In his assault on liberal American values and institutions, Trump is claiming the powers of a wartime president against a fragmented opposition bound by the traditional rules of political engagement.
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In his assault on liberal American values and institutions, Trump is claiming the powers of a wartime president against a fragmented opposition bound by the traditional rules of political engagement.
Trump’s First 100 Days: Creating an Imperial Presidency That Harms Americans President Donald Trump is smashing constitutional and legal guardrails to build an authoritarian presidency that cements his political power and ultimately harms Americans.
Not so long ago, there seemed to be a growing understanding in this country that a justice system that trades in cash for freedom benefits no one. Editorial boards, celebrities and lawmakers rallied behind bail reform. States including NY, NJ and IL rewrote their laws...
We studied how Elon Musk shifts Grok’s politics to mirror his own. Sometimes it works, like when Grok changed overnight from saying disinformation was the worst threat to humanity to claiming it was birth rate decline instead. Other times, Grok is harder to influence: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
25% of Texas districts are using Bible-heavy reading lessons in public elementary schools The new state-sanctioned, Christianity-infused Bluebonnet curriculum is being used in over 300 of the state's 1,207 districts
JFC. Mind blowing stupidity.
More Americans died of COVID during the pandemic than the total number of deaths from opioids in the 21st century
"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth &content ourselves instead with stories?" -Chernobyl
Did we figure out WTF this was??
New Jersey town sues mall for ignoring Blue Laws and selling merch on Sundays Paramus is suing the nation’s second-largest mall, American Dream, for keeping its stores open on the Sabbath
Trump Threat to Occupy Cities Takes Ominous Turn in Vile Fox News Hit As the GOP rallies behind Trump’s vow to send the military into more blue areas, a media observer explains how the press is botching the politics of the story—and why that’s making Dems reluctant to take it on.
Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.
From the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianism
A former president held accountable for conspiring to overturn an election & attempting a coup: imagine they. Accountability for corruption is the only way to restore public & global trust in US government, & it’s sadly safe to say we’re nowhere near that at the moment.
HUGE: "Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. ... In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act." Working link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“… there was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protests and enforce the law.” news.bloomberglaw.com/california-b...
Eels just ARE.
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Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
Excellent.
"We are retaining some features for premium users. Want rule of law? That’s premium. The right to run your company without government interference? That’s a paid feature now. An explanation from the Supreme Court as to why it just ruled against you? Maybe!"
Trump Takes $81 Million In Sex Ed Funding Hostage Over “Gender Ideology” Youth populations could see an increase in STI rates, unwanted pregnancies, and relationship violence due to Trump’s anti-trans sex education scheme.
Over the last two weeks, a war has broken out in Florida over Pride crosswalks. At the center is the Pulse Memorial Crosswalk, painted in rainbow colors to honor the lives lost in the 2016 Pulse massacre but since painted over by the anti-LGBTQ+ state authorities.
YOU CAN’T ERASE US #PulseCrosswalk #FloridaUnited #LoveThyNeighbor
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
National Nurses United Called For Firing Or Resignation Of RFK Jr "RFK Jr's tenure at HHS has been one disaster after another, dangerously eroding public trust in the institutions critical for the health and safety of all Americans. Time for him to go.” www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
A ballot measure in Maine that would add new restrictions on mail voting would have an outsize effect in this state, where the average age is the highest of any state in the country and there is a high incidence of disability.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Lorelei Cloud was born 3 years before Native Americans living on tribal lands in Colorado were guaranteed the right to vote. She is now vice chair of the Southern Ute Tribe. “I don’t want future generations to have to deal with any of what we’ve had to.”
Pure distillation of Trump's view that positive-sum trade is literally impossible—buying = losing & selling = winning, automatically But also a good view into the inconsistencies of his trade "demands". He's mad at India for its tariffs, but even zeroing them wouldn't be enough?
Greetings! A sizable crowd is here outside of Metro Detention Center. They marched from LA City Hall. The gates were closed as they approached. Lots of banging on the fence.
The GOP is using incarceration as the means to bring back slavery. That’s why they oppose this so vehemently despite its well-documented counter-productivity
how Mitchell describes the prior system that Trump wants to bring back: "You had Black folks being cycled through in shackles. You had prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges speaking really quickly. We had people haggling about money. And again, the hearings would last about a minute."
Trump has fired actual statisticians, and now the White House feels free to just completely make up numbers.
How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps.
Teenage clicks: how child photographer Stephen Shore turned everyday New York moments into magic Before he found fame at 17 photographing Andy Warhol’s Factory, Shore roamed the city with his camera. He talks about the joy of those early 60s pictures – and why they never made him rich
It is a tad exaggerated, but the trend is there, no doubt.
Innovation makes useful things smaller and smaller. Overconsumption makes things bigger and bigger (and more dangerous with bigger costs & consequences). Bigger vehicles and larger homes for fewer people is not progress. HT @fietsprofessor for graphic
I often marvel at the fact that American patriots put an INSURRECTION CLAUSE into the US Constitution in 1868, and then we all just let a corrupt, packed Supreme Court pretend it didn't apply to an insurrectionist candidate for President. We did a bad job making noise about this.
I will never understand why more people aren't disgusted by the rightwing's obsession with children's genitals. It's creepy. It's weird. It's disturbing. It's the kind of political stance that should make a party anathema to any voter who isn't pro-pedophilia.
The first quarter moon thru my telescope right now 🌓
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Over the last two weeks, a war has broken out in Florida over Pride crosswalks. At the center is the Pulse Memorial Crosswalk, painted in rainbow colors to honor the lives lost in the 2016 Pulse massacre but since painted over by the anti-LGBTQ+ state authorities.
This Labor Day, while politicians & legacy media marvel over how great the Stock Market is doing, I want to provide a clearer lens on the actual state of the economy, what working people are suffering through every day, and how to ensure we better protect economic justice in America.
LA, SF, blue states are the safest, healthiest, and subsidize the welfare states: "Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians Texans 34% more likely to be raped earn 13% less and pay 3.8% more in taxes" (overall) "Germans call this "a permanent bailout." We just call it "Missouri."
Since this is doing numbers, why not listen to a podcast I made about "natives", "migrants" and British identity. Includes druids, geneticists, and a great deal of stuff that will piss off coked up knuckledragging fascists who think they're the only true Englishmen www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/int...
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.
What the fuck is going on man this is insane shit. Is he taking a rocket to go live on the moon or something. Is that the Tuesday announcement
“Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream—that if you work hard, you will get ahead—no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys.”
They like Trump and are trying to help him
Way to rise up San Diego Labor Day ✊
a society that wants to keep functioning has to disincentivize baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
In case you were looking for this tonight … How The 25th Amendment Actually Works — And What Nobody's Ever Figured Out www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chri...
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Elon is quoting Nazis again
I just backed Mr. Unpronounceable Omnibus on @kickstarter.com
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Mormon columnist who preached "traditional values" busted for alleged child exploitation For 25 years, Joseph Brent Walker wrote about upholding old-fashioned values. Police say he used a Braveheart alias to do the opposite.
Trump’s VA Union Busting Is Another Step Toward Privatizing Veteran Care The Department of Veterans Affairs is celebrating Labor Day by cutting off its nose to spite its workforce
“They Will Attack Every Organized Worker in America” Talking to the head of America’s largest union of federal workers about Trump’s assault on his members and all of labor.
Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of American Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it to enslaved Black people.
Su: The BLS collects statistical information — things like the nation’s inflation rate, the unemployment rate, the number of jobs created, which industries are growing, and which are contracting. And on every one of those fronts, Trump is failing.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
From my latest: Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Do State Referendums on Abortion Work? Missouri voters approved a measure to protect abortion rights, but opponents have repeatedly blocked it from taking effect.
Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights The president, who has targeted collective bargaining contracts for nearly one million government employees, has said their functions touch on national security.
Graham Greene was born on June 22, 1952 in Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for The Green Mile (1999), Wind River (2017) and Dances with Wolves (1990). He was married to Hilary Blackmore. He died on September 1, 2025 in Toronto, Canada.
Aw, dammit. Was just watching him on Reservation Dogs again. Love him.
A Labor Day Lesson Plan: Teach High-Schoolers About Workplace Rights Some states teach high-schoolers financial literacy. Why not teach them about their rights as workers?
"I don't think he's coping well."
been thinking about this passage from Almodovar’s memoir a lot since I read it last year, no particular reason
Ever since we gave him the vaccine my dog has been non-verbal
The Mysterious Cover Artist Who Captured the Decline of the Rich Mary Petty was reclusive, uncompromising, but she peered into a fading world with unmatched warmth and brilliance. By Chris Ware
Seriously. It's disturbing to think anyone could.
Hundreds of ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Labor Day rallies take place across US Protests denounce Trump administration’s policies and demand freedom, fairness and security for workers
"To me, there are six clear reasons we should be talking about this more than we are and why the press corps should be digging more deeply and more seriously around this topic." — @vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff on the health of the current president. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Dismissed?? A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population
Crime Crackdown in D.C. Shows Trump Administration’s Uneasy Relationship With Guns If President Trump’s actions were intended to drive a law-and-order wedge between Democratic big-city leaders and their constituents, it has also exposed a division in his own coalition.
Excellent NYT story ruined by one subhead and one paragraph. No, red-state governors are not going to "rethink" putting their National Guardsmen on their own streets if it brings down crime. As one expert explained, "It’s designed to humiliate political opponents." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
100%
We always checked the police blotter to see which of our friends got picked up for public urination the night before.
Yeah here, this is my current Powerball fantasy bsky.app/profile/jonw...
#LaborDay
None of these people were tipped, and this is going to make home ownership an ever more noxious proposition, subject to continual shakedowns.
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.
Labor Day. I thought of these lines, from Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias”, as I contemplated the poster of Donald Trump that now decorate the Department of Labor in Washington, DC. I thought of labors of creation, and of destruction.
Trump wants us to stop focusing on the bad parts of slavery. Wrote about how we tend not to focus on one of the worst parts—sweeping, horrific sexual violence. Christofascist patriarchs don’t want to talk about that, for obvious reasons. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/slavery-wa...
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
"It isn’t that many more Americans wouldn’t like to belong to unions if they could —they don’t have the chance. That decline in union membership is no accident." By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in PN: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labo...
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.
Legendary Ukrainian animation and graphic artist Radna Sakhaltuiev has died at 90. 🧵 1/4 ⬇️
They're awful. These supposed "pastors" preaching this hate, and people are listening.
This is why I found it so funny the ivys and snob schools rolled over so fast and got double fucked for doing it. These are the same people getting duped putting 50 grand in a shoebox. Rich and priveleged Americans are the easiest people to scam and bully because they've never deal with it before.
one way to understand why very rich people so often go mad is to realize they have long been surrounded by the kind of persuasive but truth-indifferent sycophantic affirmers that OpenAI and its peers have only recently made accessible to the rest of us.
Smiles and Clasped Hands as Xi, Putin and Modi Try to Signal Unity Their display of friendship in China was aimed at projecting an alternative to U.S. global leadership, even as serious differences among them remain.
Trump to Coal Miners: Drop Dead The administration keeps delaying a life-saving safety rule—while claiming to love coal miners.
“There Are No Illegal Strikes—Only Unsuccessful Ones”: A Conversation With Sara Nelson The international president of the Association of Flight Attendants explains how labor solidarity can “set the agenda and make things better.”
'Just A Bunch Of Holes': Elijah Schaffer And Joel Webbon Share Their Thoughts On Women
Amid a Wave of Mass Shootings, Florida Cracks Down on Chalk Arrests in Orlando are the latest escalation in Republicans’ war on rainbow crosswalks.