Jim Naughton
@jimnaughton.bsky.social
Formerly: Episcopal comms guy, NYT Sports, WaPo Style, Daily Orange. Currently, thrilled about my new granddaughter, trying to write something. He/him
Needing to have a dashcam constantly running to protect yourself from armed vigilantes is a thing that often happens in authoritarian regimes. Note that, in this encounter, they threatened to execute or abduct her until she told them she had a dashcam that proved she did nothing wrong.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
As part of their inquiry, the documents show, homeland security officials. . . crossing the line that has traditionally stood between investigating criminal activity and political dissent. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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"Last year, Trump tried to send kids alone to Guatemala in middle of the night, before judges halted him. But if there are no lawyers present, such eleventh hour rescues become impossible. That appears to be the point of the let’s-eliminate-the-competent-lawyers scheme." — @anatosaurus.bsky.social
Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Look, The New York Times can't report on *everything* Yes, yes, this Republican congressman urged a military-backed coup to overthrow an election. But did you know that a gubernatorial candidate said she didn't like Thanksgiving? You can't cover it all. It's all about priorities, people.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 9h agoRep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵
Insane that AOC is being quoted as saying "Woke 1 was crazy" when this is what she actually said. youtu.be/SFwAnMLBSOw?...
The big push by RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, & Donald Trump to “separate” out the MMR vaccine—a push that will cost children’s lives—is a pathetic play to their MAHA base It’s not practical or feasible any time soon (you can’t get single disease shots in the US) www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Trump’s goal to split MMR vaccine could take a decade, experts say
President Donald Trump's order directing Americans to receive separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines faces an immediate obstacle: none of the individual shots are licensed in the United States ...
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The surprise behavior of people trying to get from Morocco to Spain last week? Social Media driven. No one is taking responsibility. Amoral corporations have become the Principalities and Powers that St. Paul warned us about.
How Social Media Spurred a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco
A wave of disinformation online contributed to a surge of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta who were trying to reach Europe, resulting in about 90 deaths.
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Tell me you're a bigot who's unfamiliar with the work of Bugs Bunny without telling me you're a bigot who's unfamiliar with the work of Bugs Bunny
Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 15h agoAh yes, the two genders: Bugs and Women
It is stunning how meek the WH press corps response has been to every aspect of this unprecedented AF1 scandal including being used as decoys. decoys! @vermontgmg.bsky.social is appropriately screaming from the rooftops about it in this excellent piece filled with facts & context:
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...
Dude woke up one day and became one of history's worst monsters by blowing up the greatest permanent humanitarian aid institution ever to exist.
Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 2d agoNew estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
90% of your hatred of the press is just White House correspondents
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 19h agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.Is this just business as usual in politics? No. Approval rates of federal disaster aid requests were about the same regardless of the state and did not vary much with the party of the President. This graph powerfully conveys the scale of the partisan discrimination now.
Harriet Walter is such a delight. Made my night to see her on Ted Lasso. 
Trump is simply stealing tax money to build himself a golden palace
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · yesterday$900 million would cover a year of food assistance for 400,000 people wapo.st/4xe1GJT
I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
Odd, how the press treats a 0.42% win as an indicator of a political tidal wave.
Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · yesterdayAxios and NYT headlines have more aggressive anti-socialist framing than the WSJ but all point to the same narrative.
A Stunning Loss In Wisconsin Shows The Limits Of Conventional Polling Methods In An Era Of Smartphones And Their Failure To Be Replaced By Betting Markets Or Plausibly Predictive Behavioral Traces Man That Sounds Dull And Destined For Some Obscure Social Science Journal Can We Just Say “The Left”
And the stunning victory of the progressive in Minnesota shows what exactly? Rarely has @nytimes.com owned its own hackery so prominently.
In documenting the process, AOC is defying the right’s pronatalist narratives about motherhood and women’s careers
‘Bold and ethical’: doctors on AOC’s egg-freezing journey - and Maga’s criticisms of it
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UPDATE: Our latest weekly update puts us at more than 20,000 federal court rulings in ICE detention cases. The tally: -17,300 against the administration -2,700 in favor of the administration Explore the data, sorting by district/judge/result, etc. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 2d agoVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
New in PN: Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor "The episode highlights the grossly dysfunctional relationship between POTUS & the media, which puts up with ever-escalating abuses as the price of access, & routinely normalizes Trump’s erratic & even criminal behavior."
Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor
Steepest of learning curves.
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breaking: sometimes the left wins and sometimes the centrists wins: stunning new evidence that voters use more than one criterion to judge candidates
Hong’s Defeat in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Progressive Movement
Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.
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They left Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the decoy plane that was in danger of getting shot down. But they made sure to rescue the lady who does the 3 am posts that show Trump and Jesus storming Iwo Jima together
Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · yesterdaySCOOP: People on the airport catering truck used to secretly move President Trump off an Air Force One 747 in Turkey included: - Dan Scavino - Walt Nauta - Natalie Harp No Cabinet-level officials were on that truck. wapo.st/3S47ztG
The first law of American politics is that pundits will draw sweeping conclusions from a single, narrowly decided result. A race decided by less than 0.5 percent of votes cast: had it gone the other direction, the headlines would be about the unstoppable force of progressive candidates.
When you have an agenda and when you don’t:
Just think about this, Maga. During Covid, he kept having rallies. People at his rallies died of covid. He sent a mob to attack the Congress and hang Mike Pence. He started a war for no reason. Now, he used his staff and the Press Corp as bait. You mean nothing to him. You are expendable.
A congressman said forcing Haitian refugees to return to the violence-ravaged country will help it. A humanitarian worker in Haiti said it will make a dire situation worse, pointing to rape, kidnapping and violence being used to terrorize those who return ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/11/n...
'Not a safe place.' Aid worker describes conditions in Haiti as Ohioans are forced to return • Ohio Capital Journal
A congressman said last month that forcing tens of thousands of Haitians to return to the violence-ravaged country will actually help it. But a humanitarian worker on the ground in the Haiti's…
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