Ceci n’est pas fascism
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Ceci n’est pas fascism
The president of the united states leaning on “rts are not endorsements” to avoid taking responsibility for declaring war on Americans 🙃
“I want you to lie, can I trust you to do that for me, are you trustworthy?” “No”
Hey at least he seems to have figured out that you can only be down 100%, and that there’s no such thing as being down 1400%
He said AI like six times, it’s giving “robust”
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
London cty TN gave me existential dread every time I got on the road, bcs the road is the only way to get from any point to any other point. No sidewalks, no shoulders on the road even, just a white line and then a ditch or a field. Without placing blame, that is a soulless place for a pedestrian
“The president is stepping down to spend more time with kids! Uh, I mean his kids!”
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
Rather galling to hear them call for a “rules based international order”
I visited LA two years ago for a week and walked over that bridge, and the experience is so burned into my brain that I recognized it immediately
Trump update: White House pool reporters snapped a photo of the president this morning as he heads to play golf
What does the Pentagon Pizza Index have to say about these rumors?
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
It’s giving bird flu drama
So she didn’t want to ban Covid vaccines
I’d know a 1/2 pan anywhere
Howwwwww is the Lisa Cook story not in your newscast?? Malpractice.
It’s an information tornado, it doesn’t have a left or right, beginning or end, they are all distracting and being distracted from
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Yes, Hitler did “always have peace in mind.” Oh, hold on, I’m being told that it was in fact something entirely different in Hitler’s head that ended the war. Quite different in fact
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
Two babka has entered my vocabulary permanently
lol you really think this justice department is sitting around going “damn, if only the Supreme Court hadn’t decided presidents are criminally immune?” No, the process is the punishment - he will force Obama, Clinton, Biden to make their own argument to that effect in court
Without creating a false equivalency, if they can do this to Bolton, they can do this to Obama. I hope we’re all ready to respond appropriately
It would be an interesting Lawfare episode to get an update on how Poland is doing with their similarly daunting task of reversing the capture of the judicial system
The Situation, August 21, 2025 In which @ruthmarcus.bsky.social outflanks me about how bad things are at the Justice Department, and the. @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social outflanks Ruth: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
But did you see the cool electric airplane?
Some real good choices in there! The coop in Burlington sometimes makes bayley hazen blue dip, which feels just outrageously decadent (it’s so good)
I beg you, you must read the locked tomb series - there’s swords
NPR was good enough to note that this is the angle they’re taking with Schiff and Letitia James as well, and that there’s evidence Ken Paxton listed *three* primary residences, but hasn’t been charged, so credit where it’s due
as @jessiesinger.bsky.social would say, there are no accidents. And I’ll add, it certainly isn’t an accident to choose a gun with this kind of reputation
There are dozens of us!
We have six state’s national guards occupying the capitol, Kai. What is it going to take, indeed
He just likes seeing “famed lawyer.” Takes the sting out of having no pierogis
lol has he not learned from the law firms, or the universities, or from DC, or any of the myriad other examples? You can’t appease these people! They are not acting in good faith! His groveling only makes them more powerful
At least the kids couldn’t trade beanies on margin
I guess they could have gone whole hog on vaping too
Thank you! Yesterday I described this ever rising crescendo of AI fawning as a Shepard Tone (credit to @onthemedia.bsky.social for the analogy), you’ve really captured it in words here
Not saying it’ll be legal, but his EOs targeting law firms weren’t either, and look at the effect that’s had
He’s still a coward, he just knows we’d be in the streets if he acquiesced on this one
You don’t have to put the military at every polling site to suppress votes. You don’t even have to put the military at any polling sites to suppress votes. All you have to do is roll a bunch of tanks into Atlanta or Detroit or wherever a few days before an election and see what happens
Outside the environment
“Earth is not space” is the “we’re a republic, not a democracy” of stupid science takes
We don’t even have a Dairy Queen! I know because my old apartment was built on the location of one
Quinta Jurecic and Shane Harris are great, the Atlantic for me is the most mixed of bags
As a reminder: Trump’s first act was to pardon HUNDREDS of J6 rioters who assaulted and beat DC police officers. Trump’s been responsible for a large percentage of the total assaults (and many of the worst/most brutal) on DC police in the last decade.
The way my eyes nearly popped out of my head when I unmuted this
This whole time I thought he was quoting the October 2000 hit single Who I Am by Jessica Andrews 🤷♂️
“All of the flavor, none of the fascism”
Turnover like this practically shouts “Illegal stuff happening here!” No one is willing to do whatever it is he’s demanding, and given the character of his appointees… it must be bad
Look at it, it’s got anxiety!
Don’t tell people about us!
And get a free pass to an education and, (in theory, no longer really in practice), provide a more comfortable future for you and your family. Everything in our culture boils down to crabs in a barrel
This just made something click for me: part of the reason people are so wound up about this is because they don’t view amateur teen sports as low stakes events at all, but as the highest of stakes. We created a hunger games style system where if you’re physically fit enough, you can win the lottery
Constitution is changing all the time, so it’s understandable that someone might be poking around and could have accidentally deleted a part that just happens to be inconvenient for the administration
Constitution sections on due process and foreign gifts just vanished from Congress' website Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials. www.404media.co/constitution...
All those Trump surrogates who touted this, and news orgs that reported it credulously, owe Americans a big fat apology www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Any thoughts on E.T.?
This would be a crisis that preoccupied the whole white house and the political press for weeks with any other president.
Taibbi is the epitome of parsing tone without substance - he figures if a bunch of people think he’s lost his mind, that’s gonzo journalism
It’s not smut but please tell me you’ve read The Locked Tomb series
🙏
Mourning the loss of Gawker today
Some professional news: After more than a decade of columnizing at The Washington Post, I'm taking the buyout. This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them: wapo.st/3TU2fGw
I thought this was satire at first
I think @sranderson.bsky.social and @alanrozenshtein.com would agree, if I remember that episode of Rational Security right 😂
When he fires Powell now it’s gonna be your fault for tempting fate
He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
When I got into this pot of water, it was 60ish degrees, at best. Now it’s 90 and feels good! I bet 150 will be even better, can’t wait 🙏
i give it a year tops before some administration account is tweeting pro-slavery propaganda
Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Thomas wouldn’t let a President Mamdani do away with DHS by firing everyone in its building. But they’ll let Pres. Trump do it to the Dept of Education, and they don’t feel obliged to articulate a principle that would lead to both outcomes.
You’re not wrong, but also that aircraft was designed and built in Vermont! (Admittedly, Vermont may be a little Nordic style social democracy within US borders)
Denmark just flew 5 people over 300 km in an all-electric plane—in under an hour. ⚡✈️ It recharged in 30 mins and emitted zero CO₂. It’s not just a test—it’s step one in Denmark’s bold plan: 100% fossil-free domestic flights by 2030. The skies are changing. #ElectricFlight #Denmark #EVaviation #EVTOL
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
“No I didn’t listen to the story, but I have strong opinions about what it was about!” (This is why we can’t have good discourse)
Please don't ruin more things I read
I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for.
Graphic design is my passion - happy 4th all!
Amazing, of course you have. Thank you professor!
@stevevladeck.bsky.social In a discussion on the shadow docket today I tried to pull up a chart of cases per year, and found that, at least with google, there isn’t a chart to be found! Is there a table of data on cases somewhere, or a chart you know of? Is there a reason it doesn’t already exist?!
BREAKING: Iran has launched missiles at a U.S. base in Qatar and possibly facilities in Iraq. First unconfirmed videos from Qatar show multiple interceptors airborne.
If impeachment is a political act, and this might be his most politically unpopular move (ever? Second term? 🤷♂️) then she’s probably right
No need to change the title tbh
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
What if we did urban renewal, but with bombs instead of bulldozers?
Burlington, Vermont #NoKings
They’re trying to stop you from showing up. They want you to stay home. If your state says it’s safe to go, you should protest. Meet people, march, make posters, organize, have fun, be seen. Don’t let the bastards win.
*Womans in the workplace
Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)
Breaking: California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he has formally requested the Trump admin rescind their "unlawful deployment" of troops in Los Angeles and "return them to my command."
