BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
The awkward reality is that nobody knows anymore whether FEMA as it currently exists will be around by the end of the year. But there’s another elephant in the room: The agency was breaking long before Trump. Tag-team w/@leslieatlarge.bsky.social. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
🛬🛬 Eastern 737 (N959BP) joins GlobalX (N630VA) on the ground in Guatemala City ✈️ Meanwhile, JD's old campaign jet (Eastern N917XA) appears headed to Honduras 👀
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In pictures and videos, 2 of the experts whose testimony helped shut down "Alligator Alcatraz" walk us through their beloved Big Cypress National Park. It's a fascinating look at a dynamic ecosystem: wapo.st/3JCCpoG (gift). 🌎
Hello, I am furious www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
On Wednesday, as firefighters worked to contain a 9,000-acre blaze in western Washington's forests, federal officials escorted 44 of those firefighters off the premises, arresting two of them on charges of illegally entering the country.
Breaking news: A federal judge in Washington blocked the Trump administration from firing Michael Abramowitz as Voice of America’s director, weeks after Kari Lake first attempted to remove him from the post.
"Researcher who has distorted voter data appointed to Homeland Security election integrity role" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
kind of just endlessly and irrevocably furious at anyone and everyone who euphemized rfk jr’s malign conspiracism as “skepticism” or co-signed the idea that “he makes some valid points” or “is asking the right questions”
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
Rep. @jrclemmons.bsky.social asking @govbilllee some fair questions…
Each year, air pollution from US oil and gas kills an estimated 91,000 Americans, making it the 8th most common cause of US death, and afflicts ~210,000 US kids with asthma. Pollution-related illnesses disproportionately affect Black and Asian communities.
This is infuriating. It is also important, and I strongly suggest it as your next longread
some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly
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Breaking news: The Trump administration placed some FEMA employees on leave Tuesday after they signed an open letter of dissent about the agency’s leadership, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
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They all are. This is how they maintain control.
It’s honestly kind of impressive how MAGA guys bleat about traditional masculinity but then embody none of the actual virtues (courage, discipline, honesty in the face of difficulty, self-control, restraint) that make up traditional Western masculinity.
Today is the anniversary of the 19th amendment in 1920. When my mother was born her mother had just gotten the right to vote. 105 years. A lifetime, but not forever.
The U.S. DOGE Service uploaded a copy of Americans’ social security data to a digital cloud, risking the security of critical personal information for more than 300 million people, a whistleblower in the agency alleged.
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Once again, AI is just an excuse to justify human decisions that would have been made anyway.
BREAKING: Trump-appointed judge *dismisses* DOJ lawsuit against Maryland judges over their decision to automatically pause deportation cases for 48 hours He also calls Trump and his admin's attack on judges a "smear" that is "unprecedented and unfortunate storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting
(16/??) With all this going on - the Visa/Mastercard thing, Itchio, Steam, Stripe, I know it’s tempting to say, “but I don’t write/make [xx]!!!” But, as someone who lived through Reagan, the AIDS epidemic & the Satanic Panic, I’m here to tell you it does not matter Once one falls, we all fall
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
Donald Trump said that his military crackdown will hurt contenders for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, drawing an explicit link between his deployment of National Guard troops and politics
“One of the very real struggles of the last year has been trying to find ways to describe the changes in the culture at the Texas Capitol without sounding hyperbolic. It is nearly impossible for veterans of the building.” quorumreport.com/quorum_repor...
Journalism has brought me into contact with a lot of sources who tried to blow the whistle. Often, those people ask to be anonymous. This is the rare story of someone who took on a major Wall Street firm and is willing to tell her story. 🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Indeed, if ONE single sophomore at Random St. College ends up burning a flag, the entire right-wing fascist media will rise up in a perfectly-in-tune choir and pronounce that "the left" and the entire Democratic Party are burning flags. Expect this to happen within days.
DOJ tried and failed three times to indict a woman for allegedly assaulting an ICE officer during an arrest of two purported gang members. So they were forced to reduce her charge to a misdemeanor. www.courtlistener.com/recap/og-loo...
>national guard are carrying guns now >Trump is planning on deploying the military to even more cities >the FBI is going after domestic political enemies >the administration is manufacturing cases against members of the FED >we’re staging Naval assets near Venezuela >ICE is rapidly expanding
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Ever since 2016...plus with the exposé about Dem fundraising grift, it's just a disaster for progress.
Dem strategists are idiots. I said what I said. If we were that bad at our jobs we would have been let go.
South Korea's $150 billion deal with the Trump administration to revive US shipbuilding promises big rewards but masks hidden risks.
what did this idiot think was going to happen when he endorsed trump? EVERYTHING TRUMP IS DOING WAS LAID OUT IN WRITING IN PROJECT 2025.
Documents obtained by FOX News show planning for activations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming – with status effective from August through mid-November.
Chat, I think we have a small civil-military problem developing
These fascist goons are mobilizing the whole power of the US government to persecute this one man and ruin his life, because he embarrassed them.
“Papers, please”
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Maybe it's the soft fringe of the trad wife to alt right funnel 😬
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
Ahead of President Trump’s second term, scientists and advocates sought to tighten rules that protect climate researchers and their work from political interference. The Trump administration has now rolled those changes back.
well she did not consider pedophilia inappropriate so what does this even mean
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Doesn't generate clicks or donations
I've always liked the term "slave lord" for the Southern planters: it cuts right to the heart of what they were and what they imagined themselves to be, and flenses away their pretensions toward high cultures. They wished to be lords over slaves: that is all you need to know about them
I can testify from experience that this is extremely true and only getting more so as universities and journalism are destroyed
Over at The Bad Place I just posed this question to William Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and a Trump loyalist. All news orgs should be asking this question:
Yep, I reported this several weeks ago. William Pulte, a Trump loyalist, is using the FHFA bureaucracy to help Trump gin up fake pretexts for prosecutions of his enemies. One former IG told me: “From beginning to end, this process is highly irregular." newrepublic.com/article/1980...
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A week and a half ago, a shooter emptied hundreds of bullets into a federal building
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They're spoiling for a bloodless coup, betting that the side of peace and justice will settle for peace rather than justice...
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They'd never envision a singular, external entity with enough money to buy majority influence in all three branches 😢
Life comes at you fast
USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
"The children were eerily listless; they did not run, shout or even swat the flies off their faces. Their tiny, frail frames made many appear years younger than they were. Near the head of the line, Kaltum Mohammad clutched her two-year-old daughter, Fatima, who weighed just 16 pounds."
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Some of that reads very much like ChatGPT summarization
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Something old, something new; something borrowed, something blue :)
Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin
just lost $100,000 on a polymarket bet that trump would negotiate a peace deal today with putin. i was sure of it. i can't believe i lost all this money. he wrote the art of the deal.
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Karma/sanity/time points for sure
France said that it would recognize Palestine as a state, and the UK and Canada have conditionally pledged to do the same. What difference does that make?
A divided appeals court panel said the Trump administration’s U.S. DOGE Service can access sensitive data held by federal agencies, rejecting concerns that the move runs afoul of privacy law.
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Prepubescence
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Excellent navigation from the Philippine captain 🫡
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and at least three other federal agencies have canceled their contracts with unions. The cancellations are a part of a broad effort by the Trump administration to strip federal workers of union protections.
Who wants to buy an NFL team? Here’s the playbook private equity firms are using to snap up franchises
does anyone else have a cat that nags them to go to sleep? like buddy im working to pay YOUR BILLS
FlyBase is the database for all things genetic and molecular in Drosophila (fruit fly) pathway research. They are amongst the smallest and most detailed model organisms and have us solved so much about human disease. This is devastating and due to NIH cuts. #scicomm #academia
"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."
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"This is not an airport, no need to announce your departure." 🤣
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Licking so many well-heeled boots is apparently time-consuming.
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Same :(
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Purity tests suck.
"I don't want that guy on my side if he couldn't figure out that Trump was bad before shit started affecting him" I have bad news about what happens when you lose an election and then decide you don't want all the people who didn't vote with you the first time to continue not voting with you
Exclusive: The Internal Revenue Service said Friday it wouldn’t tell immigration authorities whether people had claimed the earned income tax credit, citing privacy protections. Later that day, Billy Long was on his way out.
The Emory shooter was a regular visitor to right-wing social media accounts which persuaded him that the Covid-19 vaccine was to blame for all his personal medical problems. So he took his gun to shoot up the CDC, killing a policeman in the process.
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Is that ChatGPT slop?
A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
Experts warn that famine is unfolding in Gaza — and that treating severe acute malnutrition will take more than just increasing food aid to the enclave. wapo.st/3H3rALx
It was a perfect Sunday. It was warm, sunny and there was a gentle breeze. Then, out of nowhere, a violent gust of wind tore through a canoe club — shredding an anchored umbrella, hurling Adirondack chairs into the Potomac River and flipping a canoe. wapo.st/45aieqv
Among other things, Katsas and Rao's opinions foreshadow how these two will run interference for Trump if Democrats take the House in 2026 and try to investigate the executive branch. They start from the premise that Trump is a king and work backward from there. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about
always the shittiest people involved
In the abstract there's no inherent connection between crypto and being a malevolent, transgressive asshole. But the two things run together with remarkable consistency.
The FBI has ousted at least two top officials, including its former acting director, in what insiders say is the latest purge of leaders targeted by Trump’s right-wing supporters.
The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.
Jared Wise was caught on video yelling "Kill 'em, kill 'em" as Jan. 6 rioters skirmished with the police. He called officers Nazis and the "Gestapo." He's now "a valued member of the Justice Department," a spokesman said. www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...
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Luxury brand/lifestyle consultant? 😅
Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
President Donald Trump is bending the U.S. justice system to his personal purposes in a way that is unprecedented in American history by attacking all three pillars of the system: judges, prosecutors and the legal profession.
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Your energy is wasted on them, unfortunately. They, like many MAGAts, thrive on persecution. Let's dig in and figure out how we can win the midterms and the next presidential election after that.
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We should just stop buying so many cars. Invest in public transit, private ridesharing, and walkabikity.