Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
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Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
3/ those rights have already jumped dramatically. Lutnick is one of two cabinet secretaries running Trump's demolition derby. Crooked as all fuck would be the formal economics term for it.
I would settle for actual, carefully taken garment dimensions! Can’t speak for menswear, but womenswear sizes are almost meaningless, there’s so much range Also I’d like to decide for myself how I’d like it to fit.
Ehn. I got it. You got it. Universal relevance is a false god as likely impossible.
Nothing in my post or the one I included suggests otherwise.
Do we care?
Apropos of absolutely nothing, this is gorgeously written. Portraits of people and a village. My only “but” is that I’m 40% of the way through and the child of the title, while occasionally alluded to, has yet to make an appearance.
Another way to understand this is that only white people can have guns When that’s the lens it’s completely unsurprising and not divisive within the GOP at all www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Do big things and then talk big about them!
I do think the key strategy for getting Trump to jettison RFK Jr is to just keep implying that RFK Jr is going after one of Trump's core presidential accomplishments and thus saying that Trump Fucked Up
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities
Where are the MIB guys when we need them?
big policy win for them. Congratulations. I feel safer already, kidnap all the people taking care of the elderly next
I would have liked Bluesky to keep growing after the mass post-election surge, but I get why the numbers have settled in. Given that it isn't growing, it's remarkable that it is the number one source of traffic for many, if not most, publications, especially smaller ones.
![James Ball @jamesrball.com In January this year, Bluesky had about 1.6m accounts liking a post each day, and about 800,000 actually posting. That peaked at 2.2m and 1.1m respectively later that month. Today, it’s 1.2m likers and 600,000 posters. That’s a steady loss of 25% (or nearly 50% from peak) in seven months. [Graphs below] Left graph titled Daily Likers (blue bars labeled “Unique Likers”). Right graph titled Daily Posters (red bars labeled “Unique Posters”).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yobyqjt4hs5icoihvaombhhn/bafkreiatu6r5kfrtinewumzetkuicupy5askf2iqwpphvsaptsiff2sjum@jpeg "Click to view full size")
As some have pointed out, tariffs are imposed on wholesale prices, which would have been $20 or $25, or a $4-$5 tariff. So where does the other $5 go? To secondary inflationary effects, which belie the idea that tariffs are a one-time change in price level rather than inflationary. We’ll see!
Shitshow waiting to happen on.ft.com/41sHC8D
Don’t print lies in the newspapers. Don’t keep platforming the lying liars to performatively lie on your teevee shows. End the interviews immediately if you’ve messed up by inviting them anyway & they once again performatively lie in public. What is journalism, anyway?
On the one hand, absolutely on the other hand do we really think he drives himself? Particularly if he has accompanying Security?
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).
Don’t get me wrong. Dr Mom is a real thing and I sometimes am one! Got texted for a consult just this past week from my college senior!
Dueling Dr Moms
The sheep going astray — with melodic lines that meander and diverge — in Handel’s Messiah is my favorite
Reminder for tariff doubters: WE PAY those tariffs, not foreign manufacturers or their governments bsky.app/profile/lesl...
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
Leaving the Navy Yard I see this. Google says it lays undersea cable, including for offshore wind farms. Wanna bet this ship was working on the wind farm Trump just shut down?
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
Thank you for following this for us and at some point we need to celebrate the people who are watching this closely enough that they can call a judge at 2 AM to stop it.
I agree with much of this thread, but I think it needs to be said: if unity is the way to get around fascists, we need to fucking unify, and that means at this stage, swiftly discouraging the wedge issue dividers in our own party.
UNACCOMPANIED MINOR CHILDREN
Perfect day for my annual ferry to the Navy Yard for lunch trip
Mistreating & abusing citizens is not morally more reprehensible than mistreating & abusing those deemed “illegal”...[but] if we turn a blind eye to such treatment on the grounds that “it’s only illegals being treated this way”, it will not remain “only illegals” observer.co.uk/news/columni...
DHS and DC Police detaining a peaceful, unarmed man sitting on a bench at DC's Malcolm X Park.
FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
The Trump Cult is emotionally prepared to do much worse things than they have done so far. The far right is itching to see more violence and participate in violence.
Okay. So there's a lot of uncertainty about how "free and fair" the 2026 midterms are going to be. If you forced me to speculate, my *low confidence* prediction is that they'll be less free and much less fair than in 2024.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wow
More lawsuits please www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
First amendment speech, no?
If any of you lovely men are also ballerinas, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo are auditioning!!
Teaching? Can’t have that
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.
One could even just stand here and hold chalk Like the Chinese who held blank sheets of paper
The take you didn’t ask for (mine): This isn’t deep. Don’t overthink it. He just keeping the evangelicals on side.
“Federal law enforcement asked the crews to line up to check their IDs, according to the firefighters. One of the firefighters said members of the crew were told not to take video of the incident.” DHS did this as flames actively raged. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Losing our humanity
THIS
It reminds people of his age and infirmity because it’s completely plausible. So keep it up.
New meaning to “Red Square”
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
Yep
How about Lexington or Concord?
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
The US Holocaust Museum is planning to "upgrade" its exhibit on the US response to Nazi Germany, and staff are concerned the Trump administration wants to downplay the extent to which the Immigration Act of 1924 doomed more European Jews to die. abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-...
To our enduring shame, the US wrongfully incarcerated 120,000 people of Japanese descent - more than two-thirds US citizens - between February, 1942 and December, 1945. ICE is already wrongfully incarcerating people 2x faster than that, and the Republican spending bill just tripled ICE's budget.
Oh, I see your question. Sorry to be dense. It’s the Metro North Railroad, one word, and the Long Island Rail Road, two words. Do you want a serious answer or should I just slink off for having under-understood?
Labor Day-ish weather is often the most glorious in NYC
Are there other usages of rail road/s — two words?
Had a conversation with my husband last night and came to the conclusion that the super religious parents telling their children that ChatGPT is a literal demon with malign intentions and is never to be trusted might actually be getting this one right
Good.
Yes
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
Yep
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we don’t need to fight fairly against fascism. We just need to fight.
We are this close 🤏🏻 to having to cross state lines to get a vaccine
Sure sounds like he’s joking about murder and mass graves, doesn’t it? That Texas State Senate is a real laff riot.
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
I’m sure these people are thrilled that they’ve been called away from their families and jobs to deal with DC’s crushingly important mulch emergency. So much government efficiency.
According to this announcement, the Oregon national guard will go on a year deployment to deal with the nonexistent emergency at the border. A friend tells me that one guardsman is a Medford cardiologist. There’s a one year wait to see a cardiologist there. www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...
For tariff doubters bsky.app/profile/lesl...
“.. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year due to tariffs and deporting agricultural workers.” @waiterich.bsky.social @fortune.com #CPI fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
Or all of them
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.
*could* obvi
And I was planning a quiet evening ... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-emergen...
Exactly! You couldn't ask for a more teed-up winning issue. We protect your health! We want to keep your kids safe! They don't!
Double wow. Disappearing his resignation email is extra something
Think I’ll get my $10 back? bsky.app/profile/lesl...
And do we think for one minute that they won’t set up some backdoor by which donors and other connected GOPers CD still get their meds?
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Anything besides admitting it’s the easy access to guns.
On the “who pays the tariffs” question: Uniqlo vest came today. Look, a hastily applied sticker with an updated price! What’s the new price vs the old? +20%. What’s the tariff on Bangladesh, where the vest was made? 20%. I paid the full 20% tariff. Not Bangladesh. Not Uniqlo. ME.
The overwhelming majority of mass shooters have been conservative extremists, yet you never see them talking about that
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Excellent work by @willcarless.bsky.social for USA Today (@usatoday.com) debunking far-right claims that transgender people are likely to commit acts of violence or mass shootings. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Sheet pan of roasted veg
They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.
The cruelty leaves me pretty much speechless
