"What if those senators and those justices fail to meet this profile-in-courage moment? Well, one thing we know about Donald Trump is that he will respond to any show of weakness or lack of resolve by grabbing for even more power."
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"What if those senators and those justices fail to meet this profile-in-courage moment? Well, one thing we know about Donald Trump is that he will respond to any show of weakness or lack of resolve by grabbing for even more power."
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i don't think a lot of you understand what's happening. if they can declare transgender people mentally ill, then they can do it for anyone. and they will. they'll say homosexuality is an illness. they'll say women have hysteria. all the old invented pseudoscience will return in service to them.
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The āinformantā continued to assault women even after ending his relationship with Epstein. amp.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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I have read Trumpās āwar departmentā EO. This is nothing. He changed nothing. He added pretend secondary titles with no power under the law. He will make the government spend hundreds of millions for vanity labeling purposes. If youāre in the media and you donāt harp on that, youāre failing.
"The most dangerous rationalization is also the most delusional: We can always stop Trump later if he tries to cross the line into outright dictatorship. Of course, thatās what the 'good men' said about Caesar, Mussolini, and Hitler."
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Whoopsy ā Trump stooge Bill Pulte is attacking fed governor Lisa Cook, but according to Reuters his father & stepmother did something similar. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Reminder: @propublica.org is still tracking how immigration agents use force when they make arrests. Do you have video or other documentation of forceful or violent arrests by immigration agents that we should review? Please reach out. email: nicole.foy@propublica.org Signal: @nicolefoy.27
Trump renaming the Department of Defense may need to change Defense Department seals on more than 700,000 facilities in 40 countries and all 50 states. politico.com/news/2025/09...
DHS has already started bragging about it's biggest single-site enforcement operation at a Hyundai plant in Georgiaābut one close U.S. ally isnāt happy at all. Most of the nearly 500 people arrested were South Korean citizens. trib.al/dsnuKPZ
Ethics, shmethicsā¦
I think that itās bad that the Secretary of Defense is openly trashing the concept of legality regarding military operations.
"Yet, somehow, this all pales in comparison to the shellacking Kennedy has taken from his own family over the past several days."
"Americans do not appreciate how important it is to have basically nonpartisan people with some expertise and devotion to public service running the U.S. government." From 2023:
Mr. Speaker how does the FBI usually convince people to become informants in cases like this
Itās wild how everything with these dudes is just a lifelong battle with their fear they have small dicks.
Q: Can you say if the administration has engaged with North Korea on that incident? TRUMP: I don't know anything about it Q: Can you confirm that it happened? TRUMP: I'm hearing it now for the first time (Trump reportedly approved the botched operation)
Hi Friends We just hit a milestoneā¦ My first ever billboard for a live show! Boston, youāve shown so much love. 10 shows sold out at The Wilbur, This marks the biggest debut run in the theaterās history.
The āantiwarā president today tried to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War. Canāt make this stuff up.
Friday's Thought -
Republicans made a choice in their Big Beautiful Betrayal: Each millionaireās tax break is funded by taking health insurance away from four Americans. Trying to rebrand this bill wonāt change that.
šØNEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond ā expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.
I keep seeing people say that less than 1 percent of mass shootings are committed by trans people. That's somewhat misleading. It's actually less than 0.1 percent. More than 99.9% of mass shootings over the past decade were committed by non-trans people.
NEW: Fox News reports that the government is now threatening to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini, a small country in southern Africa where the U.S. recently sent several migrants, some of whom remain imprisoned there.
The thing is, YES, obviously, what you name something shapes it. That is we as a nation decided, after TWO devastating two world wars, to rename it the Defense Department in the first place!
Thereās no bottom
āNothing says āl am not a partisan hackā like kicking off your book tour in conversation with Bari Weiss.ā ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Puh. thet. ic.
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You wouldnāt rename it the Department of War unless you were thinking of starting one soon
Seriously, how much are we spending on her publicity shots?
And wagging his finger like heās talking to a misbehaving child.
This is your economy on Donald Trump.
On our unilateral disarmament: America is reorienting its foreign policy to help governments that manipulate and suppress information. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Promises made, promises kept!
It was bad enough when government officials claimed that journalists incite violence by reporting. But now, theyāre accusing reporters of actually committing violence. The supposed violence by reporters? Recording videos.
From the Fox News National Security correspondent: "It looks to me like the US military is going to war."
WSJ reports RFK Jr has instructed HHS to link autism with Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiency.
To read the 337-page transcript of Ghislaine Maxwellās interview with the Deputy Attorney General is to be horrified, even enraged, by Maxwellās brazen airbrushing of her conduct, and by Blancheās placid acceptance of her rendition of events.
It really is funny that the FLOTUS of this extremely āAmerica firstā/anti-immigrant/āanti-globalistā/āeverybody fucking speak Englishā administration is an immigrant who barely speaks understandable English and pronounces robots ārowboatsā
As ICE gears up to do to Chicago what they did to L.A., worth remembering that in California their arrests plummeted once a judge said no to racial profiling
Fact check, Secretary Kennedy
Responding to the bad jobs numbers in the 9 a.m. hour: Kevin Hassett told Fox News that it is a function of survey response rates and will be revised upward. Lori Chavez-DeRemer told Fox Business that bad numbers are Jerome Powell's fault for not cutting rates. Can't be both!
This is what lawlessness looks and sounds like
NEW: The economy added only 22,000 jobs in Augustādrastically below expectations of ~75,000. This is Trumpās America.
New data shows that for every millionaire who got a Trump tax cut, four Americans will lose their health insurance.
To be fair, FL had also given us @maxwellfrost.bsky.social, who is a wonderful representative. There are pockets of blue all over FL. But there is a lot of gerrymandering going on.
Looking back April was the last really good month for jobs numbers: April: 158k May: 19k June: -13k July: 79k August: 22k Pretty obvious that Liberation Day has liberated us from a healthy job market. Only question is how ugly do things get.
It really needs to be stressed how desperate and insane this is. This is the secretary of commerce insinuating that the terrible jobs numbersāproduced by the Trump administration!āare the result of some kind of anti-Trump conspiracy. Totally deranged.
āIn an era of too much mealymouthed journalism, letās call out this U.S. strike for what it really was: A cold-blooded murder, carried out in broad Caribbean daylight. An assassination. And a war crime.ā Gift link: share.inquirer.com/1RaU1A
He is never going to make it to heaven
While we pay more & more for consumer goods, housing, electricity, & everything else, jobs & growth numbers are terrible, health agencies are in shambles, MAGA can take comfort that their cult leader is making billions in the crypto market & other ventures off being president.
This is the memorial plaque, which Congress approved to honor the bravery of our law enforcement officers in saving lives and protecting our democracy on Jan 6, 2021. It was approved before Republicans took over; now, they refuse to display it.
Missouri State Rep. Ashley Aune (D) trashes Rep. Dirk Deaton (R), sponsor of the GOP's gerrymandering bill, for asking representatives to vote on his bill without giving anyone the detailed map data. DEATON: "What data specifically do you seek?" AUNE: "Any data would be great."
The U.S. has lost 78k manufacturing jobs this year
āThe Senate confirmed me to ensure that unbiased evidence serves our nationās health, and for doing that, I lost my job. Americaās children could lose far more.ā Susan Monarez www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubioās 2016 presidential campaignšš½
4/ As my friend and colleague @meganranney.bsky.social said after this happened, āCollect the data. Share the data. Write the stories. Share the stories. Do the analyses. Share the analyses. Call your reps. Mentor the kids. Create the partnerships. Join the groups. Build the parks. Donāt give up.ā
NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...
"Among those detained were South Korean employees on business travel.... "The raid could raise concerns for South Korean companies that are sending personnel to the US and hiring locally." It comes weeks after Hyundai pledged $26 billion in US investments. Gift link ā¬ļø www.wsj.com/us-news/u-s-...
In one of the largest ICE raids yet, around 450 people were arrested yesterday at a battery plant construction site in Georgia. Apparently they zip tied them before taking them away. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
This is a deeply reported, heart-pounding read Gift link ā¤µļø www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
Spot on: āYou know what doesnāt solve violence? Militarization. Force. Power and control. You know what does? Giving people the resources they need to be safe and well.ā
Trump is hollering about taking over Bostonās South Station, heās suing, sending more ICE agents, doing a whole lot of harmful crap that sure isnāt about safety. Let Boston do Boston. We keep us safe. Not Trump, not Stephen Miller, not Tom Homan. Us. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman was assassinated this summer and Trump had absolutely nothing to say about it. This week Trump committed extrajudicial killings, blowing up a boat with all on board. No one should accuse us of hyperbole when we call him a murderous tyrant.
So the DOJ is threatening to ban trans folks from having guns and of course the NRA will come out swinging to defend their Second Amendment rights. Of course. Not.
This article is a lot of words to say that Trump is doing something illegal. āNo clear legal precedentā āThe question of which rules apply is not simply a matter of policy choiceā āBut the trafficking of an illegal substance is not a capital offenseā And more! š¤¦š»āāļø
Who could have predicted this? (Spoiler: Anyone who did the reading)
Written in 2014. Still true today.
āThere are some powers people should never concede to their government. That's why the Founders included due process in our Bill of Rights.Extraordinary powers consolidated in one office inevitably will be abused.That's true no matter who's behind the desk.ā Hina Shamsi www.aclu.org/news/nationa...
Remember how much he admired and envied Duterte for doing this?
Phew THIS WAS A DAY still poring over Sec Kennedyās testimony ā¦ but itās time for bed. We need to be on point, for the long haul, not just for the moment.
This warming will continue for decades even after we finally get to net zero. This is happening. The best we can accomplish is to slow it down and avoid the absolute worst case scenario. And we're not even close to doing that yet.
The company selling H5-tainted raw meat for pets insists "it uses only USDA-inspected human food-grade chicken and that the H5N1 finding should be addressed at the USDA level." Hm. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
Iām looking forward to the criminal referrals to DOJ from Bill Pulte in these cases along with Ken Paxton who listed 3 separate residences as his primary. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Then perhaps he shouldnāt opine about vaccines.
Dave Granlund nails it again.
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60ās, so hereās a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; itās 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; itās 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
Ivan Ehlers
The government wants to effectively certify trans people as "mental defectives."
Imagine going on cable news and telling millions of people you lack even basic critical thinking skills
As Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth has made it his mission to purge female leaders within the Pentagon and relitigate the issue of women in combatāa battle heās been itching to fight for decades.
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Apparently being qualified for your job is no longer a qualification.
Our billionaire President put an airline lobbyist in charge of the Department of Transportation. So no, this is not a surprise.
From the tense exchanges during the hearing, it was apparent that senators from both parties have realized that RFK Jr. is living in a world defined by activists who crusade against vaccines and, for that matter, the entire enterprise of public health science.
āThe A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.ā
Trump & Republicans want to let private AI companies decide if Medicare patients actually need their doctor-recommended treatments so they can turn a profit. This admin is trying to use AI to cut Medicare benefits & stop seniors from getting the health care they need. NO WAY.
Trump administration to phase out security funding for NATO's eastern flank, FT reports. The U.S. is reportedly planning to cut security assistance for European countries bordering Russia as part of a broader push for NATO to increase defense spending. I TOLD YOU THIS YESTERDAY AND TODAY.
Horrifying story, and yet horrifyingly understated. This is a five-alarm fire. These are war crimes. This is murder. Trump should go to prison for this. Servicemembers should have refused their orders.
šØMAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will āredact every Republicanā from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats. He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security āto keep her mouth shut.ā
The same day Trump moves to (un)officially rename the DoD the Department of War, things are heating up in the Caribbean. www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...
For many people, COVID vaccines will be harder to get this year. In todayās daily newsletter, the physician and New Yorker contributor Dhruv Khullar discusses how we should think about the virus now, and what people can do to protect themselves this fall.