You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
The angriest I've ever seen anyone was an older nurse who had seen multiple children die (before the vaccine was widely available) furious at anti vaxxers because "the sound of a child dying with whooping cough is the worst sound you can imagine and I don't have to imagine it"
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
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How many kids does Douthat have?
going to be very funny if the trump admin developed a bunch of half-baked plans to invade chicago using the texas national guard without having actually spoken to abbott about it
2 FL pastors arrested in St. Petersburg for blocking FDOT crews from removing a “Black History Matters” mural outside the Woodson African American Museum. They knelt in prayer defying police orders and were charged with obstructing traffic and resisting law enforcement www.axios.com/local/tampa-...
“.. Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening," said former federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou. 🤡 @cbsnews.com @macfarlanenews.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
JUST IN: Federal appeals court says Trump unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act for deportations. https://cnn.it/4pmjCyr
The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
Happy to take the birthrate people seriously the second one of them is like omg, have you seen the black infant mortality death rate? We’re losing out on so many lovely black babies!
No hell hot enough for Cassidy. Just feeding children into RFK's wood chipper.
Always right on top of the issues, our Donnie boy.
This made me laugh. The United States is almost a century older than Italy!
#BREAKING: Fifth Circuit (Southwick & Ramirez, JJ.) holds that President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua is unlawful, and blocks AEA removals in the Northern District of Texas (over a lengthy dissent from Judge Oldham): www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
In a major setback to President Donald Trump’s attempt to purge independent agencies, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to block a lower court order reinstating Democratic commissioner Rebecca Slaughter to the Federal Trade Commission. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I think Illinois can and should sue Texas in the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction and seek a preliminary injunction against the use of any un-federalized Texas National Guard troops in Illinois.
This will register as an apology to most but a middle finger among judges. He said, “I simply did not understand that orders on the emergency docket were precedent." He's right; SCOTUS is wrong for pretending otherwise. I suspect he has a trick up his sleeve which will use this new understanding.
Operation Idiot Sicario is very dangerous because once you’ve decided to missile random boats rather than interdict them you’ve ignored the advice of every good person in your organization and ensured your kill chain is exclusively staffed by the most evil, malicious, or lazy bastards alive
Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
Seems Trump might be trying an end-run in which Texas mobilizes its National Guard. That would be Texas invading Illinois, which as you can imagine is unconstitutional. One wonders about potential remedies, such as IL seizing assets of TX corporations like X, xAI, and SpaceX. Just a thought. 🤔
Apologies! You have reached the end of your free trial period of America
steve's obviously right here but intellectually the idea that you could stay a ruling finding the deployment of troops against US citizens illegal is just unhinged
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
“I think that what is happening now politically and socially is analogous to what happened around the world in the 1930-40 period,” the founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, has told the Financial Times. https://cnn.it/460e7wl
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...
Congrats on your regime propaganda, ABC News.
Had to look that up. Good Lord, what an insane law. Protecting the government's ability to lie and slander seems like it should be unconstitutional.
NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldn’t back Trump’s lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire — a lie 🇺🇸 media has let him get away with with even as India’s media has openly mocked him for it. Video: x.com/thetnholler/...
"That is not dead which can eternal lie/ And with strange aeons even death may die"
It does, but I was really hoping for 18-20-ish. I want a result that yells "fire" in a crowded theater.
Folks I’m sorry but they’re not going to let Trump die. Stephen Miller will commune with his thoughts in the Warp
Peter Thiel has a signed contract for that, good sir! First in time, first in right!
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"
Vance is dead inside, does that count?
It's pretty in line with Trump's popularity? So, if it's legit, then this is a straight up proxy contest. Not sure I believe it, but my prior for Virginia is a significant dem over performance given... everything.
The Miyares number is the interesting one. That's the race they think they have a real chance in.
Donald Trump went to his golf course because that's what he thought "stroke recovery" meant.
Vaxxed?
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...
Boo! Boo this man!
Fall On Me is the correct answer! (I would also accept 'Don't Go Back to Rockville,' but that's clearly a personal quirk).
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
I agree that the Kremlinology is funny as hell - and that fact explains most of the phenomenon - but how badly the White House is reacting to the speculation is the other half of the story. And maybe that's more noteworthy.
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
A tension in President Trump's deportation agenda; an aporia in his deportation agenda; a dispositif; an antimony; a fissure; a lacuna; a topos; a symptom; an alterity; a noème; an actually you know what, headlines about reckless deportations are no place for pretending you are in a Theory seminar.
As with EMAILS etc., the reason we were so skeptical of all the wagon-circling & angry retorts that we didn't understand journalists' professional obligations to cover Joe Biden's age & mental/physical acuity 24/7 is that the devotion to those obligations had the shelf life of Liz Truss' lettuce.
Is that what I said? But Blair understood politics enough to know that "coopt your opponents' crappiest positions in order to alienate your own followers" is not a winning strategy.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
Having Corbyn followed by Starmer, you have to start to consider the party's problems may run deeper than the leadership. Whatever you think of Blair, he would have driven Reform into the sea long ago.
This is a tactical, as well as moral, error. Musk is spectacularly unpopular in the UK. There's a chance to take the patriotic high-ground, calling out foreign billionaires stoking up violence in Britain, without being seen to dismiss "ordinary people". And you can challenge Reform to back you.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
She was arrested on the morning of Feb. 20 at her home in Charlotte while caring for her three younger siblings — the youngest of whom has autism — while her mother was at work.
He’s pining for the fjords.
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.
UPDATE: DOJ says it expects that the children will be returned to ORR by 10:30 pm. The report also offers some clarity on how many children were loaded on planes (76, purportedly). (But the putative class isn't limited to those put on planes today -- plaintiffs estimate # in the hundreds)
Remember when Biden was working on National Plan to End Parkinson's bill, and was consulting with experts, and NYT ran this hit piece?
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...
The Louvre of Bluesky, but for good posts
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
so you're admitting he disappeared
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
UPDATE: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, says that "all of the class members that were on planes today have been deplaned and are in the process of being returned to ORR custody." He add that he didn't file by 4 p.m. because he wasn't aware of the court's order setting that deadline.
Waukesha has made some dizzying swings in my lifetime. The school district there has been a piñata.
LOL. Trump is a total monkey's paw situation for drillers.
wow
At Union Station, veterans play a speech from General Mark Milley warning soldiers of the threat that President Trump poses.
The real question is why Joe Biden isn't posting round-the-clock videos of him jogging, biking and doing one-armed pushups while holding today's Washington Post.
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).
Can we stop to talk about how remarkable the timing was? Compliant at 1am, Judge engaged at 2am, ex parte call to the Government at 2:30am (they did not answer), TRO at 4am? On a Sunday of a holiday weekend?!
A federal judge in D.C. now says DOJ has missed its deadline -- by an hour-and-a-half -- for confirming that it has removed unaccompanied children it planned to deport from the aircraft that were to carry them to Guatemala. The judge also ordered DOJ to explain why it missed the deadline.
Annnnd the blood test results say what???
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
does Drew Ensign go home to his wife every night and say “hi honey, I had a great day lying to the court so that the US government could murder children”? I mean how exactly do you even begin to live with yourself
As Marco Rubio shuts down USAID, CNN find clips and a letter of him praising USAID
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Judge: I will look forward to the govt's status report, hopefully today, that all the children have been removed from the planes and returned to ORR custody. I want to take a moment to thank my courtroom staff, who I called at 2:30 a.m., who have been working on Labor Day wknd, and my law clerks
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
We're back! Judge: All right, Mr. Ensign, do you have an update for me? DOJ: Yes, I've spoken with HHS and confirmed that plan is to deplane the children and return them to ORR custody during TRO Judge: OK. Will you file a status report on the docket to confirm when that's happened? DOJ: Yes
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
ICE raided a DC high school football game. ICE RAIDED A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME.
Jonathan Howard received an email from YouTube, which stated that Vinay Prasad, who is the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, had demanded the removal of six videos of himself from Howard’s YouTube channel. Howard’s entire channel has now been deleted by YouTube, which cited copyright infringement.
The truly weird thing about MAGA propagandists is how they toggle between “Under Trump America is the strongest it’s ever been!!” and “If this one thing changes America is ruined!!” www.axios.com/2025/08/31/t...
Boston is the safest city in the United States. All this is gonna do is makes Bostonians less safe and less free. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
I see your Gulf of Tonkin and raise you Disko Bay.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Support for novel pediatric cancer therapies is cut. The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium focuses on testing the efficacy of novel treatments. It was established in 1999 by the National Cancer Institute, part of the NIH. We wont know what potential is lost. 🧪 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
APOLLO: “.. Will We See a Repeat of 2021 and the 1970s? .. There is upside pressure on inflation and inflation expectations .. The risks are rising that we could see another ‘inflation mountain’ emerge over the coming months.”
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
yes they were fucking firefighters. this is equivalent to saying that the quartermaster branch of the Army aren't really soldiers because they aren't actively shooting at the enemy. see how far your army gets without food, water, fuel, and ammo.
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