Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Local news: If you watch it through, it sounds like the police are referring to this as a “fight.” This wasn’t a fight. It was a race-based attack. On August 16, 2025, a 14 YO Black teen from Platteville, Wisconsin, was attacked by white teens at a party in the town of Pulaski, Iowa County. 3/4
Record-breaking levels of corruption
And frankly helped us surpass many other local media’s social following even as it prevented continual harassment of our team members on X. I was constantly harassed, dispatched, lied about and talked to worse than anywhere online or off in my life there. Also: Nate Silver is a dweeb.
For the first time i have manged to not conflate Nate Silver for Duke Silver when Nate Silver is trending.
I love this guy
1/31 I believe there is growing evidence, that the White House is covering up the fact that Donald Trump has been dealing with TIA strokes. AND that he likely had a more significant ischemic stroke this week.
But he can still play golf? Or, is this a double and he really is dead? 🤷🏾♀️ Ijs
Hillary Clinton is responsible for CHIPS. She is behind why every child in the US has had access to healthcare whatever their families’ economic or immigration status. & work release isnt equivalent to slavery, & suggesting it is is morally abhorrent.
Funny how I’ve seen 1000 articles bemoaning the horror of young men’s prospects since I was young, yet never once have I seen a piece on how young women view the job market/economy Even when they’re the ones going to uni, holding down dom labor + traditional jobs You’d think one might like to know
"Fun really is the name of the game for Trump & co. It’s fun for them to see a majority-Democratic city like DC live in fear of violence/deportation, to flood the trains/buses with armed law enforcement just because they can, to unleash troops who understand that they will not be held accountable."
Many thanks to independent journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) for all the footage she captured.
BURGUM: “I was shocked to find out, like, ‘oh, [USPP] pull somebody over and they just drive away and you can't pursue them?’ And they said ‘no, we can't.’ We got that rule changed in 24 hours because of President Trump's leadership. The next night they had so much fun. They pulled people over.”
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
My theory is that Trump wants Roberts to act now because if the stonks crash before it gets to them, his argument for getting the MAGA 6 to ignore the law (IT MADE US GREAT AGAIN!) will evaporate.
Trump now routinely barks orders to the Opus Dei Court and they do whatever he commands of them.
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I feel quite sure whatever happened it was with intent to harm him, and not an accident.
Thank you on this labor day!!
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Has Trump addressed the public yet?
NEW: Judge Sooknanan gets all 76 children trump tried to send to Guatemala back home, trump has been MIA for almost a week, the Epstein estate is going to hand over some actual Epstein files, and a discussion with @rweingarten.bsky.social about her new book. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
I'm just gonna flip on some corporate media really quick... ABC: ads CNN: ads Back to CNN: Trump's Chicago "immigration enforcement" MSNBC: Protests in Chicago Back to ABC: A "federal judge getting in the way of Trump's immigration crackdown" Back to CNN: Weekend travel Nothing about Trump MIA
Trump is now seeming to question the effectiveness of COVID vaccines — demanding in a social post that drug companies "justify the success" of the vaccines that likely have saved millions of lives.
Where's his hair? He looks like he's on death's door. He needs to address the media.
Both can be true. The fix couldn’t/wouldn’t have been accepted so readily if we didn’t accept the racism and misogyny of Americans.
CNN confirms that the pilots landed the plane using paper maps. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
The high school where I taught for nearly half my career had Everyone Stay Home Days™️ in the 1990s & early 2000s during big influenza outbreaks. Our school nurse was wicked smart & she called them. Today, school nurses are thin on the ground. The outrage is manufactured to make us forget the…1/2
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
I -hate- having to sit through a video for something I could just read. Ugh. There are tik-tokers out there whose whole thing is just reading articles into a camera, and it makes me sad. How pathetic that is. EVERYONE needs to read more!
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it. She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody. Status report due at 12 noon today.
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
Today, Judge Sooknanan held an emergency hearing in a lawsuit filed to challenge the Trump administration's removal of unaccompanied minors to Guatemala. Read @annabower.bsky.social's live blog from the hearing: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
Lots of people with questions about this The government said there were 76 putative class members (children) loaded on planes yesterday But the putative class covered by the judge’s order isn’t limited to kids that were loaded on planes for imminent deportation That’s why the ~600 estimate
A leading vaccine expert warns of the Trump Administration’s effort to limit COVID shots at pharmacies, which would be “disastrous” for the American public.
We are living in ridiculous times.
Today I learned that Drew Ensign doesn’t follow me on Bluesky
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
Bunch of people who never had to uproot their entire lives and move thousands of miles away ought to stop pontificating on asylum and immigration
Dear gods. That is depressing.
Reminder: This three day weekend was brought to you by the sweat, tears, and blood of the labor movement.
MORE: Judge Sooknanan orders further status report from DOJ, setting 8:30 p.m. deadline to address whether all of the unaccompanied children have been returned to the custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Exactly. It doesn't give him implicit authority, either.
If you know the real Giuliani story, please send the scoop to @marisakabas.bsky.social
What would great is if everyone just acted like he was dead anyway. Publish obituaries. Just act like he isn’t there anymore. Front it out like they did with the whole “We won the election” thing. Think how furious that would make him.
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
Former US Attorney, Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens, has been charged with misconduct by the DC Bar for concealing and altering evidence during the J20 trials. New info from that hearing has revealed collaboration between Project Veritas and law enforcement. unicornriot.ninja/2025/newly-r...
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
How Ironic is Irony!? Marching in Melbourne today - AGAINST Migrants but then chosing to eat at a Chinese Restaurant afterwards...
Just interesting facts, for no particular reason.
Hiring practices at major meatpackers reshaped the demographics of middle America — and, in turn, gave rise to the nativism that produced the Trump era. @thefern.org
The National Guardners
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.
The last time Donald Trump showed his face live in front of the press was Tuesday, August 26th, during a marathon three-hour cabinet meeting. Maybe all that staged roundtable praise from his sycophants was too much for him.
Yes. Yes I do. It's beyond journalistic malpractice. The MSM is an arm of the trump administration at this point.
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
ICE procurement activity since August 22, totaling ~$19M. Companies highlighted in yellow are new to the "Who's Profiting from ICE?" map, available here: bit.ly/3TgUZEq Source: USAspending.gov
When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
I would have liked Bluesky to keep growing after the mass post-election surge, but I get why the numbers have settled in. Given that it isn't growing, it's remarkable that it is the number one source of traffic for many, if not most, publications, especially smaller ones.
![James Ball @jamesrball.com In January this year, Bluesky had about 1.6m accounts liking a post each day, and about 800,000 actually posting. That peaked at 2.2m and 1.1m respectively later that month. Today, it’s 1.2m likers and 600,000 posters. That’s a steady loss of 25% (or nearly 50% from peak) in seven months. [Graphs below] Left graph titled Daily Likers (blue bars labeled “Unique Likers”). Right graph titled Daily Posters (red bars labeled “Unique Posters”).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yobyqjt4hs5icoihvaombhhn/bafkreiatu6r5kfrtinewumzetkuicupy5askf2iqwpphvsaptsiff2sjum@jpeg "Click to view full size")
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
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."
Judge Sooknanan: And again, I'm not going to force you to respond sooner, but if you need five days, my order is going to stay in place. I have done all I can to try to make a decision based on what's in front of me. The government hasn't put anything in front of me to counter plaintiff's narrative
Judge Sooknanan: I am trying to do the best I can to fulfill my obligation as an Article III judge. I appreciate you all showing up today, and I particularly appreciate the government's representation. But I'm going to put it on the record again, just so there's absolutely no ambiguity...
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 says that she will wait to see Ensign's brief but at this point she's not seeing anything that would displace the statutory protections she just mentioned. Further, she says, I know it's extraordinary to enter a TRO on an ex parte basis. But I felt the situation was imminent...
Judge Sooknanan: For unaccompanied minors in particular, there are special procedural protections under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act...that's because this population is incredibly vulnerable. I don't see anything in what you're citing that would override those protections.
Judge Sooknanan to Ensign: "This is why we have process. This is why we have courts." Then she says that she also took the opportunity to look at the provision that Ensign cited. "I'm pretty skeptical that it gives the government the authority to do what you are claiming it does," she says.
Folks. Please read this. It’s just one page of simple declarations from a 10 year kid from Guatemala who doesn’t want to be sent back there. The US government is trying to do so, on a holiday weekend, and was going to just *do it* until folks started pushing back. 10. Years. Old. WTAFF?
He’s going try to bankrupt America, but we’ve got to continue to fight for our democracy.
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
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!
Good article. Written by Garrett Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social who does the EXCELLENT podcast “Long Shadow” which has 4 seasons—all relevant to what is going on today in the U.S. Lessons on what got us to where we are now politically. It’s a great podcast akin to Rachel Maddow’s “Ultra” Podcast.
This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
Feels less like freedom, more like control every day.
Instead of posting the Ten Commandments in public places let’s post the 25th Amendment
SciTech Daily: 'Covid Could Be Quietly Aging Your Arteries by Five Years' 'A major international study found that even mild Covid infections can stiffen blood vessels as if they had aged five extra years, raising long-term risks of heart attacks and strokes' scitechdaily.com/covid-could-...
That the people pushing/forcing it on society are all so cruelly stupid and greedy doesn’t help AI seem any better. *is there a word that describes stupid, cruel, lazy and greedy? Tech bro or Trump-y doesn’t quite catch it all.
AMERICA RISING UP AGAINST TRUMP bsky.app/profile/tues...
Thune/Johnson/Cabinet are CRICKETS
QAnon memes were not a small part of what mobilized Trump’s January 6th mob. Ignoring this is a dangerous mistake and we are making it twice.
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
That’s deeply concerning.
Brilliant
I don’t give a fuck if his hands look like grayscale rotisserie chickens left too long under the warming lamp at Costco… when the leader of the free world vanishes into the Mar-a-Lago ether for half a week, the American people deserve to know if he’s still upright. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
It’s also stupid and wrong more often than not. Or just throw out some buzzwords you heard once.
Leader Schumer is calling for RFK Jr. to be fired. "By keeping Robert Kennedy in charge of HHS, Trump is doubling down on his own failure. President Trump must admit his mistake and remove Kennedy now."
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.
Jay Lionel 