đ¨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Earlier this week a paper dramatically reduced the realistic potential for forest carbon storage. Now another downgrades the capacity of geological storage. Emissions reductions are the only effective climate action.
Rep Jim McGovern rips House GOP for helping Trump cover up Epstein files: "They think they work for him. They donât think they work for the American people. It's pathetic...these survivors deserve better and weâre going to keep fighting." Much more from him on pod: newrepublic.com/article/1999...
this has to be main takeaway from the last decade if we survive. there is no such thing as serious, ideologically coherent âconservatismâ and no one should treat it as a cogent set of beliefs. itâs just a loose collection of grievances and demands. they have the temperament of single cell organisms
Statement tonight from Alan Garber, 31st president of Harvard. Good for him. Good for Harvard. Good for standing up to defend "core values of American higher education." And (again) what about all those "Harvard about to cave" stories? Main point: Worth reading what Garber says.
Me: As a criminal defense attorney, I believe that our thirst for vengeance and punishment must be carefully restrained by rules, process, and most of all mercy. Also me: That bearded twat at the Mets game who sole the older guyâs foul ball should definitely have his life completely ruined.
This is why I strongly prefer de-documentation to de-legalization for this phenomenon. Bc, for reasons that are complicated (the complication is part of the story), TPS isnât legal status. But itâs a document. And that matters a whole lot for many peopleâs assessment bc theyâre trying to comply.
Big caveat here: The idea that the boat that the US blew up was smuggling migrants relies on the Trump admin's assertion that there were 11 people aboard (too many for a drug run)âwhich we have no evidence for
Thinking about this moment ahead of RFK Jr's Senate hearing tomorrow.
oh they know they committed actual, legal, can't-even-cover-this-with-the-2001-AUMF murder, huh
Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
Not sure whatâs most alarming fact, that the administration doesnât appear to know what the boat it blew up was carrying or where it was headed, that they havenât identified a legal authority for the action, or that itâs the first in a series of planned attacks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Daskalakis: There is a program called Vaccines for Children. It is the safety-net program that gets vaccines to kids. Over 50% of kids in the U.S. get their vaccines through this. If the ACIP says this vaccine should not be given to six-month-olds through 12-year-olds, the VFC wonât buy it
Prominent far-right influencers have been attempting to rehabilitate Hitler's reputation. That's not an exaggeration; it's easily documented. I wrote about why they are doing this, what they hope to gain, and what it means for America.
The Trump administration plans to cancel permits for a wind energy project off the coast of Massachusetts that would initially power some 400,000 homes, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
Chat, should we give media synthesis machines whose training data with respect to military and geopolitical narratives include a broad sample of 20th and 21st century fiction control of our weapons systems?
It's cool how any trending cultural debate online is portrayed as the ipso facto platform of the Democratic Party meanwhile here's the Vice President's favorite author
![On the one hand, Yarvin says, you have âmodernâ Americans who flourish in a society that gives them control over the direction of their own lives. On the other hand, you have âpre-modernâ Americans who âcannot take care of themselves in a civilized society.â He picks, as an example of the latter, âa gangbanger in Baltimoreâ â and proceeds to propose a flagrantly illegal scheme for putting their entire life under control of a local church: You are going to get your welfare check from your minister. And you are part of that community. You donât pay taxes â basically, your relationship with the state is intermediated through your church. Your minister can drug test you, he can assign you work, he can put an AirTag on you, he can tell you where to go [and] where not to go.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlmouohgzbjofidukcp4pxf2/bafkreidsokln7at7xlxdvvrsvyshdxcjptejivsa467rkhfnasti74f6hy@jpeg "Click to view full size")
This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how OrbĂĄn took over the free press in Hungary
Billionaire nepo baby and billionaire suck-up sure to create a real shit-kicking anti-establishment movement.
This is a fascinating story: SEGM commissioned systematic reviews on gender affirming care, claimed they showed care should be banned, so the authors have released this statement saying their research is being misused and that it is unconscionable to ban gender affirming care:
Will "The Paper" end up better than "The Office" or "Parks and Rec"? Doubtful! But through one season, Peacko's spinoff is more consistent and amusing than the first season of either of those shows. It's got premise flaws, but the cast is superb. My review:
The Harvard, Posse Comitatus and AEA rulings arenât the only big ones the Trump administration has lost in recent days. At The UnPopulist I tell how a Trump-appointed judge slapped down Pam Bondiâs move to intimidate the federal bench on deportations by suing every Maryland federal judge personally.
Really, he should be made president for life. With a succession guaranteed to his oldest son. I have long said that Republicans yearn to be subjects. They're finally admitting it.
This used to be taught in law schools: that courts have no enforcement power, and rely entirely on trust, which must therefore NOT be squandered. As a law school faculty brat, it was in the air I breathed, and I wasn't even in law school! How the Reps on SCOTUS came to forget it is a mystery.
Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."
This is bad but I also want everyone to know that from 2018-2021 the POLITICAL DIRECTOR of CBS News was a person who had no journalism experience and who prior to joining CBS as a comms director for Face the Nation had only ever had experience working for Marco Rubio, Rob Portman and Tim Pawlenty.
seriously, there is no evidence whatsoever that Weiss is capable of writing a news story, much less running a news organization. the actual quality of the writing at The Free Press is barely a notch above AI slop.
Yup. An appeals court affirmed what we already knew: invoking the Alien Enemies Act during peacetime is unlawful, unprecedented, and unacceptable.
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when thereâs an emergency in Texas
@kenwhite.bsky.social - is it a good sign when the District Courts and other Supreme Court Justices are now regularly referring to the Supreme Court's decisions as Calvinball? Harvard v. HHS, DoJ, etc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
With alt text. This is absolutely judicial speak for âget your shit together, SCOTUSâ.
That's not authority. Also, they're not terrorists, literal or otherwise, other than in the Dumb Person sense of terrorist = bad. Drug dealers do not tend to be ideology driven. Nobody is smuggling coke to take down capitalism.
once again I am asking people to correctly answer the question "who was President in 2020"
"All Americans have equal rights" is a concept so foreign to today's Republican Party that they think a Democrat saying as much is a major gaffe.
Amazing, unusually direct rebuke to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh from Judge Burroughs. She is, of course, entirely correct.
Yeah much of these fights are less about a new âaskâ of society or govt and more that a previously oppressed segment of society finally reached some level of safety & success that triggers some sort of latent bigotry alarm
I wonder if Oura is cooked, tbh. They were already getting backlash for their subscription model and how there were competitiors that did the same thing for lower cost. But the main reason I see people use them is to track their cycles and nobody wants the risk of DoD getting that info.
BREAKING: A federal judge reverses the Trump administration's cut of billions of dollars to Harvard University.
Extremely troubling news...that they acknowledge in the eighth paragraph was reported first by @missouriindependent.com yesterday: missouriindependent.com/2025/09/02/t...
But on that issue, Matt is not doing what he did on housing. And he is actively, repeatedly discouraging *others* from trying to do what he did on housing. On this issue, apparently, political wisdom is not "be heterodox, history will approve!" It's "move toward extant public opinion."
Even though I agree with the @brianbeutler.bsky.social take that Schumer should stand down on this one, this is also true:
District and appellate courts, I think fairly, keep asking the Supreme Court to clarify what they actually meanâi.e. "If the new rule is that the Trump admin can never lose then you have to say that" and the Supreme Court keeps being like "No, you're supposed to just do it without us having to say."
what forever remains our best hope with Trump is that at the end of the day all he wants is the PR hit and he does not have the dedication many of his current staff do to this stuff. Pick them off if you can and you help neuter this stuff
This is going to turn into another way that R politicians show they love Trump now right? Like, please mr president send your extra special soliders to our city and we will claim it solved all our problems
If you have "a great governor who wants us to come in," why isn't that governor just ... calling out his own National Guard?
"I used to be easily intimidated into supporting bad things, but not anymore!" says man as he embraces an ascendent hatred stoked by the leaders of the world's most powerful government
Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared at a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, advocating for legislation to compel the Justice Department to release more documents related to its investigation.
They're going to try to ruin the lives of the cops who fought the rioters to make sure no cops fight the rioters next time
most people aren't actually against bubbles/echo chambers. They're against ones where they don't set the rules
They're going to put him in an escape room that's just a teen's bedroom and tell him he's gotta find the drugs
This guy went to Yale Law School?
These guys wanted to live in a cushy elite world where Left vs Right really didn't matter for them, and now they can't and they're pissed
I think this explains people jumping ship on Trans support & the media's clear desire to have a conservative audience. But again, they attack and blame liberals for a problem that originated in the right. But you can only kick the dog that's in your house, whether it's the one that bit you or not
One things that the Rs lurch to the right demanded rejection of a lot of trusted institutions to build their media bubbles, especially around areas of education, which forced a lot of people, especially in Media and Pop-Academia to feel a sense of audience capture and grow resentful
yeah if people are telling you they feel robbed. Maybe one side should actually be honest about who the robbers might be and I think it's okay if we're on that side vs the one deflecting blame to others so they can keep up their own robbing
This is also what happened in DC you guys, seriously, letâs learn the playbook www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/immigra...
We have *never* seen career civil servants willing to put their names and faces to things like this until now, in RFKâs case. Trumpist would say this is the dying spasms of the deep state, but again, this has *never* happened.
NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz. -230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles -30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs -agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m. -new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones
Excess deaths are also down! ourworldindata.org/grapher/exce...
the two americas
So the US military is now at war with a vaguely defined enemy (drug cartels) across a vast area (the Caribbean) with no specific goal (âwinningâ and âdefeating themâ) and accusing a regional government (Venezuela) of sponsoring that vague enemy without showing proof? Sounds pretty forever warish.
Itâs a non-negligible part of the geopolitics (and technopolitics) of our present moment that world leaders and billionaires are all convinced they are going to get the shot at becoming immortal in their lifetimes
Chicago: your Jewel just got the new COVID vaccines in stock, my immunocompromised partner got one this afternoon, it took no time at all, it was very easy
the reason the mainstream media holds up a fake version of the trump administration that's making good faith efforts to address crime or boost manufacturing or whatever is because telling the truth about how people like loomer have power there would be toxically damaging to trump
The disruption from Aguilar and others got Chairman Risch so pissy that he had to take a break in the hearing.
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.
Monstrous.
Good morning to the attorneys for TimothĂŠe Chalamet, Chappell Roan and Patrick Mahomes www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @nitasha.bsky.social
One thing is that in order for public health to really work you can't have a lot of nuance. Vaccines=Good (you than need a strong science community/medication approval process to ensure safety) Once you start saying well maybe just this one you disrupt the message completely & it trickles down
Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
This is how you get the use of Nuclear Weapons. They are full The Ends Justify ANY Means if it's something they want to do and since they believe that might makes right they will also be fine with more and more aggression
There are a lot of things that could be stopped by blowing them up, but that doesnât make it legal to do so.
This will, obviously and straightforwardly, impair the ability of the organization to do its job. As such, it is a good representation of the effects of the Trump admin on public services: they will undermine state capacity to pursue their pet hates.
I grant that the authoritarian assault on the Fed is an unprecedented crisis, but I can't help but wonder if we'd be in a different place had our most prominent public economist not worked tirelessly to undermine the reputation & credibility of the Fed & its Chair for Biden's entire presidency... đ¤
ay @rokhanna.bsky.social @khanna.house.gov what's going on here? Why are you defending a man who called for physical violence against transwomen? Why are you comparing a man advocating real-world violence against queer folks to a queer man who was victimized for his queerness?
I thought the whole premise of the occupation was supposed to be that something was, in fact, on fire
Vaccinations, mail, and libraries are three of the greatest human inventions.
SCARBOROUGH: We do Republicans keep promising to release these files and then keep releasing the same things and making fools of their followers? REP. ROBERT GARCIA: Because there is a massive White House coverup going on right now
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold sex ed $ from states that won't strike "gender ideology" from their curriculums reason.com/2025/09/03/s...
All the stuff around dooms Day/secret wars reminds me of the later seasons of game of thrones where it seems like they show runners were more interested in the logistics of putting on a show like this and loved to talk about how they made it happen & the story was 2nd. All focus is on logistics
lol. Gunn has a script done already and two Avengers movies, scriptless, in production.
More than 10 survivors today, some Republicans, spoke out today. Minutes later, Trump repeats this horrible lie that even some of his supporters donât believe.
If this was 2021 and this was an Epstein survivor saying Epstein had an eight by ten framed picture with Biden on his desk it would be on a loop on Fox, the only story that the Times was covering, and Alex Jones would be having a cardiac arrest on his livestream. But...
it's pretty fucked up when you see the evidence all presented in a row tbh bsky.app/profile/chri...
Cringy!
I think just the emergence of Neurotypical as a movement that seems to be the most "individualized" version of advocacy that I think we've seen around awareness raising in a while has been a fascinating angle of all of this as well.
I know I say this almost every day but I truly, truly do not understand the authoritarian personality. I genuinely can not imagine acting like a sniveling apparatchik like this in public and then looking at myself in the mirror at night. What goes on in their heads? Why are they like this?
AOC: If anybody says âthis isnât fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congressâ maybe you should stay home.
Hanif Abdurraqib has curated an extraordinary collection showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports. We're honored to announce this year's featured writers! Pre-order The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025 today: buff.ly/7gs9meT
Sen. Mark Warner, a top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, arranged a routine visit to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegsethâs office canceled it after posts by far-right activist Laura Loomer.
I would get all my halloween and christmas decorations from like Pottery Barn or Williams Sonoma or something. My Capitalists Dreams are small but they are mighty
Buying the Baltimore Sun back from the ghoul who bought it and restoring it to glory
Thereâs a woman who sits in front of the Heritage Foundation with a sign that reads âHeritage = Nazisâ and just blows a whistle at every staffer who leaves the building, and I love it and love her for doing it.
literally just handing Mamdani and any other Dem that is brave enough to run with it the proof that Billionaires and power hungry suck ups will all only look after each other and it's up to the rest of us to remind them they're not that fucking special
If Chicago succeeds in scaring him off just from some basic chest thumping it's going to have to be crowned the best city and sorry I don't make the rules. Ran his ass off in 2016 and did it again in 2025
A) If there were an actual emergency, one wouldn't be in the position of just picking and choosing. B) While there are serious federalism problems with invading a state without the consent of its government, there are other kinds of problems with governors inviting invasion cities in their states..
One thing we don't talk about enough IMO is how Elon Musk came to DC, destroyed foreign aid, and then oopsied back to his little companies. An estimated 450,000 people have already died because of this!
Rich parents with sense are going to send their kids to schools that mandate vaccination. Public school kids aren't going to get that option.
There is a very very interesting paper/analysis to be written about the Taylor Swift-Sidney Sweeney-Sabrina Carpenter Blonde Trifecta and how the White Right and the White Left claims or rejects them