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The moderation system here at Bluesky @safety.bsky.app is really amazing. An impersonator account scamming people was taken down within five minutes of reporting. The block function is nuclear. I can hide offensive replies, and even replies to replies. I truly feel safe here. Thank you @bsky.app
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com In America’s vaunted system of checks and balances, “We, the people, have always been the real check, the most important balance,” Frank Bruni writes. “But we must recognize what’s happening, sit with the alarm of it and rouse ourselves to push back.”
Has anybody tried contacting the DCPD and asking for a wellness check on Trump?????
I went to Hawaii when I was a kid. I got to hang out with some native people and learned a bit - maybe more than I intended as it mostly happened by accident when trying to party. Not sure when I will get to go back there but I am trying to learn American indigenous history more and more these days
Wrecking her career - Priceless
What Newsom is doing is he is not giving them the benefit of the doubt. He is responding to the obvious implications of what Trump is doing rather than quibbling over whether or not that’s what he’s doing. trib.al/M2pTjom
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
something's up with his mitochondria
ATP deficiency
600 in the putative class. 76 of which were loaded onto planes.
Make it clear AIPAC is a partisan Republican organization with no place in the Democratic Party. Tear the whole rotting structure down. The pieces can be picked up later after Israel has undergone a period of reform and renewal.
Things will just get worse for Israel. The only way to get some measure of justice for the Palestinians is to keep ramping up the pressure on Israel until it cracks. That means protests need to keep ramping up in intensity. Name and shame those in the west who have been supporting Israel.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
The reality is that we are much stronger than they are. If it comes to a fight, we absolutely can win, and fighting is vastly preferable to what they have planned for us. As with all human conflict, being prepared to fight is how you prevent bad outcomes. They can be deterred. They can be defeated
If there is some constitutional process or law that seems to justify what they are doing, just ignore it and say no, not here, not under any circumstances. Do not be polite Just say no, and make it clear you would rather go down swinging than to accept a future where they can disappear you at will
Trump, and most of the people around him, are both exceedingly dangerous, and not that bright. 99% of what they are doing falls into the “baffle them with bullshit” category, and is really not that hard to counter. Mostly people just need to refuse to allow it to happen.
It's often been debated if Trump could pull off a fascist takeover of the United States, because he's clearly not very smart. I talked to @anneapplebaum.bsky.social about that for my newsletter
Good
Amanda has been doing some of the best on the ground reporting in DC
There is no time limit on how long a war lasts, or should last. If Ukraine wants to keep defending itself, Europe should keep arming it, along with extracting whatever help they can from the U.S. until Trump is gone.
What a thread:
There isn’t a paper trail for lots of this stuff in the best of times, but in the current conditions there are a lot of incentives to actively minimize record keeping. Maybe there is some way to safely square that circle and give future historians something to work with.
Probably should be a lot of these projects. There is a ton of stuff happening which just isn’t in the news, and is likely to be lost to history. Resistance stuff especially. There are large numbers of activists fighting ICE, prepping their cities, organizing protests, etc.
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
How can it be temporary? You think the crime will stay gone when they leave?
The danger he represented was obvious in 2016. That was the whole point of the Resistance. I think that most partisans on both sides got it from the beginning. The Republican base wanted a dictator, the Democratic base was in vehement opposition. For the middle though, it’s endless denial.
lol, you have a deep misunderstanding of what either “failed” or “proxy war” means, and quite possibly both.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
It’s obvious at this point that Trump has no intention of leaving office at the end of this term. Fortunately, it seems his heart won’t make it that far anyway. JD is warming up his arm.
Convenient, considering they are running out of heavy armored vehicles to pull from storage.
Now this is the attitude ALL district attorneys need to take when it comes to dealing with Trump.
Hope not. I hate having to reset just to switch the difficulty level from beginner to hard mode.
🚨”Milk prices jumping from $7 to $14… produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year.” Trump’s grocery prices are already too high but soon it could be so much worse. fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
I thought beating up the skinheads *was* the fun
It appeared this masked guy was deciding who should get pulled over, but once we stood two feet away filming him, someone else came and took his job.
This is one of the funniest stories I’ve read in a long time www.thecut.com/article/astr...
Together, those put us right at the technological frontier on the most strategically relevant developments. Barring Trump, the world would be transitioning back to unipolarity over the next decade. We can still get there. Not with conventional tools, but those aren’t the only kind available.
Reasonable to ask. I think we could still stitch back together after a period of intensive reform. If we do, there is every reason to think we will continue to be the preeminent power in the world. We are lapping the world in AI, quantum computing and space launch.
Walz, Lamont, Green and Hobbs. Would have been nicer with all 23, but I guess they had their reasons.
Who didn’t sign?
City leaders said they have not heard from the White House, though Trump border czar Tom Homan told reporters in Washington D.C. Thursday that preparations were underway for an immigration crackdown in Chicago, and reports said it could commence as soon as next week.
Looks like someone smacked him with a two by four
They want to be a totalitarian dictatorship so bad they can taste it. The one constant since Jan 20 is how much of a hurry they have been in. Maybe because Trump is so old? Regardless, they are desperate for it, and they aren’t shy at all about telegraphing their intentions.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Kash Patel and John Ratcliffe Predicate ANOTHER Investigation on Emails Stolen from Foreign Spies www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/28/k...
So I guess their fellow firefighters ratted them out?
U.S. policy should probably be more neutral towards India anyways, with a focus on soft power, immigration, and economic ties. There should be more effort put into basic public diplomacy, and less effort put into enticing them into aligning with us against China.
♛ In the latest Culture Current, Rouda Alserkal opens up about becoming the Gulf’s first Woman Grandmaster — and the pressures of representing a country, a culture and a gender reut.rs/4oNxcKG
They needed to terrify people and get them to become refugees, so they cut off the food and launched an indiscriminate bombing campaign to force people out of the cities.
Regardless of what Biden agreed to, the Israeli conversation immediately turned to ethnic cleansing as the preferred policy. Biden moved to restrain that, and many Israelis like to pretend it was a fringe view, but it quite clearly was not. Starvation and high civilian casualties were essential.
Yeah, I mean, normally that would be a red flag or something 🙄 Seriously though, Netanyahu’s team bumfuzzled Biden into agreeing to a program of ethnic cleansing on day one. There was even initial work by State to make agreements with host nations before someone realized it would be bad.
What is amazing is that this was obvious well before the summit. Within a day or two of the initial mistake actually. It’s astonishing they went forward with no basic agreement in place.
Trump’s hatchet man left out a few details when citing an Obama DOJ case he uses to try and justify his selective targeting of Trump’s political opponents with an agency that is supposed to be non-political.
Some of these posters who think every frontline Dem is doing politics wrong should run for office, there’s always a need for good recruits in red-leaning seats!
They can start by hiring all of those people who are being pushed out.
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The is a crisis among young men. We would be wise to pay attention. My latest adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/young-men-...
That could be problematic if Palestinians in the West Bank started acting up. Not clear to me what vital Israeli interest is served by endless war, but it’s obvious how it benefits Netanyahu.
I think it is fair for a President to be required to have a basic grasp on how the economy functions, but at a minimum a President should be surrounding himself with people who do. Of course, it is different if your goal is to only benefit yourself and your cronies.
Property values fixin to fall in Texas. Smart. With Trump choking off trade demand for U.S. assets will fall regardless. Which makes us poor. Not just because of falling asset prices, but also from reductions in the flow of cheap productivity enhancing capital goods, and endless other reasons.
“Appears to derive” What it appears to be is obvious bullshit.
Unlike invading American cities, decisions like this, and deployments like this, are an appropriate exercise of Presidential power. Probably dumb, but appropriate. It’s also probably a good way to extort the cartels into buying Trumps crypto coins.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
Republicans have been putting huge amounts of money into this for years
Just arrest them
Or just arrest them for espionage
I mean, if he takes it we can just give it back
Given the dates she cited, this sounds like she is encouraging us to relax our rules of engagement.
Must say, it is the best idea I have heard in ages.
Better late than never
Well, unless you are pretty sure the dollar will fall. Pretty reasonable, but still seems dangerous
Seems like a mistake.
It’s been a very common reaction among elites of all types. The only serious pushback is emanating from the grassroots of the Democratic Party and some independent media.
lol
Solar+batteries is cheap, and seems poised to become ridiculously cheap. If go off the grid, DIY installations are increasingly feasible for people who are not experts. Even easy in many circumstances.
I like Macron. Wish he would give more stuff to Ukraine
Fuck, it took months of protests to get them to change tactics. They were intentionally maintaining Gaza on the edge of starvation and setting rules of engagement that allowed for essentially unlimited collateral damage. Fuck everyone involved sideways.
Great interview, but fuck that guy. Ethnic cleansing was the policy on Day 1, and only went underground because of protests. Israel did change its tactics for the attack on Rafah. That was a good thing, and it only happened because of massive political pressure on Biden from protests in the U.S.
Not sure how productive it is to attack Trump as a socialist over the Intel deal, and proposed defense industry investments. There are other ways to frame the issue that doesn’t lead some voters who should oppose him to be Trump curious.
If you didn't manage to see this calmly furious and defiant statement by @govpritzker.illinois.gov yesterday, please find 12 minutes to see or hear it today. Best, strongest statement by sr official of where we stand and what is needed now. Civil duty to see it. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on Palestine, has been sanctioned by the Trump administration for documenting and demanding accountability for Israeli crimes. "I'm not going to step back and I'm not going to stop my work," she says of the U.S. pressure campaign.
This age is way more gilded
They wanted it then. They want it now. They want us dead, or in camps.
Don't buy into Trump's nasty narrative about Chicago. This town, its leaders and residents are standing up to Trump in remarkable fashion. Anyone who cares about democracy should be proud ...and join the fight if you haven't already.
"The president views states and municipalities controlled by political opponents as something akin to conquered territories which must be bent to his will by force." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-ki...
It’s a great speech. Very strong. I hope people like Governor Polis are taking notes. Just because 4ID is at Ft Carson is not a reason to be such a little bitch.
Good for them. These are the kinds of voices that will need to lead a reform effort in Israel moving forward.
Israel’s government and its conduct of the war in Gaza has even managed to alienate some Orthodox rabbis in the United States, who have historically been among the state’s staunchest supporters (and yet, so far, the government is ignoring these critics, as well) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Yeah, US outlets haven’t exactly been covering themselves in glory.
Here is Rachel's interview with @pkrugman.bsky.social about tonight's breaking news of Donald Trump attempting to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board. youtu.be/hWWKo6VSXbs?...
LIVE: Israeli hostages' families announce 'Day of Disruption' Israeli hostages' families deliver a statement announcing a ‘Day of Disruption,’ calling for an end to the Gaza war and for all the hostages to be released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLjU...
If Israelis don’t like what their nation is becoming, they should do something about it. Stop being deferential to those in power. Elections are important, but it doesn’t give the people who won them carte blanche to destroy the country.
Those people are still in charge, still refusing to prioritize hostages, still refusing to take any steps to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians. Instead of doing those things, they have managed to become war criminals, and turn Israel into an international pariah.
That led directly to the loss of hundreds of civilians who were caught in the crossfire, or murdered by rampaging militants. It was a military failure that was a result of a national leadership distracted by their attempt to impose authoritarian rule.
He was so focused on perpetuating his rule that he ignored multiple signs that Hamas was preparing to attack. October 7 was not some anodyne massacre. It was first and foremost a military defeat, with hundreds of active duty soldiers killed in combat.
Good for them. Netanyahu is an authoritarian who is destroying Israel with policies which appear mainly designed to ensure he maintains his hold on power. People should not forget what he was doing to eliminate checks on his regime in 2023.
Ah, see, there it is. I was wondering when we would see this. They lack manpower, and will attempt to solve that problem by mobilizing supporters to help out. Blue states need to do the same and secure themselves.
