Trump on moving Space Force base from Colorado: "The problem I have with Colorado -- they do mail in voting. They went to all mail in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections. And we can't have that."
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Trump on moving Space Force base from Colorado: "The problem I have with Colorado -- they do mail in voting. They went to all mail in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections. And we can't have that."
I wish we could have seen “care about the location of Space Command” polling before and after yesterday. I’m guessing it would have gone from about 1% to about 60% overnight.
Loudest applause from a bunch of people whose ancestors were not considered white
Believing in the ideology of this guy (or JD Vance) basically requires believing that Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson were wrong, and I think they are significantly underestimating how difficult it will be to get Americans to think that!
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
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Ketanji Brown Jackson is who you thought Sonia Sotomayor was. Sonia Sotomayor is who you thought Ruth Bader Ginsburg was. JB Pritzker is who you thought Gavin Newsom was.
🚨 #NEWYORK: Holy crap. I had estimated that a whopping 64% of the total population of #NY15 was enrolled in Medicaid. It turns out I was wrong: It's actually over *70%.* Gov Hochul joins Rep. Torres to warn of crippling impact of GOP's #BigUglyBill: acasignups.net/25/09/02/new...
the democratic party's bias to normalcy is gonna kill us off. the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
We should not be arresting our unhoused neighbors. What we're witnessing on our streets is cruel, counterproductive, and unacceptable. Federal agents should not be patrolling our streets, terrifying our residents, and taking people away. The federal surge needs to end.
The Pentagon appointing 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges has a real "Volksgerichtshof and Sondergerichte" feel to it.
Thank you @nadler.house.gov for representing me and my family in Congress so ably for so many years. You have a great legacy, and I hope you can convince @schumer.senate.gov he can best protect your and his legacies by following your example before the 2026 midterms. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Good for Jerry making this an open race, as he could have orchestrated a special election where he effectively hand picked his successor www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
There are 450,000 #Indian Americans in #Texas (why is beyond me), including at least 120,000 #Hindus and 313,000 #Muslims. And yeah, I'd definitely not be forced into saying the Christian lord's prayer in school [my school had Bible study as an optional extracurricular, which I did not partake in]
Thank you @nadler.house.gov for representing me and my family in Congress so ably for so many years. You have a great legacy, and I hope you can convince @schumer.senate.gov he can best protect your and his legacies by following your example before the 2026 midterms. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
@labonnelab.bsky.social correctly links the battle for science and expertise with the battle for democracy, citing what happened in Hungary as a potent warning: 🧪 "The fight for science and universities is, at its core, a fight for democracy itself. Lose one, and you will lose the other."
"maybe we can find common ground" please resign and let someone who actually opposes fascism do the job
She should be saying that and more then directly to a camera and over and over again. The idea that fascism is going to be going away on it's own, well it's just not how that works at all.
Reading through her memorandum, I get the impression that this is more or less an acceptance that the situation is beyond her ability to control, and this is all she can do to deal with it until Trump grows bored with the power play and wanders off.
Two things can be — and are — true here: Bowser is not the champion DC needs in this moment, and The Washington Post has become a Trump rag. A newspaper that actually cared about the city in its name would not publish such an inflammatory, bullshit headline.
Agree on all of these points. (As someone who has admired a lot of what Mayor Bowser has done, and who has subscribed to the WaPo forever.)
The LWV, deploring the move, says it's been offering voter registration at naturalization ceremonies "for decades." While CIS will still allow state and local election agencies to offer registration after ceremonies, LWV says those agencies often lack capacity and are grateful for the help. /2, end
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
WTF? This is part of the ceremony of citizenship. These people aren’t against illegal immigration, they’re against legal immigration as well, and always have been.
Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq
Hypothetically, could Pritzker call up the Illinois national guard to defend the state against the Texans send in by the federal government? Or ask, say, New York, to send guardsmen to his aid? When does it become civil war?
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.
"Husband wins Ohio lottery scratch-off, plans to cover wife's cancer treatment" The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare. No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment. www.freep.com/story/money/...
When you get power you have a limited window to do stuff and to persuade people to trust you with power. Offering a pale imitation of your opponents does neither.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
This is AI2ES, my AI institute. No way around it other than to say this is really awful. We are doing so many amazing things! We want to keep doing amazing things but without this level of funding, we will not be able to do so.
This is so weird. This administration seems so gung-ho on AI, yet they're destroying an AI institute. Also, note, these aren't LLMs. Analytical AI is very different than generative AI. Things like weather are a really good use case for machine learning, because they're so non-linear.
The House bill, as currently written, would codify the withholding of funds to Harvard, Northwestern, and other institutions on grounds related to antisemitism, critical race theory, and DEI programs.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
I’m not even sure what he’s doing at this point, but one state cannot invade another and that is what this would be if he’s using 502(f). That would be Texas invading Illinois.
These problems are even bigger. As a constitutional matter, the deployment of unfederalized Guard personnel into a nonconsenting state can never happen. Never.
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
for fuck's sake he is invading our cities. why the fuck do you keep talking about finding common ground?! he wants to kill us!
Mobilize the Illinois National Guard and have them all arrested
Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
Pritzker is doing two things here that are smart. One, he's describing this forcefully and unapologetically and in his own terms, not adopting the Admin/media frame. Two, he's making clear that he will blame the Admin for any violence or disorder sparked by their invasion of his state.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Is sending up fighter jets to respond to a press conference by your dead best friend's sex trafficking victims considered weird or not weird these days. I've lost track.
Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.
Referring to Zohran as a Trojan Horse is what? Red baiting? Islamophobia? Anyway, Goodby forever Jim. We may not remember you, but someday we may recall that twinge of discomfort you once inspired. Now you'll have more time for your true passion- combatting bike lanes!
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
wrote about the Republicans on the Supreme Court giving Big Balls and the other DOGE youths the homie hookup to your Social Security Number ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/big-b...
If your city has a Black mayor prepare to face an invasion from the military before the end of the year
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
Judge: cancelling these grants approved by Congress violates the constitution 5th Circuit: ah, too bad, you did not go to the right court so the constitutional violations have to go ahead
Requirements: Candidate cannot publicly acknowledge democracy is under threat.
Vance's inability to command Trump's loyalty is why I fear Vance's ambition so much. He'd be much better at working coercion into every detail of our lives.
"DNC-loyal influencers" as the dominant group on Bluesky is genuinely hilarious
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
Yes Bluesky is famously welcoming to DNC influencers
Arithmetic, but not as you know it🤦♂️
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Thank you @nadler.house.gov for representing me and my family in Congress so ably for so many years. You have a great legacy, and I hope you can convince @schumer.senate.gov he can best protect your and his legacies by following your example before the 2026 midterms.
Thank you @nadler.house.gov for representing me and my family in Congress so ably for so many years. You have a great legacy, and I hope you can convince @schumer.senate.gov he can best protect your and his legacies by following your example before the 2026 midterms. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Democratic officials of a certain age: Follow Rep. Nadler’s example. He is a legend. And now he’s doing what’s right for the nation and the party, leaving at the top of his game, letting younger members lead.
If history is any guide, there’s no place to go but UP, baby!
He doesn’t have the power to do this, the name is established by law. But also the old War Department never included the Navy. It’s really not correct to say War was renamed to Defense, that’s not what happened. A new thing was created (briefly under another name, NME) by the War + Navy unification.
Neville Chamberlains @democrats.org @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @governor.ny.gov must let Churchillian fighters @governorwalz.mn.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @crockett.house.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov lead youtu.be/YoIw3XSA-lU?...
Eric Daugherty has a bachelor's degree from Florida Gulf Coast University, but assumes he's qualified enough to assess Judge Jia Cobb, who graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern and cum laude from Harvard Law School, clerked for an appeals court, taught law, and made partner in a law firm.
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
Bill Belichick's disastrous coaching debut raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental state.
Neville Chamberlains @democrats.org @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @governor.ny.gov must let Churchillian fighters @governorwalz.mn.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @crockett.house.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov lead youtu.be/YoIw3XSA-lU?...
Neville Chamberlains @democrats.org @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @governor.ny.gov must let Churchillian fighters @governorwalz.mn.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @crockett.house.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov lead youtu.be/YoIw3XSA-lU?...
“Mr. Nadler has been sharply critical of Hamas, still believes in a two-state solution for the region and does not agree with those who say Israel is carrying out genocide in Gaza. But he said [that under Netanyahu] Israel was committing mass murder and war crimes in Gaza ‘without question.’”
Obama defeated the Clintons in 2008 by running on Iraq and optimism and the Dem Consultant class just… forgot?
To be fair, everyone has disappeared how much of a fuckup HRC and Kerry and Biden made by voting for Bush’s war. People see no connection between their wrongness on the biggest issue of the 21st century and the party’s presidential losses. I do.
Gavin Newsom mocking Karoline Leavitt as Effie Trinket from the Hunger Games 👏🏼🤣🏆
For the last couple of years much of the media has had the most incredible unwillingness to learn literally anything about JD Vance. Never seen anything like it. Active resistance to learning anything about his ideas.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
I wonder if Toxic Cowboy and his associates do this to Jewish politicians.
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...
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they’re all this guy
Here's a paragraph about one of the most powerful figures in right-wing media, someone with a huge following and the ear of the White House. Seems like a bad situation. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
no one expects a zero tolerance policy for infractions for cars, even though speeding in a car can have much more dire consequences than just about anything public transit riders do.
Interesting this guy got into Harvard Law AFTER penning his love letter to Mein Kampf while an Harvard undergrad. Guess the admissions officer missed it? 🙄 I wonder if minority students (say, an Arab American student) who expressed pro-NSDAP (or pro Hamas) leanings would get the same deference?
Basically The Onion headline but for white supremacists: Why Do All These Keep ?
Link to full story www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
he praises German nazis! bsky.app/profile/shar...
jesus man, tell me you have no idea who Claremont is or JD Vance's record as a postliberal
We are not that far out from Vance amplifying a false rumor about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating pets. He's shown himself to be an amoral political leech whose main goal is to put himself as close to positions of power as possible. We don't know how bad things could get under President Vance
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
One true test of Trump’s mental fitness is whether he’ll be able to take reporters’ questions after his announcement in the Oval Office tomorrow. And for how long.
Americans are begging for Democratic leadership to get off the mat and back into the fight. If you’re a political leader in this country and are not prepared to fight with both hands, not prepared to make “good trouble”, then perhaps you should step aside and make space for those who will. #Velshi.
How RFK Jr. Shut Down Research On Environmental Causes of Autism undark.org/2025/09/02/r...