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#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...
This is the new acting US Attorney for Eastern Washington who brought this authoritarian test case.
Crime Crackdown in D.C. Shows Trump Administration’s Uneasy Relationship With Guns www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u... This #failingtimes headline uses the framing that Trump wants. This is a mistake. The occupation of DC is not a "crime crackdown."
#TilesOnTuesday Looking at the forecast for Tuesday in the UK "lovely weather for ducks" just about sums it up. So here we are! William De Morgan, Fantastic Ducks tile (1907) Lustre-Glazed Earthenware
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Good for Nadler to see two things clearly: 1) time for generational change in party/Congress 2) it’s not conscionable to stand with Netanyahu government as they wage genocide
"We have a message for the rest of the nation as well. This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American. Congress must exercise its oversight authority over Health and Human Services." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Mamdani on Nadler: Just read that last sentence. Perfect.
if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
Wow imagine that
Good question, feckless answer
Sounds like a pardon, but with more words.
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
He died doing what he loved: owning the libs, criminalizing being non-white, pretending to be good at golf, and waving to a hot chick from his limo.
Again with the cankles references!
@histoftech.bsky.social
Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
Everyone else may have moved on but we’ve been still tracking more than 450 lawsuits aimed against the Trump Admin actions. Support our work. @mcuban.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...
Cowards in klan masks.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Forget questions of whether Trump is dead. Where's Jake Tapper? Is HE dead???
Giuliani is old. Maybe the Winter Garden Theatre.
@alanderminna.bsky.social @ilvestoomas.bsky.social I just discovered a bonkers 2015 Norwegian series about the EU using Russia to invade Norway to keep the oil flowing. www.imdb.com/title/tt4192... Seems weirdly apposite to current times. Know of any English-language reviews or commentary?
This is what a united front looks like -- nine former CDC directors who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents explain what's not normal about RFK Jr and how we all lose when he attacks science. Leaders in other fields need to unite against autocratic capture of their institutions.
Substack is now forcing writers to allow Apple iOS subscriptions—which raises prices, delays payment, and moves control of customer lists from the writer to Apple. Move your publication off Substack while you still have full access to your paid list. mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/substack-j...
This is the provision Ensign cited as the basis for the government's authority to summarily remove unaccompanied migrant children. I’d love to hear from immigration lawyers, but having briefly looked at it… it’s so frivolous it’d be laughable if it weren’t so cruel. (Am I wrong??)
After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Someone please kill me right now.
Happy Labor Day 🙂
Happy Labor Day, y'all. Hug a union today.
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JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
Let’s see. Who should I trust? My own doctor, 1,000’s of scientists, & researchers. Or someone who thought using heroin for 12 years was one of the best things he could have done, swam in a sewage polluted creek with his grandkids, had a brain worm, has no actual medical training. Tough call.
You had an "inside?" Cool!
The National Guardners
Can you transfer the coupon to somebody who can use it?
8 cops making over $100k each to arrest one man. But your food, water & air are killing you. Your daughter is carrying her rapist’s baby to term & will probably die when it becomes complicated & your veteran son in jail for being unhoused. But at least that Brown guy sitting on a bench is gone.🙄
Trump on RFK Jr., the CDC, and vaccines (a translation). He seems to be saying that he was shown data about COVID19 vaccines being safe and effective, but that the pharma companies didn’t show those amazing data to anyone else, like RFK Jr. He thinks this is why there is a “mess” at CDC.
I dunno. You might have those mitochondrial challenges that RFK Jr. can spot so easily.
Yes, yes. Those with the billions of tax dollars, weapons of mass destruction and the entire US government are the victims. Biggest bunch of cry-baby agents I have ever seen. Today’s Border Patrol agents are some of the most pathetic whiners. Perhaps they should quit if they can’t hack it.
Courts still matter.
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
Maple, an English springer spaniel and former police dog, uses her strong sense of smell to help save thousands of honeybee hives. She sniffs bee colonies for American foulbrood, a highly contagious bacteria that’s fatal to the insects. https://wapo.st/41phn2Y
Being lawless does not make Trump omnipotent – nor can he just snap his fingers and make all his authoritarian desires a reality. America is in an acutely dangerous situation. But obscuring those distinctions is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
"Yo, they’ve got the latest computerized catalog system—just roll right up to a terminal, type in your search terms, and it gives you a list of titles and call numbers, plus a little map to show you where they all are. Dewey Decimal, man. It’s tight."
Everyone saying “there’s no way Trump wrote this” is kind of missing the point. It doesn’t matter who wrote it— this coming out from Trump’s truth social account at all means the White House is frustrated by the narrative about the CDC / vaccines and laying the groundwork for a break from Kennedy.
I’ve been sent numerous photos the last few days of guards members with rifles, including down by the wharf for jazzfest.
Happy Labor Day 😢 ‘He’s brazenly anti-worker’: US marks the first Labor Day under Trump 2.0 | Trump administration | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?
Agree. @aaup.org is on the front lines fighting for higher education, academic freedom, and solidarity among academic workers, students, and our surrounding communities. Join up!
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
There’s no reason to do this except racism: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org apple.news/A8IsbuJnpRM2...
If we don’t stand up for these victims, who will ?
This war crime has been brought to you by the Boston Consulting Group in conjunction with the Trump Organization
As I make the jump to hyperspace, I realize I left the baby on top of the ship.
Replacing reason with superstition is a feature of religion and totalitarianism. Thank you for coming to my TED talk on the madness of RFK, Jr. and MAHA.
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...
The United States killed American Indians and drove them from their homes in order to steal their land. Could it work in Gaza?
Just saw a clip on ABC news that showed a small Guatemalan child being led to a plane for deportation with her ankles shackled. This country has lost its soul.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
When he dies they’re going to invent a cause like “greatness disease” or something it’s going to be amazing
Jugendhaus, Düsseldorf, Architect: Bernhard Pfau, 1952-54
Out for a stroll on another incredible Chicago day. This is ‘meet me on Milwaukee,’ a car free event in the Wicker Park neighborhood. Happy people & happy dogs everywhere. Remember this when Trump tries to paint an ugly picture of our beautiful city. #chicago
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
⚠️ US suspends visas for ALL Palestinian passport holders “The new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
What a — excusez mon français, s’il te plait — a government shitshow of unfathomable proportions
Once again I ask, what’s it going to take?
Sounds like a very normal sequence of events to me!
Bill Cassidy is a physician who is being humiliated daily by Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s craven prioritization of his own power over the health and safety of his constituents and of the United States of America. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s powerlessness to stop him.
This is the way
Officer repeatedly seen on camera in DC crackdown shows Trump agents' impunity www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-offi...
Bill Pulte has weaponized his office to attack Trump’s political enemies, including economist Lisa Cook. However, critics argue that Pulte's abuse of office is "a far, far greater offense than any personal mortgage occupancy fraud by a federal official."
I miss NY Times journalism. But I canceled my subscription pretty much entirely because of the execrable headline writing. What's the point of having journalism to keep the public informed when the editors keep distorting everything?
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I applaud whoever decided (probably Miller himself) to have Stephen Miller act increasingly as “spokesman” for this Administration’s policies. He is so fundamentally repellent that I suspect even loyal MAGA adherents get the heebie-jeebies when they listen to him,& ask themselves, “Am I w/this guy?”
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
"Trump and his ilk aren’t only keeping immigrants out, they’re setting up a new social hierarchy that places the most predatory, bloody-fanged among us at the top and seeks to subordinate caution and compassion wherever they’re found." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Israel denies two US Senators even a fly-over of Gaza. Ask yourself what that is about.
What's happening is truly startling and is chilling free speech youtu.be/4QUG8czGScU via @wired.com by @couts.bsky.social
Vance elicits only revulsion from me.
going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago
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
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
We are in the constitutional upside down, where throwing a sandwich is a federal offense but storming Congress and beating law enforcement is patriotic.
We are going to have to have Nuremberg trials
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
I spoke with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social for @slate.com Plus Amicus listeners on risks to the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court and the new redistricting wars. slate.com/podcasts/ami...
Gonna be absolutely incredible when Joe Biden outlives Donald Trump
we were all happy for an evening and that’s not nothing