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A federal judge took the unusual step of apologizing to Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, after they accused him of defying a decision by the top court by ordering the Trump administration to reinstate hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants reut.rs/41BdJmF
Purely coincidental that people who admire and espouse white supremacist ideology keep ending up in this regime, I mean, administration.
New story w/ @hilaryburns.bsky.social: A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Sen. Roger Marshall on the CDC purge: "This is the same group of so-called experts that told the entire country we should live in fear of monkeypox, but failed to tell us that unless you're a homosexual man you don't have to worry about this at all, that monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease."
Remember in early 2022, when Anthony Fauci was overheard on a live mic describing Sen. Roger Marshall as a “moron”? tinyurl.com/4hpn9j52 I find myself thinking about that quote with some regularity.
Could not stop crying Thank you @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social for your reporting
The "Silent Majority Foundation" made some news last year when they took the side of Christian Nationalist preacher Sean Feucht when his feelings were hurt by a Spokane city council resolution criticizing him and Matt Shea, an advocate of religious terrorism. www.inlander.com/news/spokane...
It would be an interesting test case if some masked men in an unmarked car who failed to identify themselves were shot at by someone in self-defense. I wonder if Mr. Silent Majority Foundation would side with the person using their "God-given" 2nd Amendment rights, or those masked government agents?
Find someone who loves you as much as the Silent Majority Foundation loves objects whose only purpose is to kill human beings.
This “natural law” talk is just a fancy sounding term for Christian Nationalist theocracy. Also, GW in tactical gear holding a long gun?
The thing ya gotta understand is that the right to own a personal arsenal of weapons of war comes from God and can not be abridged, but the right to free speech and assembly only belongs to people who agree with the “Silent Majority.”
The “theological foundation” of America. Just the sort of thing we want to see espoused by the DOJ of a putatively secular, religiously pluralistic democracy.
This is the new acting US Attorney for Eastern Washington who brought this authoritarian test case.
The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Its from his transfusions of children's blood.
photos of Trump's hand today (via Getty)
Ken Paxton is now "recommending" that Texas school children recite the Lord's Prayer at school.
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul urges Chicagoans to protest peacefully. "Do not take the bait," Raoul says.
Mayor Brandon Johnson: The the president is the last person who cares about violence on Chicago's South and West sides. "There is too much violence in Chicago not because we have too many immigrants but because we have too many guns."
Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
James Cameron really fuqed up his movies on 4K with AI Slop-Scaling.
I think it was @notdred.bsky.social who first pointed out that you just need to look at the flag on Trump's hat to understand what the AI is attempting. It didn't make the flag more accurate. It just made it smoother and actually got rid of the stars.
People were trying to ask Grok yesterday if the photo of Trump's head lump was real. Grok insisted it was, again demonstrating that you can't trust AI chatbots to fact-check this stuff either.
You can't "zoom and enhance" a photo like that.
/2 This would very plausibly get charged in the U.S. — particularly if it were about a group subject to less prejudice. It’s not clear the prosecution would succeed, but it’s quite possible this would get you arrested here, particularly by state authorities.
The UK’s approach to prosecutions for social media content is quite different than ours in ways I have criticized. This one is within shouting distance of prosecutable in the U.S. The relevant question is whether it’s sufficiently imminent to meet our incitement standard./1
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Today I’d like to share two poems with you. To me, both feel appropriate to the dark time we’re now living in. Read them and let me know what you think. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/two-poems-that-feel-apt
They dream of what they think the 1950's were like. Before women could even have a checking account on their own, always wore pretty dresses and make-up and had dinner on the table when the husband came home.
You can read the study here It’s actually pretty positive www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
All from an account called RAW EGG Nationalist.
The senator online troll says….”oh dear! That doesn’t sound good.”
First Elon says “read the warning labels.”
You guys see where this is going? Right?
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...
Happy Labor Day 🙂
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
None of these asshats could handle a real homesteader "trad-wife" that they have romanticized. After all that manual labor, they could crush these soft modern men w/their hands. They only know of the mythical fantasy version concocted by men in order to compel women to submit to gilded servitude,
Straight up Third Reich shit. Figures it would be a Lee spouting such BS. Well at least the blonde mother does not have extra AI fingers, but neither of those kids are his... What the hell are those kids staring at anyways? Not looking at mom, not the baking, not the wall. Maybe their real daddy.
Utah Rep. Trevor Lee (R-Dunning-Kruger) attempting to be clever with a hackneyed “childless cat lady” post. Who are “they”? Are “they” in the room with us right now?
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2 hours until our huge Halloween merch drop goes live! 👀✨
There's important and exciting news today: There's a new official Scamperbeast in the world! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/09/01/k...
Yeah, we kept the black kitten. It wasn't the plan! We had a home for him and everything! But plans fall through sometimes, and also, cuteness will not be denied. He's ours now.
I understand the appeal for women to do these jobs. Indeed, for my generation, I think it was seen as a way for smart woman to gain respect. I have no doubt they are smart and driven. But girlboss feminism doesn't alter the political reality of what these violence institutions do.
These are just the new "lady prosecutors" -- women who defend law-and-order but, because of their gender, are perceived as doing it with lady-like grace. Of course, the problem is, there was no grace to running blacksites or mass surveillance or drone strikes. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Thank heavens for judges like Judge Sooknanan!
Star Trek Recently ST SNW - These Old Scientists cheers me up.
UPDATE: DOJ says it expects that the children will be returned to ORR by 10:30 pm. The report also offers some clarity on how many children were loaded on planes (76, purportedly). (But the putative class isn't limited to those put on planes today -- plaintiffs estimate # in the hundreds)
This was incredible, important lawyering from National Immigration Law Center (@nilc.org) over the past 24 hours. Here's their case page: www.nilc.org/litigation/l... Here was the statement from Efrén Olivares, NILC VP of litigation, from earlier today regarding the TRO:
Today I learned that Drew Ensign doesn’t follow me on Bluesky
Yup. Population density in Europe is much higher. England (not the UK, just England) is roughly the size of Ohio, and it has five times the population. Germany (83 million) is roughly the same size as Montana (1.1 million).
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Once again I ask, what’s it going to take?
Btw, this week’s @revealnews.org is on the attack on the NPS. Listen here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Make your voice heard www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...
Trump is trying to repeal a roadless rule that prevents loggers from denuding National Parks—something they just announced and which public only has a few weeks to speak against insideclimatenews.org/news/3008202...
Glory No Peace The Problem Ultra Terror Search & Destroy Revolution Trust Apathy Rules Craze Dogma Son Of A Gun Paradise WDYWB Disturb The Peace Hyena Let Go Airhead Turn On The Light Naive Godlike Hau Ruck New American Century Unfit Waste Tohuvabohu Bumaye Money Vogue HUSUTA Animal Out Ave Maria
This was a recent one that I saw from the Economic Times which was total bullshit but got pickup on TikTok. There are no "stimulus checks" going out.
Workin on something
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
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...
Trump just sent this email to his supporters. @briantylercohen.bsky.social
@bagleycartoons.bsky.social
I miss the old brand #CDC
Warnings From Weimar www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
Today, this chapter of the Weimar Republic’s history should be revisited. At a moment in which democracy is backsliding in places as varied as Hungary, India, Turkey, and the United States, it is a reminder that democracy often erodes slowly at first, via the gradual surrender of those entrusted..
Great, now-mundane example of AI hype. Notice the number of "can"s and "could"s here without actual indication of the accuracy of the stethoscope's predictions. This is what the entire AI PR-machine thrives on. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
Powerful piece by @markhertling.bsky.social. “I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Excellent question.
#Enshittification #DumbFuckification #DumbFuckNation #GOP
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
the lowly worm has the last laugh as it destroys human civilization... #WeAreLivingAnEpisodeOfBlackMirror
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
BREAKING 🧵: Divided appeals court rules against Trump's tariffs. 4 judges appointed by Bush I, Obama, & Biden (2) say IEEPA doesn't allow tariffs. 4 judges app. by Bush II (2) & Obama (2) - including chief - say it does. 3 judges app. by Clinton & Obama (2) say it doesn't allow *these* tariffs.
NEW: An appeals court concluded that Trump misused his emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners, casting a cloud over the trade deals he’s been making. SCOTUS is next. w/ Doug Palmer, Dan DesRochers @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
The ruling, however, doesn’t take effect immediately. The court withheld the mandate for its decision until *Oct. 14*
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Hope SCOTUS enjoys being treated like Trump’s lapdog
He literally has no experience in public health
BTW, Marcy talks about Ernst on today's @nicolesandler.bsky.social show. Also, the Nazism of RFK Jr. Listen live NOW at 3ET/noon PT at youtu.be/DJYD3l8GTUk, nicolesandler.com, pod later, emptywheel.net, subscribe to nicolesandler.substack.com for follow up @thefarce.org @gottalaff.bsky.social
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
DOJ has also dismissed another case brought by federal agents after the D.C. surge began, this one involving a man who police said was found asleep in his car. The police searched the car and found a handgun; the driver had a felony record.
Isn’t it the case that Ernst’s quitting makes it more likely the GOP keeps the seat?
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