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Civil society is the guardrails—news organizations, universities, churches, prof organizations, foundations, other nonprofits, etc—not industry. This is not a new idea. They fought back in Trump’s first term. A primary goal in his second term is to crush these groups and leave society defenseless.
Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger
University presidents, take note
who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? WITSODHS???????? nymag.com/intelligence...
Mobster government; Trump always wants a taste. Literally demanding "a fee" that could amount to billions.
We've literally been waiting since 2016
We have gone through the looking glass. Will we find our way back out?
Is it possible they (stupidly) hoped lower courts would unquestioningly implement the implicit guidance and/or intentionally sowed confusion to foster conditions to justify the extraordinary action?
I think if you asked them, they'd say something like "lots of confusion in the lower courts (*that we caused*), time-sensitive issue, it is imperative that we intervene to provide clear guidance." At base though, I think they're just drunk on power and want to manifest UET ASAP.
“.. US Attorneys around the country must ask themselves whether they are willing to become just another instrument of political power. .. Each must be prepared to resign rather than baselessly punishing the president’s enemies ..” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...
Trump hyped a huge autism announcement for months then followed through today with a press conference where his brain leaked out of his ears for an hour while he couldn't pronounce "acetaminophen" and yelled "DON'T TAKE ASPIRIN" over and over. Congratulations, America.
Not a solitary citation to law. Any law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It’s crazy that ten years into Trump headline writers still treat his pronouncements as if they’re not all lies.
OK, we got the Antifa "order," and it's weak. It cites no specific laws. I imagine, this was the drafting process: Boss: Quick, Trump said something, what can we do? Lawyer: Basically nothing, other than enforce laws? Boss: Hmm. Well, make it sound like something, OK? Lawyer: I'll ... try?
Don't you first have to be an "organization" before you can be designated a "terrorist organization"?
That is not a denial.
Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”
The next time you have imposter syndrome, just don't.
‘Madison Sheahan, 28, who just six years ago was the captain of the rowing team at Ohio State University … now is the deputy director of ICE. "I absolutely think I’m qualified for the job," she told me. "Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?”’
Don't Look Up was a shitty movie, but captures the zeitgeist of the time quite well.
He’s sincerely the dumbest man to ever occupy the office.
Temple Grandin (first famous autistic person who came to mind) is 78. bsky.app/profile/atru...
this is up there with any of the worst things trump has publicly said in either term in office
"No cases if you don't test" logic all over again!
sorry, but i'm skeptical this guy is making a good faith effort to figure out autism
I understand that Roberts et al are impatient to show that they and only they have The One True Understanding -- that the Framers, many Congresses, and their unanimous colleagues 90 yrs ago were clueless. But...what's the hurry, really? Why so eager to allow clear violations of statute *beforehand*?
It’s politics, all the way down. The political scientists were right all along.
This whole press conference has big “didn’t do the reading but I gotta turn in the assignment” energy.
Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.
It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all
Just a reminder Kennedy is a quack that doesn’t know any of the research about autism. Neurodiversity is a type of normal human variation, which should be embraced rather than derided. Autism is not a disease, and trying to “cure” autism will only cause suffering and pseudoscience to flourish.
Even if the underlying facts were true (they are not), CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION
There's a wrong way and a right way to report this
The President sounds like this all the time these days and is clearly non compos mentis but it just gets a pass from Congress, from the courts, from the media, from Wall Street, from every institution, because it's Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump uses platform of presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence.
the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.
Will any of the affiliates air it? I can't imagine Kimmel met Sinclair's demands to apologize to the family and donate to TPUSA, so...?
J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."
the biden administration suspecting and proving that homan would take a bribe and then being unprepared to take the next step and just letting him walk away with $50k for doing nothing is so on the nose it just doesnt feel real
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
This is what election meddling looks like, propping up a fellow authoritarian abroad at the expense of US taxpayers.
Here it is: The @wired.com Politics Issue is now live, with more stories rolling out all week. We're so proud of this one. Behold this cover; truly a work of art. And we're treating it that way: Starting today, you can find it on murals, billboards, and posters across in five U.S. cities.
In his column for @lawfaremedia.org yesterday, Ben Wittes asked why Trump is in such a rush to prosecute his perceived enemies. “The answer is that—at least as regards Comey—a key statute of limitations is about to run.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.
RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!
In earlier times, we used to call this a Kinsley Gaffe
Spoke to a friend who’s pretty high up (one rung below C-suite) in a Fortune 500 last night and he estimated that ~50% of his time is wasted on strategizing and planning around Trump 2.0 capriciousness
The best Taylor Swift album *that's ever been mine*
“Tell me why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat [filled with migrants]?” - Stephen Miller’s alleged question to an Admiral during Trump Term 1
Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network. n.pr/3Kdrsdy
As @dandrezner.bsky.social notes, we must highlight where Trump's authoritarianism is failing, too. "Civil resistance works. Combined with the inevitable economic downturn, it is what will bring his regime crashing down to Earth." (cites my piece on this) danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-weakne...
Great job, everyone who voted for and supported the law that gave the President the power to unilaterally declare who gets to own a social media platform
The clown show that passes as immigration policy these days. Impulsive illegal policy change motivated by racism--> immediate backlash + furious lobbying by constituent parties --> piecemeal carve outs = utter confusion and fear.
Autistic traits are genetic and exist across every single human population, which means they had already evolved before Homo Sapiens migrated out of Africa. Autistic traits exist because they conferred our ancestors an evolutionary advantage due to its association with systematic thinking. 1/x
"Democrats should apply all the pressure they can. This is both a real case of corruption and coverup, and a colorful one. As Cava says in its ads, 'You shouldn't have to choose substance over flavor.' This scandal has both." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-scandal-...
Highly underrated as a general way to be
Re-upping this ahead of the beyond irresponsible TyLeNoL aNnOuNcEmEnT.
"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...
Not the biggest issue, but I am also curious what happens to the $50K to that FBI officials gave Homan. Presumably he just kept it? Did he report it as business income on his taxes?
Starship Troopers (2025)
At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.
At some level, much of Trump II is the ultimate revenge tour, and getting back at the Fair Housing Act for aggrieving Trump 50 years ago is just the latest example.
Props to the NYT for covering this, but at the same time how is it possible to write this article in 2025 and not remind readers that Donald Trump got his start in real estate by adhering to discriminatory rental practices (and continued to do so)? www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/u...
A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
new white house FAQ, which implies the $100k fee applies to cap-exempt orgs. what this means for universities: 1) if you hire a non-US citizen for a TT job, you have to pay the fee 2) if someone with an H1B visa on a TT job tries to change jobs, they also pay www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
This is such a weird thing to say at a memorial for a self-identified Christian.
I’m in Boston. This ad just came on TV
An open endorsement of hate - precisely what you do not want the President to do after an assassination when messages from leaders disavowing violence are especially important www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...
It is not about an effing meeting!! You sound like whiny fools. Stop
Tomorrow I'm launching a newsletter about confronting the dissolution of American democracy. Know anyone still grappling with losing our childhood faith in truth, justice, and the American way? Sign them up or pass this along. howtobeamerican.substack.com
Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.
To "yes---and" this: I wonder what happened on January 6th 2021 that precipitated all of these platforms to suspend his account while he was still President 🤔
It's not great that the best way to respond to anything the government suggests is basically do what George did in that Seinfeld ep where he does the opposite of everything his instincts tell him to do
This is so very dumb and misguided.
For added context on why the Trump Administration is wrong on tylenol/autism, read @jeremyfaust.bsky.social's thread. bsky.app/profile/jere...
jennifer rubin and bill kristol are now the left flank of the democratic party
wHY dOes EvReYoNE thINk they CAn dO poLitiCS? Stop funding authoritarianism. Stop thinking that you can negotiate with Trump. How about that?
The Trump administration continues to treat foreign nationals as less than human and commit new human rights abuses every day. In our name, with our tax dollars. Everyone involved must one day be held to account.
Incredible. We’ve literally erased the thing that destroyed Joe Biden’s presidency, which everyone said they wanted but really didn’t (& certainly not ) in less than five years. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
If you haven't seen this paper before by Jeff Harden and Erin Rossiter, you should! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The US attorney in Maryland, Kelly Hayes, is now telling people she's bracing for pressure to bring charges against Adam Schiff. But she also won't do so if the facts don't warrant it, NYT reports. More evidence that Trump's corruption is running into deep institutional resistance (see below).
Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes. That’s what this is.
“Of course, you realize this is all blatantly illegal” “Sure, sure, but they weren’t nice to our cult leader!” “Uh … touché.”
Get Dana Bash the fuck off CNN with this implicit "Trump said he would act like a dictator when he ran and he won the election, so 🤷 why can't he do this" shit. American democracy is NOT about majority rule alone. It's fundamentally about the tension between majority rule and minority rights.
At this point, anyone who has watched the past 10 years (let alone his pre-political career in real estate) and thinks Donald Trump will negotiate with them in good faith is willfully dense and should be removed from their leadership role.
Dear @schumer.senate.gov : Go fuck your craven careerist self and resign. Unacceptable collaboration with an undemocratic regime by failing to use all the tools in your toolbox to uphold the Constitution. At least STFU and stop torturing us with your drivel. —A constituent and political scientist
This chaos also speaks to the growing awareness of the profound corruption of the Supreme Court. The excessive H1B fee is clearly illegal according to the text of the applicable statute. But no one can have any confidence anymore that it will ultimately be thrown out.
The Watergate tapes were secret and the media knows it’s only a crime if the president is smart enough to keep it a secret.
The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list
This clear declaration that Trump views the DOJ to be an entity designed to impose his political retribution - alongside the clear evidence that it is already being used in this way - is impeachable.
Nixon’s presidency-ending crimes look like middle school pranks in comparison to the unprecedented corruption & authoritarianism now happening on a daily basis. We used to be a serious country in not tolerating this. We’ve lost our way. All because of One Special Boy 🤷♂️🤦♂️
We are hundreds of miles on the interstate past Watergate & the Goldwater-Rhodes visit to the White House. Maybe even a single journalist wants to ask Johnson & Thune why they are violating their oaths of office & not doing their damn jobs.
The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America. Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here. www.vox.com/politics/462...
Our problem is not the depravity, corruption, and narcissism of the president and his second rate minions, it’s the cowardly compliance of a great many wealthy and powerful people who could stop him and aren’t.