1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see
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1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see
WHAT A WIN!!!
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority 🧵
Both men intend it this way, meaning the don’t get into all the Bad News that they could, but this conversation with Bill McKibbin and @chrislhayes.bsky.social really is the most hopeful, optimistic thing I’ve heard in months. Smash the glass and use it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Somehow I’ve never encountered this before and it’s like the Sistine Chapel
Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gaza—the best way to get food to starving people there—so Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
Leon! Ard! Bern! Stein!
WATCH: President Obama added Chris Hayes' book, "The Sirens' Call" to his 2025 Summer reading list.
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I wrote a whole book about it!
Emil Wakim is immensely talented and funny and I’ll watch whatever he does next.
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
actual lol
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And I was planning a quiet evening ... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-emergen...
He’s not really defying the order because they stated it until October 14th so they are still in effect.
CAP ECON: “We obviously have no particular insight into whether the Supreme Court will uphold .. If it did, “Treasury would .. need to return most of the now-close to $100bn in additional customs duties .. and there is a danger .. other countries would back-track on any preliminary agreements.”
it's that or scream!
BREAKING: Most Trump tariffs ruled illegal by a federal appeals court. @chrislhayes.bsky.social reports on @allinwithchris.bsky.social.
I didn’t realize there was a theatrical release this weekend
this is a pretty interesting one. really could go either way
A federal appeals court has ruled that President Trump’s tariffs exceeded his authority under an emergency powers law.
Going live on MS at 6pm and will be covering this
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Yes and I’m one of the world’s foremost professional basketball players.
Correct and important distinction - us harmless cranks do not want to be associated with this guy
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
well, all political careers are going to die, for heaven's sakes
awww that’s a shame
The only reason for Emil Bove to be still showing up for Trump administration photo opps (in this photo from Trump’s D.C. takeover, peeking out at top right) is that Emil Bove understands himself to be part of the Trump administration on an ongoing basis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Trump’s Border Patrol raided a Washington wildfire camp, forcing firefighters to pause their work for hours. "Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller and their ilk are going to burn the country to the ground if that’s what it takes, so they can rule over the ashes," says Chris Hayes.
FWIW I think it’s helpful to just block liberally! People can say whatever you want (within terms of service) but you don’t have to listen !
I will always love this big beautiful boy.
This is about Trump saying back on Aug 11 that Nvidia will pay 15% of H20 sales to the US gov't as a kickback. *NVIDIA COMMENTS ON US GOVT 'EXPECTATION' TO GET 15% OF H20 REV *NVIDIA: ANY REQUEST FOR % OF REV "MAY SUBJECT US TO LITIGATION" *NVIDIA: US GOVT HAS NOT PUBBED REGULATION CODIFYING 15%
over over and over "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity"
@chrislhayes.bsky.social channeling the same level of anger I too feel about this absolute insanity, as well as every other case of the death of expertise on display in this regime. By platforming this crap, it seems Trump and the GOP are wilfully destroying our country.
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
I helped make this 99% Invisible episode about Cape Coral Florida that is all about that tension 99percentinvisible.org/episode/nbft...
Exactly.
Eventually this is all going to end backstopped by the government, but we’re heading for a version of it that basically acts like the bank bailouts with enormous moral hazard and the wealthiest most powerful getting the best deal.
There is a VERY strong reason to think that moving from private to public insurance will lead to political pressure that keeps premiums artificially low and incentivizes building in the riskiest areas. (See federal flood insurance)
To the finance people out there: If you thought Trump will successfully take over the Fed and go full Erdogan. - install a lackey who cuts rates whenever he wants him to - what trades would you be making?
“The Biden administration was totally feckless when it came to holding the Netanyahu government to the standard of American law and the standards that we claim to apply to every other country in the world when it comes to the duty to provide humanitarian assistance.” Senator Chris Van Hollen.
@billmckibben.bsky.social and @chrislhayes.bsky.social really got me focused and energized about the amazing potential of solar energy and wind power. Solar strengthened my sense of agency, that I can make a difference as an individual. Reading McKibben's book now!
that would imply Congress has the ability to pass laws, which from what I now understand is the president’s job
Ok, pass a law disbanding the Fed and making the president the nation’s central banker, if that’s your view.
Next week it'll be September. So far no sign of Republicans standing up to Trump in any meaningful way.
Bunch of folks pointed to Paul Krugman’s depressingly plausible answer, which is that in the case of extraordinary disruptions, markets are biased toward pretending things are normal until it’s undeniable, then tanking. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...
This is the way
This is crazy man we’re just totally separating ourselves from the global mail network just so we can do infinity tariffs
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This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
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.
There’s a pretty major conceptual error here, I think. It can be true that 1) Dems in the aggregate benefit from lower turnout and the least engaged voters are more pro- Trump AND 2) vote by mail for a number of reasons is disproportionately used by Democrats and getting rid of it would hurt D’s.
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
David Dayen nails it on Trumponomics, it is not a carefully crafted strategy, it is government by whim prospect.org/economy/2025...
Arguably the biggest story happening in the world right now and also the most hopeful. #WITHPod podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
To give you a sense of how nuts this is, Paxton claims a court of only Republican appointed Republicans is “Beto loving” because they asked for a response to one of his filings.
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
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Got a whole lot of text messages about this today!
Wow, block one of @allinwithchris.bsky.social tonight was powerful regarding our military in DC. @chrislhayes.bsky.social
“Soldiers wear camouflage to conceal themselves from the enemy they want to kill. Safety vests are what municipal workers put on so you can see them at work,” @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the “comically absurd” spectacle of Trump’s army of garbage collectors in DC.
Begging people to listen to experts on this. Many shooters are lost in this world of nihilistic trolling and so it’s important to be careful about what conclusions you come to. Often, they’re deliberately messing with your assumptions. Anyway, listen to the experts.
Explaining this: As a presidential nominee who was confirmed by the Senate, Trump has to fire her, and her lawyers say that has not happened yet, so she is still in office.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
There is this annoying post right wing influencers do where if the mass shooter is of a certain identity or on the left they go: it’ll be out of the news cycle tomorrow, doesn’t fit the narrative! what country do u think you’re living in, it’s out of the news cycle in 24 hours b/c it’s a shooting
this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
The plan for "gangbangers in Baltimore" offered by someone who influences the thinking of the VPOTUS. Relatedly, what his ex-girlfriend told The New Yorker: "When I asked her if she’d ever changed Yarvin’s mind about anything, she said she’d gotten him to stop using the N-word, at least around her"
Really important new study on the tax rate of billionaires from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al Upshot: The top 400 ultrabillionaires: 23.8% Avg Americans: 30.2% Yes, the superrich pay far less in taxes than the rest of us. www.nber.org/papers/w34170
Unspeakably horrible, and somehow also horribly familiar. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
I think this, from an influential 2011 book on executive power, explains why the American political establishment was so comfortable with the growth of the imperial presidency. They couldn't imagine someone of Trump's character gaining power.
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
Just perfect writing here www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
There is no conceivable interpretation of the law of war in which a camera set up nearby legitimizes a mass casualty double tap strike on a protected civilian site like a hospital. The fact that Israel is citing it as if it meets some standard should, by itself, trigger a halt in weapons to Israel.
Beginning to get emails like this from small overseas businesses I've ordered products from in the past. I guess this is freedom.
"There has just never been a president in recent American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
Trump working hard to make the central metaphor of my second book completely literal. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
On the train reading @chrislhayes.bsky.social's book while simultaneously doing the Connections and eavesdropping on another woman's call, and uh I think I get it
the old man is john brown, he got away and is enjoying old age in peace
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there. The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream. From me and others (see byline/contribs) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
Target cities should hold military takeover referendums. Get the population on record on whether this is what they want. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/think...
Yes! #WITHPod
A Chinese cell phone company pivoted to making EVs and within three years is delivering 350K cars a year. It took Tesla ten years to get there.
I don't care how deep into the deep state you get, there is nobody randomly looking at mortgage applications on performing mortgages. Anyone doing this would have to be asked to do it. And hopefully we will find out how and when they were asked.
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
there's always a local angle
The weirdos were right. The West really is committing suicide. But it's using the weirdos to do it. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵
S/O to @chrislhayes.bsky.social & Bill McKibben for a much needed uplifting convo on the unstoppable force that is green energy. Going to download the new book #HereComestheSun, obviously from @bookshop.org. #WITHPod .
Arguably the biggest story happening in the world right now and also the most hopeful. #WITHPod podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...