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Apologize to Michelle Obama, @theatlantic.com because you are publishing BS. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/the-...
It’s the bribes for Senator Clay Davis
Those of us paying attention are in the real bubble
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
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Spent the day driving around Manchester, New Hampshire, a city for 80-something New Yorkers in deep debt apparently. I was driving alone, something I’m known to do. I saw a woman fleeing domestic violence. I “rendered aid,” vaguely. Minutes or maybe an hour later I was walloped by a Mack truck.
Journalists ignored his well-documented history & wrote flattering articles about him. He’s doing the same shit he has for 40 YEARS. Did you actually think he’d stop being an anti-science profiteer? Of course not. Now he’s got the power and authority of the Federal government behind him. 2/
That means he’s going to accelerate what he’s been doing for decades. The Senate ushered that in, knowing full well his history. I’ve written so much about him I’ve organized a section of my newsletter under “RFK Jr” Find them all here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔗 news.immunologic.org/t/rfk-jr 🧵
The Republican-caused Recession is here. Relief will be when Republicans in the House and Senate lose their jobs.
Mainstream Media isn’t reporting about the children who have died that ICE Gestapo snatched! #iceout #arrestnoem #arresttrump
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
our candidates spend on attack ads when they should be spending all their resources on local name recognition and grassroots GOTV efforts. If Dems are about “unity,” there must be some modicum of effort to ACT LIKE A TEAM!!! The DNC needs to STOP focusing on pleasing Zionist donors and
text banks, and canvassing opportunities. MILLIONS of Dems have no races in November to worry about and would be happy to help where needed. We have a party chair, but NO ONE who coordinates resources and messaging to help the team win! Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot? We need to STOP expecting that
In approximately 60 days, several major elections are going to take place across the country. I think SOMEONE at the DNC should be responsible for INFORMING all of the Dems in America how we can help our team members win. SOMEONE should be sending out links to sign up for letter writing, call &
Sign up for Trump's forces and reap the benefits of impunity. You can be as violent and thuggish as you like and face no consequences for it. You may get a bonus. www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-offi...
Keep the pressure on them! A thread of Border Patrol recruitment events in September: careers.cbp.gov/s/connect-to... -9/3 Laredo, TX (Job Fair) -9/5-7 Big Bear, CA (Tough Mudder) -9/5-7 Scottsdale, AZ (Rodeo) -9/6-7 Glen Jean, WV (Spartan Trifecta) -9/6 Philadelphia, PA (Spartan Stadion) 🧵⬇️
What’s your view on the way forward?
We should be worrying less about some bullshit triangulation by a politician than preparing for what we’ll do if the regime seizes voting machines or engages in mass arrests of political opponents. We need to avoid being divide-and-ruled.
Tulsi Gabbard has effectively dissolved FMIC, the Foreign Malign Influence Center. I’m shocked by her flagrant chutzpah to cater favors directly to Russia and China (& other actors), and at the same time, I am not surprised because this is exactly who I thought she is.
Watched this again recently when Criterion had their Michael Mann package and it is definitely a quintessential "great movie that is more relevant than ever"
This explains a lot about how 2016 and 2024 were covered by the press bsky.app/profile/tali...
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""The people of DC deserve better than what the mayor said today. Our demand remains that all escalated federal forces leave DC immediately" 👀👀👀
Is Roger Stone giving advice on ethical behavior? Think about that for a second.
It is definitely aurora season
Sickening, bc you're not going to see National Guard walk off or disobey until it's an unlawful order. Trump knows they will continue to take this kind of abuse unless there is enough public pressure. I've given up on Congress using its voice or power. 🧾 www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
JFC. Typical Trump. Stiffing people, this time, the National Guard. Serving on his orders and he's cycling them on 29 day scheds to keep them from getting full housing & health benefits (saving $2,500/head). 🧾 www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... MORE ⬇️
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Democratic Commercial 2025: The Republicans were silent while Trump pardoned people who hospitalized cops and trashed the Capitol. Democratic Commercial 2026: The Republicans were silent while Trump paid people who hospitalized cops and trashed the Capitol with your tax dollars.
Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income. It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions. If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
I've got to admit: I think a murder mystery set at Burning Man could really be something.
If ICE is at our polling places, we will be at our polling places, voting AND defending the right of every voter in our community to vote.
“It’s important for New Mexicans to know the New Mexico Department of Health is committed to keeping residents safe as we enter the 2025–2026 respiratory virus season,” said New Mexico Department of Health’s Gina DeBlassie. “This order will remove obstacles to vaccination access.”
This video is waaay too long, given what it’s documenting—books to be removed from all Edmonton Public Schools. Alberta, please don’t go the way of the U.S. and start banning books. 🎬@non_toxic_masculinity
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
On the first day of LAUSD's school year, we had 92% attendance. The regime has tried to break Los Angeles since June. Our immigrant neighbors have been hiding at home. All summer. But LAUSD had a plan in place for protecting students & the kids came. That is a win for the resistance.
ICE tried to enter two elementary schools in June, but the principals refused to allow them access. For as large & soft a target as LAUSD is, our kids have been safe at school. The leadership of Alberto Carvahlo, a former undocumented immigrant, has been important.
@driftglass.bsky.social Your wonderful governor again
This man is an authentic American hero A Black man facing armed federal agents to stand up for his youth baseball team. Brave. www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Many states don’t let you get a COVID vaccine without a prescription as they had existing laws that tied access to official CDC approval. This made sense as a safety measure, but now the CDC has been taken over by antivaxxers, several states are rightfully modifying these laws to reinstate access.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
"some people are less human than others" is a mindset. any old medical text on treating minorities—the cognitively disabled, black people, women—makes it pretty plain that they're not considered the same kind of human. their kids aren't kids like your kids; just eggs in a nest that needs spraying.
does Drew Ensign go home to his wife every night and say “hi honey, I had a great day lying to the court so that the US government could murder children”? I mean how exactly do you even begin to live with yourself
Fair criticism grounded in years of evidence. Cornel West and Jill Stein are not impressive, and their actions do not result in progress for the left nor workers.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
NEW: In the dead of night, the Trump admin ripped vulnerable kids from their beds, attempting to return them to danger in Guatemala. We’re heartened the Court prevented this injustice. We’ll keep fighting to protect our plaintiffs & all class members until the effort is enjoined permanently.
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Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
reading up on Snoop. not great. www.bostonglobe.com/2020/02/12/o...
Save some utter contempt for the grinning woman next to him who thinks taking something FROM A KID is hilarious and endearing.
Maybe Huang meant an overall four day week on average because of how many people will be fired for AI that everyone else’s much longer work hours will even it out.
Footage from a Chinese factory was found on the camera of a downed Russian ‘Geran’ UAV. The video shows testing of the A40 Pro Viewpro camera, manufactured in Shenzhen at the Aotexing Science Park technology hub — the exact site where the footage was recorded.
AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
If you already own 14 #guns you bought in #Massachusetts, that proves the state isn't infringing on your Second Amendment right to buy guns, judge concludes www.universalhub.com/2025/if-you-... #lawsuits
A few months ago when I got a measles booster, the nurse practitioner smiled and said, "Congratulations on beating RFK Jr." That sentiment now seems premature.
Good.
East #Boston woman goes to scheduled immigration appointment, is instead disappeared by #ICE, lawyer says www.universalhub.com/2025/east-bo...
The Financial Times published my letter about Peter Thiel, "The Sovereign Individual," and the nation-destroying aspirations of crypto. on.ft.com/47mldxs
"The state of Illinois is ready to stand against this military deployment with every peaceful tool we have. We will see the Trump administration in court." Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks out on Trump’s threat to send members of the National Guard into Chicago.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
this point—that this era is not forever and accountability can come in many forms—has for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats
Saying - “I don’t think the President of the United States should turn the US military against US citizens” is not admitting crime is not a problem we need to work on. Trump has some of you so spooked you can’t just say a bad thing is a bad thing. And that’s dangerous and bad politics. Wake up.
You don’t need to message test this. You don’t need 56 focus groups where you ask different subsets of voters how they feel about crime. We were all taught in elementary school that we fought a noble Revolutionary War over issues like the protection of state sovereignty.
I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.
Every elected and civic leader in Chicago stood together on Monday and said - do not do this. And they still appear to be doing it. I know JD has a loose relationship with the truth but does he struggle with the English language too?
A guy doing everything right gets screwed so Border Patrol meets a quota. How much did this stunt cost taxpayers? Why the hell illegally arrest a firefighter?
I'm in a perpetual state of anger rn & it's not anger at who you might think. When I read stories like this, the faces of my former evangelical friends, who cried over injustice & suffering in prayer, but who voted for "Mass Deportations Now" & family separation, are the ones who come to mind.
#FreeDC Sub Guy is already a classic. I’ve seen multiple iterations on it since I got into DC today.
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
The Trump administration has already cut 1 in 4 National Park Service jobs—and more could follow. What does that mean for wildlife, for history, for the places we all share? 🎧 This week on Reveal:
it would be nice if, in this limited respect, power-political necessity and republican virtues align. Because the rules are shredded, the norms are gone, and our institutions are subverted. We are in a power-political struggle between fascist authoritarianism and pluralist democracy. Period. /end
I don't know what the correct balance is. But I do know that we need to expand the pro-democracy coalition, and I suspect that this *will* require approaches that abandon stigmatization of allies and potential allies in favor of empathy and persuasion.
We haven't lost yet. But we are losing. And no one — and I mean *no one* — has figured this out. So we've got politicians who think the only way to expand the coalition is to triangulate; we've got ones who think what matters more is having the courage of your convictions.
I don't think that people should abandon fighting for their rights or the rights of others. We all want to defeat reactionary authoritarianism and replace it with a new, better, pluralist democracy. Pluralist democracy is hard. It was too hard for MAGA and the post-liberals.
They *want* people hived off into antagonistic groups; they *want* people to believe that they can't form cross-cutting social ties; and they *want* people to see all institutions everywhere as eternally compromised.
And that gets at a larger point. Competitive authoritarian regimes benefit from reduced social trust — which is why they actively try to destroy it.
There are virtues to working with people you otherwise disagree with. It's much harder, for example, for people to "other" religious, sexual, ethnic, & racial minorities when they spend time working with them as allies. It's no accident that the authoritarian right now wages a war against empathy.
But remember, none of this requires that we abandon the causes we believe in. None of this requires backing candidates we don't trust* in nomination contests. *I do mean "trust." We don't need politicians to say the all the right things. We need them to "do" the right things more often than not.
We should expect the regime — with help from Russia and other foreign actors — to engage in active measures to stoke tensions within the opposition. They will accuse us of being foreign agents. They will attempt to infiltrate the opposition with the aim of radicalizing and discrediting it.
If we are going to prevail against them, we need as large an opposition tent as we can get. We need disciplined counter-mobilization. That means protests where SJP doesn't get on stage and tell people that if they don't support the destruction of the state of Israel, then they need to go home.
It gets worse. Even if the Ds win the midterms, we should not expect a peaceful transfer of legislative power. The kind of people who stopped Trump from declaring martial law, seizing voting machines, arresting opposition leaders.... they're all gone.
Pro-democracy politicians will *fail* if they don't have space to form alliances with people who don't share our beliefs and room to blunt successful wedge issues. That sucks.
There's no point in punishing the nominees of the opposition for stances that we consider beyond the pale — let alone ones that are problematic. The logic of "teaching them a lesson" presupposes that we still have a system in which the opposition can win elections.
Wedge strategies are also a time-honored feature of routine democratic politics. Everyone uses them. My point is simply that *stakes* are different. We are *not* in routine democratic politics.
There are things we can influence, of course. Most of what we can do right now is prepare, especially for participation in collective mobilization against the regime — and here I mean everything from becoming involved in local politics and civil society to learning the tactics of mass protest.
Right now we're talking about the best case scenario. It requires a lot of things to fall into place. A lot of those things are outside of the control of Democratic officials and politicians. Even more are outside of our control.
Taking one or both chamber may be enough to slow down, let alone stop, the consolidation of authoritarianism. But if GOP holds... then, all else equal, democracy is fucked. It'll also really matters that Ds do well at the state level. The fewer states that are laboratories of autocracy, the better.
Put differently, if a) what we're looking at is an unfair playing field but +/- free elections and b) the regime faces a unified opposition, Ds have a decent chance of taking the House. I am also cautiously optimistic about the Senate, but I wouldn't bet money (see @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social) ▼▼
3) GOP states will also ratchet up voter suppression, with help from the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court. Expect some *very* aggressive efforts. We won't be able to stop them. But there is a non-zero chance that they miscalculate and drive angry voters to the polls.
2) GOP states will continue to aggressively gerrymander. When all is said and done, Ds will be able to offset some of this but not all of it. The GOP will still likely lose the House, but keep in mind that the we're in a long-term existential struggle. Bigger majorities > smaller than ones.
1) We will still have an on-balance independent media. The MSM will be subject to state coercion, some of it successful, but it will also continue to break stories that are damaging to the regime.
Okay. So there's a lot of uncertainty about how "free and fair" the 2026 midterms are going to be. If you forced me to speculate, my *low confidence* prediction is that they'll be less free and much less fair than in 2024.
The worse news: the bulk of successful cases had a "white knight" — and international power who facilitated the regime transition through some combination of pressure, brokering deals, and carrots. Guess who that white knight usually was?
But it was too late. To understand what happened, you *must* read @kimlanelaw.bsky.social's @jodemocracy.bsky.social article ▼▼ In fact, just drop what you're doing and read it now.
I have bad news and worse news. The bad news: the more consolidated the authoritarian regime becomes, the harder it is to dislodge it. The opposition in Hungary finally got its act together in 2022, and formed a coalition that included far-right and far-left parties.
One of the many ways the regime fights back is to try to use its considerable resources to wedge apart those coalitions. And it often succeeds, because it is *very* hard to hold together politically diverse coalitions *even* when elections are free and fair.