I finished your Black River Orchard recently. Holy hell. That was so good!
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I finished your Black River Orchard recently. Holy hell. That was so good!
Ok, pass a law disbanding the Fed and making the president the nation’s central banker, if that’s your view.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
@govpritzker.illinois.gov made the same point as @governorwalz.mn.gov Enough of the damn "Dems in disarray" written-on-autopilot coverage. Or "how does this change odds for 2028?" The country is under attack. That's the story.
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
Yarvin in particular is just a gibbering idiot, but they're all incoherent about this "common good" bit, bandying the words about as a talisman that justifies whatever they happen to want, with no real attempt to give it a coherent definition or defend that definition.
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.
This
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
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
DRUMMOND: “.. Ultimately, this era in history is a WIRED story: The United States’ authoritarian turn, aided and abetted by the tech industry’s complicity. And that’s how we’re covering it.” @status.news @oliverdarcy.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social @wired.com www.status.news/p/wired-kati...
My Cardiologist turned me on to your pharmacy and I can get all my meds less expensive there without insurance than I can at one of the preferred pharmacies with insurance. Can’t wait until you offer Eliquis.
“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” — Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
This is getting very bad: *FBI raids top Trump critic's home *Trump loyalist gins up "mortgage fraud" pretexts for DOJ probes of Schiff, Letitia James, Lisa Cook *Bannon says ICE will monitor 2026 voting *DHS memo vows LA operations "for years to come" New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1994...
Always read @gregsargent.bsky.social. ALWAYS
"Plenty of other Democrats should get in on Newsom’s mockery game, but they should go much farther."
Newsom: We can’t do things the way we’ve done. Let’s disabuse ourselves of that. The Democratic Party needs to assert itself. We need to be strong again. Strength matters. People want conviction. They want character. They want a sense of intention and purpose…
Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)
"That’s what autocrats do. They cow public servants into submission—and in doing so, they create a closed system that is free of opposing views and inconvenient concerns. Their policy making, their ability to realize their aims, suffers as a result."
Very bizarre. Manchurian candidate stuff here.
From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
Russians are advancing in Zaporizhzhia oblast under the American flag.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Wake the fuck up to what's going on in this country... We're going to put everything on the damn line... People haven't given up yet. We're going to do this. We can win this November. We can win next November, and then we can get this country back on track."
not sure how many decades it will take America living down having elected Trump twice
Eyeopening walkthrough of DC by this creator. If you aren’t in DC, worth a watch all the way to the end—
But the corporate and business elites will tolerate Trump and a Trumpified GOP, because they maintain the Reagan promise of low taxes and keeping the country club open, even if there are additional *wink wink* fees to a *wink wink* fund that definitely isn’t just the president’s dropbox
Whether you’re a Newsom fan or not, note the following: He’s not whining about Trump rigging the elections (again). He’s not using it to solicit campaign donations or social media clicks. He’s actually doing something about it. Outrage without action is about as useless as thoughts and prayers.
I've seen people either saying, Oh corny. Or, oh he's just running for President. And my thought is, AWESOME. Let the 2028 Dem Prez primary be about who can fight against Trump and for our democracy and our rights the most effectively and aggressively and let it begin today.
Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
So hang on…. Trump is going to offer to open up FUKKIN ALASKA TO THE RUSSIANS?? Wow. Let’s see republicans defend this
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Very not good
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
This isn't a betrayal of the public trust, this is an explicit violation of the first amendment, but the people who would have standing to seek remedy caved in and accepted the violation. In turn, the entire nation will be harmed because of their craven capitulation.
My optimism about our ability to save our democracy comes from my experience. No matter how broken or bruised our democracy is today, I have seen it work and I know it can work again. I have seen the power of collective action. I know it can save us now.
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Here’s a 🔥🔥exchange between me and Mick Mulvaney during @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's brilliant interview of Mulvaney on Al Jazeera's Head to Head. The whole episode is worth a watch, and you can find it on @aljazeera.com's YouTube channel.
I can’t stress this enough These rates are the result of magic “math” And they’re being done on the whim of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
Apple's Cook on Trump import tax hikes: "For the June quarter, we incurred approximately $800 million of tariff-related costs. For the September quarter...we estimate the impact to add about $1.1 billion to our costs.” Via 9to5Mac
Most politicians from North Carolina are going to reference their faith and if that's something you -- someone who is not from North Carolina -- do not like, you are perfectly welcome to shut the fuck up.
Kilmeade getting a reality check from Fox’s own expert on tariffs.
Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.
Amen. @delong.social describes current US trade policy precisely and succinctly:
Treasury Department files reviewed by Senator Ron Wyden’s staff members show 4,725 wire transfers, adding up to nearly $1.1 billion, associated with just one of Mr. Epstein’s bank accounts. Follow. The. Money.
“[Maxwell's] willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct, including some of the conduct charged in the Indictment, strongly suggests her true motive has been & remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes,” prosecutors wrote in a pretrial motion www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is a direct threat to public health. "Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover."
The first privately developed U.S. nuclear enrichment facility is going to be built in Paducah, Kentucky at the site of a former nuclear fuel plant. The US government is now allowing a private citizen to enrich uranium, aka nuclear bombs. That private citizen is "destroy humanity" Peter Thiel.
“State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, who authored Texas’ “trigger ban” on abortion, said in a statement on Friday that he has never paid for an abortion. The statement, posted on X, came after Alex Grace — who describes herself as a mother of four, political news curator, and exotic dancer —…”
Trump's FCC Chair says he will put a "bias monitor" in place who will "report directly" to Trump as part of the deal for Sky Dance to acquire CBS
more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis
Top-ranking and mid-level military officials have circulated drafts of a letter slamming Hegseth for having “no clue what he’s doing.”
i mean, there are multiple answers to this, but one of them is that the WSJ news side hasn’t changed, the NYT and WaPo and the networks have. WSJ isn’t suddenly being *more* aggressive, they’re just the only ones who decided to keep doing their jobs
My comments with @reportergoodman.bsky.social @cnn.com amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/...
Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’
This is how it’s done, No Bull 💩, No drama and No Grandstanding!
I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣 Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
pro tip: innocent people don't generally suppress the files that prove their innocence
"So, one way or another, we’re going to get sold a vision of that future, and it’s going to be this fascist tech dystopia, or it’s going to be something that serves the majority of people and preserves the ideas of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law."
🚨BREAKING: Texas House Democrats have issued an ultimatum to Republican leadership, threatening to derail the Legislature’s special session if they a prioritize a controversial redistricting plan over urgent flood relief. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This thread is incredible.
With further developments likely on the Trump-Epstein front, Trump will ramp up efforts at distraction, demagoguery, counter-attacks against enemies (e.g. Gabbard’s fake revelation yesterday), and authoritarianism. Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country.
Reposting this and a few other things for no particular reason today. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow and the next day, too.
Welp
Fuck it, they killed him live.
I’ve seen some variation of the post “I don’t get engagement unless I post about politics” and I would urge you not to give a shit about that and to just post whatever is on your mind. Whether or not people repost it I think most of us appreciate not having a constant stream of dread
Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified. 🧵
Wow. Trump says that Texas families who are concerned about the lack of warning before the deadly floods are “evil”: “Only a very evil person would ask a question like that.” (clip: @atrupar.com)
I seriously think America would do better right now if we replaced the President with three raccoons in a trench coat.
More on that mysterious selling -- this time in currencies -- before the latest Trump tariff announcement.
PENCE: “TARIFFS ARE A TAX… American importers, businesses and ultimately consumers end up paying all of that $300 BILLION. We're paying that.”
my view is that everyone should be able to earn a living wage doing whatever it is they like. if you love working in a bookshop, you should be able to live a comfortable life doing so. if you loving being a barista, the same. and if you want to do more traditional blue collar work, that’s cool too!
"The year is 2025, and an AI model belonging to the richest man in the world has turned into a neo-Nazi."
xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
As someone smarter than me said, “if your only solution is to pray, then you should work in a church, not government.”
Please keep Cost Plus going, the only thing that kept me from collapsing after that atrocity of a bill passed was looking up if I could get my meds through there without going bankrupt...and I could.
Emmy-winning Austin, TX based TV meteorologist on Facebook:
National Sheriffs’ Association Names Jan. 6th ‘Stop the Steal’ Rally Participant as Its New President | Both Bucks County Sheriff Fred Harran and his Democratic challenger Danny Ceisler refused to comment on the appointment.
Remember when @schumer.senate.gov capitulated on the govt shutdown and said they would save their fight for now? The BBB just passed so there is no way to fight. The Dems won’t have an opportunity to stop anything from the GOP for a year
Trump put his full weight behind the “Big Beautiful Bill" — and it will backfire on Republicans. This won’t just haunt the GOP in upcoming elections — it’ll define them.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I truly hope this puts a definitive end to the perpetual insistence by Democrats that they can compromise with Republicans. You can't. These people are extreme, depraved, and shameless. They just stripped healthcare from 17 million people to give themselves a tax cut.
They just kicked a bunch of kids off of their health insurance. I hope cussing doesn’t offend you. 🤬
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
The Trump administration is now seeking to generate leverage against election officials by threatening them with criminal prosecution. We know where this ends.
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."