Thank you to everyone who called or emailed. Even when you think it's only a drop in the bucket it matters. Sonny Burton has been granted clemency, he will not be gassed to death in Alabama today.
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Saw that too. I went "Oh so you're like a PROPAGANDIST propagandist". This man does not believe a word he is saying.
"error" lol. the credulousness that people have for a lawless administration is wild.
You can elect all of the Progressive firebrands that you want, but nothing will fundamentally change until you disentangle power expression from the corporatocracy.
Sounds like faction 2 knows what they're talking about if you really do want to win regularly. The party apparatus—as it stands— structurally precludes the policies and strategies required for this moment.
Excellent poem—thanks for sharing! Keep your head and you got this
Pucker up and make me
I promise, the right does not need the left's critique to notice what bunch of unlikeable losers the Democratic party are.
Steel sharpens steel. Self critique is how we improve and grow stronger and bring others to our side (our side being the anti-fascist coalition). Shutting our mouths clearly did no work, so it's time to build power to pressure the Dem party.
That view is 100% absolutely positively correct. The first best time to start a nuclear program in deterrence of US jingoism is 20 years ago, the second best is now.
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:
(I know I know, more than a little complicated figure. But the guy definitely understood grief on a deeper level than most)
I'm sorry for the horrible hurt you're feeling. I've felt my share of loss so I know yelling into a pillow can help. Definitely seek out a trusted friend if you can manage. This quote from Abraham Lincoln has always given me comfort when things felt hopeless -
Lockheed Martin, RTX Land F-35 Contracts, US to Triple Some Defense Prodution
This is a publicly funded industry, proof that the U.S. can create jobs programs and design industrial policy when it wants to, but only substantially does so for the purpose of war and violence.
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
The Abundance crowd is honestly so full of it. If we wanted to ACTUALLY speed up zoning, we would work to standardize and digitize local zoning requirements. If we wanted to make it *cheaper*... Well I have some ideas.
Indeed! In fact developers purposely build as few units at a time as possible since they are paid based on unit price. Really, local zoning and permitting is a non-issue for developers of any size.
Inspired ⭐
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
Players have spoken up about their safety and the change in tenor of fan interactions.
The 'most beautiful game' people sometimes complain about the moneyball dynamic for strategy.
Frankly this is out of my wheelhouse, I'm just repeating complaints that have floated around for years.
In what way is it hard to get away with? You have to be extremely obvious about it for anyone to notice, let alone risk the faux pas of calling it out.
"Basically nobody"
Crazy how this conversation won't go away then, huh?
That doesn't track with me. Something as easy to hide as 'parlaymaxxing' wouldn't keep happening if it weren't happening with *some* regularity.
How is that not harming the sport? I'm interested in watching my team beat the other team, not individual players complete secret mini challenges like they're whales in some gacha game.
"Clinton gutted American manufacturing the right way"
I'm not certain what any of this means, but SUBSCRIBE
I don't agree with this. At no point were they ever in the driver's seat per se, but the evangelical block is integral to the right's project. If anything Christian nationalism is more central to the right's broader mission than ever before in U.S. history.
I’m a big time descriptivist but there’s something going on now where specialized and precise language unravels into slang and approximation of the original meaning within scant months and that makes it really hard to have conversations in which you know what both people mean
I think liberal punditry is anti-intellectual Conservatism by *necessity*. They are the defenders of the status quo and such their job is twofold:
1. Co-opt and defang criticism from the left.
2. Repackage rightwing ideology for squishy liberals.
