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“The US is now directly targeting civilians. Drug traffickers may be criminals but they aren’t combatants,” DoD official said. “When Trump fired military’s top lawyers the rest saw the writing on the wall, & instead of being a critical firebreak they are now a rubber stamp complicit in this crime.”
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
NEW: This morning the Trump admin put out the Federal Register notice terminating the 2021 TPS designation for Venezuela. It is set to end 60 days from Monday, or Friday, November 7. This termination brings the number of people Trump has stripped TPS from to at least 1 million.
I live in a nice place for taking a walk after work.
There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth. It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.
"You guys think you work for Trump. You're obsessed with him. It's pathetic. Republicans are ruining this institution..."
I killed all my lavender seedlings this year through various mishaps. I wish I could bring you my small pot of surviving creeping thyme to trade.
Epstein survivor Marina Lacerda: "The worst part is that the government is still in possession right now of documents & information that could help me remember and get over all of this maybe, and help me heal. They have documents w/ my name on them that were confiscated from Jeffrey Epstein's house"
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... And attempting to arrest them first would have been wrong…why? Don’t get me wrong. I’m not in favor of allowing drug smuggling into the US, but our “ruling cabal” openly lies to us every single day & routinely rejects its own intelligence agencies’ conclusions.
“How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented—reeducated—before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans?” Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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.
WOW. I missed this last week. What a disgraceful decision to bar nonprofits like the League of Women Voters from registering voters after naturalization ceremonies.
If they returned to their previous system of a lower entry fee but you bought tickets to go on rides that could reduce the lines. Otherwise I see no reason to go there.
There was some surface you thought could be improved by blackboard paint. Maybe start by elimination: what surface would not be improved by blackboard paint?
And they were on sale?
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."
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Donald Trump pretends to care about Medicare fraud, but then turns around and pardons a guy who ran a $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme.
I was the executive director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit that I created at the behest of the Obama White House. I worked as one of the nation's leading experts in open data. Putting open data on the blockchain is a profoundly stupid idea that fails nearly every test of good open data.
“No taxation” was famously a cry of the colonials in Boston; less well-remembered is that the Declaration of Independence charged George III with obstructing immigration—newcomers being then as now a sparkplug of American enterprise. -- Roger Lowenstein, in www.wsj.com/economy/us-c...
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Kelly Ayotte is the current governor, but that's more or less the problem.
The 'Live Free or Die' state?
🎵"8 hours to work, 8 hours to play, 8 hours to sleep in the U.S.A"🎶
The party of “family values” is attacking our kids.
$170 million 1000-employee project funds long term support for 32,000 Colombian farm families to switch their crops from illegal coca to legal coffee, cacao, panela... www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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Grift. All the way down. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
An insect comic from my archive, featuring an indecisive hoverfly. #invertefest #invert
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
I never bought the sweater. I just read about it: waking up early and putting on the sweater to catch the ferry to Monhegan from Port Clyde.
Heading to Port Clyde, thinking I probably shouldn't tell the kids it's because of the text for a sweater I read in a J.Peterman catalog back in the '80s.
Seagull
Donald Trump’s reckless trade war is a sales tax on the American people.
Sounds like the policy is the problem. Stupidity from random members of the public is predictable. If employees like you can filter out false reports, why no process for it? Amazon, presumably, doesn't pay enough people to filter true from false "typo" reports in a timely way.
NEW POST Legacy Modernization is hard, especially when we've lost the source code. Thiyagu Palanisamy and Chandirasekar Thiagarajan describe how AI helped them reverse engineer. martinfowler.com/articles/bla...
"History is a process of entropy, yet the fight for beauty, justice, and truth is still worth waging"
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
The fire sale at the end of the empire www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The sheer amount of time, money, and resources this government has spent to torture one random guy is astounding.
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please. The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,
Make the most of the next 3 months or so.
Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
Firing apolitical and independent military and intelligence leaders, taking personal control of federal law enforcement and expanding its role, launching show investigations to intimidate critics and opponents—I dunno, seems like these actions aren’t just wacky but kind of fit together in a pattern?
How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
The newspaper.
The Supreme Court just greenlit Donald Trump gutting nearly $800 MILLION for medical treatments and cures. Congress approved this funding for a reason: it saves lives. This is disgraceful, and families will suffer.
Gave an interview to FandomWire. You can read it here: fandomwire.com/exclusive-me...
This is fucking terrifying. Genuinely truly terrifying. What’s their scheme? To prosecute parents? Doctors? To take people’s treatments away? Absolutely no way this can end well.
Juno is an AMAZING mission. The camera onboard was never supposed to last this long (the radiation around Big J should've zapped it a while back) but it just keeps on ticking. Killing this mission while it's still working and producing great science is a crime.
Circumstances change--e.g. Loss of income leading to inability to pay vet bills and/or need to move into a place where they couldn't have a dog. Or people who really couldn't keep a dog fooled themselves into thinking they could because, as you said, beautiful perfect baby.
Good distribution of ear angles
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children.
Remember during COVID’s early days when the extremists we’re saying the immune compromised should just die, then incredible work by the science community saved millions of us? Yeah, me too.
Do the leek tops get used for something else? Industrial soup?
If you find yourself arguing that human beings shouldn't be provided with toothbrushes and toothpaste, you are the 1000% the baddies. The lawyers making this argument for the government should be shunned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of “emergency.” There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs. There was NO “INVASION” to justify this migrant crackdown. And there is NO “EMERGENCY” that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.
I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.
last (Only because I can't withhold an antidote)
"I don't think it's possible to go too far, especially right now." Charlie Jane Anders ( @charliejane.bsky.social ) when asked how to ensure your writing doesn't get too political #writing #Worldcon
this summit could have been a text
Decoding inner speech. A volunteer who cannot speak imagines saying the sentence on the screen. A computer decodes the signals from an implant in her brain and correctly guesses what she's saying to herself. Here's my story (gift link): nyti.ms/3UpEiat
Steady income often creates dependency
Breathable air, that puts it in perspective.
I'm looking forward to reading the nice letters. Can you publish those as a separate collection?
Like Ukrainian flag
Have I mentioned I have a story in this anthology AND I’ll be doing two live events for the launch?? WELL. 8/19, Bangor Maine, The Briar Patch Bookstore at 6pm! 8/26, @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social, MA, 7pm! Come see me I am SO DAMN EXCITED!
On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.
Gift article 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
They were also seen stealing inventory into their personal vehicles out the back service entrance.
Ignoring stuff is always an option, up until it kills you.
Overconfident humans who don’t listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.
pretending you were asking for more information was the best way to try to get the humans to realize they were doing something stupid.
There was some strange system where they all got their food and shelter and education and medical for free, no matter what job they did.
If the federal government can simply seize privately held patents then that is the end of the U.S. patent system, the legal basis for American innovation.
This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not. That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.
Come see our reimagining of the famous Dogs Playing Poker painting, performed live by Greeneville chuckwallas.
"It's not like I'm using,"
BREAKING NEWS: a government watchdog confirmed the Trump administration is breaking the law by blocking NIH funds. How many kids with cancer or grandmas with Alzheimer’s have to get closer to death while crucial research is stalled? Trump must end this illegal funding freeze.
What do the American taxpayers gain by destroying this satellite?
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
Just this past Sunday, I recommended two of your books to a friend.
I care. Please write.
Concerts?
Make America Smart Again
Make America Less Stupid
#bluesky needs more baby goats... ☺️
Too bad he's not a Seinfeld character--he could have sued the Soup Nazi.