AXIOS: “(Trump’s) tariff policy will cost midsize businesses $82.3 billion, according to a new report from the JPMorganChase Institute…” www.axios.com/sponsored/mi...
AXIOS: “(Trump’s) tariff policy will cost midsize businesses $82.3 billion, according to a new report from the JPMorganChase Institute…” www.axios.com/sponsored/mi...
I don’t give a fuck if his hands look like grayscale rotisserie chickens left too long under the warming lamp at Costco… when the leader of the free world vanishes into the Mar-a-Lago ether for half a week, the American people deserve to know if he’s still upright. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
To be clear, the “official” here is a paralegal. The attorney general of the United States fired a paralegal. She also concedes that disrespecting the National Guard is disrespecting “law enforcement,” which … the military cannot do under federal law. Happy Labor Day, Pam Bondi!
We are suing Texas in two cases -- one voting, one redistricting.
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
@erikloomis.bsky.social I admire your scholarship But there are some serious omissions in your Times essay as I detail below I don't see how you can write that essay without addressing the evidence to the contrary I know you are not coming from a bad place but this is wrong
He’s not traveling to NJ like they had announced. Not even to Florida. Sure does seem like someone is staying awfully close to Walter Reed, doesn’t it?
We are already suing Ohio.
Literally.
“.. Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation’s capital ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
If you’re just learning more about ICE Air, here are the basics: -Commercial charters do domestic shuffle and intl removal flights. Mostly Global X but also Avelo, Eastern Air Express, and Omni. -Private jet charters do removals to Africa, inc. third-country -Coast Guard does domestic shuffles 1/
Besides the airlines already mentioned, here are other ICE Air accomplices: Journey Aviation (private jets), Signature Aviation (fuel), GEO Group Transport (buses to airport), Akima (inflight security, total assholes), and others. Far and away, the biggest offender is… 5/
Happy Birthday Clyde! ❤️ #CorgiCrew @gtconway.bsky.social
Spent some time blocking trolls. It's one of the great features of Bluesky.
It is wild that the Washington Post -- which claims "Democracy Dies in Darkness" -- has remained completely silent for more than a day about Trump's latest attack on free and fair elections. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
This Labor Day, let’s salute the American who works harder than anyone — the person in charge of squeezing Trump’s ankles into his shoes
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Do not give them the benefit of doubt. They have not earned it They do not deserve it.
"It is grasping at straws to justify an open-ended 'national emergency' power of the sort that should be disfavored in our laws unless it is granted in terms far more explicit than these."
"The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency that is global in scope and decades-long in duration, requiring swift executive action on the theory that Congress could never assemble in time to address the issue. … www.nationalreview.com/corner/divid...
WTAF????
Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are speaking out, saying Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endangering the health of Americans. abcnews.go.com/Health/forme...
He must have fucked him over so badly
$1,000,000 a day.
Peter Thiel wanting them out the way - he manages all the military data could be one, and - Trump wanting to send military into streets in another dictatorial fashion. Instill fear.
Not what the police statement said
Rudy Giuliani suffered severe injuries in a car accident last night, according to his spokesperson
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...
Remember when they attacked Biden because "the American people deserve to know the truth about the President’s health?” Now after being missing for 5 days we get a picture of Trump taken with a telephoto lens from hundreds of feet away.
Instead of posting the Ten Commandments in public places let’s post the 25th Amendment
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
wow
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
California stepping up.
MORE: Judge Sooknanan order DOJ to file yet another status report. She sets 10:45 pm deadline for Ensign to address whether all of the children have been returned to ORR custody.
JUST IN: Judge who blocked the transfer of about 600 Guatemalan minors from US to Guatemala Sunday is keeping a very tight leash on the government. Echoes of Alien Enemies Act litigation simply deafening here. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Bleak: www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Rudy Giuliani has been injured in an auto accident. Thoughts and prayers.
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
I have my own harsh criticisms of how the media has covered this era, but I'm mystified at this perspective.
POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
Drunken driving???
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
They won’t let Thiel manage the data for the USA military or something to do with Thiel’s Palantir that manage all the military data
The man who would be PM has already spent a decade getting much of what he wanted - and none of it has worked ✏️ James Ball [gift article] https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-nigel-farage-the-man-who-broke-britain/?utm_campaign=110000447989&utm_source=1234574
Let’s not forget that Reform are merely a rebrand of the Brexit Party which, in turn, grew out of Ukip. It’s tempting to believe that Nige has been in more parties than Boris Johnson. His usual party trick is to resign and then retake the top job, writes Ruth Wishart ✍️
🧊🧵✈️ ICE AIR – SUN 31 AUG 2025 👉 Sunday ICE Air Forecast 👀 🛬 Richmond VA~12pm EDT 🛬 Denver ~~~~10am MDT 🛬 Salt Lake City ~1pm MDT Follow this thread for updates ⤵️
Police arrest pastors protesting removal of St. Pete's "Black History Matters" mural - Axios Tampa Bay share.google/mVzXV5PqJUyM...
BREAKING: Epstein estate agrees to hand over documents to Congress, including the "birthday book," according to ranking member @robertgarcia.bsky.social.
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
WASH POST: “A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration would turn it into a trusteeship administered by 🇺🇸 while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort… temporary relocation of Gaza’s more than 2 million population…” 🤔 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
As I said to Wolf Blitzer … {checks notes} … *9 days* after the election: "Conservative attorney George Conway on Thursday suggested that some of Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet picks were ones you’d make 'if you were actively trying to do harm to the country, to destroy the country.' ...
"Conway...boiled it down to what he called the president-elect’s malignant narcissism, which means he is 'inherently destructive.' "'People like Trump, malignant narcissists, actually do, subconsciously or consciously, seek to destroy,' said Conway, a longtime critic of the incoming POTUS. ...
Narcissistic collapse!
"'One of the things about people like Trump [...] is they like to accuse people of what they themselves are trying to do,' he continued. 'You’ve heard it said about Trump many times, every accusation is a confession.' "'Deep down, he’s a destructive force. Deep down, he wants to destroy,' he said.
Can you get in to Peter Thiel. He’s creeping into every aspect of govt
"'Mark my words, it’s only going to get worse,' [Conway] added." www.yahoo.com/news/george-...
Some view it as hyperbole; others don't even know what the words mean. But it's all textbook. Textbook history, textbook political science, textbook psychology, textbook social psychology. Elementary stuff, not obscure. And it's happening in real time, right before our eyes.
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
Sorry, David. I hope that was t directed towards you.
Donald Trump is once again threatening to issue an executive order targeting voting. This is an effort to subvert the Constitution and the 2026 election, which grants states and Congress but not the president power to regulate federal elections. If he does this, we will sue and we will win (again).
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I don't now that Kristi Noem would have a job today if Trump hadn't hired her.
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🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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
Go ahead, make my day Mr. Trump We @democracydefendersfund.org immediately sued you & got an injunction on your 1st voting EO We will do the same here if you try it again The Constitution gives this authority to the states & Congress, not you! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
CNN vs Democracy Docket. Why does CNN simply repeat Trump's lies without noting he has ZERO authority to do this?👀 Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
He was sentenced to 63 months in prison. One of the longer sentences. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/t...
It appears the Trump admin may again be lying to a federal judge.
Government Efficiency!!
In the 21st century, how could you order up ethnic cleansing and genocide without a little crypto and AI and real-estate speculation sprinkled on top? { gift link } wapo.st/4g2eATo
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the sun would no longer rise without tariffs
When she's done reading select quotes from the plaintiff's declarations, Judge Sooknanan sums it up as follows: "And so this doesn't quite line up with what I'm hearing from the government.
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
Judge Sooknanan: And I tried to reach the government. I have been up since then..and didn't reach anyone from the government until later this morning. And the imminence that the plaintiff claimed proved true, because, in fact, those planes *were* loaded. One actually took off and was returned.
Judge Sooknanan continues her monologue: And so, absent action and intervention by the court, all of those children would have been returned to Guatemala, potentially to extremely dangerous situations.
Judge Sooknanan to Ensign: And even now that the government has appeared, you're telling me that even though you think you have the authority to do this, and that what you're trying to do here is unify families, not violate the law, you need five days to respond.
Judge Sooknanan: And again, I'm not going to force you to respond sooner, but if you need five days, my order is going to stay in place. I have done all I can to try to make a decision based on what's in front of me. The government hasn't put anything in front of me to counter plaintiff's narrative
Judge Sooknanan: I am trying to do the best I can to fulfill my obligation as an Article III judge. I appreciate you all showing up today, and I particularly appreciate the government's representation. But I'm going to put it on the record again, just so there's absolutely no ambiguity...
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
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WTF are all you commie libs talking about? He looks great!!
