The President of the United States is ordering Texas to invade Illinois. That's what's happening. In plain language. Americans need to understand that states are being set against each other on the whim of an authoritarian federal government.
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The President of the United States is ordering Texas to invade Illinois. That's what's happening. In plain language. Americans need to understand that states are being set against each other on the whim of an authoritarian federal government.
A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
Whenever I’m facing a moral dilemma, I think of the advice my father gave me. “Never leave a paper trail,” he’d say, tapping the glass partition between us for emphasis.
Thanks to Congressman Robert Garcia and House Democrats, Congress will soon review the alleged Donald Trump birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, along with other previously unseen Epstein files. The estate is set to turn over the birthday book and additional documents on September 8.
I love bugs but this is a big nope.
Repubs overturned Roe v Wade because they fought harder and dirtier when it seemed hopeless for them and Dems took the status quo for granted. There are plenty of battles that are losing in the short run but if you fight tooth and nail and rally the base, they can be winning in the long run.
Fucking thank you. * It gets attention. * It forces the other side to reveal its depravity. * It galvanizes support among those who agree with you. * And who knows, you just might win some battles that seem like they're losing ones.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “When people fight principled battles that they know they may lose, others pay attention,” Michael Brownstein and Alex Madva write in a guest essay.
The Transportation Department on Friday said it was terminating or withdrawing $679 million in federal funding for 12 projects around the country intended to support the development of offshore wind power.
Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that he would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to prevent them from attending the annual UN General Assembly in New York next month.
You should own the digital assets you pay for the same as you own physical assets. We've been conned into accepting a world where we own nothing and anything can be taken away on a company's whim.
They need constitution training, not cultural sensitivity training.
Fire RFK Jr. now.
a scoopy one from me, with an assist from @accountable.us: Bill Pulte is using Palantir to gather "mortgage fraud" accusations and weaponize them against Dems in order to abet Trump's government capture. but, he formerly disclosed owning Palantir stock—and that's not his only potential conflict:
😢The youngest person killed in the Russian strike on Kyiv was not even three years old, she died in the house with her mother. In the photo 24-year-old Nadiya and her two-year-old daughter Angelina. She was born under Russian shelling in October 2022 and died from Russian shelling in August 2025.
For the third time in slightly more than a week, grand jurors in Washington have rejected efforts by federal prosecutors to indict a resident accused of a felony assault against a federal agent. The extraordinary pushback comes as President Trump has flooded the streets with National Guard troops.
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
SCOOP: Donald Trump and DOJ ‘Special Attorney for Mortgage Fraud’ Ed Martin are speaking as often as four times per week as the GOP activist prepares to seek indictments against prominent Democrats www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
An SSA source tells me chief data officer Charles Borges sent out his involuntary resignation email to select offices within the agency a short while ago, but then a few minutes later the email disappeared from the inboxes of those who received it with no explanation.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Well have you tried 9255?
Shitty that everyone has to pay the price for cheating. I wonder when cheaters will use cheating methods that don't require software on the gaming computer like pointing another computer's webcam at the screen and having the other computer control a virtual USB mouse and keyboard.
I bet all those pro-Palestinians who voted for Trump to protest Harris's mild stance on Gaza are satisfied now.
Assault weapons are inherently a superficial / political designation based on random features like barrel shrouds, flash suppressors, and accessory attachment points. A non-superficial ban would be one on all rifles or semi rifles or something like that. But that's not what's being proposed.
No, and I didn't say that. 15 years is grossly excessive.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
I don't know what the answer is but an AWB is illogical because it's based on superficial features. The same gun models like ARs are available in AW and non-AW versions, with only cosmetic differences, and both shoot the same. And AWs are used in a small minority of gun crimes.
The difference: the guy in the article you linked burned someone else's flag.
A decorated Army veteran that was arrested after burning an American flag near the White House says he set the fire because “it was my right as a citizen,” adding that he was protesting President Trump’s call for flag burners to be prosecuted.
CDC staff held a “clap-out” on Thursday to honor three of the agency’s high-ranking officials, who resigned in protest after President Trump fired the director, Susan Monarez. nyti.ms/4oSxakJ
Do people not cook their eggs thoroughly and cook sanitarily?
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
What leverage does Trump have on Mayor Bowser that has her bowing to him over and over?
It doesn't sit well with me to control what other people see.
A large part of Zeitoun, a neighborhood in Gaza City, was still standing just three weeks ago. But as Israeli forces have expanded their military campaign, the area has been turned into a barren wasteland, according to satellite images reviewed by The New York Times. nyti.ms/4lVj3bR
Arresting firefighters putting their lives on the line to protect our communities doesn't make us safer. This evil stunt is putting families in harm's way just so Donald Trump can score a Fox News hit.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
The FDA approved the next round of COVID vaccines, but is restricting them to people at high risk for COVID complications.
President Trump is not only working to stop a transition away from fossil fuels in the U.S., he is pressuring other countries to relax their pledges to fight climate change and instead burn more oil, gas and coal.
It bothers me that the buildings are way too large to be to scale
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."
With Intel, Trump Continues His Race To Violate Every Clause In The Constitution By Now Arriving At The Takings Clause Trump's quest to stress-test every line in the Constitution continues apace, with his declaration that the government now owns 10% of Intel looking like nothing but a great, big,…
Environmental groups and elected officials have criticized the order and cast doubt on the legitimacy of the administration’s national security concerns, which were cited as the rationale behind the project's abrupt halt.
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there. The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream. From me and others (see byline/contribs) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
Why publish one story about A.I. gone wrong when you can publish two? Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness. The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
Just leaving the scene of yet another neighbor being taken today. Delivering food to a neighbor, stopped, surrounded by multiple agencies of law enforcement and arrested. No pretext.
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
New, from me: A Trump official is concocting mortgage fraud claims to target opposition. It's a classic authoritarian trick. Now they are doing it to Lisa Cook, the first Black female member of the Federal Reserve to push her to resign. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...
The Revolution Wind farm was slated to start sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year.
“Melissa Chaudhry is running for Congress… and is married to Pakistani native Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry. The couple thought Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry was taking a step toward citizenship when he arrived for an interview at an immigration office in Tukwila. Instead, he was detained by ICE.” jfc
oh my god? brave.com/blog/comet-p...
Governor Wes Moore hurt Trump’s feelings so now Trump is threatening to take away money to fix the bridge
This isn't an "administrative error." Every single federal employee receives record keeping training. The next administration needs to prosecute everyone responsible for this. Yes, there are bigger abuses we'll need to prosecute too, but records are paramount.
Evading sanctions costs money - fewer buyers for your goods means you have to settle for less, and fewer sellers dealing with you means you have to pay more. The effect is long and slow, but ultimately the cost of the war may force an end to it.
Stagflation in some form is coming. The trillion-dollar question is whether inflation becomes entrenched paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-econom...
Masked, un-uniformed, unidentified secret police ambushes. What could go wrong?
ICE just posted this video to Twitter with the caption: "TV’s former 'man of steel' Dean Cain runs through the obstacle course during training to become an ICE officer at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia. http://Join.ICE.gov"
It’s actually far, far worse on Bluesky. The nastiness and vitriol here makes X look civilized and high-minded by comparison 🙃. The close-minded scolds on here shouldn’t flatter themselves
Or maybe they don't like nonsensical tax policies. Taxing unrealized cap gains could cause a temporary blip in stock price to lead to tax liability despite there being no net gain in wealth.
Donald Trump's threat to bring the National Guard to Chicago isn't about safety — it's a test of the limits of his power and a trial run for a police state. Illinois has long worked with federal law enforcement to tackle crime, but we won't let a dictator impose his will.
The White House has not commented on a report released Friday by a panel of food security experts that confirmed famine in Gaza. Analysts say that without U.S. pressure, Israel is unlikely to change course.
The Revolution Wind farm was slated to start sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year.
It's a crackdown on dissent.
🚨 Authoritarians have a new favorite weapon: the central bank digital currency. The CBDC Tracker shows 139+ governments’ plans, and the human rights risks behind them. Nick Anthony explains why it’s time to pay attention:
I love it when the people who control the government, military, courts, media, law enforcement and the church call someone else "the establishment."
More central planning.
An announcement of famine — as has now happened regarding Gaza — is a complicated decision. Here's what must be considered before such a declaration is made.
And it's not going to stop there. They're talking about VPN and encryption bans now. The U.S. is eager to do the same. In the plainest of terms: things are going to be very fucked up. The privacy and online speech folks have been screaming about this for years now. It's here.
Specifically, national socialism.
It's more shaking down than bailing out
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Through the recent FBI raid on John Bolton’s home, “the president has given all Americans reason to believe that justice is now applied selectively and unfairly,” the editorial board writes.
Chairman Mao touts his state-run economy
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
I don’t understand how this represents a problem with the Flipper Zero rather than a stringing indictment of the car security industry. www.404media.co/inside-the-u...
The Trump administration has tied new requirements to election security grants. Some states told NPR they're passing on the grants as a result. n.pr/4mlDK1w
Something of a foray away from sport: strange story, with a great bunch of colleagues, about how Trump's son-in-law benefited financially from proximity to the US president. Superyachts, Saudis and Son-in-Laws. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/w...
Coming soon: goose stepping programming
All historians should read this jaw dropping interview as a case study in moral and political decrepitude. Evidence if any more were needed that the accrual of massive amounts of evidence about the past does not automatically engender a critical reflection on the present.
First, there’s no legal basis for this. Second, a “Real ID” is sufficient for air travel because it requires extra documentation to obtain. Third and again, there’s no legal basis for this. Fourth and most important, this is the “papers please” stage of fascism and the biggest possible red flag.
“Having established widespread use cases for fingerprint biometrics and facial matching, and burgeoning markets in iris and palm vein recognition, the horizon is now the total package: whole-body biometric recognition” www.biometricupdate.com/202508/whole...
Russia’s state-designed “patriotic” lesson series “Important Conversations” is being rolled out in preschools and kindergartens — in occupied areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Luhansk regions. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
I brought up two daughters and made sure they were protected via settings on the computers and network. It's was my responsibility, so I dealt with it. Forcing adults to prove their ID, storing all sorts of dangerous data insecurely, protects noone, but looks like action. It isn't.
Abrego's legal team compared the 3-year gap between his traffic stop and charges to similar cases in the district. There's nothing like it, reeking of "suspicious timing," they say in a motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution. Full story @allrisenews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/abrego-vin...
Huge applause from crowd outside the Texas House after Rep. Nicole Collier, who spent the night inside after refusing a police escort, briefly appeared from the hallway into the chamber.
Ed Martin’s latest stunt: pressuring someone he is criminally investigating to resign from public office “as an act of good faith.”
A new low even for the free press defector.com/the-free-pre...
Thank you. As a parent, I want to be responsible for my child and don't want a bunch of ninnies carding everyone for her own good. And freedom and anonymity online are way more important than making sure my child doesn't see a tit.
If, like me this UK verification BS is annoying you, a very simple work around is to use the built in VPN service in the Opera browser. Handy when you are visiting the UK. We shouldnt have to do this, but the UK is becoming a surveillance state and we are where we are.They will try to ban VPN's next
But legal experts say he lacks the constitutional authority to do so.
I'm not sure anything will ever illustrate the state of The Discourse quite as well as Stephen Moore misreading his own pie chart while opining about the state of our national statistics.
Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.
Supreme Court caselaw suggests that this is almost certainly illegal.
Louisiana's AG is suing Roblox for failure to age-verify, mirroring the same attacks we've seen in conservative states over adult sites. It was never going to stop with porn. Literally anything a kid can access will require state-mandated identity and surveillance.
Domestic violence is bad - for abusers' fists. Beating the shit out of her risks fracturing his hand and diminishing his ability to punch more.