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I'm just gonna flip on some corporate media really quick... ABC: ads CNN: ads Back to CNN: Trump's Chicago "immigration enforcement" MSNBC: Protests in Chicago Back to ABC: A "federal judge getting in the way of Trump's immigration crackdown" Back to CNN: Weekend travel Nothing about Trump MIA
Wisconsin?
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
Just going to keep saying it, it is remarkable (you can still be shocked without being surprised!) that the rest of the Republican party has decided that blatant corruption and enrichment off the office of the presidency is legal for this one guy
JFC Nate Silver’s new book is over 450 pages. Was the advance not big enough to afford an editor?!?
If you've never read Dave's 🧵, you really do owe it to yourself to enjoy this towering work of staggering genius (the 🧵, not the book, which is...well...read the 🧵)
It's often been debated if Trump could pull off a fascist takeover of the United States, because he's clearly not very smart. I talked to @anneapplebaum.bsky.social about that for my newsletter
The odds are pretty good based on his diet. It’s amusing to me that they’ve tried to promote MAHA, while the sitting President is the least healthy since Taft or Grover Cleveland.
The power that Donald Trump has given to RFK Jr. to outrightly destroy vaccine development and distribution at every level is criminal. If America has another pandemic, there won't be "operation warp speed", we won't have the development + production capacity, let alone develop a healthy vaccine.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
Looking to protect your sensitive information from data brokers? Don’t want Big Tech monetizing your personal data? Privacy Badger is here to help! www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
"So that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated." AI has always haunted our nightmares. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Excellent NYT story ruined by one subhead and one paragraph. No, red-state governors are not going to "rethink" putting their National Guardsmen on their own streets if it brings down crime. As one expert explained, "It’s designed to humiliate political opponents." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Thread: this is Russ Vought giving himself permission to ignore Congress and the constitution
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Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Also there’s no words in all-caps, only “Tariff” is randomly capitalized, and only one word in quotes.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
There are few things Elon Musk knows less about than birth control. However, his “seed the world to save Western Civilization” fantasies know no bounds. It’s also worth noting that he’s retweeting this British racist for his “facts.” hopenothate.org.uk/2024/06/20/e...
I think it's time to discuss the 25th Amendment.
If you know California voters, tell them that if Trump rigs the next election and Republicans keep Congress, they will most certainly not certify the election in 2028 if they don't like the result. No one is saying gerrymandering is good, but unilaterally disarming could be the end of our democracy.
I call bullshit because you can’t hurt your vertebrae when you don’t have a spine.
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
From a shooting in Minneapolis to a major Russian attack on Kyiv, here’s a look back at the top stories of the week.
JB Pritzker uses the word "invasion" to describe what Trump has planned for my city, Chicago. And that's exactly what it would be – an autocratic government trying to crush our dissent because we oppose his corruption, cruelty and incompetence. It's what dictators do.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Meet the new acting director of the CDC. Yet another close ally of Peter Thiel. www.notus.org/health-scien...
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
Updates on the pharmacy vaccine situation today: CVS is now requiring a prescription in 13 states and not offering shots at all in three others; Walgreens appears to be requiring prescriptions in 16 states, but not all the same ones as CVS. The lists of states are in the article. Gift link:
For too long, American Labor Day has celebrated little more than a refusal to join the rest of the world on May 1st. What this weekend presupposes is: what if it was different, what if we did have a thing to celebrate.
Yep, inflation’s on the rise again. Must be all that ‘winning’ we were promised. I’m definitely feeling it in my wallet. Are you?
He rose to power through crying about censorship from the medical establishment. And now Vinay Prasad is spending his time as an FDA official censoring his critics.
My YouTube channel has like 300 followers and 99% of it is just videos of our medical establishment. Today, I learned they are trying to censor me, instead of doing their job.
Threads has once again recommended me the scandal slop story of Gavin Newsom saying "you can, Do what I dare not..." but this time it's from Pulitzer Prize winning publication "Best Adorable Baby"
Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email. www.wired.com/story/charle...
"Tesla later said in court that it had the data on its own servers all along." Whoops! www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Just weeks ago, career prosecutors had insisted that Chakraverty should be held accountable for the alleged fraud. But in a sharp reversal, Thomas Albus, the newly appointed U.S. attorney and a Trump pick, notified the court that the charges were being dropped.belib.org/Rp6XXol
9/ And also he never achieved a rank higher than Colonel.
It is of course extremely important to put front and center that Robert E. Lee was literally a traitor and he was a traitor on behalf of the institution of slavery which he strongly supported. But in the battles we have over public memory - which is what the statues and portraits and base names ...
“Once smoked a cigarette”
Intel amends CHIPS Act deal with US Commerce Department, gets $5.7 billion early reut.rs/4lPtFss
Lego is no longer sending individual pieces to the U.S. due to Trump ending the de minimis exemption. This man ruins everything. www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
NEW — I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:
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👀 👀 👀 Steve Witkoff doesn't read his email, doesn't read intelligence briefings and "isn’t consistently engaged. He will pop in for a visit to Vladimir Putin, say a bunch of stuff, not tell anyone what really happened and then just fuck off to his life again." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
Willed this into being by sheer posting power bsky.app/profile/luck...
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
1/ This week, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer demanded that the Wikimedia Foundation hand over information on editorial policies & individual contributors to help the committee investigate "propaganda" on Wikipedia. These demands are offensive to 1st Amendment values
Petty Trump cancels Kamala Harris's Secret Service protection just as she is about to embark on a national book tour. She will be more likely to cross paths with unhinged MAGA lunatics than at any time after leaving office. Trump is an evil clown. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
5 Alarm Fire at SSA. This involves every citizen's data & the regime has handled it incompetently, insecurely, and illegally. SSA's Chief Data Officer resigning involuntarily because he's not allowed to do his oversight job.
A now deleted post from Trump on Truth Social. In 2017, the Republican-led Judiciary Committee eliminated the requirement for blue slips for appellate (circuit) court nominees, a change that remains in effect. So, with everything in their favor, why is he ranting?
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Here's the resignation from the Social Security Admin's Chief Data Officer warning of potentially illegal Trump Admin practices that could compromise Americans' sensitive data. Before it was the CDC. When will Republicans wake up to this not being a policy disagreement but sabotage of the US.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Aw you make that sound like a BAD thing. 🤡 @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/de-...
Bill Pulte has emerged as a key enabler of President Trump's extraordinary attacks on Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor, over unverified allegations of mortgage fraud. Pulte’s attacks on Cook invite scrutiny of his own past dealings.
On the other corner of 14th and U.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
What are the odds that Trump would fire Vance if this story broke through his information bubble? Start asking him about it EVERY time he’s in front of the press. “Why is JV trying to consolidate power behind your back? Are you going to make it through the end of your term?”
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
Vance is an even more buffoonish and unlikely Fuhrer than Göring
NEW: Always an honor to speak with @hcrichardson.bsky.social Today, we discussed autocracy, revolution, and how to fight back. Support independent media and subscribe for free! substack.com/@muellershew...
this is misinformation & should be taken down, as it could deter folks from seeking vaccination. in short, it depends on the state whether you need a prescription for off-label vaccination — in many cases, you may not need one. here is much better vaccine info @ YLE: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
I’ve never applauded jury nullification. Until now. Free DC.
It’s time to take serious action at the State Capitol to address gun violence.
The Constitution is clear: Congress has the power of the purse, not the president. This authoritarianism 101 — pretend other branches of government don't exist and grab power. Trump cannot cancel these funds. Republicans must stand up to him. www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
“This is the laundry room, for those of you who care.” Subtext: “I haven’t done laundry in years, but I guess some of you plebes still do that.”
Justice Scalia on what makes American government exceptional: Our Constitution separates powers to "prevent the centralization of power in one person, or one party." In other countries, where power is centralized in one person, "the game is over" for rights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_...
We need to start calling him Colonel Robert E Lee. Frame his role properly and not give him and the Confederacy honorifics they didn’t earn.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
Mike Johnson dismisses the unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill: "The individual provisions of that giant piece of legislation are wildly popular." CNN host John Berman immediately debunks that claim.
oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
It's typical that former vice presidents have Secret Service protection for 6 months after leaving office. In Harris' case, she had received an extension of her detail. Trump is ending the extension.
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
You’re saying that telling your constituents they don’t need healthcare because they’re gonna die anyway isn’t winning politics?
A Nobel Prize-winning economist argued that the United States may not see the damage of President Donald Trump's economic policies until it's too late.