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wapo.st/4p4fPFE The most lawless presidency in the history of the USA. #NoKings
The alarm is flashing.
Let's break this BS all the way down to the last diarrhea, shall we? 1/
Pope Leo embraces Francis' legacy on LGBTQ+ Catholics, Fr. James Martin says Thank you for all you do, @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social!
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
I fear we are headed the way of Russia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwi-...
This does not bode well. Not at all.
Still an awful person... 7news.com.au/sport/tennis...
Fascism today in Florida - and across the USA. Yippee! www.axios.com/local/tampa-...
It was intentional. The last shot of several he took, which were mostly good. Just an old guy having some fun. We laughed.
That time when I asked an usher to take a picture of me and my friends at the ballpark, and this photo was amongst them.
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“Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky. Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.” Via @wired.com Urbanists too. Check out #UrbanistShoutOut.
"The best people..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Absolutely. The tax code needs to be revised for simplicity and fairness.
Ok, but the net benefit of all the jiggery-pokery (TX+FL+OH+MO-CA) is likely around 4-6 seats. Median midterm loss=13 seats. 2018 Trump loss=41 seats. It’s like bailing out the boat with a teacup. A desperation move.
Given how the situation arose, forewarned does not really mean forearmed. There is going to be a lot of pain felt in the US, especially among those "working families" DT says he is a champion for.
The impact of decades of growing wealth and income inequality is hitting nearly all areas of life in America (and elsewhere, too). www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
@donmoyn.bsky.social I wish you weren't on substack, but I really admire your insights and will share them nonetheless. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
Please keep doing what you can to get the message out there.
@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Fascism requires the death of expertise in the public sphere.
C'mon Iowa, show us that democracy matters to you!
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"blood witness"
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Fascism means the death of expertise. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Where we are according to people who know. Speak up. Act now. US democracy is in the crosshairs of the new fascist regime.
Amid the chaos in the US, some beauty. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
Minnesotans deserve better than the bs this lunatic is dispensing. VOTE THEM OUT.
If only the US had followed Brazil's appropriate response to a fascistic attempt to overthrow a legitimate election...
I am hesitant to refer people to substack (for reasons that should be clear), but this is worth reading. Moynihan knows his shit.
If Democrats want actors like law firms, universities, media, etc, to stand firm against Trump & for the rule of law, they need to raise the cost for them of not doing so. That may include threats that, when Democrats return to power, they may punish those who enabled democratic backsliding.
To boldly go... Well done.
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
Fuck yeah. Resist the fascist takeover. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That's terrific. Thanks for sharing (oldster not on IG).
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Dude is stuck in mid-80s NYC.
Nationalizing private businesses - I think there is a name for that. And I am old to remember when the GOP was vehemently against the practice. What this MAGA movement has wrought is truly incredible.
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
Thank you, sir. Please continue to fight to save democracy.
That was truly bold. I am glad you got the job. If you ever decide to change your mind about polls and write about one let us know!
Okay, so it's not really the polls per se, but how they (tend to) get used by (some) journalists. I can see how they might make it easier for lazy journalists to not provide needed context, but that's not inherent in the poll. It's up to the pollster and the journo to present more than mere figures.
Congratulations on the new job. Really. Times are tough out there, I know. As a public opinion researcher, I am curious about why you think polls are useless. Sincere question - I want to know how to make my work more relevant.
Ranked-choice voting would help to sort out a lot of the anomalies (i.e., extremists).
We do need a purge of the poison to democracy that has taken a fair share of the people, but let's try to take the high road. Use the laws we have, apply them fairly, shed light on the lies propagated, and prosecute those responsible. And if that fails, I guess we take to the streets.
This is the route I would rather go. bsky.app/profile/juli...
Seriously? Why not justice? Are all principles lost? Not naive, just wondering if going that route isn't a bit kin to the retribution currently being exacted. I am not to keen to enter a decades-long Hatfield & McCoy thing...
The #failingnyt and #failingpost need to take a lesson from @rollingstone.com and frame the authoritarian deep dive by the current administration as what it is.
He's basically a Commander in Gilead, so resources must be directed to him and all of the OfPete women.
Why feature these racists this way? Why feature them at all? C'mon @nytimes.com, do better.
I was just thinking the same thing and screen-grabbed the headline to post on @bsky.app
Fascists lie* *many politicians lie for expediency and other relatively less malignant reasons, but fascists lie because it is core to their governance approach. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The media really need to frame this properly, as @marcelias.bsky.social does. Do you think they will? Not at the #failingNYT.
Just saw that Terence Stamp had passed away, and someone shared a link to this lovely documentary on the impact of what might be his most famous film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMl9...
A horse struggles to exist #art #animation #indieanimationday #horse
The hatefulness of some people is simply mind blowing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
The incompetence is staggering. Good thing they're loyal! www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
I hope morale is tanking. They are such a bunch of losers.
It's interesting the White House didn't even have a plan for how to spin it afterwards. Nothing small negotiated in advance to call a win, no coordinated messaging with MAGA influencers, just a dud meeting and Trump fumbling a softball interview. Perhaps morale is tanking over at 1600 Pennsylvania.
The main reason I try to stay away from Substack as much as I can... theracket.news/p/substack-s...
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
A Universal Basic Income that help the poor and generate economic growth from the ground up? We’ve no way of knowing that’ll work! Better we invest in artificial intelligence that is currently consuming all our power to create a John Cena lookalike that tells pornographic stories to children.
"The effort as outlined is divorced from the realities of an evidence-based, comprehensive telling of the U.S. past, and is part of an aggressive push to flatten American history into a narrowly conceived, unrepresentative, and simplified story."
"No president has the legitimate authority to impose such a review. Established by Congress in 1846 as a unique and independent agency, the Smithsonian Institution is not, and has never been, under the authority of the Executive Branch."
Isolated people are easier to predict and make money from. When you heard him talk about friendship this way, you had to know that you weren’t dealing with a real person
JUST IN: Blistering ruling by Judge Ho on ICE arrests in immigration court. He says the Trump administration has turned attendance at immigration court proceedings into a game of "detention roulette" that violates due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Hey, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Did you see this? maybe you and the family will be inspired to go back to the park and look some more. :-) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jones has lost control of his media empire to a newly-appointed receiver who will sell it off to pay the Sandy Hook Elementary School families who sued Jones for defamation after the 2012 shootings.
Not sure - maybe the folks at Meta are not so smart after all, but it definitely shows why we need journalists and robust journalism.
It's eugenics. We have a word for this already, and it's fucking eugenics.
"We're irresponsible, we're ineffective. Now pay us!"
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You're probably right about the disproportionate number of people in the academy, but let's not forget people like my mom, a retiree at the time, living in a formal cohousing arrangement. Those folks, living with enforced consensus pacts, had it hard.
You cannot create a technology in a civilization with racism and sexism so deeply entrenched in its history and not have it perpetuate the same thing. Which is why slower development, regulation and higher level of discernment in application is necessary
This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.
Racial Theater that eagerly produces cries of “That’s Racist!” is now our national religion. How does racial theater work? Tell them, Ian Haney López. www.facebook.com/HaneyLopez.I...
I live in the west and the rain has just started. I imagine there will be some serious thunder claps soon.
Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.
“Friendlier data?” WTF? The Times headline writers know how to torture a euphemism.
I actually recommend doing what I do when you walk around the mean streets of DC daily: bring TWO buddies and a guard snake
I have recently learned more about posse comitatus than I ever anticipated, thanks to @nycjayjay.bsky.social and others. I wish it weren't needed, but it is.
Section 740 permits federalization of MPD when the president "determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist" There is no emergency If we live in a system where the president can continue to seize power by declaring anything an "emergency," we no longer live under the rule of law
Yes, America. We are at that point. Anyone who is even marginally considered an elite (like myself) should not look away.
A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.
If we ever get our democracy back, the priorities are emerging.
Authoritarians everywhere want to control messaging and ultimately reality. Stand your ground. www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Mark Kelly: "I hope we got something out of this. Putin is a war criminal. This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States to land here to negotiate with our president."
Bill Grueskin 
