5/ These statements by Secretary Rubio make the legal case against the U.S. strike even stronger. (h/t @johnphudson.bsky.social reporting)
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5/ These statements by Secretary Rubio make the legal case against the U.S. strike even stronger. (h/t @johnphudson.bsky.social reporting)
2/ The author of the expert analysis - @bcfinucane.bsky.social - worked at the State Department under several administrations with these types of use of force issues as his portfolio. www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal...
FAQ on Refusing Illegal Orders by JMB | Jun 18, 2025 | GI Rights & Counseling, Memos, Resources Do I have the right to refuse illegal orders? A. Yes! nlgmltf.org/military-law...
Tonight on @allinwithchris.bsky.social at 8pm
Verizon expects to pay $2 BILLION less in taxes next year. Lumen Tech has requested a $400 MILLION tax refund. Diamondback Energy is projecting its cash tax rate to drop by 4%. That's billions less for America. And their CEOs and shareholders will keep it all. Great.
AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
All across the country, @sanders.senate.gov has been building the movement against corporate power and for an economy that works for the working class. On Saturday, he brings the fight to Brooklyn â just as Trump, Cuomo and the billionaires conspire to stop us. See you there.
EXCLUSIVE: Ansel Adamsâ series of Stanford photographs was never recorded in his otherwise meticulous photo log and fell into deep obscurity, never-before-seen by the general public and unknown to even his biographers and archivists. Until now. via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
A suspected Ebola outbreak is occurring in DRC. This is bad at any time! But itâs particularly worrisome now when US capacity to detect and respond to deadly biothreats has been purposefully dismantled. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Did you know leeks have been loved since ancient Egypt! TOP TIP: For long, tender white stems, mound soil up around the plant as it grows (blanching). USES: Perfect for hearty soups, stews, gratins, or simply roasted. Delicious! #Leeks #GardeningTips #AutumnRecipes
once again I am asking people to correctly answer the question "who was President in 2020"
Man, they REALLY donât want to hang that plaque honoring the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan 6. @acyn.bsky.social
They're right. RFK Jr. is a serious threat to public health and our lives. He is undermining vaccines, boosting dangerous conspiracy theories, and decimating lifesaving research. Resign or be fired. He needs to go.
Someone please tell the Texas Governor GregAbbott that addressing gun violence, not creating new redistricting maps, is an appropriate reason to call a special session. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social
My Statement with Senator Van Hollen, and Congresswoman Meng Slamming the FCC Proposal to Rip Internet Access Away from Students.
All of those have been sicced on US by the GOP. None of that is a result of Democratic legislation.
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, whoâd had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what wouldâve happened if they hadnât been vaccinated. âOh, theyâd have died.â
The nominee to head the democracy promotion bureau at the State Dept told us today that his priority was to "tell the truth". Interesting because Secretary Rubio has placed a gag order on telling the truth - banning the criticism of dictators that rig and steal elections.
Has anyone asked her if she's been threatened or if her family has been threatened? Because this act sure looks like extortion.
Who needs AI when you have Jude the marvelous?
There needs to be a full investigation and all those who issued or followed illegal orders need to be held to full account.
Have @joycewhitevance.bsky.social and @allinwithchris.bsky.social seen this? The @us.theguardian.com will reliably report on this, but US media are certain to fail us once again. #Palestine #UNConference #Macron #StateDepartment
'Lift the curtain on these files!' Epstein survivor shakes in fear demanding transparency www.rawstory.com/epstein-file...
Singing the siren song of his people. What a good doggo!
There is no mention of the right to possess personal arsenals, either.
Historians, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the entire reason states are allowed to maintain a "well-regulated militia" (i.e., a National Guard) under the Second Amendment because of the fear of tyranny of the federal government, which controls a standing federal army?
Itâs absolutely wild that the U.S. government straight up murdered a boat of people who presented no threat and were charged with no crime in international waters yesterday and the national media doesnât seem to be up in arms about that.
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
Cantor Fitzgerald, run by the Commerce Secretary's kids, has a way to profit off that. www.cryptopolitan.com/cantor-fitzg...
Raskin: "When private comments made by federal employees are scrutinized for anti-Trump bias and they can lose their jobs because of it, then we've entered the realm not just of Vladimir Putin but Joseph Stalin."
Have his physician colleagues referred him for malpractice to the Florida Medical Board?
So the U.S. military just blew up 11 people on the open sea in an extrajudicial massacre, saying they were dangerous drug traffickers but offering no court prior evidence to claim such. And other military units are patrolling U.S. cities with guns and no training in criminal procedure. Cool, cool.
Nope - she needs to stay in her lane and advocate from her already high private perch.
So many people already irrevocably harmed: the research subjects in aborted clinical trials, the unlicensed lab and research staff, the graduate students who lost their funding and their education/careers, the people affected by the withdrawal of DEI, on and on. Trump is a bonafide traitor.
JUST IN: Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University
Incredibly important point: "As pertains to this case, it is important to recognize and remember that if speech can be curtailed in the name of the Jewish people today, then just as easily the speech of the Jews (and anyone else) can be curtailed when the political winds change direction."
"A review of the admin. record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this countryâs premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of the... 1st Amendment and Title VI."
Update on this from the Boston Globe. This is great news!
As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
One detail an Epstein survivor noted in today's presser: DOJ did not inform Ghislaine Maxwell's victims she was being moved to cozier digs.
One thing I have been repeatedly saying about this administration is that they won't just kill people more quickly through their policies; the people who survive will also facer higher rates of disease, disability, and generally lower quality of life. We're taking a dramatic step back.
Why didnât some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? âI thought someone was going to kill me,â one explained. As another asked, âWhy did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?â
Southern Right Whales are baleen whales, and they do not have teeth. The use the baleen (made of keratin - the same substance that makes up hair - they have that, too.) to filter food.
To my food enthusiast neighbors here on Bluesky: Harvard University's open to the public course commencing on Monday 8 September: sciencecooking.seas.harvard.edu
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
#WackyWednesdayArt #WeekJforJetBlack @kittenstrudel.bsky.social
A federal appeals court panel rules President Trump cannot use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport those the government accuses of being Venezuelan gang members.
Jeffrey Epstein Survivors Say Theyâre Compiling Their Own âClient Listâ of Powerful Associates
We are overdue for a â Have you no decencyâ kind of moment.
Itâs not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters itâs that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
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?
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Itâs corruption, plain and simple.
Nothing is more powerful than solidarity. On Workersâ Labor Day and every day, Americaâs unions are keeping up the fight to make sure we get our fair share â
a thing Iâve been thinking about lately is the publicâs simultaneous willingness to be very upset about RFKâs COVID vaccine agenda coupled with the publicâs general unwillingness to mask. Iâm one of 4 masks I can see on this crowded train platform and weâre mid-spike in Brooklyn
President Trumpâs order to gut collective bargaining rights for even more federal workers is a dangerous assault on our democracyâand it lands hardest here in Maryland. From patent examiners to hydropower specialists, federal employees keep our government running. marylandmatters.org/2025/09/01/t...
JUST IN from @fischler.bsky.social: President Donald Trumpâs move to send National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles violated a federal law against military members conducting domestic law enforcement, a federal judge in California ruled. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/judg...
đ¨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
Youngstown-Warren Airport bsky.app/profile/ohio...
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Ohio neighbors - did you know that your state hosts an ICE hub? You know what to do.
NEWS A federal judge BLOCKS the Trump admin from using the military in California for civilian law enforcement in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Ruling storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Background www.allrisenews.com/p/general-sc...
"Labor isn't a special interest in Boston. Labor *is* the City of Boston." I love that and also the not so subtle shot at everyone's least favorite nepo-son Josh Kraft.
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
You will almost never see the mainstream media criticize each other. They barely even criticize right wing media like Fox. At a certain point it begins to resemble the mafia.
Itâs hard to focus on the growing existential threats abroad when your own government is intent on killing you.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . âŹď¸ âŹď¸ âŹď¸ .
Kristi Noem's Non-Stop Slander Invites Congress to Ask Melania about Her Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/k...
The cat law mandates always travelling by the most complicated route.
The Democratic Party has badly lost its way.
Together with the labor movement of Maine, together with Bernie Sanders â We will defeat the oligarchy, and we will defeat Susan Collins.
When I was an Amazon driver, holidays werenât really holidays. Nobody gets paid holidays. If the holiday falls on a day that youâre regularly scheduled, you have to make up that day to get your regular weekly hours. Would it kill the company to give everyone real paid holidays? Happy Labor Day.
Ever witness a child die from cancer? Well I have. Many times. Don't even try to tell me this is justifiable. #nokings #nopedophiles #nomazis #defenddemocracy
As far as the eye can see. Boston Labor Day march. #LaborDay
đ˘ GOTV #ONEV1 #Pinks đ¸ #Voices4Victory đđžCANNOT
Congressman Jerry Nadler would more than likely have been reelected to an 18th full term in Congress. He's long had the support and confidence of NYC voters. Instead, he's passing the torch and doing his part to center and strengthen the next generation of Democratic leadership. (thread)
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. âI donât know what to say at this point,â he said. âI canât defend what Israel is doing.â www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
His expressions are slack-jawed and without his extreme lips expressions. My guess is a stroke with some degree of aphasia. He is shown walking with good balance, and he is grasping an object, so I don't think it's affected his mobility. Get him on an open mike - I think he's lost speech.
#LaborDay Boston. So many union tshirts!
Wouldn't you know, someone wrote a wonderful everything olives guide: olivesunlimited.com/how-to-harve...
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Boop ball is the best ball!
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
Those of us paying attention are in the real bubble
$8,869,651,000 Thatâs how much of our taxpayer dollars Dump spent acquiring a 9.9% stake in failing tech company, Intel
Solar power is the cheapest electricity in history and in 2024 delivered 2/3rds of new capacity and 40% of new global generation. Yet myths, often politically motivated, are holding back its progress. @carbonbrief.org debunks 16 of of the biggest âď¸ mythsđ interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
âď¸The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
Good to see a bipartisan group of former CDC Directors raise alarms in the NY Times about RFK Jr. dismantling US public health. And I canât help but feel frustrated that they didnât do this last year when public health was on the ballotânor did NYT frame it that wayâwhen we had a chance to stop it.
Alberta banned Handmaidâs Tale from public school, and deserves this reaction.
CBS is now Comprehensive Bull Shit
This is an accurate description of the situation. substack.com/home/post/p-...
đ¨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
