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Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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“Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream—that if you work hard, you will get ahead—no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys.”
Stocks being pricier than they were in the dot-com era has to be good, right? Like, I remember that Pets-dot-com was HUGE. And then, well, my memory’s a little hazy around 2000 or so, but I have to assume it stayed huge, right?
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social was curious; so he asked Ben Smith — co-founder of Semafor, and former media columnist at the New York Times — if Smith thought democracy is under threat in the U.S. Good question.
(Its Noah smith)
/6 [SALLY is WEEPING. Two RIVERS of SNOT run down her face gleaming SILVER in the SPOTLIGHT. Her voice is TREMUOUS.] Give them support. Give them respect. Give them deference. Give them . . . hope. [VISUAL SLOWLY FADES OUT] [VOICE IN BACKGROUND] Tom . . . Cotton? Like the Senator? Seriously?
/5 [A FACE APPEARS ON SCREEN] SALLY: How can you look at this face and not feel pity? Is your heart made of stone?
/4 SALLY: For just pennies a day, you can give these pundits hope. You can show them someone is on their side. You can give them a place where they will be cherished. A place where they will not be questioned from the wrong side. A place called home. [BLUE TWITTER CHECKMARK APPEARS IN BACKGROUND]
/3 SALLY: Every day pundits are abused. Taunted. Disrespected. Their contributions are unliked. Their Substacks are unread. They are told that nobody cares. That nobody is on their side. Do you care? Will you be on their side? [VOICE IN BACKGROUND]: Chris Rufo. Elon Musk.
/2 SALLY: Bluesky. It can be a happy place. An exciting place. A popular place. [CLOSE UP ON SALLY’S FACE] But every day, for some pundits, it is not a safe place. [A TEAR FORMS IN SALLY’S EYE] [VOICE IN BACKGROUND] Jesse Singal. Bari Weiss. Richard Hanania.
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
Of the many reasons this is a bad answer — the kind of answer I would delight to get in cross-examination because it makes the speaker look shifty and untrustworthy - is that “maintain or rebuild institutions” is not particularly less abstract than “democracy under threat.” It’s just less direct.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
Breaking News: Representative Jerry Nadler will not seek re-election, ending a 34-year career as one of Congress’s leading liberal voices.
I know this has come up before, but it still boggles my mind that there's an account out here that labels itself as the "official" resistance account for the National Park Service and there are a ton of people who buy that and get mad if you question it. Like what the hell makes you "official"??
The International Association of Genocide Scholars has made a decision according to which Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip meet the legal criteria for genocide. 86% of the body voted for it
None of it can be done without a Presidential signature or 2/3 veto override anyway. Showmanship bills are all that will happen from January 2027-2029 -- better they be aggressive showmanship bills than milquetoast or nothing at all bsky.app/profile/moin...
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China is rolling out the red carpet for more than two dozen world leaders at two major defense-related events this week. The guest lists, and some notable omissions, are a window into Beijing’s ambitions, alliances and attempts to expand its influence.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/c... Just watching America's status and influence in the world bleed away thanks to Derr Trumpenfuhrer.
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Israeli strikes killed at least 17 people in Gaza City on Saturday, Palestinian emergency workers said. The attacks came a day after Israel ended a policy of pausing attacks for several hours daily to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Israel has warned Europe that if a Palestinian state is recognised, Israel might annexe West Bank territories, Axios reports. Europe said any annexation could result in sanctions.
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
A Trump administration proposal to reverse a landmark finding that climate change is dangerous to the public relies heavily on a report from the Department of Energy that dozens of scientists say is flawed. The Associated Press surveyed scientists for their views. Here are some key takeaways:
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Saturday canceled a planned trip to China as days of protests spread further outside the capital Jakarta, with several regional parliament buildings set ablaze.
Found the cop who found me.
Pleased to report that they figured it out last night!! 👋👋 I love all my fans.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
I mean this is essentially the entire story, right?
Cyberattack is a big word to you?
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The disappearance of U.S. aid in Nigeria's northeast has threatened a school that supports children who are victims of Boko Haram extremists.
Autocrats, populists, friends and foes, a strongman waging a war in Europe and the leader of the world’s biggest democracy will all be hosted by Chinese leader Xi Jinping this weekend.
Until the TCJA, the top 400 US individuals by wealth and the full US population both had effective tax rates of ~30%. The TCJA reduced the Top 400 individuals’ total effective tax rates to 23.8% in 2018 – 2020, well below those of the full population (still ~30%). www.nber.org/system/files...
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The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later.
You dont think a state executing a cyberattack on another sovereign state is wild?
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Just caught up this this. Wild. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The first ever successful & impactful cyber-physical attack on European critical infrastructure outside of Ukraine? “Russian hackers took control of a Norwegian dam this year, opening a floodgate and allowing water to flow unnoticed for four hours, Norway’s intelligence service has said.”
Former Ukrainian speaker of Parliament Andriy Parubiy has been assassinated in Lviv. An investigation is underway to hunt down the killer, according to the Ukrainian interior ministry.
Denver school officials pushed back against a US Education Department finding that its all-gender bathrooms violate Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination, accusing the Trump administration of using that law to promote an “anti-trans agenda.”
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
The loss of local news is linked with increased government secrecy, according to a new study conducted by the Brechner Center for the Advancement of the First Amendment at the University of Florida. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/0...
I guess the question we're all wondering over here in America is why in the world you would ever put keys on the roof of a car. (1) You're going to scratch the paint. (2) The whole point of keyless unlock and keyless ignition is the keys stay in your pocket or purse.
Denver Health expects to lose more than $60 million annually — roughly the amount the city’s struggling safety-net hospital gained from a sales tax that voters approved last year — once federal Medicaid changes take effect in 2027.
Combing through someone’s entire history of contracts is kind of like p-hacking. With a large enough corpus, it seems likely you’ll eventually find *something* you can interpret as a criminal misstatement or omission.
I wonder how many of us could withstand an intense scrutiny of our finances and contracts. I’ve had 4 mortgages. While I always provided accurate information to the best of my knowledge, and I checked what I could, in the end I mostly just clicked and signed where Docusign told me to.
Jan Carey is charged with lighting a fire in an undesignated area and in a manner causing damage to real property or park resources — Class "B" misdemeanors, typically resolved in D.C. with a small fine, per this story. He called Trump's executive order bluff.
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But i do also freely acknowledge that parents wanting heads on spikes is a very real issue and shouldn't be the driver for any of this stuff.
...your mom, just keep this between us" and the "yes things will be so much better on the other side" that seems, to me, to be crossing some kind of line (that doesnt exist in current 1A law i acknowledge) from simply providing info to actively encouraging/assisting. And that seems like a problem
I think what makes this specific situation so difficult is the totality of everything the chat other said. If it were just the "this is how to tie a noose" stuff, that would be one thing and would be a much clearer 1A issue. Info is simply being provided. But once you get to the "no dont tell...
I think it's a first Amendment issue the same way that a defective warning or instruction manual for an electronic device is a First Amendment issue. Like we can make it one but also some of this is just regular tort liability that happens to use words.
"Oh no you made a reference to the hugely popular company I worked for and/or the hugely popular movie I helped produce oh wow you got me im super fucking cool"
the people you might sway aren’t usually the people you’re fighting with though. the swayables are the onlookers
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Gov. Bob Ferguson of Washington said that his office was demanding an explanation from federal officials for Border Patrol’s decision to arrest workers who were fighting a wildfire in the state.
!! According to Haaretz (Amos Harel), Ron Dermer (Netanyahu's confidant and chief negotiator on Gaza) refers to Blair as the next governor of Gaza.
The future of Gaza should be decided by the population of Gaza. Anything else is colonialism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
President Zelenskyy says Russia struck a Kyiv apartment block —“at least eight killed, including a child” and dozens wounded. People may still be under the rubble.
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:
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Wildfires in Europe: record burning in Spain and Portugal
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Sudan civil war: A pregnant woman's diary of escape through RSF territory
NEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary futurism.com/openai-scann...
I think those lawyers who have been suing colleges to shut down speech critical of Israel are going to have to sue the whole country.
Wow this is going to be a whole lot of people to be sued or jailed or expelled
New Quinnipiac Poll — 50% of voters say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Includes *77%* of Democrats, 51% of Independents, and 20% of Republicans. 60% of voters oppose sending more military aid to Israel. Includes 75% of Democrats, 66% of Independents, and 37% of Republicans.
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Polling shows Zohran Mamdani leading with Jewish voters in NYC’s mayoral race. But the New York Times keeps framing him as “alienating” the community—while ignoring polls that say otherwise. 📊 Read @ahjohnson.bsky.social’s breakdown.
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The fire sale at the end of the empire www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
He's really fucking good at publicity. This is an era of pitchmen and we have collectively forgotten that the skill of a pitchman and a disciplined generally competent human being have no overlap
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
BREAKING: President Trump extends his control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak.
No response here?
Nothing wrong with this except the massive expense and disruption to their lives.
“This decision had two results: OpenAl's valuation catapulted from $86 billion to $300 billion, and Adam Raine died by suicide.”
LLMs are like bench saws. You should need training to interact with them, use them only for a specific work-related purpose, and not play around with them or allow kids to play with them.
A federal judge in D.C. says the District has unlawfully detained a woman charged with spitting on a National Zoo police officer after she was arrested for entering a staff-only area at the zoo's Bird House. The city jail "has chosen not to comply with this Court’s Order."
Fed. judge holds there is no judicial immunity from criminal prosecution in the case of a state judge accused of attempting to impede federal immigration enforcement. Also rejects idea that Tenth Amendment has an unwritten carve-out for state courthouses/judges. assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
7th Cir.: it violated due process for prison officials to confine inmate to solitary for three months in appalling conditions—feces on walls, contaminated water, constant noise, roaches—but the violation was not clearly established law. QI for officials. media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...
![Jackson’s liberty interest was not “clearly established” by the case law of this court or the Supreme Court in March 2020.6 On the conditions factor, the conditions Jackson alleges here, though “more severe than those found in the general prison population,” are “hardly analogous to a confinement that deprives a prisoner of all human contact or sensory stimuli,” Hardaway, 734 F.3d at 744, like the conditions the Supreme Court found sufficient to create a liberty interest in Wilkinson. And on the duration factor, Jackson has not “presented case law stating that a [three]-month period of confinement under conditions similar to [his] implicates a liberty interest.” See id.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreignazg4xv2bsduuctrxk67nooxeagz2lhp3xiv4wtssgpkdiw4kqa@jpeg "Click to view full size")
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To put a fine point on it: Trump's DOJ is choosing to snarl criminal matters in the District of New Jersey to fight to keep a non-Senate confirmed, district judge-rejected loyalist in the U.S. Attorney post.
Remarkable accounting of concerns over Alina Habba's legitimacy grinding criminal cases to a halt. At least 12 judges delayed proceedings, including three trials and several guilty plea and sentencing hearings—even BEFORE the ruling against Habba. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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UN demands justice over Israeli double strike on Gaza hospital
Do....do you think Italy is an ultra-authoritarian state????
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Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."