This is pure fan fiction from one of @pressherald.com's several Susan Collins-aligned columnists. In truth she provided several specific if bewildering rationales for her vote to confirm Kennedy (tinyurl.com/chjudwn2) while never addressing his lack of qualifications or his crank views. #MEpolitics
SCOTUS, like the US, has a lot of accumulated social capital. But it is not infinite. If they continue not even seriously pretending they’re interpeting the law rather than aiding partisan allies, the deference they treat as a given is going to start fracturing.
The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.
INBOX — “Ogles neither lives in nor has an office in NASHVILLE. Perhaps he’d like to invite the National Guard into his actual community.” Mayor @freddieoconnell.bsky.social reacts to Ogles calling for the Guard to invade the city. (part of which Ogles supposedly represents)
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Ice cream is just very very good. I highly recommend.
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Steps away from the Capitol, victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender, on Wednesday demanded that all people who received sexual favors through Epstein be identified. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"
Not sure what’s most alarming fact, that the administration doesn’t appear to know what the boat it blew up was carrying or where it was headed, that they haven’t identified a legal authority for the action, or that it’s the first in a series of planned attacks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files. People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
I’m not sure there’s a bigger asterisk in the universe than “Trump says.”
Thinking about this moment ahead of RFK Jr's Senate hearing tomorrow.
@mwuerker.bsky.social
Not only is America better because of global immigration, it’s dependent on immigrants in a way that the nouveau-fascists refuse to understand. www.pbump.net/o/america-20...
We require vaccines because they keep all kids, schools, and communities safe. Florida has seen spikes in infectious diseases like measles, diseases we had virtually eliminated before Ladapo took office. This decision is reckless and makes Floridians less safe. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/03/f...
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I guess one state had to be first. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
@bagleycartoons.bsky.social
Trump and Republicans are seriously screwing up the economy. There are now more unemployed people than job openings.
NEW analysis on the GOP megabill's core policy choice: each millionaire's tax cut is paid for by taking away health insurance from 4 people while reducing health care benefits from many others.
UPDATE: Former Rep. Andy Holt, known for unathorized pig 💩 dumping and not getting a permit for his farm… is @GovBillLee’s new Ag Commissioner. Welcome to Bill Lee’s Tennessee!
Shockingly, it turns out that when CBS handed $16 million over to Trump's "presidential library," it didn't placate him in the least. Kristi Noem has now used precisely the same scam, a phony accusation of deceptive editing, that Trump used to extort CBS last time! newrepublic.com/article/1998...
If crypto’s a casino, fine—let adults gamble. But with the President holding billions, private losses risk becoming public bailouts. When it tanks, taxpayers become the lender of last resort. Gains privatized, losses socialized.
“weakening centuries-old power” is another way of saying violating the Constitution. But why speak clearly when euphemisms will do?
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
BREAKING: 5th circuit panel rejects Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan nationals, saying there has been no "invasion" or "predatory incursion." Majority Southwich (George W. Bush) Ramirez (Biden) Dissent Oldham (Trump) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
"It's not my home."
President Trump on Tuesday revealed a new strategy he could employ for dealing with unwelcome or unflattering information: blame artificial intelligence. He blamed A.I. for a video of a trash bag being thrown from a White House window, but the White House had already confirmed it was real.
"Prominent critic of RFK Jr. blocked from FDA vaccine committee". Get rid of the experts, block universities, ban books, etc...all part of an authoritarian playbook. I think a certain German tried this nearly 100 years ago.
Trump's energy policy, or rather his attempts to turn back years of clean energy initiatives, hurts a deep red community in Indiana. No one is immune, hear that MAGA! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
That was the major announcement? Seriously?
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Today was really a great moment for Tommy Tuberville to shine. He got to talk into the microphone. For the rest of us, it wasn't worth even knowing about.
Moron
Irony here is that literally nobody actually in fucking public health said that, it was just clout-seeking morons on twitter who went crazy about it
The balloon over Vance’s head: “I thought he died over the weekend!”
He lives in an alternate universe.
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Spot on re: J Golden
FOX BUSINESS: “My goodness. $5 BILLION. Eye-popping numbers… crypto-friendly legislation coming from the president who is in turn cashing in on crypto. A conflict of interest.” Even Fox sees how insanely corrupt Trump’s crypto grift is. (H/T @ab21.bsky.social )
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Oh really. When was that election held?
Trump has suffered major losses recently — in both federal courts and the court of public opinion. It's why he lashes out at the media, spreads lies, attacks his political enemies, and tries to rig elections. These are the actions of a tyrant with his back against the wall.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Thank you on this labor day!!
Should blue states stop subsidizing red states?
Good never mattered.
Our former friends are laughing at us in private; our empowered enemies are laughing at us in public. Who but Trump could have brought such jolly unity to the world? by Marc Thiessen
Every single time
ICYMI — “LA wouldn’t be standing today” This is a real thing @Sec_Noem said on tv, with a straight face
So Trump goes on his Social Media platform to rave about a mishap on the construction of his new "beautiful ballroom" (that is completely unnecessary), while India strikes a better relationship with China and Russia. Priorities are priorities.
We honor the American worker on Labor Day! In the Trump Regime, that means firing government employees, stripping Unions from federal workers. Cancelling union work. What else? www.npr.org/2025/09/01/g...
substack.com/@ellenmitche... TENS OF MILLIONS OF TAXPAYER MONEY TO HIS RESORTS EVERY HOLIDAY & WEEKEND.
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
AXIOS: “(Trump’s) tariff policy will cost midsize businesses $82.3 billion, according to a new report from the JPMorganChase Institute…” www.axios.com/sponsored/mi...
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The deal is worth £130million ($176m) to Newcastle due to solidarity payments and will cost Liverpool £125m. Isak will undergo a medical on Monday before completing his move. #LFC | Source: David Ornstein
This isn’t politics. It’s not left or right. It’s not conservative or liberal. Cutting funding to treat children with brain cancer is hate and greed.
So Florida, really.
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
Newsom responds to Trump’s odd post announcing he is going to bed early
This was one of my father’s favorite sayings. A friend forwarded it and I felt the need to pass it along.
I hope you find my new book helpful for understanding the time we’re in, how we combat the bullies, and why I believe so passionately that we will succeed. Here's a bit more on why I wrote it.
The very rich Peter Thiel is behind a lot of the destruction of pur democracy going on right now, and he thinks the rest of us little people are just in his way.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
There’s no such thing as a title decider in August, but you suspect the points on offer today might matter when they’re totted up in May.
CHICAGO…
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner has suggested an effective playbook— We should arrest rogue ICE agents at the state level, which would shield them from a presidential pardon. This is the kind of hardline approach we need from our Democratic leaders.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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Republican Rep. Barry Moore was heckled so badly at his Alabama town hall that he literally left out the back door in the middle of the event. Moore didn't offer concluding remarks or even bid good night to the rowdy crowd as they chanted "Shame!" during his exit. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”