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Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
1/ If you are feeling overwhelmed by the fast paced of legal news, remember that it’s deliberate. It’s a strategy Trump uses, flooding the zone in hopes that people will tune out. Read what you need to know here to get ready for the week: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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5/ Trump‘s attempt to fire Lisa Cook from the Fed continues. The Fed is insulated by statute from the whims of a president for precisely this reason. Trump wants the Fed to do his bidding, but the economists there are using their expertise, not his need for political wins, to guide the economy.
4/ Tariffs. This decision was a big loss for the administration. Next stop the Supreme Court.
3/ Trump tried to deport unaccompanied children overnight on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. A federal judge entered an injunction for the entire class of kids affected. You’ll want to know all the details & I’ve broken down the complaint for you: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
JB Pritzker to CBS on Trump deploying troops: "He'd like to stop the elections in 2026 or, frankly, take control of those elections. He'll just claim that there's some problem with an election, and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control if, in fact, he's allowed to do this."
Stephen Miller is REALLY bad at pretending to be Trump. Like this doesn’t even almost sound like a Trump tweet
From the WH pool this morning: Trump left for an “unannounced location” at 9:27 a.m. His motorcade then drove to his golf club in Virginia, arriving at 10:02 a.m. “There was one person in a car who gave the motorcade the middle finger as it drove by,” the pool report states.
The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
MORE: Judge Sooknanan order DOJ to file yet another status report. She sets 10:45 pm deadline for Ensign to address whether all of the children have been returned to ORR custody.
I wasn’t super convinced that something was seriously wrong with Trump until he tweeted this
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
Free advice for the administration: If you want to stop the Trump health coverage, maybe stop posting verifiably old videos and keeping him as far away from cameras as humanly possible
Judge Sooknanan to Ensign: And even now that the government has appeared, you're telling me that even though you think you have the authority to do this, and that what you're trying to do here is unify families, not violate the law, you need five days to respond.
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
He was sentenced to 63 months in prison. One of the longer sentences. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/t...
Government Efficiency!!
In the 21st century, how could you order up ethnic cleansing and genocide without a little crypto and AI and real-estate speculation sprinkled on top? { gift link } wapo.st/4g2eATo
the sun would no longer rise without tariffs
Actually, he thinks that he is the state, and that everything should be controlled by the state, as long as he's the state.
Judge Sooknanan: And I tried to reach the government. I have been up since then..and didn't reach anyone from the government until later this morning. And the imminence that the plaintiff claimed proved true, because, in fact, those planes *were* loaded. One actually took off and was returned.
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
Judge Sooknanan continues her monologue: And so, absent action and intervention by the court, all of those children would have been returned to Guatemala, potentially to extremely dangerous situations.
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
WTF are all you commie libs talking about? He looks great!!
He knows so little that it’s hard to keep track of what he might understand, sort of like a certain MASH/Frank Burns reference from the early, classic episodes.
« L'État, c'est moi, et l'État devrait tout commander, tant que l'État c'est moi. » — Le roi Donald XIV (alias Donald le Gros)
I was going to note: minus the elaborate wig, although what lurks in that starved ferret combover…?
Is there a contingency for the survivors’ public speaking appearance and press conference?
"'Mark my words, it’s only going to get worse,' [Conway] added." www.yahoo.com/news/george-...
And when they say *they* are protecting the country from the people who want to destroy it, they are engaging in pure psychological projection.
"Conway...boiled it down to what he called the president-elect’s malignant narcissism, which means he is 'inherently destructive.' "'People like Trump, malignant narcissists, actually do, subconsciously or consciously, seek to destroy,' said Conway, a longtime critic of the incoming POTUS. ...
"'One of the things about people like Trump [...] is they like to accuse people of what they themselves are trying to do,' he continued. 'You’ve heard it said about Trump many times, every accusation is a confession.' "'Deep down, he’s a destructive force. Deep down, he wants to destroy,' he said.
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
Some view it as hyperbole; others don't even know what the words mean. But it's all textbook. Textbook history, textbook political science, textbook psychology, textbook social psychology. Elementary stuff, not obscure. And it's happening in real time, right before our eyes.
Princeton Professor Kim Scheppele joins me for our final discussion about this month’s book club pick, 1984. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
We all know Trump’s strategy is to try and overwhelm people so they’ll unplug and he can complete his power grab. Here’s how to fight back. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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
Horrible migrants are killing Europe, says horrible migrant arriving in Europe
It's not ideal that the one person in the entire world that Trump is willing to listen to is Vladimir Putin.
Pride without prejudice x
Reminder that these lovelies are up for adoption now #caturday #speirghorm www.catsaid.ie/2025/08/meet...
JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.” { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
The Justice Department had once argued that Ghislaine Maxwell should be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. Now its second-ranking official—and Donald Trump’s former lawyer—is aligned with a woman whose crimes the department had called “monstrous.”
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.
The flash flooding in Central Texas is absolutely heartbreaking. Michelle and I are praying for everyone who has lost a loved one or is waiting for news — especially the parents. And we’re grateful to the first responders and rescue teams working around the clock to help.
We can’t lose focus on what matters – right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year’s midterm elections. This is a power grab that undermines our democracy.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
listen he cannot officially be declared un-dead until his caddie casually drops a ball on the green after he shanks one into the woods sorry I don't make the rules here
At least 2025
the mystery of Schrödinger's Psychopath has been solved
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
I was out this week and had to miss taping with my sisters, but getting ready to start listening now, and you can too! www.politicon.com/podcasts/nul...
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
We should all follow!
Trump & Kennedy, instead of attacking diseases are attacking the scientists who keep us safe, exactly what anyone who watched Trump’s performance during Covid, is familiar with Kennedy’s anti-science views, or read Project 2025 could have anticipated. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
He didnt win every single swing state in the same election that he barely “won” the popular vote Are we supposed to believe that ALL 88 counties that “flipped” allegiance went to a single party for the first time since 1934? Hell no He lost The data proves it Pass it on♻️ bsky.app/profile/andr...
I’m sorry - someone named Heather Honey is going to be in charge of election security? 😳 SMH, this entire administration is an SNL skit
Sad but true bsky.app/profile/stea...
I don’t think anything is out of the question at this point. A quote from my most recent piece: “Pandemics don’t wait for elections. Hollowing out the CDC may score Trump political points with the anti-vax crowd, but the bill will eventually come due, and it won’t be paid in votes.”
I'm not leaving my broken leg without a cast because someone else FAKED a break. Miss me with this bs take.
Here's how P47, 'won'
There were bomb threats at my polling place and several others. I’m sure lots of people who were in line didn’t return, and yet I haven’t heard a thing about that since election night.
On a serious note, he looks like shit. Why is he so swollen?
Y’all are still at it? I haven’t seen the timeline this united since… well, ever.
FLAG: Missouri's governor just called a special session of the state legislature to pass a gerrymandered congressional map in favor of Republicans. Just like what Greg Abbott did in Texas.
Republican Rep. Barry Moore was heckled so badly at his Alabama town hall that he literally left out the back door in the middle of the event. Moore didn't offer concluding remarks or even bid good night to the rowdy crowd as they chanted "Shame!" during his exit. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Hey North Carolinians, it's your turn to make some more calls and write some more letters! Our press release went out today to notify national and local NC media about our findings in our NC Data Analysis Report: electiontruthalliance.org/analysis/nor...
Let's compare two state-wide elections. One with hand count vote tabulation (MN) and the other with digital vote tabulation (NC).
ETA's Nathan Taylor will be joining virtually as a special guest. We hope to see you there!
Read the Press Release here: electiontruthalliance.org/statements-a... Read the North Carolina Data Analysis Report here: electiontruthalliance.org/analysis/nor... #News #Media #ETA #ElectionTruthAlliance #NorthCarolina #LettertotheEditor #CallToAction #GetTheWordOut
If you'd like to see more media coverage of our work, you can help us get the word out TODAY with a letter to the editor. ✍️
"[RFK Jr.] wondered whether COVID might have been 'ethnically targeted' so as to 'attack Caucasians and black people' while going easy on 'Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.'"
We've launched a new D.C. campaign demanding that federal agents take off their masks — because public servants should face the public. Our posters and mobile billboard will be blanketing the District, demanding accountability.
I miss the old brand #CDC
Joni Ernst is not running for reelection. @lauren-egan.bsky.social spoke to Senate candidate Josh Turek before the news, and he said she was already in big trouble: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbUP...
Just in time for Taco Tuesday
At 3 pm Wed., a woman was stabbed just off a busy intersection on H Street, NE. National Guard members were dining al fresco at a taqueria DIRECTLY across the street, yet the suspect got away. "So safe," a local texted us. Our postcard from an Occupied D.C.: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
We were warned by Washington, Lincoln and others. Now we must oppose this authoritarian regime, firmly voice our commitment to the Constitution and rule of law—and assert what it means to be American. www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...
There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...