Probably a coincidence, but....
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Probably a coincidence, but....
Have to agree.
Purely an observation of course, but it sure feels that way.
To save higher education in America, we must turn to...Bari Weiss and Ron DeSantis. This is apparently not satire
The perfect place to award Rudy G his Presidential Medal of Freedom:
This is not only true statistically, if you frequent trial level criminal courts, it is obvious from the number and nature of defendants there regularly, especially in custody ones. It is different.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
The irony/idiocy of this banner screaming "American Workers First" is that Trump has forced more than 199,000 federal workers out of their jobs since Jan. Nearly 1 in 10 federal workers gone. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
This. Also, too, quit listening to academics instead of actual people.
"...immigration agents would not have been able to access the site without help from Team 7 leaders." “Fire areas are officially closed, very secure and there are roadblocks...Somebody would have had to tell these agents how to get there.”
Of course the Trump Admin fired the actual competent people:
I love this story!
Yeah, Xi, Putin and Modi are smiling and laughing their ass off at Trump and the US. And rightfully so. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
If James Comer and Ro Khanna are involved, this is probably going to be a giant shitshow:
Oh.....
Jesus Fucking Christ. But this was always the end point for Trump's idiotic obsequious nature with Putin and Russia vis a vis our sovereign ally, Ukraine.
Oh, I know who he is. He was a local activist stooge who went to work for former nut job AZ AG Mark Brnovich at a position he was never qualified for.
It's not even evidence yet, just naked accusations. That is why process is critical. There is a way to test this, and it is not how Trump has gone about it. He is not entitled to any presumption of credibility at this point; in fact, quite the opposite.
The Concierge Culture www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/the-...
No! Demand evidence, don't engage without it, and it is not Cook's job to "disprove" anything.
Oh, I fully understand, and the track record in that regard is clearly there for that. However, my objections would really be no different if it were a lily white man appointed by a Dem with 12+ years still remaining on their term.
Right. During brief recesses, the Judge became exponentially better informed than the designated attorney the government trotted out. It is embarrassing for the government to be this consistently shoddy.
A) they were awesome. B) credit to Judge Sparkle Sooknanan for not just issuing quick orders and moving with haste. But also for taking her time to get the facts and calling out Ensign’s BS. She never let his “well I don’t know”s go unanswered
bsky.app/profile/anna... This is the money statement
The intent is cruelty. As the judge correctly notes, this would not normally be done over a holiday weekend when they hope it isn't noticed.
Well, yes, and the skin color of the person being so treated is not the important point. Not at all, even if it is indeed notable.
the TVPRA is the law but the name robs it of its context: it is the statutory enforcement mechanism of the 13th amendment. Judge Sooknanan is talking about the TVPRA because the government is, or is at least trying to, traffic children.
The clear upshot here is that the government, and its attorney mouthpiece Ensign, have no idea what is really going on. Just another attempt to hurriedly deport children without notice or proper process. It is sick. Thanks to @kyledcheney.bsky.social and @annabower.bsky.social for today's coverage.
William Pulte and Ed Martin will be all over this one, I’m sure. Which of the three houses will Martin start staking out?
If you're interested in the well being of men, you should be interested in the well being of prisoners, and their ability to move into honorable lives after they get out
Ms. Murkowski, you long ago gave up credibility in stating "concerns" over administration + Republicans threats to us. Your words ring hollow. No way can people can believe you now since you sold them out for OBBBB! You revealed yourself as the egotistical self-interested climber that you are!
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
Hope the Gators can beat Lithuania! That is what LIU stands for, right?
Aw geez, RIP Mark Knoller.
I'm sure Pulte and Bondi are all over this:
If Texas and OSU are two of the three best teams in the country, it is going to be a very long season.
It's not the greatest show, but Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) is awesome as a fictional version of himself, who happens to be Angela's father on Bones. He is also an absolutely terrifying (prospective) father in law. He appears throughout the series.
Lol, am watching Bones on Ion right now. Billy is great (though think he's not in this episode).
you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now
Wait, are people just now catching on to this?
I understand operating an airline is a pretty thankless enterprise, but it is hard to have much sympathy for chiselers like Spirit.
Zandvoort is absolutely gorgeous this morning.
If the shit fuckers at Spirit Airlines did not charge you for breathing and having one piece of luggage, out of crapbox little airports, maybe the shitheads would not always be in bankruptcy.
Chuck Schumer will go down as one of the biggest pieces of worthless shit in US Senate history. In a historical body known for that. The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Taking on Susan Collins newrepublic.com/article/1996... via @newrepublic.com
Lol, @stoutpotentials.bsky.social is apparently more of a demagogue than bright. In fact, she did not block me yet. What a blowhard.
What a load of shit. Blue is a useful medium, and nothing more. Same as many others, including Twitter. Acting like you are holier than thou and better is a pretentious lie.
Lol, the "promise of Bluesky" is more self serving bullshit that every "new platform" pitches. Bluesky is what it is, but the effort to make it some egalitarian utopian enterprise is laughable. Mastodon tried that frivolity, now Bluesky is pumping that nonsense. Stop and rethink.
That is no out for EE. I'm sorry, I am done with these whiny two faced frauds.
Intellectually AND physically. But that is exactly who that jackass has always been.
Prominent right wing influencer's wife is dying faster because of policies he voted for: Blames "the left" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/prom...
Lol, this is pretty much EVERY police department:
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Georgetown’s Adam Levitin demolishes Trump’s case against Lisa Cook: www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
Yeah, ouch on the draw.
Oof, not a good draw. D.C., sandwich guy needs us to do some courtwatching.... bsky.app/profile/jord...
Seems significant:
All the best things come out of the 9th.
This Thiel lieutenant / eugenics freak thinks billionaires should have their own lawless artificial island countries ("seasteading"), there should be markets for selling human organs, and the FDA should allow drugs to be sold without evidence they're effective. www.citizen.org/article/jim-...
Yeah, agree.
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
Lol.
The injustice continues. A terrorist is now being honored by our military... My latest God I'm pissed!!! substack.com/@harrydunn/n...
So many to choose from with this admin, but good god this is despicable
WTF?
This is unconscionable and sickening.
Not a posthumous insurrection charge, but a pardon and full military honors. Amazing.
Sans surprise
What a picture of losers. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/the-...
In the first year of Trump’s first term, his HHS Secretary had to resign in September because he spent too much money on private jets. I’d imagine that destroying the CDC might cost more?
When you serve on a grand jury or a trial jury its you who decides if the actions are criminal... Sandwich guy is not a criminal, he is a working class hero Art by @hucktooner.bsky.social
Wow
The director of CDC has not quit and is saying that RFKJr will have to fire her. In the background: RFKJr incited a gunman to shoot up the CDC. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
“Fuck you guys, go home!” “Leave!”
Neighbors jeer as ICE and MPD pack up a road block they had stationed on Rhode Island and South Dakota in DC.
Um, no, JV Last is shit and so are his purported "questions": Some good questions from JV Last www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/some...
Does America's deer killing grandfather, Chuck Grassley, know about this?
Yeargh.....Unfortunately.
NBC reports — as of now — four senior CDC officials are out, in addition to the director. CDC director pushed out, flood of top resignations follow www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:
The CDC is one of Atlanta’s crown jewels. Dedicated public servants who are tireless advocates for public health. They deserve better than this administration’s disregard for science. We deserve much more from our government than conspiracy theories and indifference towards individuals’ well-being.
god they’re all such delicate hothouse flowers
Can the health secretaries in the blue states organize themselves as the 23 Dem AGs do and start more aggressively pushing back on what Kennedy is doing? Their citizens are at risk.
At least four major scientists out at the CDC today. Kennedy's assault on our public health just keeps escalating..... insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Eh, am a cash poor boy, but how much will support moar good poasts?
No matter the history, and no matter plain language. That which is simple is now "complicated". But that is Baude's silly wont and style.
So, count @nathantankus.bsky.social as one of the few people to concentrate his focus on the one person who matters: Jay Powell. We thought Powell was a corporate stooge empty suit good only at sucking up to power. Most left of center types disagreed. We'll see! www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What accountability can be brought?
Lol, Comer and Mace:
Prosecutors who don't really want an indictment usually don't take a matter to the GJ.
Trump administration moves to bar states and even private (!) nonprofits, such as Red Cross, from helping undocumented immigrants after disasters. Evil. s2.washingtonpost.com/4467742/68af...
What the FUCK
Oof, don't hold it too long.
Here is the thing....People who say it never happens don't know. It does, but is rare. Would love to see the actual GJ transcript to see how Shroff played it, because she almost certainly did make a play. That is the stuff nobody sees.
We are old.
But he had a submarine. Not one of those woosie hoagies. A submarine with nuclear jalapeños I tell you.
They are not really a foot long. Maybe not even a big ten inch.