Christ how embarrassing
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Christ how embarrassing
this is so beautiful
It's really quite a thing to have a Secretary of Energy who does not understand, ummm... energy.
Even his “proof of life” video looks weird and off.
certain people made their careers flipping the fuck out, rightly, about the Bush-Obama drone assassination campaign. then in early 2017 they mysteriously went silent about it being radically ramped up, and again stayed silent when Biden largely ended it
So far during the second Trump administration, this puts the US military at: —1,000+ air strikes in Yemen (in March-April) —65+ air strikes in Somalia —5 air strikes and 2 JSOC ground raids in Syria —1 night of B-2 strikes on 3 sites in Iran —1 air strike in Iraq —1 air strike in the Caribbean
I know there is no god because, of all leading Republicans since the 2012 primaries, only Herman Cain got what he deserved.
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
As one of those "continental Europeans" Eric Schmitt presumes to speak for, I say, "Fuck Erick Schmitt, everyone who thinks like him, and everything those bastard sons of bitches stand for."
These problems are even bigger. As a constitutional matter, the deployment of unfederalized Guard personnel into a nonconsenting state can never happen. Never.
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
did they ever end up sending JAGs to help out in the DC US Attorney's Office? I haven't seen any on any of the filings
I swear that half of everyone else’s Immaculate Grid of Some Guys is made up of post-94 Expos.
Remember these guys? I kinda did.
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
Finland has this and low birth rates! I’m not kidding, it is literally a global phenomenon.
Yeah if you take your birth control pills like this schizophrenic illustration suggests one of your questions shouldn’t be “why am I pregnant if I was on birth control”
there's going to be an interesting dynamic here as American Christianity both declines and becomes more Pentecostal + non-denom (AOG is Pentecostal)
I hate the CIPA “privacy” actions we’ve seen and have been complaining that we’ll come to regret them for a while now.
Over here in privacy news, last week the Ninth Circuit came down with a pretty important decision in Popa v. Microsoft. It's short! It's easy to read! Here's the link if you want to read along at home: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
i don't think being on a site that gives anti-Black racism 20k likes is good for the soul
The Labor Secretary is not, in fact, elected.
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
Business genius! Bonuses for everyone!
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Real “in memoriam” vibes
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Congrats on your regime propaganda, ABC News.
On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were unforgettable, complex, and real. redpopnews.com/remembering-... #redpopnews
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
“Blueskyism” Rent free lmao
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...
crowdsourced estimates of today's protests are definitely on the lower side. but there are not zero, so seems like there should be coverage of them like... somewhere in the national press?
Now THIS is a proper home run, Yankee fans.
I'm a big Jeffries critic. But my entire extended family is way more mobilized by Jeffries's framing. I hear a lot from my fam about Trump ending Black History Month in the fed government. Constantly evident that there is not one (1) Black person in that network of Dem pollster consultants
There’s a good chance we’re going to spending the next year talking about health care: the CDC and vaccines, Medicaid cuts, and the impending expiration of enhanced ACA premium tax credits.
It looks more like a decomposing slug every day.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Thread: this is Russ Vought giving himself permission to ignore Congress and the constitution
“About her crimes, Maxwell remained utterly lacking in remorse.” “Blanche asserted as the interview began that the Justice Department had promised Maxwell nothing in return for her testimony. But within days she was transferred to a minimum-security prison …”
I’m sure if Trump is at all impaired by a health issue people will be very understanding.
The Trump administration cut CDC’s drowning prevention team. Drowning is the leading cause of death for children ages 1-4. Everything this admin does directly contravenes efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of people in the US.
Many “unconventional” takes from that account. Perhaps best to back away slowly.
I’m amused by this article bc of where it appears. Nothing here is novel—it restates points ppl have made for half a decade: gen AI enables both unreality & denial of reality. This makes sources of trust more important. But the ppl who put “misinformation” in scare quotes are suddenly concerned.
Trump leaves the White House this morning (Andrew Caballero/Getty)
I think he looks like the front page of the Times should be covered in speculation about his incapacity and impending death. However…
Trump’s too stupid to understand that he’s doing Putin’s bidding, Rubio’s too much of a coward to tell him, and all the rest of his cabinet of fools are active Putin stooges.
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
I’m sure the NYT is *all over* how amazingly healthy he looks.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
every pic of trump looks like this now
Should’ve responded, “Not half as worried as if she had to walk past a hotel full of BBC presenters”
In his own voice, Elon Musk is fully committed to a replacement conspiracy theory as his main lens on UK politics.
The mental fitness of elderly Presidents has been such an important issue for the media lately, so I expect wall-to-wall coverage of how President Trump has once again thrown a fit about one of his own signature policies, showing no awareness of how it arose or who executed it.
Such an important point: "We’ve never had a president face serious medical problems in an age as volatile as now. Should we be worried about Donald Trump’s health? We have no idea. And that should lead to more questions around the White House than it is."
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Courts still matter.
There are few things Elon Musk knows less about than birth control. However, his “seed the world to save Western Civilization” fantasies know no bounds. It’s also worth noting that he’s retweeting this British racist for his “facts.” hopenothate.org.uk/2024/06/20/e...
happy labor day
Pure distillation of Trump's view that positive-sum trade is literally impossible—buying = losing & selling = winning, automatically But also a good view into the inconsistencies of his trade "demands". He's mad at India for its tariffs, but even zeroing them wouldn't be enough?
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
you thought I was stupid, but in reality, you thinking that I was stupid means that the stupid one is actually you
Oh, he’s an India expert, too? Amazing.
AM I DEAD
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
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:
Can't believe that on my first day as a nurse I have been charged with replacing Rudy Giuliani's IV drip of Johnnie Walker Black while he is in intensive care. It's what's keeping him alive. You get into this line of work to take care of people, but you never imagine how important it could be.
Judge Sooknanan and her team have been working for almost 22 hours straight now. I imagine they will stay up till the last child has been returned (2 more hrs?). That puts them at 24 hours straight defending the rule of law & protecting the children. #DOJ #ICE
Taco Bell doesn’t publicize it but the winners of the Live Mas Student Section of the Year are, in fact, cursed with eternal life
Trump *never* stays in DC on a long weekend (or almost any weekend.) Why did he stay there on this one? Shouldn't he be at Bedminster or Mar-a-lago?
Imagine this guy was holding up an Orca necklace and saying “Sounders!”
My shirt came and it’s the best thing ever
o no way this is such a surprise im shocked this is my shocked face :-|
lol
The doctor came up to me, he had tears in his eyes, and he said “Sir, no one has ever seen a clot this big, it’s the biggest clot.”
man’s never met a press camera he didn’t want to be in front of and has been calling into every right wing radio station and cable show to rant for decades, if he’s doing neither, something weird is up
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Once more for those in back: They were never going to be able to implement a mass deportation program without prioritizing people like this. Criminals and gang members are too hard to find and apprehend. Regular folks who show up to work, church, and their scheduled immigration appointments are not.
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.
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
Far more disgruntled by the #Yankees performance today than by the Gunners' #NYYvsCWS
Israel has outsourced their own Madagascar Plan to the Trump admin and their GOP donors.
Like Kim Il Sung before him, he is the reason the sun rises in the morning
zero challenge to these outright lies. It’s as good as state-run media.
Yep. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Noni & Eze looked great, Martinelli looked worrisome, and Szoboszlai hit an absolute worldy. Would love to see us have a stretch where we don't lose two-to-three starters a week, tbh. #COYG #LIVARS
This is absurd and sickening.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Just for the record, Trump can’t do this. The constitution is very clear that the times, places, and manners of elections for federal office are up to each state, but can be altered by Congress. The president has no role here, except to sign into law or veto a bill that congress passes to do this.
This is true and 100% what needs to be done.
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it is so profoundly weird, yet in character, that she’s decided to die on the hill of “not letting kids scroll TikTok brain rot in math class”
also we have the contractual language now and it didn’t ban disclosure. but ah, what if creators thought it did?
Modi’s refusal to back Trump for a Nobel peace prize was instumental in the unraveling of a highly strategic relationship that has been carefully nurtured over decades www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...