My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
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My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Happy Labor Day 🙂
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
not going to lie i really thought this was just a goofy blue sky thing lol
Great, now-mundane example of AI hype. Notice the number of "can"s and "could"s here without actual indication of the accuracy of the stethoscope's predictions. This is what the entire AI PR-machine thrives on. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I bet Tom B. and Goldberry’s wedding was a hoot.
I'm out of DC and a 65-ish black guy saw my DC plates and commented on the national guard presence. He told me he was a cop for 25 years and very pro law enforcement, but hates what they're doing with the National Guard in DC. Really hasn't hit elite media how broadly unpopular this stuff is.
Worth reading CDC's Pledge to the American People from 2024. It is, put simply, the antithesis of RFK Jr.'s actions in office to date. www.cdc.gov/about/pledge...
This painting is classic Lost Cause revisionism; it was commissioned after Truman ordered desegregation of the military. Army Secretary Gordon Gray was a nepobaby (daddy was chair of RJ Reynolds) who led the dubious "Gray Board" that yanked Oppenheimer's clearance. Real piece of work all around.
Need this guy in the senate asap
The Seasteading Institite?!? Y’all I cannot express in fewer than 20,000 words just how fucking BONKERS the Seasteading crowd is.
I probably shouldn't put it this way, but uh the "hide reply for everyone" button feels great to press. You decide what your posts are a platform for
true story i used to be one of those red pandas who thought booing was impolite and unsportsmanlike but this administration and its shitty people has completely changed my stance i am all for booing and public shunning of every single one of these fucks tbh thank u for coming to my TED talk
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
Wow. This would end international student PhD participation. It wouldn’t affect university finances, but it would impoverish us intellectually.
“He was the only member of the board to oppose the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, a tie-up was approved by the regulator in 2023. At the time, Primus said the deal wasn’t in the public interest.”
1/Our client was notified tonight by White House staff in the personnel office that she was fired. As a presidential appointee, senate confirmed officer, only the president himself can fire her.
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
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If your business can’t succeed without stealing then it should obviously fail.
U.S. shoppers have enjoyed cheap, duty-free international packages from overseas retailers, but that's changing.
We could stop all this but Republican politicians and judges don’t want to
Reup: One thing many are missing abt Social Security whistleblower complaint is this: DOGE--including Big Balls, who has ties to criminal hackers--put ALL American Social Security data on an insecure AWS site AFTER SCOTUS GOPers intervened and let them do that. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
Speaking of sandwiches 🚶https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwich-assault-indictment-justice-department.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hU8.5Pg3.r1W4ujUAJ7cG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Elon's DOGE Muskjugend uploaded a dataset of every Social Security number to the god damn cloud www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
This is how it's done.
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
"In only seven months, we’ve seen a remarkably sustained if somewhat chaotic series of abuses and usurpations in pursuit of the object of despotism. It’s a purposeful project, not an inadvertent one." www.thebulwark.com/p/despotism-...
This article just reminded me of this old tweet
No.
Australia Post made a similar announcement today. They'll continue to deliver letters, documents and gifts worth less than $150 to the U.S., but commercial goods are out. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
City Council stalls on proposed measure requiring gear and training, after Uber and DoorDash spend millions on this year’s elections. A draft of the amended bill shows what Councilmember Gale Brewe calls “stronger penalties for repeat violations.”
the united states government's social media accounts are just third tier comments on 4chan /pol/
This is one of the rare times I’ll disagree. They definitely imagined Trump. Half the Federalist Papers are about Trump.
If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
Once again Drudge is the only news outlet that genuinely doesn't like Trump and wants him to lose
For a brief tour of how cagey the Roberts majority has been about this very fundamental principle of financial regulation, look at Trump v. Wilcox from May of this year on the shadow docket and the footnote it cites from Seila Law (2020)
Grand jury nullification is a very rare phenomenon. The old saw goes that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor recommends it. But the Trump DOJs have sure racked up a lot of no true bills
Gregory Lee Johnson, who won the case establishing a First Amendment right to burn the flag, was arrested for flag burning on at least two subsequent occasions.
To correct a point that DHS keeps obfuscating: Unlike Ghislaine Maxwell, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has never been charged with “trafficking” anyone. The trial the Trump admin is trying to avoid with its Uganda scheme is on smuggling accusations. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
it's wild that the president just sits around the white house all day regaling reporters with pedophile adjacent anecdotes
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
The flag burning thing does nothing while appearing to do something. Either something is an incitement to imminent lawless action or it isn’t. In the former case it is not constitutionally protected, in the latter it is. Flag burning, as such, isn’t incitement, and the EO doesn’t claim otherwise.
what her boyfriend was doing during this solo expedition… is not explored. www.npr.org/2025/08/20/n...
great mileage on this pour over
historians will have so much fuckin shit to go through documenting the trump presidency but one small thing i hope is not ignored is what his official physicians have claimed over the years
He is literally hearing about it for the first time as his staff briefs him ahead of the summit. Not great omen for the summit itself.
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
Can one of hakeem's constituents call his office and ask if this is a stunt or a distraction www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
And while the right wing story was constantly changing, the police report and the story from the teenagers both remained consistent. The teenagers say that big balls was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl, and when he wouldn't leave her alone the boy jumped in to defend her.
But...but *you're* the mayor right now
They just decided to torment this man in one way after another for no apparent reason — pure Kafka.
trump’s hatred of wind is just so weird and it predates his senility
This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.
Trump administration subpoena to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sought Social Security numbers and addresses of patients who received gender-related care, as well as “every writing or record” made by doctors on such treatments. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
Per new ruling, the California Supreme Court will not prevent Democrats from moving forward today with a plan to redraw congressional districts
I suspect Altman will be, but he’s still a baby relatively.
A reminder that the mayor has always been super weird about bullying Katie and my conspiracy theory is that this was a set-up
An attempted $160 bribe is just so insulting. We live in nyc be real.
some one offers u a bag if potato chips and there are no potato chips in the bag what kind of sicko does that
They tried to bribe Katie Honan
CPSC has fallen
This BBC clip is wild: intense contrast between folks in Union Station yelling "Free DC!" as JD Vance, Stephen Miller, and the SecDef walk by, and then a hard-cut to that same trio in a Shake Shack belittling the hecklers while standing in front of sandwiches and…surrounded by literal soldiers?
what is going ON over there at #txlege
This would make it much easier to traffic people out of the US with no records.
“Hey look it’s couch fucker. You gonna fuck a couch buddy?” Is goddamned hilarious.
driving 14-ton up-armored military vehicles around a peaceful city at all hours of the night isn’t just hostile to democracy and civil society, it’s reckless as well
lost his hold on his client
diplomatic to call a lunatic’s trade war “a challenging economic environment”
He had the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Ukraine, the EU and NATO in the White House and he made them wait while he went to get instructions from Putin ... For forty minutes?!
Simply amazing. Now @nytimes.com headline is making this look like a legitimate process, too:
Microsoft drops a crappy AI function into Excel and then warns people NOT to use it for anything that involves math or anything they consider pretty important. Excel is for doing math and organizing important information. www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
Mayor Wu took an oath too. You can even watch a video of it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8jL...
I cannot express how important it is that the next attorney general put people in jail for these crimes.
The last bit of this post from Peter Baker appears to add an element to Helene Cooper’s article. The article—at least in its current version—doesn’t contrast the tourist areas with other parts of DC, nor does it identify “where the most violent crime happens” in the city.
crazy, what is it about lisa cook that might have led the white house to baselessly accuse her of mortgage fraud in order to force her out of her job?
just can not shake the feeling that democratic leadership really believes they are just a couple votes away from the halcyon times of enjoying senate softball and seersucker suit day
Amazing
Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of states. www.wired.com/story/senate...
You don’t have to be a big fan of the Democratic Party to recognize that this Republican boom is an extreme catastrophe in the age of Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
lmao
The crazy thing is that despite this costing literally billions of dollars; they have the money for it! That’s right, Congress decided to cut funding for public broadcasting and benefits for Americans and instead give CBP billions for the border wall, which they’ll now use to paint the wall black.
Introducing the new 007
he didn't know they were coming?
Zelenskyy did not wear a suit to the meeting. He wore a black military/chore coat with military style trousers in the same heavy canvas material. He wore a dark shirt buttoned to the top, with no tie. But MAGA fell all over themselves to describe it as if it were a business suit.
Mayor Wu’s reply to AG Bondi. content.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
This guy has been trusted with nearly $60 billion in capital by purportedly serious investors
I had to look up the solar-system-enclosing Dyson sphere thing that Altman said to see if it was real, and it is. And like 80 seconds later they’re talking about selling tickets to hypothetical nuclear fusion reactors because people would want to watch the atoms hit each other.
rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat
The whole power structure from Trump and Noem on down that isn’t firing this Nazi is also responsible. The US newspapers and tv stations that are treating it as a nonstory are responsible too.
Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
This is a whole little shrine they have apparently constructed in the White House to Trump’s ambition to overstay the constitutional term limits and remain in power indefinitely