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A man who was being held in a Manhattan police precinct station house on Friday was found unconscious and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to a city official. He is at least the fourth detainee in city custody to die in a little over a week.
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
great - but how does that stack up against Norway being one of the world’s biggest extractors and exporters of oil?
Dudes in back are big fans huh
who in his orbit will be the one to speak of Trump as George Clooney spoke of Biden?
there is being alive, and there is being dead, and then there is what happened to Ariel Sharon who, as prime minister of Israel, had a massive stroke and remained comatose in a total vegetative state for eight years before dying — imagine this in a power-structure consumed by a cult of personality
“‘They’re not doing it to improve public safety,’ he continued. “It’s designed to humiliate political opponents.’”
A technology that has helped accelerate the climate crisis could be part of slowing it down or even reversing it. Another smart column from @cltomlinson.bsky.social www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
Go to war with everyone at once, classic grand strategy
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
From every living former director of CDC: We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Solidarity Forever youtu.be/XGcDbMjFRfQ?...
for sure
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
If current trends continue Trump’s demented fantasy of winning a Nobel peace prize may lead us into a world war
At some point western nations will treat these attempted assassinations as acts of war.
“Nothing can justify such an information blockade. Yet, it has been tolerated without debate by many of Israel's Western allies, who claim to defend the right to information as a matter of principle.” www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
To be fair, Supreme Court gets much of the credit for taking us here by ruling in Trump v USA against the USA — and the collaborationist Congress has never missed an opportunity to grease the wheels.
The last 2 weeks have seen many articles clearly stating Trump has taken US into some state of authoritarianism, even dictatorship, some by indie journalists, but also, major international media. Today on 1A, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine & Spain’s La Vanguardia. 🧵 www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
“At Goodwill of North Georgia, the number of Black people who for the first time ask for help finding work is up 41% over the past three months, compared with a 23% increase in the number of new white job seekers.” www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Robert Mueller has Parkinson’s disease, his family said, and will not be able to comply with a request that he testify before Congress
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
This is NYTimes-speak for calling Rudy’s account total BS: “The narrative of how the accident unfolded, based on accounts from [Rudy mouthpiece] Mr. Ragusa and the New Hampshire State Police, is a little unclear.”
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
what a nightmare, to flee a domestic violence attack & flag down a passing car & out pops Rudy Giuliani — not that there’s any reason to believe that’s what actually happened
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
wow
There seems to be an assumption in many of the replies that eugenics and slash and burn destruction of medical infrastructure are exactly and obviously and only and always the same - and while there are areas of overlap that is not the case.
Bleak: www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Today, the New York Times published this exceptional opinion piece by Robert Lee Williams. Incarcerated at Eastern NY Correctional Facility, Robert — in addition to his work as an essayist — is a full-time Bard student enrolled through BPI.
NY state proposes new rule that could make parole easier for juvenile offenders https://gothamist.com/news/ny-state-proposes-new-rule-that-could-make-parole-easier-for-juvenile-offenders
buy genocide low, sell genocide high
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records.
used to be when White House press pool we haven’t seen and weren’t told where POTUS is, he’d be on a secret flight to some far off war zone to visit the troops… but that can’t be it now since the troops are deployed right out on the White House sidewalk
Breaking News: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from carrying out fast-track deportations of people detained far from the southern border.
the definitive clip on AI and dining www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Pk...
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters www.bbc.com/news/article...
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
time for everyone to start growing their own as best they can— like the victory gardens of WWII only this time it won’t be to resist fascism, but to endure it
This is going to suck for so many different people
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:
I wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
Good piece, includes the fact that Pulte was investigated for giving $500K to a Trump superpac via his wife and a shell company he controlled.
I stand with Joachim Frank. I would hope that others would have had a better understanding of history. 2/2
Latest by @aglantz.bsky.social. Sexual assault is a huge problem for women in the military. Under new rules proposed by the administration, veterans won't be able to get abortions at the VA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
A fitting Pete Wells obituary salute to a great New Yorker. She went from fashion shoots to becoming a familiar server at that venerable Manhattan saloon for some 45 years. She dated two of her more famous customers, Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/d...
CDC WRAPUP: A White House spokesman emailed me at 9:30 p.m. to say that Susan Monarez, the CDC director, has been fired. This came after days of back-and-forth in which RFK Jr. tried to force her out and she refused. 4 other top CDC officials have quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
physical inactivity? what, as in general lassitude — or coma?
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
angry is an exceedingly temperate word here
Agree with this. Make them fight for every inch. Worth reading this thread.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
good riddance
The recently selected chair of a North Carolina county Board of Elections was charged for allegedly drugging ice cream from Dairy Queen with MDMA and Cocaine and giving them to his two grandchildren
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
bleak: The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.
Democrats just picked up a seat that was +11 pts for Trump in 2024 to break an Iowa supermajority. Trump wants to appear indomitable. But he's also a lame duck and those winds can shift quickly. www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
Makes it sound like leading conservatives think Taylor is a beard here.
i'm actually a big believer in drafting by hand. i think it helps you think in a different way then typing on a screen
I’m with the late great Molly Ivins:
check out this marvel
S'il y a un compte à suivre pour suivre les différentes frasques de Trump, c'est lui ! @atrupar.com, merci !
20 countries have now stopped shipping all valuable mail parcels to the United States. It’s a result of the White House’s large and chaotic taxes on Americans who buy products made with any input from overseas (‘tariffs’). If you listen closely, you can hear small businesses dying.
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
There were some stretches in WWII where you had lots of big headlines on every front page.
It distorts & inures us to our reality that everyday since inauguration has not seen huge full-banner, epoch-defining, agenda-setting headlines in NYT & WSJ etc enumerating starkly the latest Trumpian attacks on the republic & institutions of democracy like we saw for Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Every day
The Supreme Court’s conservatives bear SO much blame for this disaster. They really thought they could let Trump fire every agency leader EXCEPT members of the Fed, and Trump would abide by their stern admonition to leave the Fed alone. Embarrassing stupidity. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
They’re racing to get ahead of the law - to put the constitution in the past tense.
The straps like on a belt
"If you write about politics and imagine that Trump cares about mortgage fraud ... Maybe you should go into agricultural field work, to help offset the labor shortages created by Trump’s deportations.” - @pkrugman.bsky.social writes paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...
Wore this @thecity.nyc shirt to Russian shoe repair guy in Brooklyn to get new holes in my Birkenstocks. He reads my shirt: “What’s that, fake news?” - No sir. “Don’t blame you for what then?” Corruption. “But we all corrupt in the head.” - So what do I owe you? “Whatever you want my friend.”
This is wrong, there was such a moment, it was last year's general election Just took a while for people to notice
Today in Israel’s ongoing targeted massacre of journalists: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...
so a generalized decree of martial law without pretext
sure seems like Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being deported for NOT being a criminal when Trump & his goons said he was
The charge of “felony murder” allows defendants to be charged with the death of an accomplice, even when the killing was committed by someone else. Between 2009 and 2017, 83 percent of people charged with felony murder in Alabama were Black.
Criminal.
“Our shared commitment to our country, our oaths of office, & our mission of helping people before, during & after disasters compel us to warn Congress & the American people of the cascading effects of decisions made by the current administration” FEMA employees wrote www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
this morning in trump’s arbitrary reign of terror www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
(Reuters) - U.S. consumers with the highest credit scores are starting to fall behind in debt repayments, credit scoring company VantageScore said in a report published on Monday, in a sign that Americans' financial health may be deteriorating more broadly. www.tradingview.com/news/reuters...
This Louisiana prisoner — & 1,000+ others like him — remain in prison despite split jury convictions that SCOTUS has ruled unconstitutional. MUST READ @richardawebster.bsky.social’s latest in his series about Gov. Jeff Landry’s criminal justice rollbacks www.propublica.org/article/loui...
More of the American political and media elite should come to our campus, sit in my classes, and talk to my students.
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb, from the first Trump admin: Q. “What did you think about when you heard of the FBI search of John Bolton's house and office?” A. “Well, I went down and locked my door.” @npr.org @steveinskeep.bsky.social t.co/ExWMgcsLJq
Leftist: Yes, Trump’s kind of a fascist. Now let me get back to my obsession, re-litigating fights with Democratic centrists from a decade or two ago. Centrist: Yes, there are signs of fascism. Now let me get back to complaining a lefty used some woke terms a few years ago. American democracy: 🤯🤯🤯
good line in the comments here: "Buoys are the paper ballots of navigation: even if all else fails, they work." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...
Diphtheria cases & deaths have risen sharply this year in Somalia, where the response has been curtailed by vaccine shortages & US aid cuts… More than 1,600 cases, including 87 deaths, have been recorded, up from 838 cases and 56 deaths in all of 2024 www.nbcnews.com/world/africa...