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Welcome to Washington.
They’re like the zombies that just keep coming.
Doesn’t know shit about literature, either.
Expected? By whom?
WHERE DO THEY FIND THESE FREAKS?
Everything about is nauseating. There’s the money that was slashed, and this: “Judge Young said he had not realized he was expected to rely on a slim three-page order issued with minimal legal reasoning in April to his case dealing with a different agency.” Shame on these “justices.”
“…contains almost exclusively information that has already been released publicly.” Don’t be a sucker.
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
Part of the fascist parlor trick they play is to act as both perpetrator and victim at the same time. In the MAGAverse, *their 1st Amdt rights are violated when DHS isnt allowed to spread lies on TV shows. Props to @edokeefecbs.bsky.social for the edit. And props to @gregsargent.bsky.social for this
Speaks from his experience as a criminal.
It forms when he says it forms and also it is not real.
Sadly, we can’t.
Good point
Congratulations!
Any lawyer who does this should be disbarred.
I don’t think you can offer that assurance.
Awful: Kristi Noem just accused CBS of editing out her comments about Abrego Garcia. But the "suppressed" comments were largely lies! This comes after CBS handed Trump $16 million over the same bogus "editing" claim. There's no placating authoritarians. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Where not to live. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Marc Elias freaking us out (though any sane person has had to wonder how they will try to screw the’26 election).
Finally! Now what fuckery awaits? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Rare pleasure.
Wow imagine that
How is this an exclusive?
The planet has lost its mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Can’t defend the indefensible.
This is how to cover this. NPR did a spot on the award and said nothing about 2020 and Giuliani’s lies.
Stuart Stevens is my favorite because he admits the GOP was always bullshit.
Yes, my two aunts were right behind him.
The village of Trstena in Slovakia just unveiled this sculpture, representing my mother and her sisters as they prepared to escape from the Nazis on a Kindertransport arranged by Sir Nicholas Winton in 1939. Her parents were among the many Jewish villagers murdered. Take note: Evil deeds linger.
WTF is wrong with this company? www.reuters.com/business/met...
“He earned a bachelor’s degree while behind bars, successfully completed parole after he got out, got a job at a men’s shelter and started pursuing a master’s degree in divinity.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Statement from Trump about his good friend Rudy Giuliani who was injured in a serious car crash on Saturday:
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
I’m thrilled that @climate.us exists, and also devastated that it is needed. Thank you for rescuing our data. Science and facts will survive this administration because of projects like this.
this is the guy that the modern right wing considers one of their finest intellectuals
Someone is feeling very cocky.
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What do they know? They’re just experts.
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
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Nobel Prize worthy 🔥👏🏽🙌🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DOC7KBw...
Or transport to camps.
Essential Labor Day reading ⬇️
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“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Not to be that bitch, but if you’re saying excusez moi then you have say s’il vous plait.
Epically.
Damn straight.
“`Mr. Ragusa said that Mr. Giuliani was in “good spirits and recovering tremendously.’” 🤔
Here is a gift link. I know people have feelings about the times but this is free and reading this should make you very very mad and then you should do something:
Can't believe OJ just got downgraded to the second-most interesting Ford Bronco incident after 30 years
For the first time.
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
NEW: In the dead of night, the Trump admin ripped vulnerable kids from their beds, attempting to return them to danger in Guatemala. We’re heartened the Court prevented this injustice. We’ll keep fighting to protect our plaintiffs & all class members until the effort is enjoined permanently.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
His attempted pivot was so painfully clumsy. He should die of humiliation.
Of course it’s evil and corrupt but it’s also seriously one of the dumbest of their many egregiously dumb ideas.
I’ll say!
DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.
Evil bastards.
One of my pet peeves. NYT and others keep calling him a vaccine skeptic not a vaccine opponent.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Things are escalating quickly here. Los Angeles would no longer exist, the country destroyed, the military vaporized…
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
Hedging their bets because scotus has gone rogue.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Trump babbles like the ignorant idiot that he is and Modi can’t take it. (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
Not just an expert, but one of the world’s foremost experts. Stephen Miller is truly one of the world’s foremost worms.
👀 apnews.com/article/paxt...
ICE detain man who is legally in U.S.—son of a decorated military veteran. "As a granddaughter of a Master Sergeant veteran," she said. "I never believed my home would be at risk in the country my family fought for." He is living in U.S. legally—and has never commit a crime. Dallas, Texas.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Is it… death?
The freshest ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ banter from @mattbelloni.bsky.social and me. And we revisit our interview with Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold on the making of The Brutalist. www.kcrw.com/culture/show...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Where do they find these guys? (From @status.news)
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The shamelessness of this liar.
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social for help descriptively distinguishing between National Guard and federal law enforcement in DC 👇
I assume no one will catch that reference, but I couldn’t help myself
Scarlett O’Hara checks in.
Disinformation cubed. www.wired.com/story/white-...
It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that Russia is attempting to destabilize Germany, including targeting its infrastructure, and therefore Berlin is in direct conflict with Moscow.
He looks 😬
Can the courts be more deferential to the felon?
From Public Notice ... "Without irony or shame — and to absolve their followers of any guilt or responsibility — Trump wants to whitewash America’s original sin."
We must be living in a simulation.
Heed this @marcelias.bsky.social warning.
Haven’t they suffered enough?
Unsatisfying.
The disappointment will be crushing.
You just described that.
They don’t care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
“Terrible things are happening outside… poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.” Anne Frank - 1943
Not another word until it’s confirmed.