A sociopathic moron… surrounded by reasonably intelligent and determined individuals who will ride his coattails to achieve their goals.
Data and software guy; system V init was perfectly fine.
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A sociopathic moron… surrounded by reasonably intelligent and determined individuals who will ride his coattails to achieve their goals.
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The only way to produce lasting peace in Ukraine is to defeat Russia, force it to return to 2014 borders and admit Ukraine into NATO and the EU. Anything less is likely simply to produce only a temporary pause before Russia attacks again.
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...
Dovetails.
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth...
60 days ago I told trump I needed 60 days to capture all the 4 Oblasts. 10 days later he said he would put huge sanctions on in 50 days. I can't. He won't.
Pardons weren’t good enough. Now they want a payout (like Ashley Babbit’s family got).
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
That pesky 4th Amendment
"The message should be that in their America, officials cherish our public health system as a pillar of American greatness and see vaccines as a miraculous human achievement, rather than indulging in juvenile conspiracy theories disparaging “deep state” medical professionals." #MedSky #PublicHealth
Translation: “we want to, but we don’t have the resources”
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?
I don’t think he’s ready to return to society.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
One of the D’s biggest problem: serving the donors, not their constituents
Also hiring on the spot at job fairs, cutting training time to 1/3, “learning on the job with experienced agents” = masked agents with no understanding of the law, rights of individuals they must uphold, etc. They get bonuses for grabbing people and an extra $10k for 5yrs as long as Rs in charge.
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.
It’s not much consolation, but history will remember what she did and what this is.
Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces? Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
With heavily-armed federal agents and National Guard troops patrolling the streets in DC, knowing our rights is critical to keeping ourselves and our communities safe. No matter what uniform they wear, police and military troops are bound by the Constitution.
Russia will not stay silent - they will escalate on deadlines, as they always do. Whitehouse, however, will once again let a “deadline” silently pass with no repercussions to Russia.
KYLE SCHWARBER 4-HOMER GAME! Tom McCarthy and John Kruk with the call for NBC Sports Philadelphia. ⚾️💣🎙️ #MLB
I hope you had fun, Elise 😘
Anything inverse of interest rates - short the bond market?
“The people are desperate for me to STOP THE CRIME”
Thesis: Trump is ticking off his authoritarian to do list quickly Antithesis: While Trump is *trying* to tick off his authoritarian to do list, he's not fully succeeding Synthesis: Each item on this check list is not a binary but a spectrum, and we're *way* too far down the spectrum for any comfort
The majority. 😬
Susan Monarez, who had only recently taken over as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stepped down after a turbulent first month marked by sweeping vaccine policy changes and staff reductions.
This is why you don’t let a bunch of young dudes who have no concept of data security handle sensitive information without career data security professionals babysitting.
Wherein both Charlie and JVL come to the same conclusion a few hours apart - quoting Charlie: Trump wants to be (is?) the “The Emperor of Everything” charliesykes.substack.com/p/all-the-ma... www.thebulwark.com/p/fast-times...
Shoutout to these Missourians for speaking out: "You need to take your head out of Trump's a**"
Reinventing slavery from first principles. One guy responds to him and says "well, we'd need to repeal the 14th amendment to do that" and the next guy suggests just having the Federalist Society indoctrinate judges to believe the 14th amendment was interpreted wrong... 🤦♂️
They have all become what they sought to compete against - and it isn’t necessarily their fault. With media groups releasing their own streaming platforms, it became much harder to license that content and make it affordable. There is refuge for now: over-the-air (OTA) with digital set top box.
That’s truly unfortunate 🤔 “On an August 11 episode of her podcast, Owens admitted she didn’t have enough money to pay the enormous legal fees that her lawyers are predicting will come.”
Because the D’s are expected to play nice.
A grift.
Unfortunately we still need to be reminded of this lesson by #Superman
Pour one out for Tommy.
Paul Krugman on Trump's attempted take over of the Fed:
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
".. unless Pulte somehow had particular knowledge about issues with Cook's application, which is unlikely, then one has conclude that Pulte handed Fannie and Freddie a list of political enemies and asked for their loan files for review."
The key to Trump’s authoritarian encroachments is pretext. He pairs some shockingly dictatorial move with an incredibly thin pretext everyone knows is false - fighting crime, concerned about fraud - and every public figure talking about the situation feels the need to debate the pretext.
Trump posts a letter stating that he is removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook
Amen, hallelujah.
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...
The real America is secure enough in its greatness to protect our First Amendment. Trump’s Authoritarian version of America is so insecure, it can’t persist without threatening the free expression of its citizens.
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The White House is trying to divide our country, inflame hate and bigotry, and demean and degrade people. Their cruelty and reckless propaganda is dangerous. op: @charlesmblow.bsky.social
Jay Allison, the founder of Transom and producer of The Moth Radio Hour, has worked in and around public radio since the '70s.
"Trump showed the world what an 'America First' foreign policy looks like in practice—attacks on allies, capitulation to dictators, and the abandonment of any remaining pretense that the United States will support and defend democracy around the world."
News of my fake arrest has led to new followers- welcome! TLDR: I research bad stuff on the internet. Cut my teeth as a Russia expert; that's how I fell into this work. Did a short stint in USG that led to an ongoing campaign of lies & harassment. Wrote 2 books. Lead @americansunlight.org. Mom. 1/
One crucial front in the war against fascism will be the right to photograph police. The cops have always hated that right and they and their various lickspittles will push back at it at every turn.
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
Today marks three and a half years of Russia’s full-scale invasion — and 34 years of Ukrainian independence. This anniversary is more than a date in history. It is a powerful reminder of Ukraine’s unbreakable spirit and determination to be free and sovereign.
Now Chicago. The regime has dropped the pretense that elements of military occupation are being imposed on Washington, D.C. only in respect of its being the federal city, or against Los Angeles only because it saw a couple of nights' rioting against ICE. /1
WaPo - The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump seeks to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities.
We are now staring down the barrel of a bona fide, definitional fascist takeover of the United States—and the pro-democracy leaders and institutions that remain need to be thinking hard not only about countering Trump, but the litany of failures that feed him. trib.al/UwbdiV6
But big words like “pilfered” make it sound so legit
Press corp fears backlash from the rest of the Trump team (in and out of gov’t) in a way they didn’t with Biden.
Military defeat coupled with the dismantling of the petrostate. Let the Russians - and the entire region - taste what it’s like to not live under autocratic barbarism.
They engage in performative cruelty and violence (1) because they themselves are racists and fascists and enjoy hurting people, but also (2) as Greg notes, because there’s a market for it—25-30% of the electorate is 100% on board with turning America into Hungary, and that bloc is all they have left
The full weight of the Trump/WH legal/propaganda apparatus has been bearing down on this one day laborer and his family for months, all because Trump/Miller decided defying the law would thrill MAGA. No one should accept how the US government has treated this man. An absolute disgrace. 8/8
ICYMI, Comrade Trump continues to seize the means of production. On Friday, he announced that the government would be taking a 10% share of the giant chipmaker, Intel. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
"Courage is the heart of what we do at The Bulwark. It’s something I think about, every day; always beating in the background, a telltale heart. "Truth. Courage. Grace. Those are the lodestars here. "And to anyone who wants to run with this crew, I hope you’ll join us. Right now."
L'État, c'est moi
Is he a saint? No. Does that matter? Not at all. From day one this has been about a government that ran a shoddy aggressive operation to send hundreds of people to be tortured and abused in El Salvador for spectacle, and their efforts since then to avoid facing any legal consequences.
Career professionals who lead crucial units throughout the military and key positions in DOJ are being replaced by hyper-partisan loyalists willing to put Trump over the Constitution.
JD is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. As the Brits say: too smart by half
But is it technically furniture at the time of purchase, if you have to assemble it yourself - just a pile of boards and fasteners
A warning to all others - including citizens - we will break you
Weekend talk show host.
I think there are two considerations: power (control of the Congress and the presidency) and the law. I agree from the standpoint of power, but only the President enjoys immunity - everyone else is subject to the law and should be wary of actions. To not be concerned is to assume perpetual control…
How is it lawful to send someone to a country not of their nationality - unless they’re stateless? I understand that the administration has made a decision to break him as a demonstration of its power, but when this gets before a judge (article III) - what is the government’s contention?
So weird how the folks freaking about "socialism" are just totally okay with government market controls and state ownership of corporations when Republicans are the ones doing it www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/i...
“Instead, the FBI enlisted the local police and stormed Bolton’s house at dawn. To send a message. Not to Bolton. But to the rest of us. If you are not nice to President Trump, he will bring the full force of the state down upon your life.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
A tale of two politically motivated interventions by the President, the law and judicial proceedings be damned. Oh and: nice touch with the Harley Quinn reference JVL www.thebulwark.com/p/about-cour...
Have we learned no lessons from 2008?
To punish critics and to intimidate dissidents, the communist parties in the Soviet bloc would conduct raids on their apartments, searching for more pretexts to put them on show trials.
Jonah or Steve?
Musk destroyed the lives of this man’s family for $132K. “They were blindfolded, thrown into the backs of 4x4 pickup trucks and driven to a small remote prison. They were held incommunicado over several days and repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his… work for the United States.”
Alternate universe stuff
The petty perpetuates
What a decent fellow - kindness in the courtroom.
“Distraction” - Democrats
An ongoing issue in Trump II is people's insistence on evaluating every action in isolation. It's of course true that US democracy can survive a partisan mid-decade redistricting under normal circumstances. But we have an authoritarian president trying to consolidate autocratic control!
Wherein a state senator from Maine “invites” certain Canadian provinces (conveniently not adjacent to Maine) to join the U. S. of A. wgme.com/news/local/a...
I love garage sales
Refuse all ID requests unless they can articulate suspicion of a crime.
If you’re gonna kkkrazy, look sharp
A fact-free administration
No one wants to work a job where they’re hated. Sane people, at least.
This will definitely be Jerome Powell’s last symposium as chairman of the Fed, says @johnauthers.bsky.social. Will the drama surrounding his replacement become all-consuming? Subscribe to Points of Return for the latest: bit.ly/3JqbNae
Side-by-side headlines tonight
The big city stations like WNYC will survive while the rural ones might fail, accelerating the rural/city divide - that MAGA claims to address somehow?
Gary Carter?