Mark Pöpsel

President Donald Trump used an antisemitic term during a rally in Kansas as he came to the defense of Republican Senator Roger Marshall, who faces a surprisingly competitive race in a deeply red state.

BREAKING WaPo: Trump officials scrutinized Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2019. They didn't find citizenship issues. 
The earlier review of Omar's immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court GRANTS People Not Politicians stay application, ordering the 2022 map to be in effect for the midterms! A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...

Asylum-seeker families tell of living in tiny rooms, with one bed between five, and being forced to endure violence, vermin and racist abuse

Powerful op-ed by Senator @kim.senate.gov: "Delaney Hall is working exactly how it is intended to — as a purgatory to indefinitely hold detainees in poor and often dangerous conditions, with no progress in court, until their spirits break and they agree to self-deport."

In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.

4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes. Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on. They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth. Elsie’s story must be told:

Yesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown

"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity

Yup. The Obama administration had a whole pandemic plan in place, even ran table-top simulations with Trump’s incoming team. Trump scrapped it all because it happened under a Black president—then Covid hit. They are doing the same thing with Biden-Harris recovery and pandemic preparedness policies.

Arguably, earlier forms of red-baiting have left a lasting imprint on the field of communication.

MaineHealth nurses demand release of colleague arrested by ICE www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...

I should be clear that the architecture of Bluesky makes it the social media place I most like to be. I'm not on social media to be an influencer or instigator; I want to hang out with folks and have an enjoyable time. This place delivers on that. I hope it continues to do so for a long time.

Kamala Harris: We have a president taking America into a war the people did not ask for, spending billions of dollars without paying attention to the people right here in America who are losing their health coverage because of policies they are pushing to pay for a tax cut for the rich…

Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.

"Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project?" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

"While it may seem like ICE has been quieter, last month, they hit the highest numbers so far, in this administration, in terms of the number of arrests they're making nationwide...it's happening everywhere across the country." https://bit.ly/4pxoW29

This photo is worth a thousand words. He can't help himself. robertreich.substack.com/p/he-cant-re...

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

During the Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly this morning, an emergency resolution came forward as leaders at the event said some of the wildfire evacuees have no where to go.

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

Democratic voters prefer politicians who are ready, willing and able to fight. Where incumbents fail that test, voters will look to replace them with politicians who will actually fight. That's it. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

BREAKING: We’re suing multiple Florida police departments on behalf of our client, Robert Dillon, who was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit in a city he’s never been to because he was misidentified by facial recognition technology.

Everyone remembers this, bro. You have to make your lies believable.

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

It’s de-developing nation a status? Like “Second World but on the way down?” I’m asking for myself.

Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll

Looks like clean power isn’t a woke scam after all.

It’s not just that we will miss one of the most consistently funny, astutely perceptive and topically necessary shows on television, it’s that we will miss getting to spend a little time each night with one of the most genuine, authentic hosts ever to do it.

Every American should be disgusted by this.

I like that my feed right now is 100% lawyers going “legal expert here, judges only talk like this when they’re feeling a white-hot rage powerful enough to swallow a medium-size metropolitan area.”

Donald Trump has so far pardoned at least SEVENTY fraudsters who have collectively stolen MILLIONS from Americans. Here's just one of them: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

Can't thank Stephen Colbert enough for the decades of laughs he's given us. He's been positively therapeutic in these troubled times & I can't wait to see what he does next! 👀 (plus, he let me sit behind his desk) 🙏

And let’s not forget the writers, producers and crew who also made the Late Show what it was and who have lost their jobs because our president is a thin-skinned thug who deeply fears the ridicule he so richly deserves.

Knicks forever

Every American should be disgusted by this.

Fuck this. #fuck

Five hours later, this staggering, perverted act of gargantuan corruption is not even one of the top 10 news stories on the NYT homepage. NYT has normalized Trump’s degeneracy.