Obviously Democrats looked at this as a no win trap and I'm not going to waste much time on it, but it would be nice if they could have stood together on the message that it was a no win trap. If Dems don't get more comfortable calling out bad faith bullshit, we're never getting out of this mess.
A good piece for today.
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Ah yes, who can forget Saul’s conversion on the road to Damascus when God demanded “Saul, Saul, why don’t you persecute black people”?
FUTURE HEADLINE PROBABLY: SCOTUS lifts stay blocking removal of Jimmy Kimmel from ABC on 1st Amendment grounds using the shadow docket with scant explanation. Kavanaugh's concurrence briefly cites Article II powers.
Americans are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living under Trump.
This might be the dumbest fucking sentence I’ve ever seen
"the grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos" Can these incredible dorks even hear themselves?
Elected Democrats are weirdly allergic to simple moral language even when it’s eminently justifiable.
If you know about Korea, you know that people will tell this story for generations. Given the scale, tech savvy, cultural sway, strategic importance, and national pride of ROK, this might be *the* most lastingly damaging, idiotic move team MAGA has made. Blessed by SecState Marco.
Trump so fucked over these farmers. Maybe he’ll bail them out again but that’s harder with the economy faltering and tariffs hitting almost every sector www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6EGMDRE/
Present at the Destruction
ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.
Nothing at Fox is fireable
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.
It *doesn't matter* who that was.
In conclusion, if Dems aren't talking about how Trump et al are stripping Secret Service protection from their politicial enemies—and aren't imposing political consequences on those who use violent threats to expand their power—then Dems aren't actually serious about stopping political violence.
This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen.
#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.
Greetings from Printers’ Row Lit Fest in Chicago. Please join me at 4 PM CT today, when I will be discussing my book, “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.”
More people in DC than in Wyoming or Vermont. Coming up on Alaska and North Dakota. Per capita, we pay more federal income tax than any of the states. (Incl NY, CA, CT, etc.) Voice in Congress: Zero. Have never before felt as much DC-specific patriotism—across race and class—as now.
I did not foresee the specific bombing boats in the Caribbean angle, but it has been readily apparent for years that Trump 2.0 would seek to use military force for ostensibly counter-narcotic purposes. From July 2023. www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...
"This is our reaction: business as usual, we are just in the court doing what we have to do". Raji Sourani of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza says they will not be deterred and will continue to seek justice from the International Criminal Court. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
Of a piece with the lawless use of the US military to kill people in the Caribbean. Misuse of the US military at home and abroad.
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump threatened to wage “WAR” against Chicago Saturday as his administration’s large-scale immigration raids loomed over the city. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
#ANewHope 🙏
I'm wondering if there are some unresolved personal grudges there, like "Johnny Byline got rejected by Harvard and had to go to Michigan instead so he's been dying to settle the score."
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"At least Trump wasn’t at the parade, standing next to Xi, Putin, and Kim, clapping like seal." - JVL
“I’m demanding justice,” Lisa Phillips, a model who was brought to Epstein’s island in 2000, said. “Congress must choose. Will you continue to protect predators? Or will you finally protect survivors?” Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Offshore wind is in Trump’s crosshairs. He plans to block Avangrid’s projects off Massachusetts, a move that captures the broader fight between his energy policies and renewable ambitions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Moskowitz: Do you think the Epstein list should come out? Farage: I have no opinion on it. Raskin: It’s been reported that he’s called for it to be released Moskowitz: I have it here. Do you agree with yourself?
A story about Meta’s community standards.
More than 97% of workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon national parks have voted to unionize. A big reason why? To fight back against Trump’s unprecedented attacks on our national parks. Here's what you should know. https://youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?feature=shared
This is damning for Trump. Calling the Epstein Files a "hoax." His base will be infuriated.
There are three special elections this month alone
“Recent government scrutiny and invasive inquiry into university curricula and programming have resulted in an unprecedented and unconstitutional attack on the freedom and integrity of academic institutions—and in some cases, also on religious freedom.” www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...
Ohioans should correct me if I'm wrong, but on top of everything else, I think the attack on vaccines may help @amyactonoh.bsky.social in OH next year.
Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now
This is what happens when you elect the comments section.
Rep. Jim McGovern: "Republicans are terrified because the president doesn't want to release all the Epstein files after promising that he would release them during the campaign ... What are they trying to hide?"
I REALLY need this timeline--not the Bluesky one, but the real one--to stop creating nightmare Mad Lib sentences that should not exist in the English language. "Vice chair of the Intelligence Cmte denied a meeting ... because Laura Loomer objected." That's, like, a mantra that opens doors to hell.
This why you don't defund the debunkers
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
On Tuesday evening, the Fifth Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, blocked removals from the Northern District of Texas under Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation. This is the case that went up to SCOTUS b/c of overnight-flight concerns, leading to a late-night emergency SCOTUS injunction.
What are they hiding? Public servants should face the public. Check out @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social's posters all around D.C. demanding that federal agents take off their masks.
Sing it.
I am a bona fide Congress expert with letters after my name and a long list of publications backing up the claim and this is 100% true.
Federal Court in Kohls v. Bonta, in Striking Down California Deep Fake Law on First Amendment Grounds, Sees Constitutional Path for More Narrowly Tailored Laws Aimed at False Statements About When, Where, and How People Vote electionlawblog.org?p=151838
Trump’s corruption is staggering - there is no real comparable example in U.S. history. Estimating the scale of his grift is difficult, but it’s at least in the hundreds of millions of dollars (cash) - all the way up to billions (cash + assets). Since January. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
MAGA, right? www.axios.com/2025/09/01/t...
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force The journalist @radleybalko.bsky.social explains the mechanisms Trump is using to create a personal army. open.spotify.com/episode/3OTs... youtu.be/UcTZ_en5FTM?...
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
BREAKING: Judge Xinis issues order barring Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia “until further order of the Court.” The admin stated earlier that it would not deport him during this habeas consideration. Also per today’s order, the habeas hearing is set for Oct. 6.
As we recently reported, an internal Department of Homeland Security memo lays out top officials' hopes for much more military involvement in domestic law enforcement, and even says LA-type operations may be needed "for years to come." newrepublic.com/article/1987...
That one person in the zombie movie who doesn't tell the rest of the group they got bitten.
the “be warned, we are taking names” part is what has been missing from most major politicians’ responses
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
UPDATE: Comer has subpoenaed Epstein’s estate. After I requested the birthday book with @oversightdemocrats.house.gov, the estate indicated it would comply with a subpoena with redactions to protect victims. The pressure is working. Let’s keep pushing for transparency & justice for survivors.
It is now April 2027. Donald Trump is insisting that he has stopped "1,027 wars" and Donald Trump is claiming that drug prices have fallen "one billion percent" and Donald Trump is stating as fact that someone is murdered in Chicago every 0.03 seconds. Reporters have made no effort to correct him.
“American fascism looks like the president using armed military units from governors loyal to his regime to seize cities run by opposition political figures and it looks like the president using federal law enforcement to target regime opponents.”
Obviously, I love this rhetoric in general, but I think the key distinction here is Pritzker’s very significant willingness to put a very prescient fact behind his threats: “Trump isn’t gonna pardon all of you.”
the National Guard deployment is the same thing as the military parade is the same thing as the glowering paintings of Donald Trump staring down at you is the same thing as torturing a small number of South American immigrants: he loves the appearance of tyranny.
This is the energy. But also these are just facts. The Trump administration, its allies, its contractors and subscontractors, and compliant corporations are engaging in acts that break federal and state laws and they should be on notice that those laws can eventually be enforced. Ditto lawsuits.
yessssssssssss
Not only is this some kind of "socialism" that the GOP has long decried, but it's selective, aka corrupt. How does this not put companies at risk of shareholder lawsuits, among other measures.
Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst. Every dictator in history has lied. Donald Trump is no different.
Friends — I’m going to express myself today in a way I’m not particularly comfortable doing. I hope you’ll forgive me. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/being-1
Intetesting take from a ... {checks notes} … forensic pathologist
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement
GOP: The Grand Ol' Pedophile Party. Protecting Ghislaine Maxwell, but Terrorizing Average Americans in LA and DC.
Robert Reich shouldn't apologize that his new book "Coming Up Short" is #1 on the New York Times Non-Fiction Bestseller list. "Essential reading for understanding this moment in American history.” - Molly Jong-Fast
When there was positive economic data under Biden, the New York Times told us to worry, with headlines like: “Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery” and “Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead” But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:
It’s a Soviet-like purge.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/w...
Congrats to...the Wall Street Editorial Board?...ok...for labeling this for what it is: "Where this goes is hard to know, but it’s an ominous turn in political lawfare. This is nasty business." If the WSJ Editorial Board can do this, so can other media. www.wsj.com/opinion/bill...
I remember someone sharing their grandmother's recollection about 1930s Berlin. "The Nazis were so nice, they always opened doors for me."
Such a shame he died today, the world would be better if that piece of shit had died decades ago.
Are these guys dense? Newsom is not trying to “mimic” Trump. He’s making fun of him.
Not breaking in the NYT — broken earlier by @thecity.nyc and although the Times acknowledges that fact, this article passes itself off otherwise as a reported piece, when it is from start to finish a largely verbatim (quote by quote) but uncredited cut and paste summary of The City’s report.
Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social : These are headlines. In wake of trump tariffs, John Deere announced layoffs. Pepsico will increase prices by 10%. Sony is raising PS5 prices in the U.S. by $50 across all models and electric bills are up 10% so far this year. ht: @acyn.bsky.social
just thinking about it makes me so angry. the worst kind of open race baiting in american politics since george wallace.
I doubt a Black reporter could have done this story and been "invited in." But, apparently, the Times does not consider that this fact may bias their story? How is segregated access "objective?" Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality.
Under threat from the White House of government retribution if they did not comply, two major law firms -- Paul, Weiss and Kirkland & Ellis -- are now doing free legal work for the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
BREAKING A New York appeals court has thrown out the half-billion-dollar judgment President Trump was facing in his civil fraud case.
My latest piece, on a child left motherless after ICE stole her mother away. And now this child herself is gone without a trace. It’s about what happens after cell phones stop recording and the viral moment fades, but the trauma to these families continues. open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
Very insightful conversation!
i remember when jd vance blamed the haitian immigrants to springfield for rising home prices. well, the prices will come down, because a mass departure of haitian workers will crash the local economy.
I’m sorry to say but the claim that the US under Trump is going to provide Ukraine with militarily enforced security guarantees, is simply the newest version of the Trump will hit Russia hard with sanctions delusion. Neither will ever happen, but if it makes you feel better….
Not surprised NYT cared more about reader engagement than not legitimizing a white nationalist compound being built in folks’ backyard; deeply fucking disappointed we’re doing this…again
All I see everywhere? My neighbors defending their community. Not sure Miller ever interacted with any of us from his cushy condo in CityCenter.
I can just feel the apolitcal military professionalism coursing through my veins as I crush an SUV with an MRAP
Molly Jong-Fast 