Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"
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Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"
Is that your excuse?
coates is genuinely a generational writer
If you have even a passing interest in regenerative business, sustainable development, or ways we might reverse climate change, then Hawken is your man: he has been a key thinker and activist in these areas for the last six decades.
Hiding the truth.
As a Chicagoan, I feel good about how our governor and our mayor have handled things, but that doesn't change the reality of the moment—and this is a very ugly, very challenging moment.
... ... ... ... yes, Marc. I can imagine people on the right like Kirk doing it. Because they absolutely did.
November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...
Trumps no-boat zone seems to be working 🤷🏼♀️
The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...
Breaking — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Colt Hagmaier just resigned in an email to staff. He's worked at the agency for more than a decade. Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk. Text of his email shared with me:
Ryan Fournier was arrested for allegedly hitting a woman in the head with a gun btw.
Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.
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This is especially interesting to me in the context of this FT analysis from early 2024, which i regularly find myself coming back to www.ft.com/content/29fd...
I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.
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I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely
US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
This is just the most basic scaffolding of what creates orderly and transparent equities and capital markets. Making America Like the 1920s again
Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
CBP got their raid sweeps down to less than 7 minutes here in LA. By the time reporters receive tips, the raids are done and the feds are gone and with them, people. Trying to document and find patterns for these raids as a reporter has been extremely frustrating and demoralizing. It really sucks
We're about to experience the first modern recession caused substantially, and perhaps primarily, by racism.
Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.
Washington Post Book World has a review of Amy Coney Barrett’s book by Noah Feldman without revealing that they are friends and he endorsed her nomination and confirmation. Oy.
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korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
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I think this point is far more important than we realize. The fact that we consume completely different media showing us completely different things is a huge driver of division.
ICE killed someone in Chicago yesterday, then lied about what happened. "As Villegas-Gonzalez drives away from the agents—not toward them, as DHS claimed—the agent on the passenger side aims his weapon at the back of Villegas-Gonzalez’s car." unraveledpress.com/what-happene...
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I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
Ohhhh! 🙀 I do have a caterpillar tent. Thanks for the heads up 🙏
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Yavin "edginess" involved simply being brave enough to believe every right wing propaganda campaign of the last 20 years...and then he wrapped those baseless conspiracy theories in some references to obscure past thinkers and sold it to Silicon Valley as "the truths they don't want you to know!"
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Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
The Trump admin has done nothing to build a new science infrastructure b/c its hard and they dislike science. “Running a lab is not like running a clothing store, where if your sales are down you can bounce back,” Harold Varmus, a former N.I.H. director and Nobel Prize-winning cancer researcher:"
This has been the Supreme Court in a nutshell: where clear and immediate harm has been done by Trump to others, they delay and prevaricate, siding with Trump. Even if later deemed to be illegal, the damage is already done and Trump gets his way.
The old custom, born of medieval superstition, abt not speaking ill of the dead only applies to your deceased Aunt Tilly who got drunk every Christmas & fell into the tree, NOT to hate-mongering political provocateurs who thought SOME gun deaths were necesssary. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
One of the three is missing and assumed to have been eaten by a bird. 🤷🏼♀️
Es ist so unverständlich, warum viele Medien nicht mal die offensichtlichen Fakten einordnen können.
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Wow. History made. Clipse just became the first hip-hop act ever to perform at the Vatican, backed by John Legend and the Voices of Free orchestra. They performed “The Birds Don’t Sing.”
UPDATE: DOJ is more than an hour late for its filing, a declaration about what the Trump administration has done to address whether people it sent to Ghana earlier this month are being sent to countries where they fear persecution or torture.
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Ohhhh that’s a beaut! 💪🏼🙀🤩
Black Swallowtail larvae enjoying parsley that I grew from seed. Wonderful surprise guests! 🙀🤩🙀🌱
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Oh yes please! Looks yummy 😋
Well said!
Zinnias #BloomScrolling 🌱
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But…. “…as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free..” -Justice Kavanaugh
Worth noticing that Ukraine defended itself far better than NATO and against a much more extensive Russian attack at the same time. If we want to be safe we have to help and learn from the Ukrainians.
“The Next Terrorist Attack,” which I published in April. Please have a look. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
The worst cats I’ve known had names like Caligula. It’s been unclear which came first, the evil name or the evil personality?
Someone just sent me a bunch of examples of these. Apparently the site is flooded with them. There's gotta be a story behind all of these.
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a load bearing “our”
NEW: The messages on the bullets are from a video game called Helldivers2. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-the-me...
If you haven't seen it yet: this administration is cutting off funding to any higher-ed institution that predominantly served a minoritized group. That includes HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, etc. Historically, this has always been funded by Congress... www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
Psychopaths have cracked journalism ("act friendly and promise access and they'll write what you want") in the same way psychopaths have cracked the police ("cops can commit serial murder with relative impunity"). These are bugs in the sub-legal code of society.
The experts you may be looking for right now regarding what we are up against:
I think this is a pretty good intro to Fuentes. Just think the most proud Nazi/racist/misogynist you could imagine, only a little bit worse. He has a successful PAC and show called “America First,” and he just doesn’t think Trump, Vance OR Kirk are/were racist or brutal enough.
Whoa!
He's got Betty Davis eyes! 🎶
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
A year ago I would have said "good". Now I ask "how did they piss off the angry Cheeto?" www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/t...
Farage finally confirms: A Reform UK government would slash spending on disability benefits www.disabilitynewsservice.com/farage-final... via @johnpring.bsky.social
I feared this would happen. #EduSky www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/09/11/t...
Solely in my personal capacity, but based on my decade of experience as a government ethics official: yes, it is.
Her Hatred Just Lost Georgia Over 8500 New Jobs.
Just a reminder of who he has always been. #USDemocracy
Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk
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omg they finally added bookmarks
Donald Trump’s push for a Gaza peace deal was thrown into doubt after Israeli strikes hit negotiators in Qatar. “Let’s be blunt,” Jack Blanchard says on #playbookpod, “This makes President Trump look absolutely ridiculous.” 🎧 Listen: ow.ly/UYZ850WUuW2
"It's our own fault ... We allowed all these players into the market who never should have been there in the first place. They grew to be monsters and now we can't go back."
Good news 😅
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Lawyering at its best. I wish we had awards for this sort of heroic representation.
Remember when they tried to blame the 2008 subprime crisis on the Community Reinvestment Act, a law promoting loans in middle and low income areas that was passed back in 1977? They will *always* find a way to blame black people. It’s all they’ve got.
In his defense, he was probably drunk.
🧵 In an op-ed by @nacdl.org President Andrew Birrell & Executive Director Lisa Wayne, the authors describe a stark reality: "The government ran out of money to pay for justice." They explain that the funding crisis is not due to waste or fraud but is a "conscious decision by Congress."
I guess you can be vice president of a major corporation and have the brain of a gnat.🤷🏼♀️
The Post and Matt Viser are suggesting that 22 yrs ago someone impersonated Donald Trump in response to a request from Ghislaine Maxwell to Trump and created a fake card to embarrass him 22 yrs later when he would be President. I'm not going to dignify this nonsense with anything but laughter
"school shooting industry"
so much is bad right now but the AI stuff in particular is making me insane. a desperate attempt to smother all human creative labor at an absurd cost to the planet by some of the most short-sighted, rapacious, and pathetic people who have ever lived
19 people have died in Nepal's Gen Z Protests “Thousands heeded a call by demonstrators describing themselves as Generation Z to gather near the parliament building in Kathmandu over the decision to ban internet platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube... ” www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I was a volunteer for years on DV hotlines in two states, as well as a general crisis hotline back in the 1960s before specialized ones existed. I was also a battered wife myself. I know chapter and verse why Trump's attitude is so incredibly, extraordinarily, immensely heinous.
This should be seen for what it is: an effort to aid the disinformation campaigns of Russia, China and Iran.