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The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Bone-petite"??? 🧐🤦
A thread of thoughts about moving my newsletter from Substack to Ghost... 1. I decided to do this for various reasons: a) what Substack makes money from politically, b) Substack, once a refuge from social media, turning itself, with the dominance of its Notes app, into just another version...
I welcome every crack and fissure of the MAGA movement.
[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
I would love to see a deeply investigated story of why so many Republican Party leaders - a group of selfish and vice-obsessed people - just can't deal with Ryan Walters. The reasons have to be incredibly petty.
🇺🇸 “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that." -N.Y. Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler 🇺🇸 Thank you for everything Jerry Nadler. You served you country honorably.
Drones over Germany, assassination attempts, drone sent from Russia into Poland, targeting of European, UK and American property in Ukraine. Putin will not stop until he is made to. Bullies gonna bully unless they are blocked. Stop cowering.
Russia tried to assassinate the President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen by jamming her plane while landing. So far Europe has ignored the issue as to not give Russia the attention it wants and to quietly prevent themselves from reacting to this significant escalation by the Kremlin.
see, that’s how you do it
It is absolutely criminal that as the GOP crows about urban crime, every Dem isn’t on TV saying, “Look, Larry Hogan is a so-called ‘moderate’ Republican and crime in his state’s largest city has plummeted since he was replaced by a Democrat.”
It's notable that Nadler is framing his own retirement as a sort of symbolic death of liberal Zionism.
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
22 year old man whose previous experience is a grocer. The header of counter terrorism. MAGA is Affirmative Action for Mediocre White Men
Dick Durbin and Jerry Nadler, both longtime hardcore liberal zionists, are opposing arms for Israel as they retire. it feels like a big shift.
A Florida Judge tried to strip me of my law license after I objected to ICE fascism As major law firms capitulate to Trump & offer up $100M in free legal services to appease him—I am refusing to bend the knee to intimidation & instead speaking out publicly. qasimrashid.substack.com/p/a-florida-...
Like no one actually believes Schumer would actually allow a shutdown. Literally zero people. Everyone knows the Senate will do something symbolic at *best* — maybe Cory Booker will make a scene! — and then fold and go home. For substance, Democrats already have their preferred leaders elsewhere.
I get the sense nobody really even cares anymore. Rank and file Democrats have already given up on Schumer and Jeffries and don't consider them leaders of the party. They expect abject surrender. For fighting spirit and leadership, Dems now follow Zohran Mamdani, JB Pritzker, AOC, Walz, Wu, etc.
...Ethnically straight...??? ⁉️ 🧐 ⁉️
Nine former directors of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention joined forces to warn Health Secty Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “endangering every American’s health." RFK Jr MUST be charged with manslaughter. Dem State AGs must charge him for killing Americans.
The sudden disappearance of presidential age and fitness as an issue www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/the-...
* WHICH, with an H 😖
Wbich means whoever is managing his feed spent Labor Day doing this because his brain is little more than pudding at this point.
1. On Saturday, a judge ordered Pulse pride crosswalk protester released from jail. Police arrested him after he chalked the bottom of his shoe in rainbow colors and walked across it. Sunday, police arrested 3 more under the same charges. Subscribe to support my journalism.
Americans forgetting how West Point was originally an engineering college, and how a lot of the pre-civil war generals were engineers, amuses me.
Damn it and I'm literally getting on the train at New York Penn Station in a few hours instead! I have to stop here for this next time I'm in this city because OMG PASTRAMI BAO!?!? YES PLEASE JUST TAKE MY MONEY!!!
British food discourse is usually pointless arguing over stuff that doesn’t matter, but the blatant hypocrisy of “food brought by immigrants to America is American, food brought by immigrants to Britain is not British” will never not infuriate me
Especially as chicken tikka masala isn't even food *brought to* Britain by immigrants, it's food *invented in* Britain by immigrants!
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
does anything about that flag on his hat make you doubt the accuracy of 'enhancing' it
What's with that cloaca on the side of his head?
This is exactly right! The Right’s core claim is that they represent an authentic, “real" America that is constantly being victimized, made to suffer under the yoke of leftist/liberal overreach, and therefore rightfully aggrieved. And too many Democrats/liberals look at that and go: “I agree.”
I will say the online interactions between Nottingham Forest supporters and West Ham supporters after the 0-3 game yesterday are probably the nicest, most civil, even congratulatory interactions I've EVER seen between supporters of two different clubs 🔴⚒️
Also seriously, a stroke is a horrible, serious thing. I know people who've had to live with them. By the way, none of them are horrible, evil people. Just throwin' that out there.
I also want to point out that, because I am a decent human being, I don't wish a stroke on anyone - even this evil sack of pus. It seems like bad luck at the very least. But that is the full extent of my sympathies... bsky.app/profile/atru...
Of course, the time to have a serious conversation about trump's health was.... much earlier than now.
Jake Tapper hops in to point out "HEY GUYS, BIDEN IS OLD!!!"
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
OH MY GOD! 😳 TIL this cartoonist was a truly 💩ty person. Sort of the anti-Schultz.
the two people who are pretty clearly knocking it out of the park on messaging right now are Mamdani and Kat. both young; both with personal and powerful connections to the Palestinian cause. both people that I think Jeffries and Schumer would rather cut off their arms than listen to.
I think that affects stuff that has nothing to do with gaza too. you can see how Jeffries has dealt with mamdani, there's just a real terror of pro palestinian movement in the party and a real resentment of those pushing it.
It's a skills issue to some degree...but also there are people who could do a better job, and they have ideological resistance to listening to them, I think. 1
Dear Democratic Leaders, If you won’t stand up for trans people and their rights, you’re tellling me you won’t stand up for *anyone* or *any rights* the second they come under attack. You’re telling me you don’t stand for anything at all. Also, they’re *people*. Grow a spine or get out the way.
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
Here in Indiana, Indianapolis schools, serving a plurality of Black kids, brown kids, and an increasingly small minority of white kids is being forced to cut back so bad on every level so christofash capitalists can force IPS to sell em their buildings FOR ONE DOLLAR
Yes. The “guys, tone it down with the trans stuff, it’s not polling well” is just beyond stupid. They should be staunchly supportive and ALSO focus more on things like deploying the military against citizens and cost of living. Most Dems know someone trans and want them alive and well and free.
i think some of what’s happening here is many cishet white leftists inadvertently revealing their belief that LGBTQ people only care about ourselves and that progressive policy is a zero-sum game. marginalized people who are accustomed to banding together for survival often don’t see it that way
Your move, @govwesmoore.bsky.social (I know you got this 👍)
This is the way
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
People will repeatedly refuse to recognize the importance of anti-Blackness to the current moment despite being given every signal of its importance.
not the first person to make this observation but its rules that the "i wont let my body temple be defiled by putting seed oils or processed food in it" people and the "let me go behind the gym to inject these steroids i bought from a guy i met here" people have merged into the same group.
Find the extended version here bsky.app/profile/nice...
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
DO THIS
Some context: The USPP restricted vehicular pursuits after two officers chased, shot and killed a driver named Bijan Gisar in 2017. The government settled with Gisar's family for $5 million, but neither officer was charged nor lost his job. (www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...)
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
Feels like there’s an incredible book ready to be written on this story especially given that all his other claims - which there’s always been doubt about - now have a massive cloud over them. Man was clearly a stone cold sociopath.
We have to start by getting MAGAs to believe in science again. As Hillary said, they need to be deprogrammed and brought back into the real world. Not an easy task.
I think the US government putting out plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza is really bad. I recognize that some Americans like it, while some others think it isn't a relevant change and makes no difference, but I disagree. I think it's bad, worse than what came before.
Love to see that @jamellebouie.net engaged with my @hammerandhope.bsky.social essay on class, identity, black politics, labor and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in depth today at the @nytimes.com. I’m a bit blown away. Shared below as a thread:
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
Claiming President Trump invented oxygen on a Sunday Morning show and getting zero pushback.
Fun with numbers: If you go from 8 carjackings down to 1, that’s 87%.
And dictatorships aren't competent. That's a myth. They don't care about helping everyday people. They care about money and power.
Raddatz asks how anyone could object to the National Guard in DC because carjackings are down 87%. Brilliant. If they hermetically sealed all DC residents inside their homes, they could get that stat down to nothing at all. Should we do that, Martha?
Cishet men pose far more of a threat to girls (of all gender identities) in locker rooms or bathrooms than "trans"... which apparently Rep. Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia thinks is a collective noun. Hell, I'd guess even cishet women are more of a danger to girls than "trans"
If you played me this clip of a Georgia congressman named "Buddy Carter" talking with this accent, I would've called you a hack filmmaker.
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
This article mentions the paper ballots nonsense and nowhere does it note 99%+ of votes in the United States, including all of them in all but a couple of (deep red!) states, are already cast using paper ballots. That's much worse than the bad subhead.
Donald Trump incited a violent coup to overthrow the 2020 election and hold onto power. It will never be ok that he was not held accountable, including banning him from ever again holding public office.
I mean it’s obvious that desperate people get on small boats and cross the English Channel in order to realise their dreams of buying snowmobiles. So this will absolutely tackle that issue.
Got to see the amazeballs Jinkx Monsoon, Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Urie, and their amazing costars in "Oh, Mary" this evening in NYC! Nanjiani signed my program! 😀
Black queer celebrity has a psychotic episode and rather than anyone help him people just pulled out their phones and filmed it for content. For days media speculated if it was drugs or some weird promotional stunt. Sick society.
More like a story that this kid will need much therapy to process.
This has been going on for so long. They locked this man out of doing his job & he barely even got to do that. Now its happened again & folks are still big mad Friends always ask me wtf is going on AL & the only response I can ever give is “Whats always been going on if you look under the surface.”
Put this one in The Atlantic’s hall of fame, alongside “what if Democrats can’t admit they lost”
Okay, Alabama? That one DOES surprise me.
The Alabama (!) people chanting "who pays the tariffs? who pays the tariffs" and then turning to "shame! shame!" when their rep turns tail and leaves is a keeper.
Marc Maron is part of an era of comedy that produced a lot of bad people (including some of his close friends in the industry). The fact that he's decided to do the "I'm going to use my platform to deal with the current problems in politics and industry" is good, especially in contrast to others.
The Catholic Christofascist undoing of 250 years of democracy and not a peep from NYT, Wapo, Mother Jones or any legacy MSM. @jayrosen.bsky.social @sulliview.bsky.social @markjacob.bsky.social linktr.ee/dissentinbloom dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/one-blood-...
You have to fight this. You MUST fight this. This is the first fight in 8 months that you, as a person without a law degree, can personally win against the Trump Administration. We still need a bit more critical mass from Democrats. Keep calling. Demand (1) statements and (2) investigative hearings
You've seen how much damage RFK has done at HHS. RFK is a disorganized, age-addled maniac, and most of his job is PR stunts. I cannot begin to tell you how much damage a Thiel-verse technocrat like O'Neill will do in CDC. Starting with: he will persecute women you know and love for their abortions.
(Unfortunately for these sweaty incels, who have never even had a chance to try the rhythm method much less screw it up, abortion is healthcare, and there will always be abortion.)
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
The goal is to weaponize the law to write public health out of existence: "By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character." That means, for example: no vaccine recommendations at all. Not fewer; none.
In the next Covid-19, mpox, H5N1, etc. - what scientists call "Disease X" - O'Neill's CDC won't even test people to try to track infections, let alone stop them from spreading.
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
Until then it's just orange smoke 😕
“.. The Oval Office photos don’t resolve those questions. They raise them. And until the press decides to treat Trump’s health the way it treated Biden’s, makeup and memos will remain the White House’s first—and last—line of defense.” @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
as the article seems to suggest, all polling points to this ship having already sailed and being far far out at sea
Then again, it'd probably be obvious that it was AI if it were more coherent than the 🧡🍑🤡
an AI Trump voice would be the easiest to implement no one could tell if total gibberish was an AI mistake.... ....or just Trump being Trump
Lots of good ideas here about how states could step up to fill some of the holes RFK Jr & co are creating in the national public health infrastructure.
30 August 1899 | A German Jewish woman, Bella Spanier, was born in Aschaffenburg. An actress. In May 1943 she was incarcerated in Theresienstadt ghetto from where on 12 October 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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.”
Things are better when kittens, cats, children & people in general really are safe and happy and fed and cared for and in community. Which of course, amongst other things, that we must destroy ICE & smash fascism & build things better.
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