This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
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This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening todayâbeyond that it's happeningâis that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
Surveillance tech is not making us safer â itâs putting innocent people at risk. This isnât public safety. Itâs automated injustice. Read more: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Have to keep pointing this out, but the unifying throughline in both stances is the idea that the danger to be guarded against is Black people, either in the person of the state looking to promote their wellbeing or as a response to âcrimeâ and disorder in which weâre imagined as marauders.
BREAKING: Judge Xinis issues order barring Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia âuntil further order of the Court.â The admin stated earlier that it would not deport him during this habeas consideration. Also per todayâs order, the habeas hearing is set for Oct. 6.
Lisa Cook, Federal Reserve Governor, is a Black woman with exemplary credentials, education and history of accomplishments. Trump has baselessly accused her of mortgage fraud.
Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
We don't deserve a treat yet
While Trump makes broad claims to try to curtail voting, in fact voter fraud in the US is extremely rare. In six swing states in 2020, there were about 475 potential cases of fraud out of 25.5 million votes cast, according to an @apnews.com study @nytnickc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
Over 750 HHS current and former employees are *on the record* criticizing RFK Jr in the aftermath of the CDC shooting. They call him âcomplicit in dismantling Americaâs public health infrastructure ... by repeatedly spreading inaccurate health information." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This is absolutely lawless. Itâs why Iâm authoring legislation to ban them from masking. We have no idea whether theyâre even law enforcement. They could be bounty hunters engaged in kidnapping & human trafficking. NO ICE POLICE STATE IN CALIFORNIA
#CoupAlert
My contention about a hot civil war is that we have been living in one for decades at this point, I would say since 1982, but very slow moving. What do you think all those mass shootings are actually about? Look who is mostly perpetuating them (white males) and what they target (public institutions)
If you ever have trouble believing Pedocon theory -- that an entire national political party could be populated entirely by perverts in open pursuit of their perversions, recall that the entire country once split and fought a war over it.
Republicans used to say that terrorists hate us for our freedom, but the reality is that republicans hate their own country because of our freedom.
"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. Thatâs why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardiceâto give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...
Just watched 15 federal agents call an ambulance for a very, very drunk and sick girl in Dupont.
The anti vax movement is not just a radicalization funnel for the broader fascist movement it is also a networked stochastic violence vector that appears to be causing more and more open violence against governmental officials and those seen as a threat.
A prescient warning from retired military officials as SCOTUS weighed presidential immunity in Trump v. United States: âAbsent the availability of criminal prosecution for a President's violation of the PCA, this important check on military power would be weakened if not eliminated.â
Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crimeâŚ
i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of âaffirmative actionâ they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
More of this. I hope their efforts involve pointing and laughing at the gooned-up losers, and yelling at them to quit their jobs and explaining to them why they can't get dates.
Not having a home is not a crime. If it's a crime, it should a crime to unhouse anyone. Being a pedophile & having an insurrection are crimes.
BREAKING President Trump announces that he is invoking section 740 of the Home Rule Act. Section 740 gives the President of the United States the authority to commandeer the DC Police Department in âconditions of an emergency natureâ Trump also confirms he is deploying the National Guard to DC.
So now FBI agents are not only being reassigned to immigration enforcement, theyâre also being reassigned to do the job of beat cops? Not only does this mean itâs an increasingly good time to get away with federal crimes, but attrition at the FBI is going to go up again. Lot of early retirements.
âIn last weekâs little-noticed note, which was buried 150 pages into a document ⌠Senate Appropriations Committee staffers expressed a fresh concern: NIH is reviving the same program under a different name, despite Congressâ earlier objections. This time, itâs to study autism, the report said.â
If you're National Guard or any other service member being deployed against people in the US and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status or have any other concerns whatsoever, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487 girightshotline.org
"So we're getting this information from multiple sources [...] within the mayor's office and within Metro Police Department, that President Trump, come tomorrow, will deploy the National Guard along the streets of DC." www.wusa9.com/video/news/n...
NEW: The United States and Ukraine's European allies agree that Europe, not the United States, will fund further military and security assistance to Ukraine. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 10, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar081025 Other Key Takeaways âŹď¸ (1/5)
FBI agents are not trained to patrol streets. And every agent that is assigned to do that is NOT investigating: *foreign spies stealing govât and trade secrets *foreign and domestic terrorist threats *crimes like fraud, corruption, trafficking, and violent crimes (among others) Do you feel safer?
Prevalent, not salient
Every single person pushing this should have every hard drive they have checked. If there is literally ANY porn on ANY of it then the bill should instantly be burned and never brought up again
BREAKING via AP Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, the Prime Minister says. Australia's decision to recognize a Palestinian state will be formalized at the United Nations in September. Australia joins France, Britain, and Canada in announcing plans to recognize a Palestinian state.
Apropos of nothing,⌠âThatâs made street-level journalistsâŚmore important than ever. They are arguably the truthâs last line of defense, keeping tabs on community activism right at the moment when legacy newsrooms are increasingly walking awayâŚThey canât be bought, so they are bloodied.â
Consumer technologies are war data.
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
The man who oversees the nationâs military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote. apnews.com/article/wome...
They're rapidly realizing they can now straight up steal money for any blue state/blue voter thing and the courts will back them up.
if you get LUCKY DAY from one of the book tour shows it will be signed. RUN OF THE EVENING is that i will sign books ahead of time then do about an hour long ONE BUCKAROO SHOW. quick Q AND A at the end and then take photos with everyone www.chucktingle.com/tour.html
US judge blocks Trump administration limits on domestic violence grants reut.rs/47ndGym
Redditâs UK age verification rollout has been an absolute nightmare for usersâ online privacy, safety, and expression. We cannot allow this to be the new global norm. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Deaf guy tried to show ICE his ID. An agent grabbed it and didn't return it. So he tried to type a message about his disability but an agent grabbed his phone. He was left w/ no way to communicate w/ the men seizing him. He was a DACA recipient (a "dreamer"). He spent nearly a month in detention.
Two movies that should have been made in the 80s, but werenât: ⢠Salt n Pepa comedy set in NYC ⢠Dolly Parton/Elvira buddy comedy
I just realized that it's probably worse than "they don't care" - I think that's what they like about Trump. They wish they could get away with sexual assault of minors.
The WH's proposed strategy is "what if we hauled up a notorious jailed sex trafficker to vouch for Donald Trump's character." Huh? Why just one? I'm sure they could easily find a dozen jailed sex traffickers who'd vouch for him. His Jan. 6 crowd alone was, like, 20% sex traffickers.
Evil
We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following. It still became a polarization machine. Then we tried six interventions to fix social media. The results were⌠not what we expected. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
Notably in here: "Sex Matters" now taking the position that even the "Men's" and "Women's" sections of a clothing retailer should be regarded as prescriptive "single sex spaces" where anyone they judge to be the "wrong" sex/gender should not be allowed.
Every firm of every size on Wall St. should have done this morning what JPM did yesterday. Instead, it's been mostly crickets and, in some cases, cowardice.
voters are craving something and itâs not fucking means testing
Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
What is Peter Thiel doing here?
This is what is happening right now.
JUST IN: Abbott says he may treat fleeing lawmakers as having âforfeitedâ their offices and move to replace them. He also suggests they could be subject to felony charges if they accept payments to cover impending fines gov.texas.gov/uploads/file...
More of this, please.
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
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Truly fucking pitiful
Leonardo JosĂŠ Colmenares SolĂłrzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison. He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him.
A 10-day hunger strike persists at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz detention facility for undocumented immigrants, according to NBC. Stories of Multiple detainees are refusing food, following Governor Ron DeSantis' disclosure inhumane living conditions
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org argues for the impeachment of Emil Bove over his alleged unethical actions in the Alien Enemies Act case in front of Judge Boasberg and in the corruption prosecution of NYC Mayor Eric Adams in The Situation. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
We just added 100 more Texas agencies using Flock Safety automated license plate readers to the Atlas of Surveillance. As police tech spreads, you can count on EFF to track it and fight for your rights. www.atlasofsurveillance.org/
I think about this every day
1/ Important: "Epstein was actually still on the Mar-a-Lago membership logs up to 2007. ... That of course is a year after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in Florida." So Trump didn't kick him out for many years after knowing Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from MAL in 2000. đ§ľ
The siblings of one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers said they were shocked when Donald Trump said Epstein âstole herâ from Mar-a-Lagoâand asked that Trump share whatever else he knows, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports.
Trump and Elon were going to prison if he lost - so they cheated. DOGE was so Elon could gut the agencies that were investigating him. THIS IS HOW THEY DID IT (please help this go viral) thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-th...
It's suicidal.
On this point, if youâre cis itâs important to mention this stuff to your family and friends. Make them understand that youâre sticking your own neck out, so they understand there are real stakes. Be vocal about it
i will always side with sex workers and smut creators and you should too. kill the puritanical pearl-clutching brainworm raising a stink about respectability and optics. it is a backdoor fascists will use to sneak their way into your sympathies. porn is good, sex is normal, kink is human. grow up.
đ˘ Big news from @internetarchive.eu: đ @ifla.org has signed the Four Digital Rights for Memory Institutions, asserting that in the digital age, libraries, archives & museums must be able to: đĽ Collect đĄď¸ Preserve đ Provide Access đ¤ Cooperate Learn more đ www.internetarchive.eu/2025/07/30/s...
Late in the day but this is really phenomenal work by CBS. I didn't think the story could surprise me anymore, but I exclaimed out loud several times reading this. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
Itâs bad enough that Deputy AG Todd Blanche used to be Trumpâs OWN lawyer. Now heâs skirting DOJ protocols to interview Ghislaine Maxwell in secret? Everything about this reeks â and it brings ZERO transparency to the Epstein case. Release all the files and transcripts NOW!
That's kidnapping and trafficking.
I donât think people fully grasp the implications of the Planned Parenthood Medicaid ban in the Trump bill. Not being able to take Medicaid would be a near-fatal blow to PP. Clinics are already closing in across the countryâincluding in blue statesâwhich is curtailing abortions access nationwide.
"Some kid is gonna come to see us, expecting some really great band. And he's gonna *hate* us, think we're the worst crap ever." Michael Stipe in Musician, July 1984
RFK Jr told his 2nd wife, Mary, suffering from depression & health issues, that she should kill herself. Mary committed suicide. A week after her funeral, in the middle of the night, w/o obtaining required legal permitting, he had her coffin dug up from Kennedy family plot & moved 700 feet away.
See, this is why I hate that "AI" has become the tech buzzword to slap on everything, because machine learning has been used for making models off of data sets for ages, but those are trained with a purpose instead of just dumping all of reddit in a blender and saying the machine thinks now
I do not care that you are not âsurprised.â Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is ânot surprising.â Nothing is âsurprisingâ anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Letâs deal with it together.
Media conglomerate Carpenter Media has shuttered two more Oregon papers, including the Sandy Post. That means Hoodview News - a paper run by a longtime far right political operative - is all that area has left. I wrote this story last year for @opb.org: www.opb.org/article/2025...
You may not feel it, but the ground beneath you may be sinking. In fact, the surface of Californiaâs Central Valley is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. Why is this happening? Because our planet is rapidly drying. THREAD/
PARIS (AP) â French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.
UPDATE: Workers at FOUR of the most important US science agencies have now filed letters of dissent against their leadership. After initially delaying their letter due to fears of retaliation, NSF workers have gone ahead anyway, and joined their colleagues at NIH, EPA, and NASA in speaking up.
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NEW: Anti-abortion legal terrorist Jonathan Mitchell is helping a Texas man seeking to block his girlfriend from getting abortion pills. The suit seems intended to scare physicians out of prescribing the drugs under "shield laws" and women out of seeking abortions, said @jillwieberlens.bsky.social
Yikes yikes yikes. Judge Withdraws Pharma Opinion After Lawyer Flags Made-Up Quotes:
They burned their legitimacy a long time ago. They're the ones instigating anarchy, not the mostly-reasonable and consistent district courts.
I don't think we do. Time for secession.
Yes, of course, this is also an Article III crisis. But could fix that at any time. Add SCOTUS seats. Cut the budget for the building & clerks. Make them ride the circuit. End the shadow docket. It all comes back to Article I failure. You can read @stevevladeck.bsky.social etc. on this:
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in all of American history, & well, then, đđ¤ˇââď¸đŻ
Public Accountability beats qualified immunity in the Second Circuit! A cop rammed our client at a protest, lifted her up by her bra strap, and threw her to the ground. CA2: A reasonable jury could find that he was âgratuitously plowing into the first people he encountered.â No QI on these facts.
AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill. kentuckylantern.com/2025/07/18/r...
Yeah, this piece is great, and IMO what it begins to point the way toward is the urgent need for a Liberalism For Children www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
White supremacism trumps greed and is a threat to life itself because on a spiritual level it is a belief in the irredeemable degeneracy of humanity in this life
Judges vote to oust Trump pick Alina Habba as U.S. attorney in New Jersey The stateâs U.S. district court judges made the announcement in a brief order that did not offer any explanation for their decision. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Thereâs a direct through line from the dehumanization of the War on Terror to today. I remember so vividly when Obama refused to hold anyone in the Bush Administration accountable so we could âlook forward, not backward.â Weâre where we are because the rich & powerful are unaccountable.
This is how it starts. www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...
The unitary executive can set the curriculum at Harvard, order the owners to change the names of professional sports teams, throw his enemies in prison, close a Cabinet-level Department, but he is powerless to ask the sycophants he put in place in the FBI and DOJ to release the Epstein files.