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...
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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...
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Happy Labor Day everyone! A reminder that Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce. Nearly 10% of all federal workers forced out of their jobs since Jan. "We’re seeing the arson of our government." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Yes they’re hypocrites for worrying crime in DC when their cities are worse. But our military is not for crime fighting. Nothing about troops patrolling American streets is good, be they wearing Red Coats or camo www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
And a morally acceptable use case emerges www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Commander in Thief www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
On Wednesdays we wear pink
As he deploys more troops onto American streets and “jokes” about how elections are postponed when the nation is at war, he’s proudly projecting his dictatorial ambitions www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
The “don’t erase history” people have sent in the police to guard their erasure of history
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 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.
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
She waived Hegseth through out of fear of what Trump would do to her reelection campaign and isn't even running. What an abject betrayal of sexual assault victims.
This entire article can be summed up as, “Steve Witkoff is an ignorant motherfucker.” www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
Ship has sailed bitch www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
DHS’s monstrous budget and unattainable goals will supersize its propaganda game. The spigots of this bullshit will be well paid to justify terrorizing communities, detaining opponents of the regime, and militarizing American streets
Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.
A story in three 2025 headlines
This makes me feel really safe, thanks
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
“The federal government plans to hire private companies to use artificial intelligence to determine whether patients would be covered for some procedures” Death panels run by AI. Seems bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Next week it'll be September. So far no sign of Republicans standing up to Trump in any meaningful way.
When the military steps in to fill the void left by under-resourced civilian institutions, democracy is what’s at risk. Veteran voices like Chris Purdy’s are sounding the alarm. www.ajc.com/news/2025/08...
Back in 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel, demonetized it, and noted it was not an "authoritative" source. Now, five years later, the Google-owned platform has inked a deal to put the MAGA propaganda network in millions of living rooms. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
The line between capitalism and hostage taking grows fainter by the day
Show hearings and trials are a key marker of a concentration-camp regime. Even in countries with existing detention crises, the conscious step to degrade due process for targeted groups further diminishes the larger legal system while shifting power to emerging quasi-legal and extralegal approaches.
This is a dark moment for our democracy, but it is far from the first. I've been reflecting on how we need not only strategies for this moment, but mindsets. I offer four ideas for those here, and hopefully some inspiration from those who came before. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-hard-w...
There is no question we are being tested but moments of seeming hopelessness can be the prelude to a breakthrough. @ianbassin.bsky.social offers a framework for how to situate ourselves and endure in defense of our democracy. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-hard-w...
I'm calling it the mail loneliness epidemic
More labor relations story than political crisis
A lot of pearl clutching going on as Dems clumsily try to get up to influencer speed but let’s not forget actual Russian agents were paying leading rightwing posters huge piles of money and the Republicans enjoy a massive farm league of influencers thanks to bottomless amounts of dark money
Hahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa! Lettuce toast the hero we needed, and celebrate the most incompetent DOJ team ever assembled www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
“Rather than serving the laws, the American people, or the constitution to which they swore allegiance, our nation’s military and federal law enforcement are slowly being cast into the role of political henchmen for the president” My latest on the armed threat ahead www.stripes.com/opinion/2025...
Our nation is currently insane www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
Still waiting for all those Masters of the Universe to step forward in defense of capitalism. Lol Maybe we should nationalize the healthcare companies? The pendulum will swing eventually bsky.app/profile/atru...
A terrorist issuing ransom demands. Trump breaks the law every single day. Headlines must start saying so.
FUCK ME DO NOT DESCRIBE TRUMP'S PLANS IN THE HEADLINES WITHOUT NOTING THEY ARE ILLEGAL.
So when we first showed up at the Union Station today, we ran ICE off as soon as we got here.
This is Meeting The Moment, from Pritzker. Please watch this 90-second clip.
Real slow so you understand.
The Supreme Court made possible the administration's threats to send Mr Abrego Garcia to Uganda -- because the Court blocked the lower court decisions that had restricted the gov'ts ability to send noncitizens to far-flung places they've never been & where they could face violence, torture, & death.
we all should be happy that China is rushing ahead in rapidly installing wind and solar power, as well developing more efficient batteries. The only bad part of the story is that we are not doing the same.
It’s funny, we never get those anguished “but how will I explain this to my child?” posts when it’s armed goons violently snatching people off the street. They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.
Where the fuck are the Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, and the other “free market defenders” as these dangerous dingdongs nationalize our economy, one greasy slice at a time?
JUST IN: On X, DHS says that Kilmar Abrego Garcia “will be processed for removal to Uganda.”
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
So much for transparency & commitments to deliver social good. Elon Musk’s xAI terminated its public benefit corporation status last year per NV public records first obtained by LASST. (xAI’s own lawyers were still calling it a benefit corp. in court filings this year.) www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/e...
Israel claims it’s not committing war crimes as it bombs a hospital where reporters are gathered to cover a starvation engineered by the state
Meet Erik Prince, oligarch builder of private armies whose sister landed a cabinet post in Trump’s 1st term. Among other “security firms” he has founded is Blackwater, which committed massacres in Iraq Prince was recently in El Salvador praising Bukele’s civil crackdown x.com/nayibbukele/...
A rainbow image to commemorate those who died at this site of a horrific mass murder of gay people. This is sick.
“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”
Not a word about the credible allegations of child sexual abuse that Clemens faced. I wonder why Trump would avoid mentioning that? Hmmmm www.nydailynews.com/2008/05/02/s...
How long before the FBI raid on the publishing house, in search of “classified” material?
All the testing in the world still hasn’t taught Dem leadership that they will be dragged no matter what they say, their positions mischaracterized no matter what they do. A relentless commitment to testing in sterile environments expecting to find silver bullets
We’re watching an entire political party actively protect the single most infamous sex-trafficking operation of our time. This isn’t just silence—it’s complicity at the highest level.
Surely there’s nothing worrisome about stacking government management with vindictive sycophants and partisan henchmen jaxtrib.org/2025/07/31/f...
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
Know your rights, Chicago. Ask for a warrant. Record the goons from a safe distance. We don’t want or need them here.
Big 1: Everyone should be held to the same standard of accountability - regardless of party. Big 2: Imperative to release all the Epstein files to get to the bottom of this. 3: Key points about Clinton-Maxwell timeline ... (see thread) (@kfile.bsky.social report) 🧵1/ www.cnn.com/2025/08/24/p...
“Before, people had to do complicated things to bamboozle investors. Now they can just do the simple thing.” www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
No one keeps the powder dry like Hakeem Jeffries.
Purging the military of competent officers to make way for a cadre of yesmen as they rename bases for Confederates and convert them into concentration camps to hold our neighbors This is not national security. This is insanity.
"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."
I don’t really think that there’s any difference between calling human beings “NPCs” or calling them cockroaches or “human animals” or any other classic rhetoric of dehumanization and I find it pretty worrying that people who are otherwise concerned with respectability have adopted its use
It’s my birthday and all I want is for people to care about what happens to their country. This is a great country. And if you’ve happened to succeed here, if you’re living a life where your family is well off, as well as safe and free, if you’ve obtained some measure of prosperity...1/
Why can’t a single American journalist do this? Trump has repeatedly claimed he’s ended numerous wars — he’s now increased the number to ten! — and he’ll surely do it again. Ask him to name the wars he says he’s won. Ask Leavitt. Ask Hegseth. Ask Rubio. Just fucking ask them & don’t let go.
One more for the file marked "stories that would have wall-to-wall coverage if the president was a Democrat"
The most impressive thing about this campaign is how *creative* they are. They’re trying new stuff! Multiple times during the last few months I’ve thought “wow, I’ve never seen a campaign do that.” Much more of that needed everywhere.
I need to hear a lot of economists speaking up for Lisa Cook. This is actually very important.
Ours is now a law optional society, presided over by a racist madman deploying American troops to suppress cities that voted against him and protect his investment properties Time for the judiciary to join the resistance
The president of the United States, wearing a novelty hat that says he’s always right and sitting next to the World Cup trophy he stole, insists that “African American ladies, beautiful ladies” are demanding he invade Chicago with the military.
ICYMI — JD gave the game away on Bolton 👇🏽
Long before she joined the Fed, Lisa Cook stood out in a field dominated by white men. She talked about how her experience with racism informed her approach to economics. Now, she is Trump’s latest target in his effort to exert more control over the central bank. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...
Just last month, DOJ told a federal judge that Abrego Garcia’s immigration proceedings would be handled like any “garden variety” case. No decisions would be made, they said, until he reports to ICE and is assigned a case officer. That officer, they insisted, would call the shots.
Our city is under armed occupation by racially profiling thugs who answer to a madman This cannot stand
NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.” UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza. The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes. (🎥 BBC News)
What this really confirms is how profoundly corrupt and indefensible Trump and Stephen Miller's handling of this has been all throughout. Those of us commenting on this have argued all along that Trump *always* had the option of bringing him back and proceeding through lawful channels. 2/
It used to be that religion was the last refuge of a scoundrel. Now it’s Russia
This is just textbook 1930’s fascism
JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say the Trump administration is trying to coerce him to plead guilty to the charges he is facing by promising to deport him to Costa Rica — and threatening to deport him to Uganda if he doesn’t. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
State capacity dedicated to helping humans survive & thrive now serves ethnic cleansing and propaganda. The CDC, Park Service, USAID to the armed services, the entire govt is being weaponized against our communities and there’s still no serious talk about general strikes We can’t wait for midterms
State and local leaders can stop President Trump’s militarized intimidation tactic from expanding into more communities — but they need to hear from you. Here are 5 ways to start. Read and share: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-to-stop-trumps-national-guard
Today our president bragged about occupying American cities he doesn’t like, how useful a tool our military is for defending his personal real estate investments, seizing a US company’s assets, and lied about countless verifiable things And his henchmen are recruiting 100k more thugs
something something collective ownership of the means of production
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...
A Pentagon full of Baghdad Bobs is going to be terrifying
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
“Get her act together” roughly translates as don’t be Black and bend your knee
disgusting www.npr.org/2025/08/22/n...
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
They will “focus more on street crime, rather than on complicated cases touching on financial fraud, public corruption and national security” A golden age for crooks in suits www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
Spot on. The fact of the Republicans’ vast and noisy farm league of “talent” is thanks to a handful of very rich people throwing gobs of money at any promising memer, podcaster, substacker, and video sting hooligan The answer is [drum roll] money. And the willingness to spread it around
January 6 never ended www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...