Everyone agrees with you, but hope never dies.
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Everyone agrees with you, but hope never dies.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
But that could be anything from voting machines to invading Canada .
10/ After 14 years of working on this topic, I tell you this with confidence: Highly invasive mercenary spyware is a power abuse machine. It's incompatible with Americans constitutional rights and freedoms. And our legal system and civil society is not prepared for the next chapter.
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
“Schumer suggested a shutdown would hand Trump an opportunity to cut programs like Medicaid and SNAP. Yet, even with the government remaining open, Trump has successfully cut critical public health, social service and research programs, including Medicaid.”
Rachael Bade tries to argue that “the same reasons Schumer gave for avoiding a shutdown back then also apply now.” www.politico.com/news/magazin... In reality, they didn’t apply then and they still don’t now. As argued here: open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...
Shocker
I can’t stress how dead DC is right now. Walking down U Street before and after a movie on Labor Day weekend, and it’s about as close to a ghost town as it was during COVID.
Nadler ‘said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel was committing mass murder and war crimes in Gaza “without question.”’
The military has no place in domestic law enforcement. Full stop. But also this - obviously pretextual.
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
Remember, the epidemic of mass shootings is neither inevitable nor unsolvable.
If we ‘voluntarily’ relocate all the residents of dc, crime will go to zero.
That’s objectively true.
Data from 33 cities across the country discredits the claim that bail reform causes crime to increase. bit.ly/4dkG58o
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
👇🎯 Attempts at being clever & contrarian are breaking folks' brains. A bigger problem that 15-25% of every R1 university's budget illegally being turned off almost immediately? A bigger problem than the abuse of state power to turn federal government-university relations into a protection racket?
What turns people into fascists is being given a permission structure to indulge their most paranoid and resentful fantasies about social decline and racial caste, which, as it turns out, also happens quite a lot online One such permission structure: “the libs yelled at me too much for my views”
Today marks the start of Suicide Prevention Month. This is an extremely personal subject for me, and I know it is for many of you too. As Co-Chair of the bipartisan Mental Health Caucus, I will keep fighting to raise awareness, improve access to support, and normalize reaching out for help. (1/2)
Two crews that had been digging holding lines, working to protect structures and conducting mop-up work were told to go cut firewood. Then they were ambushed by immigration authorities. @stateline.org kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/01/f...
Update on the Veterans protest at Union Station
But no matter what they say, pocket rescissions are illegal - and the exact part of the law that they claim *grants* the power actually directly prohibits it instead. However, even if the law did grant them the power, it would be unconstitutional under the LIVA decision. bsky.app/profile/bbko...
Somebody take Frederick Douglass’s magazine out behind the shed and shoot it.
So happy I stumbled upon the National Constitution Center's Interactive Constitution. The text is accompanied by short essays from legal scholars (e.g., @stevevladeck.bsky.social ) explaining debates about the interpretation of various sections and clauses. constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
Great turnout at today’s Labor Day protest. Bainbridge township in red Ohio knew the assignment. So glad my friend Darcy could join me with her VERY LOUD cowbell.
The state often leads the way in conservative lawmaking. Here are some of the most significant measures that kicked in Sept. 1, affecting education, healthcare, public safety, property rules, first responders and more. via @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social
Tangential but it’s notable that when California does things it gets reported as “Newsom” and when Illinois does things it gets reported as “Illinois”
oh good golly - what was the end of kirk's sentence?
Reading @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ‘s latest book. “Impunity, the sadist’s conception of freedom.” What a great line.
THIS IS HORRIBLE‼️
hardly a man is not alive who remembers desperately seeking susan. Which was a fantasic movie.
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
It’s not that they don’t care about drowning. It’s that they don’t care about anything, and feel that money should go into their pockets. But I do care. Don’t you?
The Washington post is the paper representing a city literally under an illegal siege by the government. Can we maybe talk about that?
This is actually very sad.
Our new #visibility brigade website is up! Lots of useful tools to helping us reach the necessary 3.5% #resistance to stop this horror. Please use and share! www.visibilitybrigade.com @jesscraven101.bsky.social @andreachalupa.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
""The people of DC deserve better than what the mayor said today. Our demand remains that all escalated federal forces leave DC immediately" 👀👀👀
My hot take on Gavin Newsom is there’s over 30 special elections coming up THIS year alone. secure.actblue.com/donate/speci...
The gullibility is breathtaking - et voila, the militarization of cities becomes framed as anti-crime
Finding the truth about conflicts in difficult to access regions is a challenge. Read as we take you through the processes required to identify and verify what is really happening in a conflict, using the recent violent uprisings in Manipur, India as an example. www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...
Undue Influence: The one-man social media network using AI to monetise anti-migrant hate. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/09/01/i...
Bet your diabetic grandparents were thrilled when Biden negotiated $35/mo. insulin! Well, too bad for granny! Felon Trump reversed Biden's victory for seniors against price gouging. Even MAGAs didn't vote for this!
seems likely now that trump is going to send ice/national guard/etc to blue cities before the election this year, making up some risk of mass protest or public disturbance etc — or “ballots from illegals” — that constitutes some BS emergency that will empower him before a judge can intervene
300,000 Israelis on the streets of Tel Aviv tonight calling for an end to Netanyahu's forever war and the release of the hostages.
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
Is it normal if every single federal agency has scores of whistleblowers
Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition was not under oath. She was not video taped, which is very unusual for a deposition. And there are many cuts where they stopped the audio tapes so lawyers could confer with her off-the-record. None of that stuff is the way you do a deposition.
LA was fine. DC was fine. Chicago is fine.
Don’t print lies in the newspapers. Don’t keep platforming the lying liars to performatively lie on your teevee shows. End the interviews immediately if you’ve messed up by inviting them anyway & they once again performatively lie in public. What is journalism, anyway?
Good use of scare quotes tbh
apnews.com/article/trum... This impacts a President George W Bush program that helps rural communities in Alabama, Maine, Kentucky, Louisiana, Appalachia… @statesnewsroom.com @alabamareflector.com @kentuckylantern.com @mainemorningstar.com @lailluminator.com
I agree with much of this thread, but I think it needs to be said: if unity is the way to get around fascists, we need to fucking unify, and that means at this stage, swiftly discouraging the wedge issue dividers in our own party.
There are bad people in the world.
Thread BREAKING: A new 38 page proposal shows Trump & Netanyahu are openly planning to take over Gaza & turn it into a casino & tourism resort. Here are the horrid details, & yes all of this is a violation of international human rights law & further confirms Israel is committing genocide. 1/4
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
I feel this
Leases? On emergency housing?
This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.
Trump is trying to repeal a roadless rule that prevents loggers from denuding National Parks—something they just announced and which public only has a few weeks to speak against insideclimatenews.org/news/3008202...
Someone called it wishcasting. Which feels like the perfect term.
Well. Also just a blatant lie.
Classic false dilemma fallacy. A common disinformation and populist tactic.
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.
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
The truth about Red States
Now they just need some more doctors and hospitals
That’s not all New Mexico is doing: bsky.app/profile/char...
This is the way
Also literally the Dark Ages.
Well put.
NEW: During an emergency hearing on Sunday afternoon, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plans to deport hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children. Read my live coverage of the hearing on @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
Late is the hour in which both William Broad and the New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...) express concern over the Trump administration's promotion of antiscience: 🧵
He knows that we didn’t have them a month ago right? And we were not obliterated?
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan holds an emergency hearing as the Trump admin is reportedly trying—imminently—to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children without required process or access to representation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
Oh same.
I’m sure you all know the irony here
If they shoot people they won’t have high blood pressure anymore
Raddatz: "One of the things that they're trying to do in D.C. with the National Guard is have them back up federal law enforcement." Gov. Wes Moore: "They're picking up trash."
I desperately want to interview one of these IRS cops relegated to beat cop.
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
I made a spreadsheet of all the federal cases filed as part of Trump's DC crackdown. It's not going great
When you view the presidency as the biggest potential grift of all time and you could not care less who gets hurt and you’re willing to take money from all parties foreign and domestic.
I love when neighbors drop useful goodies on your doorstep.
Chalk. It literally washes away.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
VOA was created to counter Nazi propaganda, and it had a prertt good run for a while. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
👀 apnews.com/article/paxt...
America in Reverse The ORANGE IDIOT in the White House wants to put America in REVERSE. “Rivian CEO says it 'blows my mind' that the US auto industry is reprioritizing capital toward gas-powered vehicles.” VOTING is just like DRIVING TO GO BACKWARD CHOOSE 'R' TO GO FORWARD CHOOSE ‘D'
Here is the terrifying truth: D.C. residents outnumber the populations of Vermont and Wyoming. What’s happening to them now could happen to those of us who enjoy the full privileges of the Constitution. trib.al/iYqQKGR
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Today, as the Israeli government “calls on tens of thousands of reservists to participate in the cruel re-occupation of Gaza City, I implore my fellow soldiers: Refuse to report,” Yotam Vilk writes in a guest essay.
