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Happening Now โ Washington DC: Pretty massive rally is forming at 14th and U NW.
I learned something new today! Thanks!
We can but hope! However, politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum. We may be about to enter a phase of more uncertainty than we've seen in the last 8 months.
I question whether it was Trump who actually wrote this Truth Social post.
In Batshit Rant Trump Seems to Beg John Roberts to Rule before Full Brunt of His Tariffs Hits www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/01/i...
Eloquence ... Words matter and these are the perfect words.
Trump to America: Happy Labor Day! ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐พ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐!
Trump out of commission, possibly for medical reasons so severe he will be unable to carry out his duties as president going forward, while Biden is out and about, very smile on his face, looking hale and fit, pretty much shoots the "Biden is too feeble to be president!" argument out of the water.
They know what's coming: America without Trump will be like a chicken with its head cut off. Paywall removed. ๐ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.
Bingo! Customers: "Your restaurants are in tatters, your tables and floors are sticky, and the food quality has gone way downhill." Management: "We're losing customers left and right. What should we do?" Marketing Consultants, with supreme confidence: "CHANGE THE LOGO!"
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
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I feel like if it turns out that Trump is no longer able to serve as U.S. president for medical reasons, we are in for a level of chaos that will make the last eight months look like a walk in the park. I hope I'm wrong.
So many in government, it appears, are afraid to stand up to Trump. What do they do if there's no longer a Trump to be afraid of?
1989: The NY state actuarial was off by some five years (or more), apparently. Advances in medical technology weren't taken into account.
Vance says he's ready to step up and take charge if necessary.
1/31 I believe there is growing evidence, that the White House is covering up the fact that Donald Trump has been dealing with TIA strokes. AND that he likely had a more significant ischemic stroke this week.
Who wants to bet that Sooknanan orders Ensign to file two separate status reports the minute each of the last two kids is back in ORR custody
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
If you know California voters, tell them that if Trump rigs the next election and Republicans keep Congress, they will most certainly not certify the election in 2028 if they don't like the result. No one is saying gerrymandering is good, but unilaterally disarming could be the end of our democracy.
Shoulda researched before yammering. How did it do at the box office?
Anachronistic nostalgia. There should be no more Bond movies for the same reason we'll never see a Man From U.N.C.L E. revival: the formula doesn't work anymore.
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
We should stop making Bond movies unless they completely reinvent and deconstruct the character. He's not only a product of another time, the current global shitshow makes classic Bond stories of "guy kills the 'right' people to achieve peace" *extremely* difficult to enjoy, just like w/ cop shows.
lots of questions remain about giulianiโs accident, of course, but one thing of which we can be absolutely certain is that he was butt dialing a reporter at the time
'Something is very wrong': Ex-Trump insider flags 'alarming' news about president's health www.rawstory.com/trump-someth...
UPDATE: DOJ says it expects that the children will be returned to ORR by 10:30 pm. The report also offers some clarity on how many children were loaded on planes (76, purportedly). (But the putative class isn't limited to those put on planes today -- plaintiffs estimate # in the hundreds)
Really strongly recommend everyone get off Substack. Not just for the Nazi stuff, but because they're going to lock you into the platform and then slowly bleed you dry
Putting this out there. Fascinating interview. ritholtz.com/2024/06/mib-... Ragged transcript: ritholtz.com/2024/06/tran...
Convicted felons can have X accounts while serving their sentences? Who knew?
I like the rebrand.
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
How Kubrick let that one slip through, we'll never know.
film flubs: in the movie spartacus (1960), several different characters identify themselves as spartacus. this scene was mistakenly left in the final cut of the film
Listen if Giuliani, Clinton, and Trump make the rule of three, I'm ok with it.
AP: โFlorida could be on the hook for $218 millionโฆ Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitelyโฆโ apnews.com/article/flor...
my sister googled "fun things to do in Boston this weekend" and it told her to go sit on Storrow Drive and watch a bunch of college kids peel their rented Penske moving trucks open like tin cans
The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
Spent the day driving around Manchester, New Hampshire, a city for 80-something New Yorkers in deep debt apparently. I was driving alone, something Iโm known to do. I saw a woman fleeing domestic violence. I โrendered aid,โ vaguely. Minutes or maybe an hour later I was walloped by a Mack truck.
evergreen post
India and China fought a war in 1962 over border disputes. Theyโve never been allies, which has been to our geopolitical and economic advantage. Thanks to Trumpโs insane tariffs the two manufacturing/pharma/tech giants are teaming up, accelerating their riseโฆand our subsequent downfall.
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, โwe will protect your children from republicansโ is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we donโt talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
Surprised he didn't say the dog ate it.
(I get that everyone, myself included, has no love lost for Ensign, but this not some completely irrational explanation. The case was filed overnight, and he had to make sure his clients knew what they needed to do. If they did it, I think the timing of his status report today becomes a non-issue.)
Truth Social posts don't count, unless they're >66% all-caps screeds at a third grade level with lots of exclamation points.
They're killing it on the cleanup detail.
Okay. I just came back to this and you arenโt calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
I hear heโs still with us, soโฆ ๐ค๐ผ๐ค๐ผ๐ค๐ผ #Pinks #TrumpHealthStatus
๐จ โThe people united will never be divided!โ Happening in OUR nationโs capital today. 1/2
does Drew Ensign go home to his wife every night and say โhi honey, I had a great day lying to the court so that the US government could murder childrenโ? I mean how exactly do you even begin to live with yourself
Getting food poisoning and having to run through the entire set of Nickelodeons Guts and solve a Scooby Doo mystery with a living talking dog before you can use a toilet
Has anyone said whether Rudy was driving or whether he had been drinking? www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-gi...
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.
What a โ excusez mon franรงais, sโil te plait โ a government shitshow of unfathomable proportions
Yes after I had saved the orphans I went back to my car where I informed the cheering crowd that I was more legally sober than any man on earth, and drove away. Thatโs when the unfortunate event happened.
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
What's the over/under on Trump's "condition" having progressed to the point where his underlings can no longer cover for him?
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
โJobs disappear and the markets cheer.โ On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
Taken an hour ago. Healthy and fit as ever.
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknananโs clerks this Labor Day weekend
one thing Rudy Giuliani is always going to do is defensively announce a weirdly incriminating detail with his whole chest as though he sincerely believes it exonerates him
That's what it looks like to me. Just like his father Fred, but accelerated by years of coke & Adderall abuse, and poor diet. The vacant expression on his face speaks volumes.
oh-๐ฝ๐๐๐พ๐-uary. Just sayin'.
What's with the (non-MAGA) hat?
This is just sad. Weโve posted about this before. Now here is what is going down. The rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial in Orlando (created to honor the 49 lives lost in the 2016 shooting) has now become the target of state enforcement.
The DOJ is telling the court that all unaccompanied children Trump is sending to Guatemala have parents or guardians in that country who have requested their children be returned to them. The plaintiffs are saying that's not at all true. You can read the back and forth here:
A mother is filing a $1 million claim after her 15-year-old son was held at gunpoint by immigration goons in Los Angeles.
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'
I made a spreadsheet of all the federal cases filed as part of Trump's DC crackdown. It's not going great
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didnโt know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Honored that Mark is now a Democracy Docket member.๐ The force of democracy must be with us!!!๐ฅณ
Trump fakes his own death to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.
JD Vance: "Immigration destroys national unity!" Also JD Vance: Thanksgiving gonna be awkward.
You are not a crazed communist anti-business lunatic if you simply discern that the privatize-everything and run-everything-as-business mantra is flawed at a fundamental level. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The real "Epstein files" or "Epstein list" of clients are, in fact, the Epstein trial transcripts, wherein victims ๐ฃ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ข๐๐จ of their abusers in testimony. These named abusers are still under seal, and remain hidden from public view. #ReleaseTheEpsteinTrialTransctipts !!!!
Trumpโs Decapitation of the CDC Takes a Darker Turnโand Hands Democrats a Weapon Illinoisโs JB Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, weโll make sure public health systems remain strong.
@mayor.lacity.gov - "I look forward to working with the governor to make sure V. P. @kamalaharris.com Is s safe in Los Angeles." Mayor Bass & the CA Highway Patrol are serving an important #CupIfJoe! ๐ tinyurl.com/ye88v7j6
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
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
The headline calls this unexpected consequences, but I would call this extremely expected consequences.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
If you played me this clip of a Georgia congressman named "Buddy Carter" talking with this accent, I would've called you a hack filmmaker.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children โ perhaps within a matter of hours โ granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
"I think all right-thinking people in this country are ๐จ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. ๐'๐ข ๐๐๐ง๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ก๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ! And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!" www.bmj.com/rapid-respon...
Greetings! Iโm here at Metro Detention Centee, the site of a 24/7 protest in Los Angeles. Just got here, a dispersal order is being announced via loudspeaker by DHS.
Trump said tonight he is going to issue an executive order purporting to require enforcement of voter ID rules: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... The president has no such authority to order how elections are conducted.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just drew a line in the sand...refusing to let Trumpโs troops or ICE turn his city into a staging ground. Thatโs not politics...thatโs spine. Fire...fight...and the kind of defiance America needs right now.๐ฅ