have u ever imagined the expression 'staring daggers at someone' because yikes
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have u ever imagined the expression 'staring daggers at someone' because yikes
I do not think it's a very good argument, even if the facts are as stated. I have no idea whether the facts are as stated. Ultimately (and unfortunately) there's not really anyone positioned to do anything if they're not. That would have been true under other administrations as well.
Tom Nichols is correct. The administration's argument will be that they were members of an international terrorist organization and therefore can be treated as, in effect, combatants. And this is not a new argument. International law is messy enough that it is likely a non-frivolous argument.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
WOW. This is one of the original Alien Enemies Act cases going back to March. The conservative 5th Circuit has ruled Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to disappear people to El Salvador was UNLAWFUL.
The world is a mess but my puppy is still cute as hell.
I was thinking about a possible Illinois v Texas direct to SCOTUS case earlier today. Making that option more plausible and more interesting: Thomas and Alito always dissent when the Court declines such a case, on the grounds that they believe the constitution requires SCOTUS to hear such cases.
The news cycle continues to feel like marinating in sewage
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
The administration sees A Clear and Present Danger as a playbook, not a criticism
Right there with NATionalist ChristianS,
"Prominent critic of RFK Jr. blocked from FDA vaccine committee Paul Offit, a pediatrician and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, can no longer participate in the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Part of the fascist parlor trick they play is to act as both perpetrator and victim at the same time. In the MAGAverse, *their 1st Amdt rights are violated when DHS isnt allowed to spread lies on TV shows. Props to @edokeefecbs.bsky.social for the edit. And props to @gregsargent.bsky.social for this
BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from using military troops in immigration raids or law enforcement operations in California, ruling the President's deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a federal law.
Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
Blue laws are outdated relics of religious rule. There’s no reason government should force businesses to close on Sunday — or any day — because of someone else’s holy book.
A Eugene police employee put on a PRESS vest and was granted access real journalists weren't. We led a letter to tell officials how disturbing the incident was. Cops impersonating reporters puts journalists at risk and undermines the press's watchdog role. Read more from @jwcroxton.bsky.social
Saw this reposted by a number of people who do not understand 1) that "AI" can mean a whole host of things, including a bunch of things you had no objection to 5 years ago, and 2) Bayes rule
A Baptist chaplain at a privately-run ICE lockup in Pennsylvania is facing accusations of sexually abusing a detainee over the course of more than a year, beginning shortly after he gained her trust by gifting her a Bible. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
If you needed any more reasons to hate Kyrsten Sinema:
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Workers over billionaires. People over profits. This Labor Day: Massachusetts says no more attacks on workers’ rights.
Fear of crime: an unholy alliance between politicians that need a cudgel, local news that needs clicks, social media's ability to share viral anecdotal crime stories, police that need justification to exist, and the fact that police/surveillance tech is a multi-billion dollar industry, and racism.
No joke. Homeschooling should be illegal.
Another reason I'm glad I cancelled my subscription
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than one million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
Courts still matter.
you've heard of flat-earthers, well I'm a flat-trumper; I believe he is a cardboard cutout or cutouts.
"Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing its lab would perform — the only one in the U.S. capable of doing so. The CDC no longer has the capacity to do that.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
It's like Queen Amidala said, "So, this is how liberty dies. To thunderous applause." And of course it happened like that. People aren't cheering for something they fully understand—they cheer for what they've been made to believe.
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
So glad to see him reelected, and y'know *in* office since they literally changed the locks on him I wrote about this town last year bc there was a lawsuit to make it have elections, which coincidentally stopped around when the Voting Rights Act was passed 🙃 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws. For adults, some increases in risk. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.
There are people in public life clearly and accurately stating the danger to America at this bizarre moment. Those people need support from every Conservative and Liberal American who find our Constitution worth preserving.
Police shouldn’t get ‘open-book’ access to your phone. In a major boost for digital privacy, Michigan now demands tailored warrants. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Awesome. Sanctions work.
I just saw that earlier today. Super interested in playing with it. Thanks for sharing!
Tease
Any Gene Wilder movie is a winner by me
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Yeah, it should. 😔
That's a cool visualization!
For sure. In AZ, some of us desperately want a line between Phoenix and Tucson. Same situation, flat and run it parallel to the I-10.
If you can take it for leisure it's worth it. Beautiful views. Get the family sleeper car, not the regular sleeper car though. Unless you like sleeping on an elevated cot hanging over your spouse.
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
I think many people fail to truly understand how much land the US has. Mrs. Wolfshade and I took the Amtrak from Chicago to Seattle one year. It's a 46 hr train ride.
Read this, read it again, breath the words into your lungs, and then go live them. This is our mission. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
"What eroded trust was the COVID vaccine" No, it was the fucking dipshits like RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad who spread misinformation and contrarianism as a profiteering industry.
The eliminationist rhetoric coming from the AZ GOP after the Annunciation Catholic School shooting is truly despicable to the point where State Sen. Wendy Rogers sent a fundraising email today advocating to forcibly institutionalize trans people and remove them from public life (schools & churches).
get fucked scumbag www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/b...
Oh my god we’re still making this context-ignorant argument. Get with the times, if we’re adjusting for inflation without addressing how wages have stagnated, corporations are making money hand over fist, and products as a whole are enshittifying, we’re being a corporate thrall.
How ICE's Explosive Growth Threatens Every American www.wired.com/video/watch/...
I have a patient with RA with LGL. @bluecrosspa.bsky.social only allows Ruxience or Truxima. We gave Truxima as required. CareFirst paid $600 LESS FOR TRUXIMA than the cost! They refuse to pay the true price. If we give her Rituxan, we would not lose $, but CareFirst refuses: system needs fixed!
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.
Donald Trump is once again threatening to issue an executive order targeting voting. This is an effort to subvert the Constitution and the 2026 election, which grants states and Congress but not the president power to regulate federal elections. If he does this, we will sue and we will win (again).
KEILAR: Of 172 mass attacks between 2016 & 2020, 96% were non-trans men. Are you missing bigger picture? GORKA: No. When you look at shootings at Christian schools the data is different K: Of 32 school shootings since 2020, only 3 were trans shooters G: Forgive me if I don't go with CNN's stats
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
IMHO, these are all inextricably intertwined: 1) authoritarianism 2) eugenics & racism & sexism 3) vandalism of public goods, property, and services 4) pseudo-science & anti-science They feed into one another and they never travel alone. Find one, and you'll find elements of all the others.
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…
Please take it from this former Republican who is very confused by almost everything the Democratic Party does, ya'll need to stop eating your own. I know I'm the outsider here, but we're transitioning to a tech-enabled surveillance kakistocracy. Can you focus, just a little?
MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT: *ME Constitution provides greater protection against self-incrimination than U.S. Constitution. *Any waiver of that protection must be "clear and unequivocal." *Officers must "stop to clarify" ambiguous waivers. www.courts.maine.gov/courts/sjc/l...
Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gaza—the best way to get food to starving people there—so Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer. This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
“The guys before you broke things so bad that you weren’t able to fix it before the next election and we’re angry, so as punishment, we’re putting the guys who broke everything back in charge.”
Yes
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
“If Israel is right that Palestinian journalists are biased, it should welcome international press.” apple.news/Amw6ZgI4UQjC...
I try to be optimistic. I’d like to believe he’s not actually dead, but instead, suffering from an extremely painful anal fistula that will unavoidably become septic, eventually causing his timely demise. See? Optimism.
Last I checked I am neither a travel advisory nor a senior DHS official. Yet DHS denied my FOIA request for a travel advisory telling senior officials not to attend events hosted by organizations that support women or minority groups because I had "asked for records about" myself. Great stuff.
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...
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Dollar General Nero
Want to help get rid of RFK Jr? Then sign this petition from @standupforscience.bsky.social: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm... 13,000+ signatures so far!
ICYMI, I wrote about the tenth anniversary of the Jade Helm 15 panic, when Alex Jones spent months stirring up paranoia over troops in the streets and martial law - only to enthusiastically approve of the same thing a decade later. themikerothschild.com/2025/08/27/j...
Deploying the National Guard in LA cost upwards of $134 MILLION. The D.C. deployment could surpass that amount. But for some reason, Trump and MAGA Republicans couldn't find the money to fund food programs. This government’s priorities are warped.
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
it literally terrified the worst people tbh
This is legitimately terrifying. Actively conspiracy-addled crackpots are in charge of America's health.
We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves. All of us get protections or none of us do
If you can’t ban Nazis without sweeping up high profile Republicans and you can’t ban disinformation without sweeping up high profile Republicans, the issue is Republicans. Not the policy.
Thank you to the hundreds at FEMA who bravely signed the Katrina Declaration calling out the dangers the Trump Regime brings to US disaster management. Trump put them Leave IN THE MIDDLE OF HURRICANE SEASON. Stand with them. Thanks to @standupforscience.bsky.social for supporting their fight.
[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
the thing that's so fucking infuriating about this is how much more that matters for the bottom 10% $1200 can be life or death at that level of income top 10%? $13K is nice, to be sure, but it's "maybe we'll take another vacation" nice not "oh good now we can afford to eat this month"
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
Collier County commissioners voted to put the Ten Commandments on government property — while insisting, “This has nothing to do with religion. Zero. Zilch. Nada.” This isn’t about “history,” it’s religious favoritism, plain and simple. www.fox4now.com/naples/colli...
One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.
Trump and Kari Lake lose on their effort to remove the Director of Voice of America.
I'm wondering: in 2028, when trump tries to put himself on the ballot for a third term, whether states are prepared to keep him off the ballot and what the Supreme Court will do. I think it's pretty clear cut, but I thought that about immunity, Dobbs, and section 3 of the 14th Amendment, too.
Liz Dye ![OpenAI Shifts From Benefitting Humanity To Putting Profit Over Safety 42. The blockbuster success of ChatGPT seduced OpenAI into taking actions at odds with its altruistic beginnings. When OpenAI first applied for tax-exempt status in 2016, it stated that it would “be a nonprofit corporation organized exclusively for charitable and/or educational purposes”; that “the specific purpose of this corporation is to provide funding for research, development and distribution of technology related to artificial intelligence”; and that “[t]he corporation is not organized for the private gain of any person.” It also promised that “OpenAI does not plan to play any role in developing commercial products or equipment.” 43. OpenAI’s philanthropic ideals lasted only three years. Lured by the size of the AI startup investment pie (which by 2019 totaled $40.4 billion globally), OpenAI announced on March 11, 2019 the formation of OpenAI LP, a for-profit entity that would ostensibly help “raise investment capital and attract employees” by promising its investors “a capped return” of “100x their investment”—a cap that OpenAI buried in the text of the announcement.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bfdiyietterineb3cvu3ddco/bafkreiecdg5xitw63e3o7kcgolcvz235hpnrbcfchhie7z5z62gl4i32gu@jpeg "Click to view full size")