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Who knew!?!?!?!?
Started the day with a great Syracuse Labor Council march with ESF UUP at the fair, now for one last day of wandering the fair. Happy Labor Day!
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Liberals: “We could try to DO some things to reduce gun violence; ‘thoughts and prayers’ isn’t enough.” Republicans: “Outrage! Disgrace! They’re attacking prayer.” There’s no need to be polite or defensive in response to this. Invoking faith as an excuse to shun responsibility deserves no respect.
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
deploying highly trained soldiers at the cost of millions of dollars per day to do light janitorial duty really will make the capital cleaner and is the kind of thing they would impeach a democratic politician for doing. trump always gets to play on easy mode with the unlimited money cheat
This statement alone is enough to nullify any and all obligations to accept the legitimacy of his authority.
A felon with a long documented and adjudicated record of lies and falsifications is now so upset about alleged mortgage “fraud” he has to fire the Black woman. The hypocrisy is stunning, and the motive clear as day. #MomSky www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Yeet. Everyone. Associated. With. Defending. This. Crap. Directly. Into. The. Sun.
Once again: the military takeover of U.S. cities is not a distraction from the thing, it is the the thing
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.
We are 8.5 years from Trump’s first executive orders, and journalists still think they’re doing their job by pushing out stories about Trump actions before we get the actual text of what they’re doing based on the narrative White House press people tell them about what will be in orders. Why?
Donald Trump's unhinged posts over the past 24 hours makes clear that he believes Republicans rule by right and those who engaged in election fraud on his behalf are martyrs. This is why the 14A bars anti-democratic insurrectionists from holding office and Trump should be on trial in Fulton County.
Punishing universities for "fighting back"--that is, for petitioning the courts for redress of grievances--would be a serious violation of the First Amendment even if Trump's broader campaign against the universities was lawful, which it isn't. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Hey, did you know that the NLRB has operated in violation of the Constitution for 90 years? It's right there in this original Constitution we found in 2025.
Yes. I also felt this way about the assassinations in Minnesota. In fact, I continue to feel this way about the assassinations in Minnesota.
This is your periodic reminder that... putting Icy Hot on your knee, then forgetting you did that and running on said knee a few hours later is a _really_ bad idea. #yow
Controversial opinion: When it comes to US presidents, "blatantly breaking laws and violently violating people's rights" is a bigger deal than "is old," meriting greater public concern and a higher percentage of attention.
None of the potential answers I can come up with for “why” are good
We will have our country back by illegally parking trucks on a sidewalk?
Federal agents doing slapdash safety check checkpoints because they have nothing better to do than harass American citizens is repugnant to our foundational principles. We should not tolerate it in a free society.
This is a congressman who wants to hurt his fellow Americans.
I hate it when weak-minded media such as the Washington Post say that DC crime is dramatically down but "many residents still do not feel safe." They're talking about an *information problem* more than a crime problem. Right-wing propagandists don't want anyone to feel safe.
Honestly I think the most important characteristic of Trumpworld figures is the willingness to just say shit that reflects the opposite of reality with a straight face, and believe it
The conservative assertion that there is a crisis of masculinity in America is best understood as a confession
You kind of have to mention that these voters care about fake crimes that didn’t happen, and not about the real crimes that do happen. For instance: they’re upset about entire cities being burned to the ground. I would be upset about that, too, if it happened. But it didn’t.
You are not going to out "tough on crime" fascist Republicans. Because they don't actually care about *crime* - they care about racism and power.
This guy is a hack and his confirmation better be a fight. At least four GOP senators criticized the BLS firing. Will they keep at it?
you can't say (correctly) "Vote Blue no matter who" and then desert the idea when a left-winger wins, and party leaders even encouraging or winking at opposition to Mamdani at this point are fools
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
I've been using Brave for awhile, which is still Chromium-based so you get most of the familiar features. Takes a little tweaking to get some sites happy but at least a bit more private.
Deleting a post about Israel “accidentally” killing international journalists because I missed that they had declared them terrorists. Everyone involved in this genocide needs to be sent to The Hague bsky.app/profile/yasm...
just a reminder again that we were told over and over that a 13 year old downloading a Limp Bizkit mp3 was an existential threat to society
I want every TX story on redisctricting to point out that what's different here is that it's a mid-cycle gerrymander by the same party that did the original gerrymander.
Senate Confirms Judge Who Says Government Can Ignore Court Orders I wish that was a joke. But if anything, it's understating what just happened.
Every blue-haired they/them liberal arts grad living in NYC is tougher than this sad little bitch.
This is an insidious lie: Trump’s top campaign promise to voters was lowering prices of consumer goods on day one. Instead, his actions have drastically increased costs. He failed to deliver his single biggest promise.
It's genuinely insane that these guys can go, "yeah, something something DEI" and that's good enough of a justification for them to do whatever they want.
The problem with having snap tariffs on complex supply chains is that it actually incentivizes offshoring production.
Once upon a (quaint) time, this would be a front-page scandal: An American president vowing to use the government to go after a political opponent even if it’s “wrong.”
run on populism, govern on freeing corporations from the little consumer protections we had and also destroy science for some reason
Fixed it
Well done, John Roberts.
this is an astounding news moment but it’s even more astonishing to me that society at large seems to believe that biden was president in 2019 and 2020 and not trump. not sure what’s going on with that
Man who spends time with a prominent member of a child sex ring warns others about who to associate with.
Republicans must not confirm Emil Bove. They should be told that confirming him would mean that they are confirming lawlessness, and their votes should be viewed accordingly.
The Constitution is pretty goddamn clear when it means citizens and when it means anyone. But I’m sure this Supreme Court will say that undocumented migrants aren’t “persons.”
I feel like there are definitely sectors that are more absurdly hit than others (particularly most things corporate-y tech adjacent), other than, well, the federal nonsense.
It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!
so Elon is saying that hanging out on Twitter cooked Grok into MechaHitler. imagine what it’s doing to you
I don’t care if he doesn’t back this up with further action, in a normal time, this is a major scandal, showing the president of the United States has nothing but contempt for the first amendment, basic rights, and his fellow citizens and will act accordingly in various ways.
“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
Bove shldnt be a judge. He shld be in jail. By the end of this he might be. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
This is a fundamental rejection of the Constitution and the last 250 years of American social and political thought and its proponents have come into power because eggs were expensive, the media is uninterested in informing voters about policy, and the only alternative was voting for a Black lady...
We pay taxes on EVERYTHING!!!!! Nothing is FREE!!!! WE ARE PAYING FOR IT!!! Therefore it damn well should be spent on making our lives BETTER!!!! If my neighbor is in need, I want my taxes to go to helping them. When their life is better, so is MINE!!!
Superman has been firmly anti-shitbird for a long time.
yeah, imagine writing this and putting your name to it? it’s like announcing to the world that you are the biggest loser on the planet
I was worried things couldn’t get stupider but I was wrong …
The parallels are striking.
This is now the FOURTH time in 25 years Republicans have handed a multi-trillion dollar tax cut tilted almost exclusively to the rich and, spoiler alert, none of the prior three cuts "paid for themselves" yet reporters say nothing. By omitting this context media does it's own form of disinformation.
What if the real "death panels" turn out to be the Medicaid cuts the GOP has been desiring since the early 2010s when they were flooding the airwaves with false claims about Obamacare death panels?
"Sorry, you only prefer that we not become a prison state."
I just need them to do another run of instruments so I can find a replacement drumset that doesn't cost a second mortgage for my failing one.
Another rather wild statement from Murkowski — who provides no explanations as to why she accepted the premise of the deadline if she found it so preposterous. She could have just said I'm a firm no until we figure this stuff out in a month!
If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.
Nothing says "we're the party of Lincoln and limited government" like spending billions of dollars to build a massive national network of detention camps for working class people of color!
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
at some point journalism could simply make a choice to stop treating every brain fart this man has as a major story
"It contains a staggering increase in federal immigration enforcement, with only a pittance for immigration courts—a congressional blessing of the WH agenda of arresting every migrant we can now, and figuring out how to get around the courts to deport them later." www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-...
The lesson of Fox News, podcast bros and right wing influencers is that people would rather be enraged than informed. The internet is wasted on so many.
I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
I mean, the ridiculous bit is how often Stephen Miller and MAGA folks focused on getting universal injunctions against Biden. So I'm assuming this is going to be another one of these "well it only applies during GOP presidency" type SCOTUS rulings.
Gonna go out on a limb and say this might be a controversial move. (via @politico.com)
Guess what? It doesn’t matter what we call ourselves. Republicans are going to scream “socialist” no matter what. Might as well fight for something real while they’re yelling. 2.
So many people will die because of this deeply evil and deeply stupid man. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Good morning #DigiColPA!
Waiting for news outlets and reporters to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, reporting Trump's social media posts on foreign policy without confirmation is deeply irresponsible and an embarrassing failure of journalism.
they have a similar feature at year-end if you use it enough for it to get useful data.
I know Acyn posts direct quotes. But I still had to check Vance actually said that, because this is fucking The Onion copy.
Once again, if we were a more serious country, we would not be here right now & Iran would have been years further away from actually having nuclear weapons than it was two weeks ago.
What # impeachable offense is this from Trump now?
I’m surprised he decided go to war on a second country. You’d think destroying America would be enough.
Of course it’s unconstitutional, it all is.
right-wingers will often say that America deserves credit for ending slavery rather than blame for having slavery. but then we made a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery and they still got mad, which should tell you what their real objection is.
i wish we had a media more willing to grapple with scientific dishonesty
There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
Relatedly, I'm in denial that your child could possibly already be a teen.
In the midst of daily debates over whether the president needs to follow the laws and court orders, it's absolutely wild to me that everyone's just like, "So it goes! Let's pretend that law says something totally different."
A failure of journalism. Neither the push nor the NBC News article notes that THIS IS ILLEGAL. The law allows a one-time delay. That’s it! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
If I were an ICE agent, I’d be embarrassed as hell that they were filing assault charges against mild mannered politicians in their 50s. Just how fucking soft are these little man babies? They seem like they’d burst into tears at the sound of a slammed door.
Mike Lee shouldn't just be expelled from Congress, he should be expelled from public life, just completely shunned by everyone he encounters like in that episode of The Twilight Zone. He is unfit to hold public office and his party should take action. The party won't, but it should.
Emily Moin 