with my apologies to the photographer, the photo is titled “Walking to School in The Golden Age.” Wednesday, Aug 25, 2025, 8:20 am, Oak & 16th St NW, Washington DC 20010.
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with my apologies to the photographer, the photo is titled “Walking to School in The Golden Age.” Wednesday, Aug 25, 2025, 8:20 am, Oak & 16th St NW, Washington DC 20010.
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.
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"Flip phones" do seem like the optimal mid-point solution between "smartphones are insanely distracting" and "some parents really want their kids to be able to call home if there's a school shooting." Maybe it's time for a dumb phone revival for school use.
if you were going to take the red line tonight, no you aren’t
After the hearing concluded, w/ DOJ's Drew Ensign allegedly clear of what Judge Sooknanan had ordered, DOJ failed to file its req'd 4p status report. Sooknanan orders DOJ to show cause why they failed to do so—and to file. She also orders plaintiffs to file a status report by 6:30p. (corrected)
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union station today, looks like they are ratcheting up efforts to intimidate protesters. big vehicles are back and a handful now sporting “military police” vests
cruel & usual.
Good night 🌙 and….
This feels like a metaphor for 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Sooknanan talks about crafting her TRO to ensure that the children aren't removed until briefing is complete and she can rule. I do not want there to be any ambiguity about what I am ordering or what the government is to do down the road, she says.
set excerpts from that magnificent letter of resignation to clanker music to make it more accessible for the grandparents www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Uy...
i dreamed i found a big silver dollar with a moon on it. everybody wanted to see it & i was embarrassed.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
Scott Crow is one of the finest people I ever met. He was one of the anarchists who started the incredible Common Ground free clinic in New Orleans after the hurricane that destroyed the levees. Look for my upcoming story on this. "Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later! w/ scott crow." bit.ly/3HX4mH5
DC - We've compiled a list of the top things the feds and MPD are arresting or pulling people over for. Please read through our list and avoid doing these things for the time being. We've separated our list into driving-related and non-driving related offenses.
NON-DRIVING RELATED -Smoking weed in a public place -Possessing weed in public -Being in public with an open container of alcohol -Metro fare evasion -Carrying a gun outside your house -Writing or drawing with chalk on the street
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Hi All! I just edited all of the zines so that they say to only ask for a name and birth date if you see someone being detained. Immigration lawyer @merlekahn.bsky.social has said that asking other questions can put people at risk. New zines reflect this update!
This is good. BUT…will Chicago PD still be beating up and arresting protestors standing up to regime goons? All in the name of crowd control and keeping the peace? Time will tell. Chicago mayor to sign order aimed at resisting Trump’s planned immigration crackdown
Fairfax and Arlington schools sued the Trump administration today over its anti-trans funding threat policies and actions. The @washingtonpost.com broke this news but was apparently unable to link to the lawsuit. Here is the Fairfax complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
adobe summarized the below tweet for me without even asking, and copilot had gork draft this text. this message has been approved by an ineffable reticulum of semi sentient style sheets and scripts.
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
i think what you’re getting wrong about moldbug is he doesn’t believe anything. his career is chasing increasingly difficult rationalizations for some bullshit he wanked onto a bulletin board as a kid. not that it helps w/ the billionaire eugenicists who love or use his hateful stupid “work”
if he wasn’t brainworm bobby already i’d recommend RFKhaos except that kinda sounds like an apple operating system
The party line vote w/Monarez will be interesting background given claims that GOPers plan to exercise SOME oversight over public health monster RFK Jr next week. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
breaking: t[nope] declassifies nikolai tesla files, MAGA epstatic!
reports of soldiers present in the territory have been greatly exaggerated, puddin hastens to note
Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), resigning effective August 28, 2025, close of business.
one might be forgiven for having thought that in accordance with the diktat on the new gender austerity, the signifier “shooter” might yield to a return if “gunman,” mightn’t one?
Everyone happy about the sandwich guy not getting indicted has to agree to not try to duck jury duty the next time their name comes up. It's one of the few ways you as a random citizen can say "no, this is not justice" in our system. (Do not tell the court you know about jury nullification)
good thing i got this flagpole with the removable top half.
Here’s the order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
“some kind of semiotic weapon” you heard it here
👀 gop making moves in arlington
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guess i missed about an hour of the auto da fe. did he get real epsteined when everybody couldn't stop asking about epstein or did he just continue to bask in the glow of his lackeys' high epstein?
cabinet ministers agree on pressing need for a bigger, better, more-beautiful thesaurus
… and, not long after, to chafe.
I want a QR code on a tee shirt that uploads hostile malware to any AI powered glasses that look at it.
live from cabinet room: after 5 or 6 sackings, all the tongues on one’s scrotum start to blur together. maybe another pervitin will help. sigh.
The APA Authorizes “Universal” Stays of Agency Action Under 5 U.S.C. § 705 The preliminary injunction has long served as an important check on unlawful executive action, especially during the first months of the second Trump administration. www.justsecurity.org/119256/apa-u...
I created a new #digitalart #collage depicting a #Trump baby for an animated short I’m working on called ‘ #Babies First #Pride ‘. The clip will highlight the joy of being #lgbtqia+
i know i’ve been too serious when 🤪 falls off my most-used clump
well. affirmation may not be quite the right word
ooh new affirmation: i’m not depressed: y’all in my world now.
it’s just a new screen name wrote down & liked the look of the word. don’t fret the blasphemy always loves its neighbor. & paladin looks ok next to that iris that strikes the eye as a purple ninja with a sword on its back (or maybe held afore)
& then, through some ineffable clause of his deal with the devil, he became jason statham
Here's how I explain it to regular people: Imagine your local store starts charging different prices all the time with no notice, or the hours randomly change. Sometimes they're helpful and sometimes they yell at you. How long are you going to continue shopping there?
i don’t think his exodus & leviticus stuff was as good as his work with genesis, but it picked up with numbers & by deuteronomy phil collins was absolutely at the top of his game.
washington, d.c. august 25, 2025, midmorning
washington, d.c. august 25, 2025, midmorning
washington, d.c. august 25, 2025, midmorning
washington, d.c. august 25, 2025, midmorning
#TodaysWTF "Yes, Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Philip Esformes, a healthcare executive convicted of a $1.3 billion Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme." #Esformes trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st...
not a little tired of callow youths telling me the significant events of the day notwithstanding some of their talent as communicators
Journalists need to retire “unprecedented.” What Trump’s doing isn’t—it’s a fascist consolidation of power, by the books. & everyone else needs to give up “wannabe,” as in dictator. Face facts: he is. Let’s contend with that.
dig this: america's enemies' flag burnings may be violating the equal protection and civil rights principles from which we, as a great freedom-loving nation, never stray. sounds kinda woke.
somehow accidentally input chatgop instead of gpt (lookin at you otto). oof. don’t do that.
Two thoughts on burning the American flag. One from James Baldwin. One from the Supreme Court.
She's a recovery coach? 🤣🤣
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… in light of which, i hope that the famous sub was not ham
wait. shirlington is an asset?
Since this all began, I've started carrying a first aid kit because I've seen people get that roughed up. I'm always terrified my phone is going to die while I'm out. The streets get more and more eerily empty every day. I carry a paper list of emergency phone numbers. It wasn't like that before.
little excerpt from beeftrich bonheifer too:
![the fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that [s]he is not independent.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rbkxsstt2yrvjkklbwnezxq5/bafkreifjtnfj6hjw7wkf2e4pp5ef5wm4uhrl7ji2hucjqcdluocdn36byy@jpeg "Click to view full size")
painful streamable.com/zax9bd
all the best natural cloth american flags are manufactured in china accept no substitutes
I’m betting the beans this happens with sandwich guy, too.
Neighbors already redirecting from the checkpoint on North Cap 🔥🔥🔥
Desecrates is among my favorites of the pre-Socratics, with Telepakalaes.
Xinis: It has been reported to the criminal court in TN that Mr. Abrego is being deported to Uganda because he exercised his right to trial as opposed to pleading guilty to criminal charges...In my view cannot do that, cannot condition relinquishment of constitutional rights in that regard.
Judge Xinis: Then I will order that he not be moved from current detention facility, principally to have access to both criminal and habeas counsel. Clear? DOJ: Yes. Judge: Do you need me to put this in writing now, or will my oral pronouncement suffice? DOJ: Oral suffices
can cruel & unusual process be that process that is due by the regime of ordered liberty the constitution requires?
next constitution should also restrict cruel & unusual process
dear gork: please generate 10 pithy, punchy protest slogans in call-and-response rhyming couplets about the risks of so-called artificial intelligence
can a person with their face covered & no badge issue a lawful order?
you might not know this, explicitly, but you have been studying propaganda all your life & are probably, also, an expert.
might be worth looking at incitement statute(s) language to see what is culpable mens rea
tho i’ll say this about the flag one: whether burning the flag does in fact lead to violence is not within the control of burner. as controlling supct case left it, whether the expression incites violence is up to others — the very ones who would suppress that expression.
bail & additional measures are the more significant EOs
BECAUSE YOUR SHITTY FLAGS ARE MADE OF PLASTIC
negativland u2, shared just now for the melting plastic circa 1:45 et seq. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wDXj...
the president just announced he’s gonna make pharma cos pay me 9x the current cost of my necessary lifesaving medications just to take the drugs! maha!
hey maga, look up the definition of “desecrate” & check your wardrobe & your hateful modifications of that flag you pretend to love
not a good sign when AG confuses noted criminal gang with television network while speaking in the oval office
gotta see the language of the EO to find out if melting flags to floating bubbling string by application of heat is within the scope