I assure you @moderation.bsky.app this is not an image of "self-harm" 😬

A photo of the Robert M. Greer Center, a brick and beige building with a sloping brown roof. A headline reads: "Inside a ‘Hell on Earth’ in Oklahoma" Photo by Desiree Rios for The New York Times

The Greer Center was supposed to be a refuge for people with developmental disabilities. But accounts from inside the secretive facility in Oklahoma paint a starkly different picture, depicting a place where helpless patients faced beatings, waterboarding and constant fear. nyti.ms/4mcQZR9

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

Missouri Republicans approve gerrymandered map

x post by elon musk: "the left is the party of murder"

Good to see Elon out there doing his best to calm things down in a moment like this

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Immediately after the shooting, audience members screamed and fell to the ground, with some attendees lying on top of others to protect them.
“Where is my son?” a woman in the crowd yelled.
(Photos by Trent Nelson)
www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09/10/charlie-...

Man mourns his dog shot by trooper clearing encampment near Tulsa Day Center A Department of Public Safety spokeswoman said the dog had lunged at troopers outside a tent early Friday. The dog's owner, 22-year-old Malachi, said he was sleeping inside when the shot woke him.

Man mourns his dog shot by trooper clearing encampment near Tulsa Day Center tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked

Today, Brandon Russell was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for his involvement in a plot to destroy Baltimore area power plants. He encouraged others to do the same through a loose, violent neo-Nazi network, Terrorgram

Read my coverage of his trial from earlier:

The leading voice for visual journalists may be silenced. You can help. We talked with the National Press Photographers Association’s Mickey Osterreicher about why NPPA’s work is more important than ever.

Without photojournalism, the news stays out of sight.

@nppa.org fights to protect the lens that keeps the public informed. Their work is more important than ever, but they need your help.

Read about their work and support them if you can.

The FBI released its Uniform Crime Report *today* showing that all categories of violent crime are down in Washington DC, returning to pre-2020 levels.

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

So wait, let me get this straight…they didn’t want to forgive our student loans but they want us to forgive theirs??????

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

Cannabis farm worker in California dies day after chaotic federal immigration raid The manager of one farm, Edgar Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, said he was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and had his arm twisted behind his back after he asked to see a warrant.

Cannabis farm worker in California dies day after chaotic federal immigration raid www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Rep. Jimmy Gomez: •@WhiteHouse - If you're now concerned about child exploitation release the Epstein Files. Your base wants to know.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez has replied to the White House’s AI image of him with a photo of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

White House: ICE: Raids marijuana farms filled with illegal aliens Cryin' Jimmy: “ThEy'Re JuSt StRaWbErRy PiCkErS 😭” That ain’t produce, holmes. THAT'S PRODUCT. 🌿 Rep Jimmy Gomez: How many MS-13 gang members are waking up at 3 a.m. to pick strawberries? O’yeah, zero! Trump said he’d go after “bad hombres,” but he’s targeting the immigrant farm workers who feed America. Either he lied — or he can’t tell the difference.

The official White House account.

Trump is deploying 200 Marines to support his secret police force in Florida in actions targeting immigrants... as he increases the militarization of this effort.

Happy Fourth of July.

How is the "Free Press" handling the fact that it's their ideological allies who are very clearly posing the most significant threat to free speech and the press? With assurances that, actually? Everything is as great as it has ever been.

Peace demonstrators have been beaten, foreign students have been disappeared, and educational institutions have been broken and tarred for being "antisemitic" through a series of tortured jingoistic inferences, while Donald Trump constantly and explicitly tells us what he thinks of Jews

"No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people."

Imagine someone paying top dollar for you to stay in a hotel room and still going hungry. That’s the reality for many homeless families in New York who are placed in hotels.

Listen to ProPublica and @nysfocus.bsky.social reporter Spencer Norris break down his investigation ⤵️

Post on X from DNI director Tulsi Gabbard that reads: It has come to my attention that Washington Post reporter @nakashimae appears to be actively harassing ODNI staff. Instead of reaching out to my press office, she is calling high level Intelligence Officers from a burner phone, refusing to identify herself, lying about the fact that she works for the Washington Post, and then demanding they share sensitive information. Apparently, publishing leaked classified material wasn't enough for the Washington Post, so now they’ve decided to go after the Intelligence professionals charged to protect it. This is a clear political op by the same outlet and the same reporter who harassed and stalked my family in Hawaii.

Let’s assume what she’s saying here is true. Calling senior intelligence officials and using a non-personal phone to do so is just called reporting with good opsec. I’d expect that from someone trying to keep sources safe when reporting on national security.

‘An Existential Threat’: Food Banks Brace for Fallout From Trump Cuts

The domestic policy bill championed by President Trump calls for cutting $295 billion in federal spending over the next decade from SNAP, according to the Congressional Budget Office. New York City food banks aren’t sure how they will survive.

Looks like Elon's threats ended up being less effective than Trump's threats.