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www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u... Enjoy!
If the Times were consistent, the head would have been Prosecutor Promoted after Failing to Charge Trump Crony
lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
The final 15 pp. are witheringly vicious. A real treat.
"If [SCOTUS] decides a case based on mission, text trickery, originalism, or imagination, then that case may have little value to a state that prefers a more principled way, or an interpretive approach that does not force “contemporary society to pledge allegiance to the founding era’s culture"
Then leave. Please.
cuz the world needs more antiantis ...
Psychokiller, qu'est-ce que c'est?
To paraphrase Hunter Thompson, This is how America will look now that the Nazis have won the war.
Ted should talk to the chair of the committee that oversees communications, even if he hates the dude.
Hail to the #SumudFlotilla A background, news sources to follow On September 8–9, 2025, when the movement’s main vessel, the "Family Boat," was reportedly struck by what organizers claim was a drone while docked at the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. The Sumud Flotilla is a large, multinational…
CPJ: Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists marks deadliest global attack in 16 years erkansaka.net/2025/09/20/c...
People who lost their party wanting to blow up the remaining one.
"Protests have to do with a basic concern with the rule of law. This is why it so annoying when photos in our media are tagged as 'anti-government protests.' People in Serbia are protesting for good government!"
underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
or, as they say in WI, Badgers?
Trump slashes major American export
Not By Accident
Same here
"The irony, of course, is that Trump himself is perfectly, serenely unconcerned about all this. The Stasi may insist it is playing no role, but he’s gonna just go out there and illustrate the entire playbook."
Got my Flu and COVID updates today. "The federal vaccine committee [...] voted unanimously on Friday to further limit access to Covid vaccines, recommending that adults 65 and older receive the shots only after discussing the potential benefits and risks with a health care provider."
Blowing up boats in the Caribbean without any legal authority risks dragging the United States into another war, and provoking attacks against American citizens. I'm getting ready to force a vote with @kaine.senate.gov to ensure Congress' power to declare war is not so easily trampled.
Speak truth to power - by Timothy Snyder
Brooks??? Brooks??? Pfft! He only gets wronger.
All rise!
That's it; I'm a citizen, but I'm getting one.
Why is this headline only in The Onion?
Hegseth orders Pentagon reporters not to report any news about national defense unless it has been approved by Hegseth.
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
It was very telling that for three days, none of the major TV anchors would have me on air one-on-one to talk about my firing from the Washington Post over Charlie Kirk. The first offers were from Black media, independent media, Substackers, and podcasters.
vance believes in nothing other than his own will to power and he is motivated by bitter hatred for the people he blames for his bad childhood and his own sense of inadequacy. so yeah, he is dangerous!
Nothing to see here. Literally.
"Corporate executives “made the decision.” Regulators never issued a formal order. The administration could claim its hands were clean. Yet anyone with a basic sense of how Washington works under Trump can connect the dots"
"Earlier this year, the MAGA rapper was spotted with MAGA commentator Benny Johnson and Byron Donalds confronting protesters at a Telsa dealership. Donalds is running for governor of Florida" ... on a Make Florida White Again platform ...
It continues to be ... revealing ... how much the Court's orders on emergency applications in *non*-Trump-related cases are playing up the balance of the equities (and the presence / absence of irreparable harm) versus the Court's orders in Trump cases, which ... aren't.
Japanese internment wasn't limited to immigrants, though it was criminal.
"sign a proclamation" what are we doing here? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
"Depressed people often don’t have the energy to commit violent crimes, and psychotic people usually have trouble executing an elaborate plan. It’s angry people who kill, particularly angry men with access to firearms." www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
"Kirk is the ideal MAGA martyr – a man who died for the "free" speech rights of white supremacists, anti-LBGTQ haters and Muslim[-]baiters."
He may PAY the Taliban to accept it, but it's about undoing Biden like Trump I was undoing Obama
@apnews.com: It's about Fascism. @nytimes.com : Who are we to say unless our money is implicated?
This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.
I want to tell you something.. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...
Kayleigh Mc A-Ninny
Opinion: Journalists, your job is to tell the truth, not to prevaricate.
Keep covering the important stuff while you write that $15M check to your new Daddy.
TAMU, Home of Smarter Livestock They teach Cattle Management They teach Poultry Science.
Five cops were shot in Pennsylvania yesterday. Three died. Haven't heard a thing about if from the "back the blue" team that was so upset about last week's school shooting. Maybe it's because the shooter looked like this.
The fact that we have to endure so many spaces where people calling out racism, sexism, and homophobia face more consequences than the people actually being racist, sexist, and homophobic tells much of what you need to know about how far away we are from being a truly functional, equitable society.
Murphy: There’s no negotiation happening because Trump has told Republicans not to talk to Democrats. And what are we even asking for? Don’t raise people’s premiums, don’t break the law, and you might get our votes. But Republicans won’t even talk to us.
They do, @jvl.bsky.socialm and they're watching the bottom line. WTF would you expect them to do?
But *what* are they funding?
should have done it by lowering the governor's salary
The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years. At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social
Having spent last week in Ukraine, 2 impressions stand out: 1. The US is out, providing no assistance whatsoever, but Ukrainians are diplomatically not complaining. 2. Physically, Ukraine can produce all the arms they need, but to do so they need financing from Europe.
unlikely since they're the least likely to support Israel
Congrats on your handiwork, Sen Cassidy.
Trump will call it patriotism
"During his tenure, Ciattarelli voted for and championed a controversial local ordinance banning cursing, which included a $500 fine for violators."
Epic trolling by the Brits!
Prelude to a settlement?
Song of the day: "Fuck the FCC!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2ry...
excellent point
The Eastern Europeans, all day, every day.
David Letterman’s Jimmy Kimmel Reaction: ‘We All See Where This Is Going, Correct?’ Yup, we can if we want to
91 percent in TC, and yet ...
Children at Texas migrant detention center face unsafe conditions
banality of evil.
Charlie Kirk started his political life as a relatively pablum, Reaganesque Republican who disliked Trump. By the age of 31 when he was murdered, he’d morphed into a promoter of some of the most far right elements in US politics.
It also helps to read the narratives, not just the diagrams, unlike, perhaps, in physics.
I live in the 4th largest city in the US and learned when I was replacing my oven that Samsung does not have appliance service in the Houston area. May it stay that way. Or maybe I should get one and keep calling because "the ad screen broke and I want to see the ads."
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
"Because the law as written permits the removal of a FRB Governor for cause, but does not specify for _good_ cause, the preliminary injunction is lifted." That was easy.
This is the whole ball game, gang.
Could be selection bias, could be that that the closer the "prophecy" gets to realization the scarier it gets, and that excites reaction.
I don't understand Polymarket polymarket.com/event/will-t...
Next up: Rename DCA and cancel RINO Reagan.
This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
Trump didn't demand Jimmy Kimmel's firing because he said mean things about Charlie Kirk. Trump demanded Jimmy Kimmel be fired because said mean things about Donald Trump.
I had many such students back in grad school when I taught comp. this was in the 80s.
That second suggestion is absolutely hilarious. They've totally lost their shit.
""You must win [Texas] if you are going to hold political power in America." -- Beto
👀
"I have noticed over the last 72 hours or so a sudden demand that all statements and observations concerning the Kirk murder be factually, incontrovertibly, true." Simply not true. They have to be acceptable.
They're triangulators
"He has used the emergency docket repeatedly to remove limitations imposed by the lower federal courts on his exercise of extraordinary and unprecedented presidential powers, " Odd phrasing: Lower courts act, Presidents act, SCOTUS disappears and the e-docket acts. C'mon, now.
I thought the mushrooms in my risotto looked odd.
It's just beginning; read some recent Turkish history.
They're not dying; they're committing suicide.
And the NYT said that Robinson is "far left" citing an article saying Robinson's mom described him as "far left." I'm sure to her I'm antifa. But knees gotta bend, I guess.
By making jokes about killing innocent brown people at a political rally, JD Vance is doing politics the right way. —Ezra Klein
The replacement is a dumbassed phrase.
Trump Lower Prices!
Why?
