Scott Johnson

Letter: Tribal nations finally had a seat at the table, and with the stroke of his Sharpie, Trump did away with years of work and promises.

Medical testing giant Quest Diagnostics said it's been hit by a cyberattack & has paused its Quanum LSM system that some of its customers use for placing tests & looking up results. In an SEC filing, the company said it believes hackers "accessed certain patient records." www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...

How Imaginary Are The California ‘Non-Citizen Voters’? Pretty Imaginary! www.wonkette.com/p/how-imagin... by @brooklynmarie.bsky.social

Already with this 🙄

Also, the VP suggests maybe the Texas Senate candidate is a pedo. No evidence, and maybe not a strong card for the Epstein administration to play. bsky.app/profile/atru...

of all the people who should not want to play this particular game, jd vance is at the top of the list

I’m sorry, did a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate just ‘Won’t somebody think of the neo-Nazis?’ during a live TV debate?

A masked man seen on camera stealing trays of mail from the postal truck in Sacramento, CA. There is a 100K reward if you know who he is. #Pinks

Zacharia is on the board of White Rose Resistance, an extremist abortion “abolitionist” organization that wants to prosecute people who have abortions for homicide:

[Screaming in S&S author pubbed in 2024]

GIL SCOTT-HERON in 1982 showing the side of Washington D.C. that tourists never got to see and politicians tried to imagine didn’t exist.

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit

Americans shouldn’t count on Moscow to tell the truth about the apparent lab accident in Russia anytime soon, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...

Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.

Incredible reporting by @tinavasquez.bsky.social here. A story about how the people who put food on American tables are denied water or even the ability to carry it with them or meaningfully ask for it to be provided, lest they lose their jobs working in oppressive heat.

DraftKings has argued that its ‘responsible gaming’ system provides adequate safeguards to protect customers from spiraling out of control. So I decided to find out: If I bet like a compulsive gambler, would DraftKings stop me? by Jake Pearson

Join the No Kings coalition for a nationwide election protection training to level up your election defense skills. We will focus on the role of sustained mobilization and rapid response work in our movement.

New @jamestalarico.bsky.social ad just dropped.

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb

The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?

A combined 45 Biden administration alums now work at either OpenAI, Anthropic, or Meta.

If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Russia kills their leaders, steals their land, abducts their children, erases their history and culture, and forces them all to be loyal to their oppressor.

I think this shows how monumentally stupid JD Vance is, that he walked right into that. Anyone with any clue could have seen that set-up a mile away.

ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:

FRANKLIN— “Outrage brewing in Williamson County over the Factory hosting a conference feat. Christian Nationalist speakers… Fight Laugh Feast to discuss what organizers call their “Christian Crusade Holy War” Oct. 1-3 (Incl. Hegseth’s pastor Doug Wilson)

. MAGA doesn’t care either .

 "There is always a box, and our job is twofold. First, we don't let anyone be put inside the box, and second, we destroy the box."

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

A merciless Murphy revealed that he and co-creators Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan have "just finished" a script for a Glee revival project. www.avclub.com/ryan-murphy-...

I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

1/ Neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe with banner that reads “Racism Works” City Hall Springfield, OH September 26, 2026 This group was responsible for amplifying the lies about Haitian migrants. Here’s what I told military.com Sept 2024 ⬇️

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"

if Trump truly isn't planning to illegally stay in office past 2029, what explains the US government paying for these Trump campaign ads to run on TV? they're just wasting taxpayer dollars to soothe his ego?

I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.

A week late, but this is fall weather music youtu.be/GtLQi1wbVok?...

Of course it was 6-3. People are going to have to vote in numbers too big to challenge. That's just how it is, unless states can block this somehow.

A new dinosaur, Kayrasaurus changliensis, has been described from Chinese fossils. This early therizinosaur had tiny teeth, a long neck, and big claws, providing new information about this unusual group's evolution! 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)

Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro saying that the AI trade has been “dead money” for three months, and that it’s inflationary, meaning (as I’ve discussed multiple times) that the more debt they raise the more expensive debt becomes and the more they build data centers the more expensive it gets

Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.