak Park removed all of our Flock cameras a year ago. This might be the first time Greg Abbott and I have ever agreed on something.

Gov. Abbott blocks funding in Texas for Flock cameras as bipartisan fury brews

The automated license plate readers aren’t popular with the public. Politicians are catching on.

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and on the saturday after we go back to school, we spend a mere two hours doing a task that topped the summer's to do list and never was touched

KNOXVILLE… #RIPDolly ♥️ From WBIR: www.instagram.com/reel/Dceq2t-...

First in her family to graduate high school. Artist, performer, businesswoman and philanthropist, all resolutely on her own terms and in the face of sexism. Writer of numerous legitimately great songs. RIP. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’

With an album featuring two dozen rock icons, Dolly Parton is hitting new highs. She discusses politics, business – and why she has always worn and done exactly what she wants

theguardian.com

ICE is once again busy in Chicagoland this morning; rapid responders report two detainments in Aurora and a Chicago Public Schools staffer stopped but not taken on Chicago's SW side (it's the 2nd day of school for CPS). Video shared online shows another arrest on Garfield & Hermitage in Chicago.

BlueCollarJazz@domguan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Dozens of community members came to McKinley Park, Chicago yesterday to protest and document an ICE car that had been disabled during a detainment on I-55. The incident lasted almost four hours, as agents appeared to struggle getting a tow, including one scene where a truck arrived and quickly left.

Really....interesting...remarks from Rahm in the comprehensive and informative @newrepublic.com piece on bipartisan opposition to school voucher programs and support for public schools as an underappreciated factor in recent state/local red-to-blue flips. newrepublic.com/article/2137...

so whoever leaked this to the Times wants us to know Kushner sees Jeffries as a mark…

Earlier in the day, a vehicle parked amongst ICE vehicle with a person wearing a mask and tactical belt sat watching protesters. Broadview police pulled up to the car and started talking with the individual inside.

Another way to look at this is that there's no extra profit to be made by being openly bigoted.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3w ago

Some coverage in CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/dei-pol...

There is a broad and durable political coalition in Canada to stand up to Trump. The political coalition for hammering Canada with tariffs in the US is basically confined to a few Twitter posters.

Untitled by Carla Accardi, 1965 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137171

Chief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay In the ballroom case—which effectively allows Trump to keep doing what he’s doing while the full Court decides whether to let him keep working indefinitely while the case moves forward (which it probably will, given this intervention).

Mega "bless your heart" energy here (pun acknowledged)

James Grimmelmann@jtlg.bsky.social · 3w ago

Your typcal demand letter is agressively dismissive, but I'd describe this one more as "serenely implacable." It's a fascinating rhetorical study. flaccb.org/documents/20... (Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, to Florida AG Uthmeyer, re: Catholic-school vaccination requirements.)

Walking the dog and saw tons of kids walking/biking towards our middle school. Brierly feared we missed 1st day before remembering that there is a 6th grade orientaiton. There was a pack of girls on bikes blasting Le Tigre's "Deceptacon". The future is bright! 😮😍

Besides wasting obscene amounts of money, the cost of the Iran war is borne by people like Tahereh Sarbaz, who lost eight members of her family, including two of her children and five grandchildren, one of whom was a newborn. theintercept.com/2026/08/18/i...

The Short Life of a Newborn During the Iran War

“What crime had my 20-day-old grandchild committed?”

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