Joan McCarter

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Today, we are announcing a huge new project in development: The Dark Money Illuminator. You can search any nonprofit to see: - Funders - Directors and officers - Groups it’s connected to You can also explore/search nonprofits by assets. And it’s going to be FREE! Donate to support this project

At least 15 states use Medicaid state directed payments to support nursing home services. New federal limits could reduce such payments, with potential effects on nursing homes and residents — about two-thirds of whom rely on Medicaid as their primary payer: https://on.kff.org/4k1E7Qw

Its 1 year since hundreds of ICE agents stormed a Sunday family horse race in Wilder, Idaho, zip tied kids, terrorized families. We are gathering in power today. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/10/i...

Trump is throwing Putin a lifeline and setting obstacles in Zelenskyy’s path. Why now, right before the election, even though this move is deeply unpopular even with Republicans? Because right now, Putin is in trouble. …

I guess it's as good a time as any to announce the new moderation list I have: "Silence, robot", for bots, LLMs, and agents that speak to you without all parties who will receive the notification having solicited the speech: bsky.app/profile/raha...

📢📢📢 Join us as we march for immigrant justice: 📅 Sunday at 1 p.m. 📍 Ann Morrison Park

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

I don’t understand why the NY Times let me rant against the Times on its own website. Healy seems like a sincere person, and I give him credit for making it happen. But the NY Times needs to stop pretending this is some brief detour in American politics when, in fact, a dictatorship is descending.

Once you make the category distinction between voter rolls and actual ballots already cast or soon to be cast, the seriousness of the threat from the federal government becomes a lot more obvious.

Bad news: I have found editors who share my fascination with the ordinary. These guys foolishly let me try to find the answer to the question, "What the hell is Dekton? And why are the people who make my induction cooktop trying to force me to buy it?"

Credit to Press Herald for connecting the dots among Susan Collins campaign, her super PAC and her fundraising consultant -- which share in common that they were looped in on efforts to collude with a felon/donor to obtain illegal donations. Team Collins has no real response to this. #MEpolitics

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

(Also, fascists tend to spend huge amounts of time obsessing over their public image so poking them with the slightest bit of goofiness, eg couch fornication, will often cause them to crash out and spend weeks trying to fix _that_ instead of doing new evils. Which is also fun to watch.)

So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.

How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.

More evidence that Trump may attempt to disrupt and disqualify the upcoming midterm election, if, as predicted by pollsters, the GOP loses control of Congress... newrepublic.com/post/216383/...

Loved seeing a video on the WSJ website about Idaho, and loved even more that it featured an interview with our very own Idaho Capital Sun editor, Christina Lords! They know who they should be talking to.

Holy shit.

Hey look, we did a thing! Brandi and Suzanne and Jen are AMAZING. It was such an honor to be a part of this. www.inlander.com/news/idaho-s... #abortion #abortionishealthcare #voteyesonprop1 #idpol

What can I tell you? You’ve got to try. But we know from recent history that Republicans have resisted the effort to reign in the (Republican) presidency post-Watergate for 50 years. This is their theory of governance and they will not give it up.

TFW there is a perfectly correct panagram right there and the app doesn't accept it and you can't see any other words because IT'S RIGHT THERE.

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

Cough…John Roberts did this…cough

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

More and more people are saying it, in veteran progressive operative circles: none of us know who Evan Barker is.

There is no Republican "split" with Trump. It's catnip for access media, but the desperate ploy to align with the supermajority of voters who can't stand the president is tissue-thin. The same people saying the Iran war needs to end voted yesterday to keep it going. #Realtalk here.

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

For the uninitiated: This is a _huge_ problem with LLMs and with Google's push to reduce every search to a single LLM answer: The answers are ridiculously hackable. You don't need to be a nationstate, companies and individuals can do it to.

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

Hunter Lazzaro gives the Arch de Trump a name more appropriate to its role as sniper nest and drone launcher. www.unchartedblue.com/donald-wants...

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

Critical information on Prop 1. These deaths are preventable. If a woman wants to die for her pregnancy, it should be her decision alone, not the legislature's. #Idaho

Well, shit.

Did they ask respondents if they had had COVID? Cuz there are millions of us out here with that pesky virus hanging around, sapping us every day.

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

The fact that Bezos needs to piss and also the fact that he commands an army of hundreds of thousands of workers who are prohibited from pissing really supports my hypothesis that billionaires don't really believe that other people are *real*.

Today, we announced positive results from our Phase 2 signal finding ADDRESS-LC trial evalulating bezisterim for the treatment of neurological symptoms associated with #LongCOVID. Read: investors.bioviepharma.com/news/news-de...

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

And then it was when the unhappy king (Whose wrongs in us God pardon!) did set forth Upon his Irish expedition

If you are wondering what kind of BS the USPS could pull to stop ballots (maybe especially from Democratic counties) from being mailed, if the Supreme Court allows the rule to go into effect for 2026, get out your microscopes....

Trump's massive surveillance state and attacks on our civil liberties wouldn't have been possible without the PATRIOT Act. Watch this prescient warning from Russ Feingold, the only Senator to vote against its passage after 9/11.

Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...