We won't take any bait he sets up that could provide Trump with a reason to invoke the insurrection act. Wow...what I just wrote: 'Provide Trump with a reason to invoke the Insurrection Act.' THE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN!
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We won't take any bait he sets up that could provide Trump with a reason to invoke the insurrection act. Wow...what I just wrote: 'Provide Trump with a reason to invoke the Insurrection Act.' THE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN!
I think Trump is disappointed he didn’t get a military clash with protesters this summer and he’s doubling down before winter.
THIS IMBECILE is running DoD. What could possibly go wrong? www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
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When you want the Peace Prize and the Department of War
Barry Blitt
HE ISN'T AUTHORIZED TO IMPOSE TARIFFS ON ANY COUNTRY.
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Cannot WAIT until 9p!!
Is the US included among those countries?
They'll just charge us with "Assault with intent to kill."
Wait until @markwarner.bsky.social finds out that tRUMP & Hegesth just MURDERED 11 people without due process or justification!
DumbDay #228 extra From the Department of Unnecessary Rebranding:
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A solvent-free ball-milling process can break down waste polystyrene into benzene and aliphatic hydrocarbons in as little as 15 min. cen.acs.org/materials/po... #chemsky 🧪
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And now, your daily moment of schadenfreude “Reckless maniac” Jeanine Pirro was thoroughly embarrassed in court by a judge for bringing “implausible, illegal, immoral” cases and flushing “the rule of law..down the toilet” As grand juries have refused to indict DC residents in SEVEN cases Enjoy
This needs to happen in every single blue state...in every single state, for that matter...every state that actually values human life.
Kids and the elderly are going hungry and we can’t fund pediatric brain cancer research, but we can afford all this…
Alaskan malamute puppies... 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Oh, look it’s Spider-Man
Hi Friends. If you see this interact so more people can see it. Here is a list of upcoming shows that have tix available with the link directly to it. Take a second to read through to find your city. Norfolk VA www.ticketmaster.com/event/010062... Burlington VT cart.flynnvt.org/18984/19157
Hi Friends We just hit a milestone… My first ever billboard for a live show! Boston, you’ve shown so much love. 10 shows sold out at The Wilbur, This marks the biggest debut run in the theater’s history.
Hi Friends, I need your help on this one. I don’t normally release sets on Saturday but I had an extra set this week that I wanted to get out. It premieres at Noon eastern. youtu.be/WO2Ij-PHx8E?...
Melania Trump is right that the robots are here – but she’s wrong on how to handle it | Arwa Mahdawi
‘I still want to achieve’: people living with stage 4 cancer embrace Chris Hoy charity ride
More than 7,000 under-fives in Gaza put in malnutrition recovery in two-week period
This is important. The first 24 hours of press coverage fumbled the ball. But the US just murdered 11 people in international waters. Analogies to the US’s (highly suspect, morally and legally) targeted killings of suspect terrorists don’t work. This crossed their own lines, and they know it.
NEW 🧵The White House has now issued its first formal legal justification for the lethal attack on a vessel in the Caribbean. This War Powers report to Congress is long on bluster and short on substance. This letter does not adequately justify the premeditated killing of apparent civilians. 1/n
I've read and coded every War Powers Report ever sent to Congress (check them all out, with interactive graphics and a searchable database 👇), and this one on #Trump's attack on an alleged drug smuggling vessel in the Caribbean stands out. I'll explain below: warpowers.lawandsecurity.org
2/3 "The former official also said it was unusual to have 11 people manning a vessel that could easily be crewed by two or three, especially since traffickers are always trying to maximize the amount of cargo space devoted to carrying drugs, not human beings."
1/3 Just so we are all clear on this. Based on what this former official "who has years of direct experience in fighting drug cartels" told the Times. The order to blow up the Venezuelan boat may have instead killed migrants who were being smuggled. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
2/ Senate report: "Official torture and SUMMARY EXECUTION violate standards accepted by virtually every nation. The universal consensus condemning these practices has assumed the status of customary international law." documents.law.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
U.S. military strike on Venezuelan boat is properly alleged to be murder. How important is this as a matter of international law? On left: Rubio State Department's top accusation against Venezuela On right: US Congress in codifying law on extrajudicial killings
The Fifth Circuit correctly ruled that Trump cannot invoke the Alien Enemies Act because we are not at war and we haven't been "invaded." But besides Trump's abuse of the law, the law itself is a dangerous anachronism, as I write here:
Everything he does is backward-looking and for show.
Let's see, you impose tariffs on a foreign government and pressure them to build a factory here, and then you arrest workers from that country who are constructing the factory. Does that seem like a good strategy?
This guy knows what he is doing.
No one with any self-respect will show up there.
Name a more talented natural politician who has come onto the scene in recent years. What a great ad. (Hey, GOP, calm down. Unlike previous object of birther hysteria, Mamdani was actually born in East Africa.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Ps...
An editorial today from the Bezos operation formerly known as the Washington Post.
This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Re-upping from last night. Talk with my longtime friend, the eminent legal writer @garrettepps.bsky.social , on @washingtonmonthly.com podcast. Topic is what feels "normal," and shockingly abnormal, in this moment's DC.
Thousands of people will take action today in opposition to this president’s occupation of DC. Here are the ways Congress needs to take action in this moment. Send a letter in solidarity with DC: FreeDCproject.org/allies
"What if those senators and those justices fail to meet this profile-in-courage moment? Well, one thing we know about Donald Trump is that he will respond to any show of weakness or lack of resolve by grabbing for even more power."
Despite what his far-right American admirers believe, Orbán is not popular in his own country. A lot of his staying power is just that: inertia, which has given rise to a feeling in Hungary that he is inevitable. Yet things in Hungary have started to move.
"Producing a blueprint for Trump’s foreign policy, the task Michael Anton has been engaged in, is the errand of a fool on steroids." ICYMI @gabeschoenfeld.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/michael-an...
Loves his toys
Walk ?
RFK Jr. always looks like he’s about to warn you the bridge ahead is cursed unless you answer three riddles about vaccines.
Crayola is considering renaming Burnt Sienna to “Bobby Glow.”
Top 10 Happiest and Unhappiest States. Red States keep voting like happiness is a communist plot.
Opinion | As a Republican senator, I voted to confirm RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health of Human Services. But if I hadn't done it, I'd have been primaried by someone who would have voted to confirm RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health of Human Services.
This seems like a good time to remind everyone of when Trump gave an address to 1500 Conservatives in front of a fake presidential seal containing the Russian Eagle and some golf clubs.
Gone are the days when Biden could say, “Another 400,000 jobs created,” and Republicans would respond, “But what about Hunter’s laptop?”
Redactions will protect Republicans, not victims.
Any maître d’ in the city would rather seat a family of raccoons than deal with that table.
“There is no Constitutional Crisis" is exactly what someone would say if they created a Constitutional crisis.
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This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary
www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal...
Best part of the Harvard ruling from today is when the judge repeatedly quotes Trump boasting over and over again that what he’s doing is exactly retaliation
NEW: @reuters.com got its hands on a document from the Guatemalan government further undermining the claims the Trump admin made publicly (and to a federal judge) that the attempted deportation of 600 children in the dead of the night was requested by parents.
Come to UNC, where the head coach will prevent scouts from watching you play to settle his petty beefs from his last job
A must-read from @sifill.bsky.social ! "Mainstream media sources only half-heartedly question each emergency. Instead they get right to the framing they feel more comfortable with: 'Trump has a point.’ ” sherrilyn.substack.com/p/emergency-...
Trump's drone-strike killing of 11 Venezuelans was unjust and illegal - and possibly the start of an effort to transform the awful War on Drugs into something like an even more awful real war: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
PULTE: Public officials shouldn't be exempt from scrutiny SORKIN: Speaking of that, Ken Paxton has at least 3 examples of alleged mortgage fraud. Are you looking at that? PULTE: Unless it's been made public, I'm not going to comment on any specific situation S: Why wouldn't you make it public?
Rep. Massie is dropping nuggets.
They will wake up to a multi billion bailout to cover tariff damages, just like last time. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Where is the evidence that they were “narco-terrorists”? Or that they were headed to the U.S.? *follow-up with more specific questions
Excellent summary.
CRISIS GROUP: “It is hard to imagine the plight of Palestinians in Gaza getting worse, but that is happening… Unless world powers make Israel stop, this next phase of fighting could usher in the end of collective Palestinian life in the strip.” www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
Recall that the RNC was also hacked in 2016 and we have never seen that material.
Ditto!
BIG NEWS this morning! medium.com/@TheRefoundi...
Job growth over the first eight months of the year: 2015: 1.76 million 2016: 1.58 million 2017: 1.51 million 2018: 1.75 million 2019: 1.36 million 2020: [pandemic] 2021: 4.69 million 2022: 3.5 million 2023: 1.84 million 2024: 1.14 million 2025: 598,000 #trumpeffect www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Sen. Lindsey Graham was a JAG lawyer for years. I don’t recall his objection or even being asked, tbh.
NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...
@markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov DEMAND HEARINGS ON THIS CRIMINAL ATTACK!
JFC
🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.
The most important thing to know is that the named was changed from the Dept of War to the Dept of Defense in 1949 BY CONGRESS in an amend to the National Security Act of 1947. And it can only be changed back by an act of Congress. Not by a Presidential “re-brand.” www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
Congress is expected to allow Trump’s takeover of DC police to expire
To paraphrase @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, if we want to rebuild democracy and society we have to make this kind of shameless lying politically and socially unacceptable.
#LIAR
Looks like ICE has caused an international incident. Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Site in Georgia. South Korea protests after nearly 500 Korean company workers are detained. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
Mark Zuckerberg: “I’m here for the right reasons… also $600B in domestic investments.” Satya Nadella: “Can I steal you for a sec? Shoutout to Melania for her work in AI.” Tim Cook: “I just want to thank you for setting the tone… by threatening to ruin my life with tariffs.”
Last night’s dinner with Trump and Big Tech wasn’t a policy meeting. It was basically 'The Bachelor,' except instead of roses, the prize was the president’s approval.