Lawyer (but not yours, and not speaking for my employer). From Indiana, now in VA. Probably want to take a nap right now. I like live music and collecting baseball cards. Perpetually exasperated by life and…all this.
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These demons have come against the house of Chastain!!!
BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BREAKING: Judge overseeing DOJ's prosecution of Luigi Mangione orders DOJ to explain by Oct. 3, via sworn declaration, why prejudicial statements continued to be made about him by DOJ officials, contrary to rule/order. Judge Garnett warns that sanctions could follow if there are future violations.
Innovative new "plume" maps from @climatetrace.org show you how to identify and track emissions from the polluters you're exposed to. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...
The Supreme Court has made it increasingly difficult to successfully prosecute public corruption, making it easier for people like White House “border czar” Tom Homan, who accepted $50,000 cash in a bag, to get away with alleged bribes. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/no-one-...
you can argue that dem congressional leaders should have asked for more than they did, but schumer seems to have bet correctly that trump and thune would reject any ask out of hand and tailored the asks to things that are very easily explainable to voters with clear and rapid consequences
This whole incident is revealing a real crisis of trust in the FBI, it's hard to imagine how the FBI restores any credibility in the Trump administration, but that's what happens when you turn the entire government and related institutions into forums for loyalty tests and persecution.
Honest question - does Kash Patel know about court?
Pritzker seems to be the only one warning about this regularly
This is fucking embarrassing
Century of humiliation
Pretty good explanation of why Trump is bailing out his “loyal puppet” buddy Millei in Argentina 👇🏽 America first folks, where you at? And who does this for us when our chickens come home to roost?
October 18 is going to be the largest peaceful protest in American history. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave — but if we want to be free, then we’ve got to be brave. Find your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
In cities like LA the real story is: “the rent is too damn high.” Every day you’ll see rows of campers lining the roads. Some are so broken down you know they can’t even move. These are people down on their luck, stuck in a system that keeps kicking them while they’re already down.
"Tariffs Will Hit Slowing U.S. Economy Hard in 2026, OECD Says" 🤔 www.wsj.com/economy/glob...
“I plead for his release because I truly need his help.”
Gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...
BREAKING: Every Administrative Agency appears to have disappeared today, proving the long-standing agency rapture theory.
White nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes has never been more popular, and he has a plan in place to leverage that popularity to infiltrate all aspects of US society to spread his racist, antisemitic worldview. And it's already happening... www.wired.com/story/nick-f...
Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...
Don't forget that Fat Bear Week voting starts tomorrow at 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern. You can see the bracket and read about the bears here: explore.org/fat-bear-week
Grifters gonna grift.
Truly, this is where even capitalism's greatest cheerleaders must admit it fails utterly
We have been led into a post-information age, and we will have to adapt to endure.
On this day, my friend and our chair @josephsakran.bsky.social was shot in the throat at age 17. Joe survived against considerable odds, and today, is a leading trauma surgeon and a driving force within our movement. I am grateful for his life, his leadership, and all that is to come.
The thing I want y’all to understand is that the support Jimmy Kimmel got can also happen for people who aren’t rich & white. Imagine if half this energy went towards corporations helping send weapons to Gaza. I swear it’s possible to fight for something even if you won’t personally benefit.
Love to take medical advice from people who can’t even pronounce the names of medicines.
So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...
“Musk is helping produce child pornography” should be a much bigger news headline.
Millions of Americans are going to be making medical decisions about their kids based on Trump’s ramblings about vaccines and autism: “I’m not a doctor, but I’m giving my opinion.” “I’ve heard bad things … for many years.” “This is based on what I feel.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
When media and policy push narratives that portray autism as a burden or a danger, Black autistic people pay a high price. We already live at the intersection of racism & ableism. These narratives increase violence, misdiagnosis, and invisibility.
"Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next fourteen?" My column. www.ft.com/content/a284...
For real, fuck ICE. Every single one of them needs to be fired and become utterly unhireable. A good portion need to be prosecuted.
“That was the most dangerously irresponsible press conference in the realm of public health in American history,” said Paul Offit, a pediatrician and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia vaccine researcher who has long sparred with anti-vaccine groups. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”
But that’s the entire Dem play. The fact she is portraying a true believer is saddening, but that’s the type of person White supremacy and Democratic machinations let rise to any real power .
Basically, their effort to portray Autism as preventable and curable is part of a larger project to eliminate anyone they see as costing society more than they contribute. And, short of that, to push those costs fully onto families and off of the state.
Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
Unsurprising that the president who himself was guilty of housing discrimination decades ago wants to gut enforcement of fair housing laws www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...
“DEI” for these people just means integration and the enforcement of civil rights laws www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...
The Spanish PM said this at Columbia University yesterday: “Defending your country is one thing. But killing 60,000 civilians, bombing hospitals, and starving children to death is something else entirely.” “We are witnessing one of the darkest tragedies of the 21st century unfold before our eyes.”
His mom is. His dad was a world champion bodybuilder who traveled all over the globe for competitions. Pretty cool story. If you have Netflix, the “Receiver” series is fun, goes into a lot more of this. Great look into his life.
Yes, yes he does.
Perfect. 😂🤣😂
Perfect.
He does, in fact, “run this shit”.
Lmaooooooo that was great
@cjzero.bsky.social Gonna need that Amon Ra St Brown clip… ☠️😂
Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists
Sinclair is state media. Just like Fox. But slightly more concealed. Which is dangerous.
"We want Dart" chants erupting in East Rutherford. It's week 3
Hearing “we want dart” chants on the broadcast
Yes 🤣🤣🤣
www.wired.com/story/charli... this is how Charlie felt about MLK
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republicans are already there
amazing, like 100 people blocked me for a *joke* suggesting Dems would do something like this this place is made of juice
This is really pretty simple. You recognize that they are fascists and you do not do what they want. The thing is, everyone has to do that. And they are not doing it.
This isn’t dooming, it’s just acknowledging that a lot of people with a lot of power are not making this nearly difficult enough
Yup. an unpopular regime doesn’t need to be popular to stay in power if cultural legal and economic institutions which could scuttle its operations just capitulate and hope the regime moderates or goes away.
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
Not that it matters, but what Kimmel said was … well, read it. This is what was described as “the sickest conduct ever” and was deemed enough to threaten to revoke a license over.
Anyway in other news today is Constitution Day
Note: I don’t know where this is going at all. It’s not a “foreign terrorist organization,” which is a thing State does. There is a “domestic terrorism” definition, but it involves no formal designations. This could be one of those things Trump does, that is then followed by a memo: Do this —>
The problem, then, is what that will mean here and how it will be implemented. That is what I mean in the second half of the original post. For that, I will be looking to see what of this appears in writing beyond Trump’s post tonight and what implementing information is provided elsewhere.
Of course, there is no “organization” of Antifa in the U.S. in the way the term “organization” is generally used, let alone in the way Trump — across past speeches — presents Antifa in the U.S. as existing. That is what I mean in my initial point above.
It is, if nothing else, an aggressive attempt at chilling speech and active opposition with no apparent reason beyond Trump’s belief that Antifa is a “SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER” being given at this time.
BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.” Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.
I think you mean insulting senators to reassure Trump he is fit to lead
Contempt of Congress only applies when Republicans are the target.
Admittedly not an expert here but I feel like the answer here might be "yes"
One less-highlighted reason that criticism of Charlie Kirk is taken by conservatives as clear desire for/intention to enact political violence is that when conservatives criticize their targets, it is usually with the desire for and intent of enacting violence. So we see: they know words can kill.
Brian Kilmeade wants to murder unhoused Veterans then?
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didn’t like about Charlie Kirk. I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.
Romania scrambles fighter jets as Poland also deploys aircraft over threat of a drone attack.
Sounds like Nick just blood and soiled himself.
I think Old Dominion is a little stronger than people realize. Indiana had a more difficult time with them than expected in the opener.
Holy shit.
When you write a piece noting that a guy promoted racism and violence, his followers immediately prove you right
It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."
last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)
An hour before Charlie Kirk was shot, Nancy Mace told Jewish Democrat Sara Jacobs: “I have a good surgeon if you ever want to get your nose done.”
guys, we have a tone shift
National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes
Incorrect. It is a Nazi thing that got its foothold on 4chan/8chan and was further popularized there after the FBI started paying attention to the boards following Nazi mass shootings in 2018-2019. It mainstreamed to a much broader internet culture in subsequent years. Hope this helps.
1/10 So the fake claims of "trans" and "antifa" symbols comes from both ammo stamps and casing inscriptions wrongly reported. They try to paint Tyler as left, but like Crooks this is a fringe right wing Groyper. Here's the details on registered Republican, Tyler Robinson: x.com/adamscochra...
internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*
EARHARDT: Mr President, see these buildings? A lot of them in New York City you built. That's called capitalism, not socialism. What's your reaction to Mamdani? TRUMP: I call him my little communist. But he has to come to Washington for money ... it looks like he's gonna win. And that's a rebellion
The fact that the Trump administration is making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish academic in the US right now should show how absurd it is to claim that this assault on higher education is really about protecting Jews.
Trump’s FBI Director, Kash Patel, is under fire for spreading misinformation about the Charlie Kirk case, undermining confidence in the bureau, forcing out the counterterrorism agent in Utah with expertise in these types of investigations, and cursing out agents for his own failures.
hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
Jacob Davison 