Book publishing person who went to law school by mistake. I was in New Mexico, now back in New York State. Fond of books, cats, books on cats, and cats on books.
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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...
My statement on @nadler.house.govâs decision not to seek re-election next year.
Trumpâs mysterious disappearance from public raises new questions about Joe Bidenâs advanced age
one of the greats. highly recommended Clearcut (apparently Greene's favourite of his own filmography), a gripping and angry political thriller about the conflict between an indigenous community and a logging company.
Data from 33 cities across the country discredits the claim that bail reform causes crime to increase. bit.ly/4dkG58o
The Internet always remembers, unless a high government official decides to level a takedown demand to make it forget.
Didn't quite elicit as thunderous a response as The Beatles, but nevertheless, here is a clip of my dad on The Ed Sullivan Show. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
We are losing some of the best & brightest.
"My goal before I die is for people to see my creations â to know I did not waste my time in prison but gave back to society by creating and sharing my art."
The number of newly-built homes sitting on the market hit levels not seen since the Great Recession.
NEW: This weekend in Trump's effort to make fascism happen. The Trump administration tried to illegally send children to Guatemala as troops walked aimlessly around Dupont Circle. This evening, at Law Dork:
Over Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration attempted to remove Guatemalan children who had come to the U.S. alone and were living in shelters or with foster care families in the U.S. https://to.pbs.org/4gcaHeI
Leaked âGaza Rivieraâ plan dismissed as âinsaneâ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Trump plans a hefty tax on imported drugs, risking higher prices and shortages
EU chief von der Leyen's flight disrupted by suspected Russian GPS jamming over Bulgaria www.bbc.com/news/article...
Pittsburgh is a union town, and we're proud of it. Labor is at the forefront of the fight against authoritarianism, because we know solidarity is stronger than any dictator. To our union workers this Labor Day and every dayâI've always got your back âđŸ
You know what, Iâm still pissed. You can have some data. Thereâs a problem here, and weâre not it. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
The records in the National Archives, released by the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, detail how the Justice Department, the FBI, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights responded to the 1955 killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till.
Since the start of the war, in February 2022, schools have found different ways to keep lessons going for pupils. https://to.pbs.org/4mH8QRh
The two leaders held talks after attending the key session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gathering in the port city of Tianjin, where discussions focused on regional stability, bilateral trade and energy cooperation.
Tens of thousands gather under âWorkers Over Billionairesâ, pushing for livable wages and economic justice.
President Donald Trump said Monday he will award former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom
New Orleans residents reflect on rebuilding their lives 20 years after Hurricane Katrina.
US has deployed military forces to the Caribbean with the ostensible goal of combatting drug trafficking.
Mexico's first elected Supreme Court is set to be seated, and observers are watching to see if it will assert independence from the governing party.
The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
China is rolling out the red carpet for more than two dozen world leaders at two major defense-related events this week. The guest lists, and some notable omissions, are a window into Beijingâs ambitions, alliances and attempts to expand its influence.
âWe fear we are nextâ: Palestinian journalists in Gaza targeted by Israeli smear campaigns
Media outlets have staged a front page protest to highlight the killings of more than 200 journalists in 22 months.
What to know about vaccines in NY as students go back to school https://gothamist.com/news/what-to-know-about-vaccines-in-ny-as-students-go-back-to-school
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, worldâs top scholars on the crime say
Larry Ellison bankrolling ÂŁ118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University
Take a closer look at the top-ranking officials who have quit the CDC www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/p...
A decline in foreign visitors traveling to the United States has stretched well into the summer. And tourism experts say the downward trend shows no immediate signs of reversing.
Ben Jennings on Nigel Farageâs noisy summer â cartoon
Huh. bsky.app/profile/the-...
Leaked âGaza Rivieraâ plan dismissed as âinsaneâ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing
Yvette Cooper accused of pushing children towards people smugglers by halting refugee scheme
The state often leads the way in conservative lawmaking. Here are some of the most significant measures that kicked in Sept. 1, affecting education, healthcare, public safety, property rules, first responders and more. via @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social
Tourism down in five out of six months, with experts linking decline to presidentâs rhetoric and restrictive policies.
Trump family amasses $6 billion fortune fter World Liberty crypto trading launch - at least on paper The Trump family's inflated crypto assets now surpass the value of their inflated portfolio assets The grift is astronomical www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
My new one is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Swiss food giant Nestlé said Monday it dismissed its CEO Laurent Freixe due to an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate.
Gift link Trumpâs fawning cabinet and the threat to US democracy Strongman authoritarianism thrives on sycophancy www.ft.com/content/4052...
The Trump system is impunity for friends and infinite scrutiny for adversaries. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mag...
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Causing a FĂŒhrer
Feels like itâs malpractice to not mention the part where he genuinely argued in court that mifepristone should be banned because âfewer teen pregnancies hurts the state financiallyâ. Thatâs gotta get attached to his name any time heâs mentioned. missouriindependent.com/2024/10/22/m...
Critics of Andrew Bailey, Trump's pick to help run the FBI, say the Missouri AG got the attention of the White House by following Trumpâs tactic of targeting political opponents. âWhat better way to show loyalty than to do exactly what Trump wants,â one said. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
President Donald Trump is considering declaring a new national emergency later this year to bolster the Republican Party's prospects in the 2026 midterm elections, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed on Monday.
Ukraine backers to discuss post-war guarantees at Thursday summit www.reuters.com/world/europe...
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. âThe real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionalsâŠâ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
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.
MAGA got everything they wanted out of Cracker Barrel and they still want to punish the company anyway. Just about the most predictable outcome you could imagine.
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.
Promises made. Promises kept.
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.
Unions built this city and keep it running. Theyâve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
So glad to see him reelected, and y'know *in* office since they literally changed the locks on him I wrote about this town last year bc there was a lawsuit to make it have elections, which coincidentally stopped around when the Voting Rights Act was passed đ ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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.
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions â and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
![Genocide justification is the claim that a genocide is morally excusable/defensible, necessary, and/or sanctioned by law.[1] Genocide justification differs from genocide denial, which is an attempt to reject the occurrence of genocide. Perpetrators often claim that genocide victims presented a serious threat, justifying their actions by stating it was legitimate self-defense of a nation or state. According to modern international criminal law, there can be no excuse for genocide.[2][3] Genocide is often camouflaged as military activity against combatants, and the distinction between denial and justification is often blurred.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreia4twc2qbwkmn3ozstknikbeo5xx56elnzdkycdjkzfkwehmvk4jq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
happy labor day
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
Make no mistake, everything thatâs happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
"Rudy Giuliani nursed an injured crow back to life with warm milk, then drove to a place not a liquor store, and then got in a car accident. After this, an unscrupulous stranger littered the backseat of his car with scores of emptied airline-size bottles of Gilbertâs vodka. Two may have been gin."
NEW: DOJ says the Guatemalan children have been removed from the planes and are "in the process" of being returned to custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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...
Trumpâs legal strategies in Texas this summer show a win-at-all-costs mindset that is trampling legal norms, said one legal expert. âWhat is truly incredible is the extent to which the GOP has fallen in line.â With @texastribune.org
getting scritched on his chin and holding my hand
The Trump administration has deployed more than fifty military vehicles to El Pasoâan effort to intimidate through âvisual optics." Itâs not clear what purpose theyâre actually serving. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/military-machinery-strykers-el-paso-border/
đ§”Last week, on the explicit orders of her FĂŒhrer, Gabbard revoked the security clearances of 37 individuals named on a list who had been marked for retribution by Trump. One of the 37 names released publicly was a CIA NOC agent, a covert operative, who Gabbard has now exposed and compromised.
He put chalk on his shoes then walked on the Pulse Memorial crosswalk. Police arrested him. But the court said they had no cause and he was released. The man arrested is now considering suing the state of Florida citing first amendment right violations.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week Three events about Latin America this week that I know about, which can be attended in person in Washington or online from anywhere. adamisacson.com/latin-americ...
Thanks to @nilc.org, @childrenslawcenter.org, @florenceproject.bsky.social & others who fought through the night to stop this abuse of powerâliterally as planes taxied for takeoff. #LaborDay #ImmigrantRights #ActNow Read our statement: www.immdef.org/blog/trump-a...
Yes, of course military occupation will for its duration reduce visible street crime. That's what Bukele in El Salvador is all about. Fascists want us to dispute that instead of emphasizing the military occupation *is* crime in so many ways & does more damage than all the muggers in the world.
When Guard get pulled away from their civilian jobs to go on orders, many are taking a pay cut. BAH supplements the base salary w/ a special allotment specifically for housing. That isnât EXTRA money. That PLUS salary is just APPROACHING civilian pay. Shorting them BAH is putting them in poverty.
From layoffs to billion-dollar budget cuts and ideological battles over history itself, the National Park Service is facing one of the most turbulent moments in its 109-year history. This week on @revealnews.org:
Wow. I want every university counsel who is thinking about cowering before the Trump Administrationâs threats, to read this and understand the caliber of attorney that has you shaking in your books. Yet another player in Trumpâs army of incompetent thugs. www.propublica.org/article/leo-...
It appears the Trump admin may again be lying to a federal judge.
Imagine how much money could have been saved just by going with an actual human to begin with www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
The European Union has to retaliate against the US and its tech companies. The FTC is telling major tech firms not to implement the Digital Services Act if it violates the âfreedom of expressionâ of US citizens. These companies must be ejected from our markets if they wonât comply with our laws.
Police "buffer zone" laws, which interfere with journalistsâ right to report on law enforcement activity, have been pursued in multiple states â and @rcfp.org attorneys have helped news outlets fight back against them.
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
On Sunday, hundreds stormed the home of Indonesiaâs finance minister, forcing their way in and looting valuables. On Saturday, protesters entered the house of a senior NDP lawmaker, destroying his car and carting off luxury bags, watches, a television, fitness equipment and even his bathtub.
Turns out the TN sheriff who inspired Walking Tall (and carried a big stick) murdered his wife. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
The #MarchOnWashington, 62 years ago this month, was for jobs AND freedom. The organizers chose that twin theme because we canât enjoy our freedom without jobs that pay enough for us to have a roof over our head, food on our table, and visits to the doctor when we need them.đ§”
Judge: I will look forward to the govt's status report, hopefully today, that all the children have been removed from the planes and returned to ORR custody. I want to take a moment to thank my courtroom staff, who I called at 2:30 a.m., who have been working on Labor Day wknd, and my law clerks
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!