It’s impossible to control the US militarily.
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It’s impossible to control the US militarily.
a society that wants to keep functioning has to disincentivize baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
It’s from the US Marshalls Service logo. www.usmarshals.gov/who-we-are/h...
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
And all you had to do was give it full access to your Gmail account? I don’t see how this is any different than getting hacked, except they do something slightly helpful and you requested it.
Here's what SPD's proposed expansion of CCTV looks like. It isn't expanding into just certain areas, its going citywide. tinyurl.com/stop-cctv
Anna verified this. bsky.app/profile/anna...
This is the children's counsel, not the government. It is disappointing to see them using the same excuses as Ensign.
Just tucking in his shirt
Reminder that there are multiple vaccines already out there that reduce your kids' chances of multiple types of cancers (and some people want you to believe this is bad!) www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/6-vaccines...
This is now two consecutive popes who have loudly stood against fascism and general malfeasance by the far-right -- both elected, in part, by conservative cardinals within the Catholic Church. It's almost as though God is trying to communicate something here.
The debate is really over two visions of law enforcement: one is based on "race-neutral," technocratic policing that relies on "hot spots" and surveillance data. The other is brute force, street-smarts, never filling out paperwork. The problem is neither one works. www.vice.com/en/article/u...
I just subscribed to another creator who left to a different platform. Look forward to subscribing to you again once you’re off Substack.
That’s enough for me to drop my paid subscription.
@marisakabas.bsky.social there’s a big, big story here. Someone in the government is allegedly coercing people to make false declarations in court to violate laws meant to stop child trafficking.
This needs to be the subject of hearings leading to impeachment and criminal convictions for a whole crew of government officials.
Nobody who is doing legal things waits until 2:30 am on a holiday weekend to do them. Call your representatives and ask them to stop Trump’s child trafficking.
If they had the actual goods they would indict her, and same re Schiff. Neither will happen.
can we also beg them to point out an accusatory tweet is not a legal conviction and thus not cause for any goddamn thing ever
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"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
fore·shad·ow verb - be a warning or indication of (a future event).
This is one of the few truly terrifying things he’s done, because it’s a direct message to his goons that they’ll be rewarded for violence that attempts to keep him in power. He’s not planning on leaving peacefully.
‘Voluntary’? There’s nothing voluntary about being held in state custody without due process for months and threatened with exile to some unknown land if you don’t concede to their demands.
it's wild because "giant banners of the Leader's face all over everything" is such a standard visual shorthand for "terrifying authoritarian dystopia" that you'd think no one could possibly do it sincerely.
This is why it's important not to skip jury duty.
Why is the rent so damn high in LA? Simple economics: the demand for housing is extremely high and our housing supply is extremely low.
@juddlegum.bsky.social @the-downballot.com @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social can you please leave substack? I want to subscribe but I can’t justify paying these terrible people. Great creators like you are covering for these racist assholes by staying on their platform.
Anyone not vigorously fighting the administration's baseless lawfare is aiding the destruction of the rule of law.
Republicans just love it when the government is picking winners and losers.
Mine is only 19, it can get a beer in Canada at least 😀
It irks me a bit that this is being pitched as medical groups "defying" RFKJ. They're just doing their job and putting out reasonable recommendations, declining to lie about their work just because there is some absolute crackpottery in the federal office.
The person who filed the original complaint is registered to vote at an address that doesn't exist. When does that investigation start? kansasreflector.com/2025/08/20/p...
So, when are the police going to investigate the complainant for voter fraud? According to the Kansas voter registration form, if you submit a false voter registration application you may be convicted and sentenced to up to 17 months in prison.
I think if you give a shit about the basic value of being as right about possible, you won't use text generation software that is brilliant at providing incorrect statements in correct-sounding language I think the era we're in is revealing how many people *say* they give a shit, but really don't
how is this first time I've heard about this
I hope they play “What It Sounds Like” on infinite repeat.
They aren’t centrists, of course.
I’m so glad he lived to see the entire world reject his message of shame, control and repression with the greatest compilation of absolute bangers ever assembled.
"Dobson’s constant demonization of homosexuality was not simply rhetorical. It had lasting and deeply damaging effects on the children reared by parents swayed by Focus on the Family’s hateful teachings."
If they could they would.
Just want to give a shout out to @bencasselman.bsky.social with excellent reporting today on Trump’s attack on Cook. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...
Also KPDH.
This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
Nothing says ‘democratized’ like a $75k vehicle that depends on a limited charging network and massive public subsidy.
Stop it. You know better than this.
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
Truly one of the worst people
This creates a grave risk that state secrets intended for Putin could fall into the hands of the American public or other pro-democracy forces
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
DC folks, at 800 pm, go outside with some pots and pans, a drum, a trumpet, whatever you got, and make some noise for 5 minutes. Everyone’s doing it.
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If you’re going to enforce the law, you need to show your face and say who you are. No more masks. No more unmarked cars. No more invoking fear in our communities. (2/2)
Good. No more unilateral disarmament when democracy is at stake.
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Is government attorneys talk out of both sides of their mouth routinely under this administration. They should be disbarred for violating their duty of candor and fairness.
I think they’re called watchmen, or guards.
Trump does not actually have the authority to order any of this.
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This is one of the most atrocious pieces of propaganda I’ve seen. “Historical vision” makes it sound like he’s leading us to a bright future instead of trying to memory hole our past.
These investigations have probably been cancelled so that the agents can aimlessly wander DC streets
stop asking text generation software to explain itself: it will just generate text, and you will drop another notch down into the weird superstitious belief system the tech industry wants to you sink into www.theverge.com/x-ai/758595/...
This is an important debate worth having, one that challenges a lot of American traditions and instincts about how to move past our most divisive moments.
The American press and public really need to figure out how to simply dismiss Trump's pretextual claims for authoritarian attacks and then resist the attack itself, not debate the claim. We have spent months asking "but is the Ivy League really antisemitic?" and now "but is DC really crime-ridden?"
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
Guarantee they'll rule on the final day possible to shorten the response time in advance of the midterms.
This is critical - without a requirement of some demonstration necessity, they could use troops whenever they want. The word wasn't included in the law for no reason.
It's their primary qualification for these jobs, in this administration
We need to know how much their complicity was worth. There's no question that they were paid off, we just need to identify the amount.
and kidnapping
Just subscribed in support of ditching Substack! I wish more creators would do this.
With Trump set to use crime as a fake justification to threaten DC today, media coverage should make one thing clear: At this point his pattern of manufacturing pretexts for militarizing domestic law enforcement has become undeniable. Some thoughts on that here: newrepublic.com/article/1987...
He does have a choice, he just doesn’t like that his other choice is prison. Like Trump, a big motivation for staying in power is avoiding jail.
What is A5?
Guys like Cuban are happy to pretend they like liberal Democrats so long as said Democrats never actually DO anything. Its marketing, just like all their charities, and any profit generating business they invest in that looks like it actually helps people.
A vanishingly small nunber
The only thing standing in his way are oligarchs like you clinging to control and power. Everyone wants these things, except the few whose investments might be threatened.
This is what’s keeping me going, personally. I need some unfettered joy and beauty at the moment.
Simpsons
Ugh stop asking it shit
I love how this buggy code keeps insisting that it has a human brain it’s creepy af
Also, just because the makers of a technology promise that it is the second coming of Christ, we do not have to believe them. We don’t have to use it. These people/companies seek to gut our field, and raze our professions. arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935
They want disabled people to die. They’re eugenecists.
I just want one member of this secret state police force to think for a single second what it might be like to be a 20-year-old student, showing up to fulfill your routine visa paperwork, and being abducted and sent to a remote prison thousands of miles away from campus and family.
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...
Absolutely. They only respond to strength.
Texas House Dems response to Abbott mailchi.mp/texashousede...
If you see a Democratic Texas state legislator… no you didn’t.
So goddamn proud of Texas House Democrats for fighting the good fight. <3
They are politicians. Just look at San Francisco’s sheriff endorsing his ‘friend’ MAGA Riverside County sheriff for Governor. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...
They should be thrilled, because they’re not going to lose their best and brightest. ICE wants the worst and cruelest.
Not to mention whats to stop “blue” states from nullifying those attempts in TX by just doing the same thing? Like, best case scenario MAGA has reached their ceiling.
Upholding the separation of powers is an essential check against tyranny — it requires the persistent work of taking on every power grab by this administration. bit.ly/44VZ4EK