The only way to win is... To accept this as normal. (And take a nap later!)
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The only way to win is... To accept this as normal. (And take a nap later!)
#adulting
I wish I had your confidence. I ā¤ļø Zohran, but this country has let me down too many times recently. And NYC has a track record of electing s*** Mayors.
LOL
"They pay me not to punch people in meetings, thatās what the moneyās for." Oddly, this is also true for my accounting job.
Very cool train, but ā¦. hugely expensive project that will not have passengers for nearly a decade. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%A...
Noooooo Well, that's something to look forward to!
Though the use of "foreign terrorists" seems somewhat disturbing.
Wow. And... Is that the same cost* as Amtrak's new train that goes 160 mph - a whole 10 mph faster than the old Acela? ($2.5 billion for 28 trains, so actually about $90 million each.)
āIn a deviation from Mr. Trumpās account, however, Mr. Rubio said that the vesselās destination was probably Trinidad or another country in the Caribbean.ā Further undercutting whatever weak self-defense justification the administration might be ginning up. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but itās also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are āHeritage Americansā. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
Thank you for saying it so clearly. The national media should learn from you.
My fellow brown migrants who show any support for Trump should read this carefully: "the fact that something is sanctioned by our government does not mean itās good for our country. That much is obvious with various forms of legal immigration today."
"So the statues come down. The names are changed. Yesterdayās heroes become todayās villains." You are talking about traitors to the union, Senator.
This speech is so infuriating - and illogical. The Lincoln he praises defeated the slave-holders he idolizes and whose statues were rightly brought down. And my fellow Indian-Americans should watch out - he's coming for us too.
If you need yet another lawyer to tell you that this is murder: this is murder
note: the choice of English and continental Europeans is not explicitly mentioned in the transcript and appears to be what the New Right listener implicitly understood as the American ethnos
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sc... TIL
"Mom, they didn't invite me to play with them!"
the us secretary of energy is one of those dudes whose response to climate change is "the weather looks pretty good to me today!"
Totally racist, of course, but also a desire to return to the time before the INA 1965 - very aligned with Trumpism.
it really is interesting that they recognize it isn't politically possible to claim the US as a specifically anglo-saxon country and thus have to retroactively include groups of european immigrants ā seen, at the time, as interlopers ā as "white" people entitled to the same claim on national origins
the basic argument of these guys is that lincoln was wrong, douglass was wrong, jefferson was wrong.
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Re the Scotch-Irish mentioned by Senator Eric Schmitt (Racist-MO) (And especially after seeing Say Nothing)
The president posting videos of the government bombing random people for supposed crimes is not a good indicator of what theyāre trying to normalize and escalate
"Trump's honest... about his crimes."
No due process, no citation of legal authority or evidence ā just *boom* goes the boat, with eleven souls lost. Despicable.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
This will register as an apology to most but a middle finger among judges. He said, āI simply did not understand that orders on the emergency docket were precedent." He's right; SCOTUS is wrong for pretending otherwise. I suspect he has a trick up his sleeve which will use this new understanding.
Hrmm, quite the sign of the times: an ethnic-cleansing manel discussion at the ānational conservatismā conference. š«
Yeah this is pretty much explicitly white supremacist. Not sure how he could make it more obvious short of screaming the N-word.
Isn't that just the excessive use of shoulder pads to make him seem broad-shouldered?
Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social - Trump is actually invading Blue states and DC on false pretenses. Maybe focus on his actions to break up the union instead?
it's like this guy said: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
You guys sure do love to be invaded by Texas, don't you?
The media's basic assumption that crimes only count if they happen in secret has been Trump's saving grace throughout his two terms. He keeps blabbing about them -- here, he's posting a video of a targeted assassination of civilians -- but because he's so brazen they assume it's no big deal.
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. Ā§ 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.āwhich has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latterās consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 ā¦ didnāt.
It do be like that tho
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance ā just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
If itās under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And thatād clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
The Trump admin dumped half a dozen men with serious criminal records in the Kingdom of Eswatini, where they are being jailed indefinitely despite all having finished serving criminal sentences in the United States. Itās a disturbing situation.
FUCK, man.
Nory Sontay Ramos and her mother Estela Ramos Baten fled to the US from Guatemala in 2016 to escape targeting by Calle 18. In June 2025, Nory was a rising senior and honor student. Then the Trump admin deported them. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social and Kay Guerrero report: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
"Trump had said he sent the troops in to stop a rebellion" should be laughed out of every court.
Eric Daugherty has a bachelor's degree from Florida Gulf Coast University, but assumes he's qualified enough to assess Judge Jia Cobb, who graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern and cum laude from Harvard Law School, clerked for an appeals court, taught law, and made partner in a law firm.
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
"Dalio resisted calling the presidentās model authoritarian or socialist, but described the mechanics bluntly: āGovernments increasingly take control of what is done by central banks and businesses.ā"
Motherfucking wind farmsā¦
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In Africa, philanthropy invests about 5000 times less in air pollution per year of life expectancy lost due to the issue compared to other major health threats. According to the Clean Air Fund, less than 300k USD per year was spent on air pollution across the continent from 2015-2022.
Only if you round-down!
For some more coherent thoughts on whether people who come to the UK as students should be claiming asylum, I made this explainer last time they went off on this stupidity a couple of months ago. It all still stands #r4today youtu.be/-MIPDZu9seI?...
On a more basic economic level, if someone trained at a British University takes a job in the UK and contributes taxes while probably not costing the NHS anything, that seems better for the government.
Batting 0.33 is pretty damn good for baseball!
Gotta do it for science
Also should be noted that this was because of a centrist Belgian political party!
LMAO
Gracie is so cute!
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Hopefully, he doesn't pull a Fetterman on us.
Say what now
Does @schatz.bsky.social even follow the science or does he crave common ground with "reasonable" Republicans more?
FTR: the photo shows people outdoors - where transmission is minimal - and wearing face coverings (not the best, but they are outdoors). Meanwhile, churches and other indoor group gatherings saw significant breakouts. These are scientific facts not in dispute.
I recently came across this World War I memorial in #Bangalore. It commemorates fallen soldiers of the First Madras Pioneers Regiment of the British Indian Army. Apparently, it's the oldest war memorial in Bangalore. It was erected in 1928. maps.app.goo.gl/CRzepPqf4M69...
Analysis by @jedkolko.bsky.social šš¾
"Comparing the six-month average from February to July 2025 with that of February to July 2024: the foreign-born unemployment rate was 4.1% in both years, and the native-born unemployment rate increased from 4.0% in 2024 to 4.3% in 2025."
"Forget the partial deals. Go in with full force and finish this,ā the premier [Netanyahu] reportedly said Trump told him." www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Strong President 47 criticizes the deals made by Weak President 45.
If you suggest that āforeignersā can be identified visually, you do not in fact mean āforeigners,ā which takes nothing away from the fact that there is absolutely nothingānothing!āwrong or scary with being around and surrounded by actual āforeigners.ā
The only time I talked to Sunstein was to ask if he regretted delaying revising the ozone standard under Obama. Surprise, no, he didn't.
This whole section on thinking liberals can be okay with getting rid of the EPA and the Department of Energy in a section on independent agencies (which they aren't) is... Weird and also, well, weird. Also, he's talking about shifting of responsibilities and no, Trump's actually killing oversight.
Weird to read Cass Sunstein say that religious discrimination against individual rights can be a liberal position. Seems like obsessive centrism.
Made America Great Again
āNothing can justify such an information blockade. Yet, it has been tolerated without debate by many of Israel's Western allies, who claim to defend the right to information as a matter of principle.ā www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Anyway, TIL Mukesh Ambani was born in Yemen...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed to Russian President Vladimir Putin that it is humanity's call to end the Ukraine conflict as soon as possible. www.thehindu.com/news/interna...
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
Trump looks at this photo and thinks: "time to send in the National Guard."
Alas, this is Wilhoitās insight at work again. Itās a ātyrannical federal governmentā when policies protect (or are benign toward) out groups; itās time to cheer when the government deploys arms in āinner citiesā on behalf of in groups.
Strap yourselves in, folks 1/
The f***???
www.financialexpress.com/trending/our... Indian textile exporter says his US customers are okay with Trump's (unlawful) tariffs. "Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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In the new Twisters, a real estate developer funds hurricane prediction research...
Insurrectionists get pardoned, one gets a military funeral, and now the others want compensation for trying to overthrow a democratically elected government. This is the future Chief Justice John Roberts enabled.
Thinking of the excellent atmospheric scientists I used to work with at NOAA and CIRES: Zeroing Out at NOAA www.splinter.com/zeroing-out-... an earlier post from @davelevitan.bsky.social š§Ŗ
NEW: DOJ reports that 76 children are involved, with 16 back with the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the 60 remaining to be with ORR by 10:30 p.m. (split as detailed). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Exploring Sustainable Futures" through lenses of modeling/scenarios, planning and speculative fiction. Can't wait to teach this new grad seminar starting Tuesday. Should be a ton of fun. HMU if you are a modeler, a planner or a writer and interested in popping in to chat with the students. (1)
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Reminded of US project I worked on pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... "Substantial venting from liquids storage tanks was observed at 20% of gathering facilities. Emission rates at these facilities were, on average, around four times the rates observed at similar facilities without substantial venting." š§Ŗ
Important context here is Mamdani is muslim and Bill Maher hates muslims.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
[the usual bastards:] āNo one wants to work anymore!ā ā¦ [the usual bastards, now in government:] (*pushes Black women out of the workforce, mass-fires federal workers, defunds academic research, defunds medical research, shuts down renewable-energy projects, rounds up undocumented workers ā¦*)
They normalized calling for the death of innocent Black men. They normalized the fact that they canāt stop sexually abusing children. They normalized a traitorous violent assault on the capitol of the United States. And these motherfuckers want to pretend *word choice* is the issue? Please.