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Many years ago, Jack Posobiec blocked me on Twitter when I proved he lied about attending a NASCAR race. He's a consummate poser in every way, but that also makes him a useful puppet for the worst people in our country. Anyway, Muslim Americans are among the best leaders our country has to offer.
And yet... even the intimidation factor is a bit undercooked, to say the least, when you're watching National Guard troops spend all day picking up trash and look bored on street corners.
No one knows why the National Guard is in D.C. The civilians of D.C. don't know. The National Guard doesn't know. Local officials don't know. Congress doesn't know. It's entirely unclear how the National Guard is reducing crime, let alone the expenses. Trump doesn't care. It's intimidation.
Well, there it is. The Trump administration is exploring a ban on trans people owning firearms. Trans people have accounted for less than a tenth of a percent of mass shootings over the past decade, but Trump is predictably seizing the opportunity to further oppress trans people.
The firearms ownership ban for trans people is patently unconstitutional, and I'm willing to risk sounding naive in saying the courts will immediately reject it, including SCOTUS. But meanwhile, this signals where the Trump admin is moving on trans people. And it's terrifying.
Way to go, MAGA.
Impossibly funny that MJ is waiting out the 75 minute lightning delay at the NFL game but his private jet was already in the air before the end of the third quarter of Bill Belichick’s UNC debut
NewsGuard - Despite a year of technical advancements in the AI industry, generative AI tools fail at a nearly doubled rate when it comes to one of the most basic tasks: distinguishing facts from falsehoods. www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/a...
The Nation - Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of the Bhumjaithai Party, is to become Thailand's third prime minister in two years after his predecessor was dismissed by a court ruling.
NYT reveals a classified operation by SEAL Team 6, greenlit by President Trump in 2019, that left unarmed North Koreans dead. Key members of Congress who oversee intelligence operations were not notified before or after the mission.
CNBC - US payrolls last month rose less than expected.
Manufacturing again lost jobs last month. Despite presidential promises of a manufacturing renaissance, we have fewer manufacturing jobs today than we did at the start of the pandemic in 2020.
This remains a fair amount of media framing as well. I have tried to emphasize that the constitutional crisis began the moment it became clear that this executive branch has no internal account of its legal constraints, only an account of what it can get away with. That was in January.
This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.
A Thread of Books I’ve Read in 2025! 1st: “The Boy on the Bridge” by M. R. Carey A young boy, a genius, is the only hope for the future of humankind. He is unleashed into the world of monsters as the rest of humanity holds their breath.
The US tech sector continues losing jobs—overall, employment decreased by 5k last month and is down nearly 10k over the last year That's not as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, but extremely bad compared to the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms
Yet another WEAK jobs report.
Not enough people know about Homer City. The single largest fossil fuel plant that's being built *explicitly* to power a data centre. This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now. bsky.app/profile/keta...
The US economy added just 22,000 jobs last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today — far worse than expected. The unemployment rate rose to 4.3% from 4.2%.
BRUTAL JOBS REPORT: Just 22,000 jobs added in August. Unemployment rises to 4.3%. Broader jobless rate jumps to 8.1%. Slowest 4-month growth since 2020. Plus, downward revisions for June and July of -21,000. Yikes.
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business announces that the 22,000 jobs added in August are "much less than the expectation of 75,000" and that they June and July numbers were revised down as well
This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him by @trevoraaronson.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/09/05/f...
"Decluttering itself of any excess kids." (As always, follow @petridishes.bsky.social, won't you?)
It's #LetterboxdFriday! What's YOUR #LastFourWatched? I watched a Hitchcock thriller and the Park Chan-wook it inspired, Cronenberg's latest, and the Naked Gun sequel.
Look at broader measures of unemployment—including people who want a job but aren't in the labor force & people who are working part-time but want a full-time job—and the labor market is in the worst place since the pandemic
Week in wildlife: a slow loris, a tiny deer and a glamorous dumpling squid www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪🌎🦑
"I was at the bottom of my class. I started doing heroin, and I went to the top of my class. Suddenly I could sit still and I could read." We’re not doctors but it kinda seem like this should’ve been disqualifying 🤷🏻♂️
Remember, STATUTE LAW and NHS rules REQUIRE trans people to live as their preferred gender FOR YEARS, IN PUBLIC, to prove they deserve legal or medical transition. This makes that impossible. It is exterminatory.
Having a replacement bank card for the first time in 5 years, yes 5 years. Autistic me is really not a fan of this change because you have to literally change payments over and the whole process of doing this stresses me out. Why can't some things even if it's just this one.. stay the same.
"I don't know what a constitutional crisis would look like. I don't think that we are currently in a constitutional crisis, however," [Barrett] added. "I think our country remains committed to the rule of law. I think we have functioning courts." ----- Well, the first sentence is true. Link: 1/
Leaving aside he can't do it, it's also just pathologically insecure and small.
The Trump administration is using crime and degradation as an excuse to control important transportation hubs. The government controlled the trains in Nazi Germany. They control them in North Korea. And now, they’re wrestling for control of the trains in the United States of America.
I guess that would make Hegseth become Secretary of DeWars
After Congress clawed back public media funding, PBS says it's cutting 15% of its staff, or more than 100 jobs.
and just like I have for authors and illustrators there is an option to join in with a publisher q&a on the blog, 29 already there #publisher #IndiePress #IndiePublisher #SmallPress bigbeardedbookseller.uk/questions-fo...
The beautiful reason I like to leave dead wood in my yard. #photography #naturephotography #nature #birdoftheday #birds #wildlifephotography #eastcoastkin #bluesky #artist
Jim Henson designed owls and you can never convince me otherwise
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
This move by the Trump administration is an overtly discriminatory civil rights violation. Trans people have the same legal rights as other Americans — end of story. There are lots of good reasons to keep certain people from owning guns. Being trans isn't one of them. https://cnn.it/4niJnxG
Great news for people seeking COVID shots in New York if it's legal (which I *think* it is)! (Reposting with alt text)
‘Classes and student services would be reduced, patients would be turned away, tens of thousands of jobs would be lost, and we would see UC’s world-renowned researchers leaving our state for other more seemingly stable opportunities in the US or abroad,’ UC President James Milliken
Four years ago, I tested for COVID. I'd had dinner with someone with cancer the night before. Thanks to the vaccine, I did not give that dinner companion COVID. And I only ran a low-grade fever for a few days. Fuck that idiot RFK Jr. and the equally stupid buffoon who hired him.
Make America Great Again
Ah yes, because the problem worthy of public debate is what we *call* it when #SCOTUS decides major issues without full briefing, argument, or written opinions—not, you know, what the Court is actually *doing* in these cases. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Will Bunch on Trump's DC takeover as a prelude to dictatorship open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup... “…this idea of sending troops into “high crime” cities with Democratic mayors and large Black and brown populations is something that was argued for explicitly in Project 2025.”
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How Much History of American Slavery is Too Much? 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Special Weather Statement issued September 5 at 6:00AM EDT by NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DC Additional Details Here.
He waited 12 HOURS IN THE RAIN to be the first person to buy a pair of his cousin’s shoes! 🥹🤝 #ThunderUp Atlanta Hawks’ Nickeil Alexander-Walker was the first person in line at KITH Toronto for the Converse SHAI 001 🔥 🎥: Nice Kicks
I once toured Atlanta’s 175-year-old Oakland Cemetery with a friend. Were struck by how many families lost multiple children within days of each other. We realized it was due to the lack of vaccines. And this kooky, lying moron wants to take us back to those days. RFK Jr. should resign.
"Fast congressional action is essential, because the Supreme Court may soon finish its work undoing court-created exceptions to presidential control, handing Trump ... the power he seeks over the central bank." The latest from Michael W. McConnell:
So the block above is because @ estru.me decided to block me - but should be a great candidate for your blocks as well. The line that led me to this was when they responded to a post about doomer nonsense with "Good luck voting harder in the next election."
I would also like to state, if this congress member votes against the release of the files, she looked one of the victims in the eyes knowing her pain and still said no. Keep the pressure on! @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
If you’re unfamiliar with his history, start with this article I wrote last year: news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-as-... Please stop endangering the lives of all of us—and not just Americans, but the world. 🧵
He profits by attacking science, while kneecapping our ability as scientists to improve humanity & the planet. He must be removed as HHS Secretary immediately. So do his allies in other leadership roles. If not, the immeasurable harm he’s already caused will get far worse. 3/
Stop thinking he will be truthful. He won’t. He is a threat to public health & scientific progress. He’s demonized innovation for: Food safety Food stability Farming Infectious diseases Cancer Genetic disorders Dental health Public & population health The environment 2/
Any Senators here? I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/
Unclench your jaw. Relax your brow. Go get a drink of water. See if you've taken your meds Eat something. Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing. Because you do. You're a wonderful person. And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through
Spencer Kuvin, Epstein's victims' lawyer, says the FBI interviewed 40+ girls, some just 14, and prepared a 54-count indictment. Then came the secret plea deal that let Epstein walk. Those interviews are in the files. Kuvin says Alan Dershowitz scoured the girls' MySpace pages to smear them as liars.
My favorite thing that’s ever happened is a woman at his work asked my dad “you’re not related to Jessica Ellis, from Twitter, are you?” And he said “yes! That’s my daughter!” And she said “hm” and walked away.
throwing a TDAP booster into the cart with my COVID and flu shots for this weekend like a free gift with purchase I literally pulled up my vaccine history going back to the 90s and googled "how often" for every fucking thing on the list just to make sure RFK Jr doesn't take me out without a fight
Girl stfu lawl
🎵 as we sing the Hobgoblin song 🎵 🎵 todaaaaaaaaaay 🎵 #MST3K
Ah, football season. When my depression and existential angst over our country is periodically replaced by my exasperation and anguish in being a Cowboys fan. A welcome distraction.
L.A. National Guard deployment cost taxpayers $118M, Newsom says flip.it/80lLR TOTAL WASTE OF OUR TAXPAYER MONEY.
My mom — who is in her 70s and immunocompromised — could not get her vaccines today. RFK Jr. is lying when he says he's not making harder to get vaccines.
TIL!!!
I will go back to regularly scheduled programming of dogs and travel when this country stops losing its mind and listening to idiots who wouldn’t know a petri dish from the worm in their brain.
Second Amendment for me but not for thee.
Phew THIS WAS A DAY still poring over Sec Kennedy’s testimony … but it’s time for bed. We need to be on point, for the long haul, not just for the moment.
Not clear what possible legal justification there is for the extrajudicial execution of alleged drug traffickers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
TWENTY. MINUTES. LEFT. www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
RFK lied to my face. He said he hadn’t fired any scientists. RFK has fired over 3,000 scientists from HHS. It’s shameful. He must resign.
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure about an Office spinoff, but I am enjoying The Paper. At this point I should accept that Greg Daniels could make just about anything and I’ll enjoy watching it.
Con schedule shake up: Due to a conflict I won’t be heading to MCFC in 2026. I appreciate the invite, just isn’t gonna work this time. However I have now threatened several Canadians with the fact my March isn’t too busy and Toronto is only 8 hours away.
A real hoax disappears after a while. The Epstein files are here to stay.
The President is begging me to call him to bring in the National Guard. I’m not going to beg him for something we don’t want.
The official DOJ Twitter account posting the equivalent of a screenshotted Notes app apology from a phone on 30% battery after the acting director got honeypotted on Hinge and confirmed plans of an Epstein/Maxwell coverup.
I went away to write for a few hours and when I came back the [checks notes] United States Justice Department had oosted the equivalent of a notes app apology on 30% battery in airplane mode like a B-list celebrity circa 2016, what else did I miss??
i am watching clips from the kennedy hearing and one thing that comes across is his petulance at being challenged. he is like an overgrown baby (if that baby were a hot dog you grilled too long)
Another day, another headline you never could've imagined before this year, Mad Libs for the terminally online, help me mother
Cat that obviously hasn’t been fed in weeks, needs that tiny morsel to survive. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
DC leaders react to lawsuit aimed at ending National Guard deployment
Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…
🚨🚨🚨🧵 by @gregorytravis.com about children deaths from diseases: "Here is a chart that shows how every year from 2010-2024 deviates from that 10K deaths a year average Notice anything?" Full thread: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19635...
apnews.com/article/vacc...
*SMOOCH* "Oh darling. Darling, darling." "Oh, yes darling." "I need to tell you something." "What is it darling?" "I'm in the wrong flat." (Gratitude to Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers for corrupting me as a youth.)
of course she doesn’t. the (republican) president is rightfully, by her lights, an elected dictator. trump is doing nothing that the constitution does not give him the power to do, according to her and her republican colleagues.
This is *literally* what some district court judges have said in opinions! The bad things the Supreme Court is doing through the shadow docket aren’t too difficult to figure out if you take apart each piece of the legal process and describe what it is supposed to accomplish.
Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.
FINALLY! As someone who has written a lot of television for WB, I am relieved to see them finally defending their copyrighted works from AI crooks. If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime. deadline.com/2025/09/ai-l...
For your situational awareness.
Today's bulletin is a must read: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
heading to the airport to pick up the fam and my husband chooses to do psychic damage to me by saying “I started high school in 2010”
Oh, so guns *do* kill people? Gotcha.
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order tomorrow giving the Defense Department a "secondary title" as the Department of War. White House officials now confirming. Looks like a way to use the title while juggling the law -- the 1947 National Security Act -- that gave DoD its name.
BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests them, regardless of age or underlying conditions.
What is obvious: RFK Jr is an unqualified kook conspiracy theorist who has the CDC in shambles because he wants scientists to adopt his internet conspiracies as health policy putting us all in danger. Vance with the standard ‘look over here!’ MAGA playbook: Trans people!
