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The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
They didn’t openly collect it on their hands and knees from the red carpet, where Putin left it?
I’ve personally encountered this argument from a wingnut, pre-MAGA. After momentarily being taken aback by the insanity of it, I noted that pools are highly regulated.
I suppose this follows naturally from gun enthusiasts’ arguments that accidental gun deaths are no big deal, because kids drown in pools all the time, and no one moves to ban pools.
This! They all accept the phony premise that this is about crime, as well as the once un-American one that deploying the armed forces to combat it is not just thinkable, but acceptable. It’s like we’re the only ones who ever had a civics lesson.
This! They all accept the phony premise that this is about crime, as well as the once un-American one that deploying the armed forces to combat it is not just thinkable, but acceptable. It’s like we’re the only ones who ever had a civics lesson.
Meridian Hill Park is exquisite and eccentric. At the far end of that grassy quadrangle in the video there’s a terrace with a statue of Joan of Arc and vista of the city…and below that, a cascade of waterfalls (picture). Among the other statues are Dante and, regrettably, a huge memorial…\1
U.S. Army veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II has been charged with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers” for participating in a mild anti ICE protest where he wasn't even arrested. The current acting U.S. attorney, Pete Serrano, has described the J6 rioters as “political prisoners.”
Judges are rebuking these prosecutors, jurors are rejecting their prosecution/persecution…why aren’t bar associations—particularly DC’s—disbarring these miscreants? bsky.app/profile/bren...
Someone’s doing good work in Arlington. Note the roses laid in memory of the victims of Epstein, Maxwell, and Trump.
…to another treasonous American president, James Buchanan. Here is a picture of the jaunty Joan Arc alongside it (she was missing the sword for years) to dispel your dismay…and inspire you to defiance. \2
Meridian Hill Park is exquisite and eccentric. At the far end of that grassy quadrangle in the video there’s a terrace with a statue of Joan of Arc and vista of the city…and below that, a cascade of waterfalls (picture). Among the other statues are Dante and, regrettably, a huge memorial…\1
“This is about confronting Trump in a way that undercuts his basis of power, even while embarrassing the press of all stripes to stop normalizing Trump’s authoritarianism.”
NOW: Judge Breyer finds President Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act with deployment in LA. Enjoins further use: Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
…And here is a thread with a link to that scabrous WaPo editorial I mentioned at the top: \10 bsky.app/profile/bren...
More Brazil reporting 🧵 bsky.app/profile/bren...
Maybe Brazil: bsky.app/profile/bren...
…The past four decades have been Brazil’s longest stretch of democracy (indeed, the aforementioned Getúlio Vargas was himself a dictator, see below), but they’re demonstrating that their younger democracy is stronger than ours was at the end. \9 bsky.app/profile/bren...
…”Brazil has experienced 14 coup attempts in its history, half of them successful.” Indeed, their flag’s “Ordem e Progresso” was a “Positivist” motto of enlightened despotism by the military junta who declared Brazil’s first Republic in a coup overthrowing the Western hemisphere’s only monarchy…\8
…“‘Brazil carries two pacts of silence,’ said Lilia Schwarcz, a historian at the University of São Paulo. ‘The silence over slavery and the violence it produced, and the silence over the military. That’s why this case is so symbolic.’”…\7
…The article has some good historical insights: “‘The country has never put in prison anyone who’s had access to state weaponry,’ said Matias Spektor, a political scientist at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a Brazilian university and research institute. ‘This is revolutionary.’” …\6
…From WaPo, here’s a reminder of how murderous the plot was: “Bolsonaro also signed off on a plan — printed at the presidential palace — to send a squadron of military operatives to capture and assassinate Lula, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Moraes, prosecutors allege.” …\5
…Not surprising, since Bolsonaro orchestrated his “Capitólio Caipira” with Trumpists in Florida: …\4 bsky.app/profile/bren...
…Here is a new detail: “Federal police last week recommended additional charges of judicial interference against Bolsonaro and his son, Eduardo, citing the federal congressman’s repeated meetings with White House officials where he encouraged punitive measures against Brazil.” …\3
…The portrayal of the decrepitude of this would-be dictator is heartening: “The clash has appeared to diminish Bolsonaro, both politically and emotionally. He has been locked away in his house, in ailing health, dealing with chronic hiccups and wearing an electronic ankle bracelet.” …\2
This excellent reporting (Terrence McCoy & Marina Dias) illustrates how badly Bezos and his flunkies on the Opinions pages betrayed a great newspaper, effectively inciting violence against Alexandre de Moraes last summer in an editorial…\1 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Almost distracted me from the two gestapo following him.
Bolsonaro won’t be at the opening of his trial: he’s got hiccups, to the point of vomiting 🤣: “De acordo com seus advogados, ele não está em boa condição de saúde e, por isso, foi desaconselhado a ir ao tribunal. Bolsonaro tem enfrentado crises de soluço, que, por vezes, levam a vômitos.”
Well, is it “drifting” or “sliding”? All these people still warning us about what has already happened have succumbed to the fallacy of Zeno’s Paradox.
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Starmer is just another yob now.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Killjoy.
For all the talk about Trump’s health (which, to be sure, is not great), the most likely outcome is that, like Kim il-Sung or Castro, Trump won’t die until he’s so old that it has little political importance in terms of the life expectancy of the regime. The regime is embedding itself very deep.
if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
Bolsonaro won’t be at the opening of his trial: he’s got hiccups, to the point of vomiting 🤣: “De acordo com seus advogados, ele não está em boa condição de saúde e, por isso, foi desaconselhado a ir ao tribunal. Bolsonaro tem enfrentado crises de soluço, que, por vezes, levam a vômitos.”
Get well, Mr. Mayor. Whoever did this is dethpicable.
In a dictatorship it’s healthy to spread rumors about the regime, along with derision and disrespect. …When he snuffs it and the Yale couchfucker is in power, that’s when you spread rumors that he’s alive, or that Vance had him poisoned.
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
I hope he plays up Collins’s tremor, too.
was gonna take the metro back but on second thought I’ll just walk
As if it weren’t bad enough arming this genocidal state, they’ve dropped the pretense of being an ally and are a hostile foreign power on a par with Russia: espionage, election interference, disinformation, incitement, and attacks on Americans’ civil rights. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Evil Stuart Smalley.
Lots of interesting detail here, like this: “I was struck by something else — …The oddity of Trump appearing tie-less. In fact, all the men in the photo op are not wearing their ties, making clear that this was a coordinated decision to align with the president’s sartorial choice.”
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Like those pogroms they called “race riots” in our history books. They even called Tulsa that.
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
A nation ruled by Nazis and their snitches and bitches.
“…‘Does [Trump] have to establish up front in some clear way that he knows she did something that gives him for cause removal basis or can he just go ahead and remove her?’” How much more plainly did Judge Jackson have to say it? It’s Calvinball. There are no “procedural questions”. \5
…like “breathtaking” to describe our dictator, or, like this one, fail to recognize the laws are inoperative under this despot and his star chamber Court: “Duke U. law professor H. Jefferson Powell said there is also a procedural question:…” \4
“…The court’s conservative majority ruled the Constitution vests all executive power in the president, so Trump could fire the agency heads ‘without cause’ even though Congress set up the agencies to be insulated from political interference.” Experts and critics, meanwhile, use breathless words…\3
I document WaPo a lot, and can give you egregious examples, but here’s a good one from NYT. I wish I could remember where, but someone posted a while back where this looks like high level intervention involving lawyers. It used to be a copywriters’ and typesetters’ job. bsky.app/profile/josh...
Lol, they have. bsky.app/profile/prem...
“If those people had just voted the other way, they’d still be getting bombed but we’d let them get their prosthetics in America” doesn’t seem like a great counter argument.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
We’re a satrapy of Israel when we’re not one of Russia.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks at a Labor Day rally, where he calls for "No federal troops in the City of Chicago!" and says "We're gonna defend our democracy in the City of Chicago!"
It’s clear we’re seeing editors intervening in headlines and subheads, which are all most people see, and which, from outlets like WaPo and NYT, offer cachet that even worse people exploit by reposting.
Signed, Mikey “Muffuletta” Ragusa.
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This is the first time I’ve ever actually wanted to see a Trump press conference. Lord 🤦🏽♂️
second thing bsky.app/profile/cweb...
Don’t know what to believe, and not getting my hopes up, just reposting so that people can indulge enjoyable reveries about this monster suffering pain and fear, and his minions in confusion, like insects, their bloated queen dying. Happy Labor Day!
They will soon enough.
Don’t know what to believe, and not getting my hopes up, just reposting so that people can indulge enjoyable reveries about this monster suffering pain and fear, and his minions in confusion, like insects, their bloated queen dying. Happy Labor Day!
Today’s press pool photo shows Trump leaving the White House this morning. I enhanced the image. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his forehead? Right above his nose and right brow.
…Here’s the reporting: “They differ from previous showdowns because of the sheer magnitude of the authority Trump is seeking to wield and because he wants greater control over powers the Constitution ascribes to another branch of government….” \2
The reporter’s (Justin Jouvenal) characterization of Trump and thr Court’s assertions of his power are surprisingly close to describing our dictatorship plainly. In fact, the reporter’s take is nearer the mark than those of lawyer-brained “legal experts”…\1 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“I could be one of the diers.”
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…Nice video by someone who researched the origins of that picture and the subsequent story of the girl in it, Kazimiera Mika. \3 youtu.be/ZRdw3uFPg8I?...
“I could be one of the diers.”
Texas Blocks Law That Would Ban Gun Stores From Operating Inside Psych Wards http://theonion.com/texas-blocks-law-that-would-ban-gun-stores-from-operating-inside-psych-wards/
…they were a full-fledged ally who kept nearly a quarter million men under arms, largely with the British—most famously as pilots in the Battle of Britain—then in Italy and Normandy, later with the Russians, before being abandoned at Yalta. They certainly resisted the Nazis more than we have. \2
Honor Poland today. They didn’t just fight the Nazis—they were invaded sixteen days later by the Russians. They were occupied for nearly five years and offered Europe’s largest resistance movement. Just as meaningfully (and more effectively)…\1
Trump now routinely barks orders to the Opus Dei Court and they do whatever he commands of them.
It’s sarcasm, very sulfurous sarcasm.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
Not quibbling, but many of us grasped it fully and immediately last summer as a declaration of Court sanctioned dictatorship. While it was a shock from which I’ll never recover, at least it prepared me mentally to be unsurprised by anything and to expect and prepare for the absolute worst.
Through its work in disease prevention, the CDC has saved millions of lives throughout the globe. Some of Trump's partisan critics question his plan to dismantle it.
It’s not genocide until they use hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide vans. Do you even know the difference between a clip and a magazine?
“…Earlier that evening, Giuliani had stopped to assist a woman who flagged him down….” No lacunae there! “Ragusa said she was a victim of domestic violence and that Giuliani contacted the police and remained at the scene until law enforcement arrived.” And then, BANG! See, it all adds up. \2
Why all the cackling? It’s clear as mud, and Mikey “Muffuletta” Ragusa is on it: “…The car that Giuliani was riding in on Saturday night was hit from behind at high speed, said Giuliani’s head of security, Michael Ragusa…” \1 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
Where is the mainsteam media? Anyone out there? Can you hear me???
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
Thank you, Miccosukee tribe!
AM I DEAD
@lartist.bsky.social
🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles
The only thing that keeps them from killing all these children is fear of consequences. This is John Roberts’s America: youtu.be/2-OpC6tnJ9c?...
Well, they are Ivanka’s.
What on earth is that too-big cap? Is he driving a choo choo to the neither regions?
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