NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"
Anyway...Dems need to break out of the impulse to see 200 white people protesting against Covid restrictions as "the voice of the people which we must heed" while seeing 10X as many people protesting racist police violence as "a niche special interest group that's out of step with real Americans."
It’s a little weird to demand people vote for a candidate as a necessary lesser evil three years before you even know if they’re going to be the candidate
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
The other woman is more of a Trump supporters. But even she said Trump is trying to be a dictator. The first woman I mentioned above doesn’t like the National Guard being used instead of local police & said that Trump should be working to build up local police instead.
This is good! I’m at an ice cream shop on Aiken, SC and two elderly white women are talking. Both church-goers. One said she’s always been a Republican but she’s very upset at how Republicans in Congress aren’t standing up to Trump.
My own version of this is that I was just in Washington County, Maine, a solidly purple county, and saw only a single Trump sign when in previous years I’ve seen multiple (even in non-election years).
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.
Worth thinking about how Chris Van Hollen, hardly a ultra left-wing firebrand, has accumulated a ton of credit over the last few years from the growing pro-Palestine constituency of the DP by simply 1) Demanding that there be justice for Shireen Abu Akleh, 2) Demanding that US law is adhered to.
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
Maybe they'll eventually regain their nerve, but for the moment, JB Pritzker appears to have single-handedly spooked the Trump administration into backing down with one 12-minute speech.
yo this guy is cooking
Turkiye says that it will completely sever economic and trade ties with Israel and has closed its airspace to its aircraft, amid tensions over Israel's war on Gaza. Turkish FM Hakan Fidan said that Israel’s aggressive policies threatened to engulf the region in conflict.
I think the simple answer is that they think they can get away with bald faced lies like they have been for 40+ years
Republican Rep. Barry Moore was heckled during a townhall in Alabama before leaving out the back door.
A federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the U.S.
Graham Platner is blunt, even proud, about how he’s benefitted from government programs. He went to college on the GI Bill. His healthcare is free—paid for by four tours in Iraq & Afghanistan. "But watching your friends die as the bar to meet for decent healthcare is disgusting.” trib.al/ohYlK9C
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
My grandfather also wants to pass along the message that RFK Jr. is destroying one of the prime achievements of American medicine. This is something he knows well, given the decades of his life he dedicated to medicine, to the scientific pursuits, and to helping research new treatments for diseases.
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
Our country has descended into fascism. Some critics think that that’s unfortunate.
We’re in the “Bayer Heroin at the drug store as a cough suppressant” phase of consumer marketing of AI.
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
When Trump publicly claims “the right to do anything I want to do” and the news media *still* won’t say his goal is a dictatorship, that’s both cowardice and complicity. And a shameful dereliction of duty.
BREAKING: The U.S. Attorney's Office has charged "sandwich guy" Sean Dunn with a lesser misdemeanor version of the assault charge after a grand jury refused to indict this week. Case assigned to Judge Carl Nichols. More: www.wusa9.com/article/news...
My dad is a classically trained chef and always said Ratatouille was one of the first films that seemed to get it right.
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
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or that they just don't exercise (if you're super buff this might not work)
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
Another infuriating aspect of ICE roaming around D.C. that I hadn't thought about. I just talked to a D.C. woman whose husband is undocumented and whose employer is refusing to pay him for work he's already done -- and threatening to call ICE if he keeps asking for the money he's owed.
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
It is a fucked up country in which a relatively minor 6 year old arrest effectively disqualifies you from becoming a citizen but conviction on 34 felony counts and inciting an insurrection does not disqualify you from becoming President.
ICE officials are using artificial intelligence to generate leads for immigration raids, which have sometimes sent agents to the wrong house. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
A few years in, a CDC drowning prevention program was ready to share its findings on how to mitigate the leading cause of death among young children. Then the administration terminated that staff.
New: Flock, the ALPR company in thousands of U.S. communities and which ICE taps into, wants to partner with a firm that sells dashcams to ordinary drivers. Nexar gets "trillions" of images a month from the dashcams. Could turn cars into roaming surveillance devices www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
Failing to indict a literal ham sandwich. DC grand juries appear to be nullifying with joyful abandon. (Also, what an insane concentration of armed feds on one random corner. Just telegraphs the performative--but still serious, yes--nature of all this.)
When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault
I genuinely think part of the current political dynamic is that a lot of Dems -- especially your typical educated, affluent city-dwellers -- simply can't believe what's going on. Even though it's right there on the TV, right there in the streets, it's hard to shake the feeling of unreality.
Breaking news: The Trump administration placed some FEMA employees on leave Tuesday after they signed an open letter of dissent about the agency’s leadership, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)
I think we're definitely past the point where this reflects much more poorly on Jeffries than it does on Mamdani. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/26/m...
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
Just practically speaking... A lot of trans young ppl who can grit their teeth and make it to 18 aren't gonna make it to 25.
When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, President George W. Bush said “No one could have known this would happen.” But *I* knew it would happen. Because I read an article in @sciam.bsky.social back in 2001, describing precisely the disaster unfolding. When experts issue warnings, LISTEN.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
I have no idea what this means it's the funniest thing he's ever posted
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
This is good actually and we are going to need veterans to be the first waves of folks making things more uncomfortable for the fascist ground troops invading our cities. Make the dissonance unbearable for the troops working to destroy America
are they going to be all decked out like this one clearly advertising they're ICE? bc....sounds good to me......makes it a lot easier for neighbors to see them and run them the fuck outta town
Really awkward to sign an executive order banning American flag burning when this is on the DoD website on how to properly dispose of an American flag. www.defense.gov/News/Feature...
“Uncooperative federalism,” Heather Gerken’s phrase, is quite good. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
Our constitutional republic does not have any provision which allows a president to enact a criminal statute by executive order that would put people in prison. bsky.app/profile/atru...
George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran, is planning to sue the federal government after he was violently arrested and detained by ICE for three days without explanation. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/ge...
People underestimate joy as a political resource. It pisses off all the right people & allows us to move toward practically imaginative solutions.It’s powerful to say, as Mamdani does&others should,I love these people/this place&we’re going to make it thrive.Political version of twirling on haters.
The IDF just did a double tap strike against a hospital. They waited until the first responders and journalists to show up before massacring them with a second strike.
This man is being subjected to a real-life version of Kafka’s “The Trial” as punishment for being the embarrassing object of the regime’s own malicious and chaotic incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
The account that made this viral post uses a AI-generated stock photo as their profile picture, and the main claim that Big Balls "was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl" is not in the article. We are not immune from disinformation.
Beware of pseudonymous accounts with AI profile pics that tell you something you want to hear with no actual sourcing
what's interesting about this is that it serves the same purpose as trump's rallies — energizing potential supporters and interested people, creating a positive vibe that builds an affective relationship — but is so much more democratic in that it is participatory
it's so disturbing. the fact that this didn't put an end to all of it was what makes me feel that we're in freefall now and I really don't know how bad it's going to get
Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
Consuming a daily stream of Nazi propaganda does not have to turn you into a Nazi to distort your perceptions of the world
here’s a comic about arguing on twitter
Legal permanent resident with 4 citizen daughters, had a 22-year-old marijuana possession charge, long since resolved and sealed. Grabbed from her family, detained for 10 days, never told why, medical conditions untreated, dumped in a parking 30 miles from home with no phone. America, you suck.
I feel like the U.S. government shouldn't be allowed to deport people to any random country in the world that it feels like sending them to
No matter what you think about Mr. Abrego Garcia, if you believe in due process you should be infuriated by this. The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
In mid-2025, I think it’s genuinely absurd to argue that abandoning posting on Twitter is tantamount to abandoning the internet - and arguing publicly for our beliefs on the internet - entirely. Twitter today is vastly smaller and less influential than it was.
WESH-TV - Protesters in Orlando have repainted the Pulse Memorial crosswalk after Florida state-directed crews removed the rainbow stripes that honor the 49 lives lost during the 2016 massacre.
if you’re on the left, the question of “should you be on a platform consciously designed to turn people to the right” shouldn’t be some head-scratching dilemma
The future of the Democratic Party looks much more like this then Newsom or the corporat centrist bigots
people definitely watch AOCs lives but that's the only one I could think of.
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
incredible that three overpaid consultants in a trench coat can get media play by urging democrats not to use words that literally no one in mainstream politics uses
I absolutely do NOT agree with Bolton’s politics but I can STILL say it’s completely corrupt to send the FBI to raid the home of a political opponent or detractor. Everyone needs to be saying it. Trump is pushing us closer and closer toward authoritarianism. We ALL need to push back.
As someone who has stopped using Twitter ~3 years ago, after having been on it daily for the prior 16 years, it is *so* clear how much the current hateful and extreme state of the platform warps the views of its users, and NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT. I see the effect so much working in tech.
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.
One of the biggest cultural issues we have is that no major media or journalistic institutions have been reinforcing norms of what things *should* look like. That corruption isn’t normal, that cronyism isn’t normal, that lies and scandals should be punished, that incompetence is disqualifying.
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there.
The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.
can't speak to that, but i ran these numbers: 90,000 sqf ÷ 750 sqf = 120 housing units. assuming $200/sqf, that would only cost $18,000,000. for $198,000,000 you could build 1,320 housing units. at 2 ppl/unit, you could house 2,640 ppl for $2 million LESS than trump's fucking dancehall.
Or maybe you could teach your kids to treat all people as deserving of respect and dignity. And maybe you could talk to your kids about homelessness, the unaffordability of housing and healthcare, the stigma around mental illness, and why it's not okay to call people crazy.
Rainbow crosswalk outside Florida Pulse nightclub where 49 LGBT+ people were killed is removed overnight on Trump’s orders
Seems increasingly possible my company will be a significant vendor in the 2028 Olympics and, because of this, we have to hold strategy meetings on the regular to discuss how Trump might fuck it all up and cancel the Games.
New Investigation Uncovers Monetized Extremist Material On Roblox
Breaking: WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Federal judge holds that former Trump lawyer Alina Habba has been unlawfully serving as US attorney in New Jersey.