“In the work of nonviolent direct action, the job is to demonstrate the absolute ridiculousness of the aggressors’ position. Show how silly and unconscionable it is and also show what love and self-respect can do. Love and self-respect are attractive. Group courage is contagious.”
The ENTIRE #TrumpPresidency is an #obfuscation:
#BRICS & #Murica have been running an undeclared #war against
✅ #Democracy
✅ #HumanRights
✅ #RuleOfLaw
#SurveillanceBro #Technocrats, #oligarchs & #BRICSnations #tactics aren’t #theoretical:
🌏 #Project2025 is a #GLOBAL 🌎 #strategy 🌍
A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration, which is still under control by DOGE, denied that a former employee stole data on U.S. citizens. The spokesperson said the Washington Post was “desperate for clicks and eager to publish fake news to scare seniors.” The inspector general’s office; which is independent from the Trump administration, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Thank you @lorenzofb.bsky.social for accurately reporting that the Social Security Administration is *still* under the control of DOGE. This information is needed for the story to make sense.
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Proud of my Cato Institute colleague David Bier who stood his ground at a hearing today and talked back to bloviating Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana). David responds to the clip and furnishes receipts. @cato.org
So Russia is helping Iran target American troops and we’re going to ease Putin oil sanctions under the guise of rising gas prices we created?
Same as it ever was.
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Is trump really helping Iran to target Americans by following Putin’s orders????
"Trump is engaged in a series of cons to try to distract from the reality about his illegal invasion of Iran...but the most substantive thing he’s considering...is to reward Vladimir Putin for potentially helping to kill Benjamin Pennington." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/03/10/t...
Just because you can persuade people to camp on a farm in Manchester, TN to listen to live music in the sun for four days doesn’t mean you should. pitchfork.com/thepitch/803...
#OperationEpsteinFury #TrumpHatesAmerica #EpsteinElite #PamBondiSaintOfPedophiles #MagaEndorsePedophilia #TrumpIsAPedophile #ReleaseAllUnredactedEpsteinFiles #NameThem #JailThem #PedophilesProtectPedophiles #BringBackGuillotines
Which a diversion from the whole pedophile thing.
“We’re trapped inside this never-ending algorithmic scroll where our dopamine-fuelled lust for the endless new is Trump’s literal foreign policy. In three months, we’ve careered around the world in his wake from Venezuela to Greenland to Iran. Next stop Cuba.” —Cadwalla
"Trump is engaged in a series of cons to try to distract from the reality about his illegal invasion of Iran...but the most substantive thing he’s considering...is to reward Vladimir Putin for potentially helping to kill Benjamin Pennington." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/03/10/t...
Reminds me of “Generalization is tyranny's oxygen supply. Specificity cuts it off.” @daviddark.bsky.social
This is as good as it gets.
Every time I write a critique of the New York Time's coverage of transgender people, people always tell me, "submit a letter to the editor."
I have, multiple times.
I don't think people understand how averse the NYT is to publishing a trans person.
It's almost frustrating that people ask me to.
"Shame has to change sides, Pelicot says. And maybe that should apply not just to rape and sexual assault but to war crimes too." @carolecadwalla.bsky.social broligarchy.substack.com/p/is-this-th...
This is as good as it gets.
Representative Frost was fabulous in this interview.
I think so. Private events in confederate monuments are his safe place. This is the image in Grant Smith's (AKA Christ Follower) pinned tweet. I do wonder how much we pay him for chiefing staff.
Is this a sign of how unlikeable Ogles is that he has to send a stuntman to take on Republican women?
How much do we pay Grant to stand in for the other guy we pay.
How much do we pay Grant to stand in for the other guy we pay.
This is a stunningly good new book and I can't wait to talk with Rebecca about it!
holy shit
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it. On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned. Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right. "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
Turns out this is the name of a town in Arizona and not, as I initially thought, some church springing ministry positions on unsuspecting Christians, "Surprise!"
I wonder if Brian Kilmeade assumed this same tone with whoever it was that broadcast the wrong footage of 47 "honoring" veterans.
The reason people accuse Trump of creating distractions is because that does kind of look like what he's doing, but that's a misdiagnosis of the data. Trump isn't cultivating a distracted media environment; he's a victim of one. He doesn't cause distractions; he's just the most distracted man alive.
Absolutely. You can't really understand either the Ukraine War or the current Iran war without taking account of religious ideologies that are centuries / millennia old, but still deeply embedded in cultures.
Indeed, you do. Can you remind me how you arrived at your definition of religion?
