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Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
I think that’s right as far as it goes. But even more makes it a bad editorial decision. They are trying to pry open a space in the constitution for Trumps illegal actions. On its face the president has zero power over elections save for enforcement of federal statutes before the courts.
“[A]nything we can do, anything at all, to slow, frustrate, or sabotage our government’s efforts—or to help another person who is being made to suffer by these people—has value.”
Investigative stuff is why I subscribe to independent media, including the handbasket. For me reason, large media with 1000x the resources will never do what I want, which is tell me what's what, who's who, and who's a little bitch.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Is this the LSU completion v. Clemson that was inexplicably reversed by chance?
Who cares?
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Her default is insufferable.
I don't know what the correct balance is. But I do know that we need to expand the pro-democracy coalition, and I suspect that this *will* require approaches that abandon stigmatization of allies and potential allies in favor of empathy and persuasion.
The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was detained at gunpoint by federal immigration agents is seeking $1m in damages and accusing the Trump administration of false imprisonment and “unconstitutional racial profiling”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mortifying.
so, bill cassidy, mcconnell, murkowsky, and collins could force Trump to get rid of RFK by refusing to advance any other agenda item if he doesn't. they could also demand real hearings. 1
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
this is “stuff pillows under the blanket to make it look like someone is sleeping in the bed” levels of cover up
I don't know if he's on his deathbed, but this is just weird.
A Democratic candidate for prosecutor in Virginia wants lawmakers to ban ICE agents from operating while masked or while concealing their identities; she says she’d then prosecute those who don’t comply.
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:
DEVELOPING: LSU’s law school dean to step down, the latest in a string of Black administrator to leave campus this year. @piperhutch.bsky.social reports lailluminator.com/briefs/lsu-l...
"So I'll tie a ribbon on my tree, grieve along with my neighbors, and advocate for necessary changes to improve gun control. No more children need to die before we take serious action." - Jennifer Bertram, MomsRising member and mom of two in Minneapolis #MomSky
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
What a dick!
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.” Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
FFS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
But God forbid you actually help anyone with it.
2020 vibes. fox4kc.com/news/covid-1...
LOL.
Eisenhower, who probably had more personal potential to govern as an authoritarian than any leader in modern U.S. history, ordered military personnel in Washington, DC to not where uniforms because he thought the site of so much uniformed military in the capital city was inconsistent with democracy.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Let's assume there is a mental health crisis. What could we do immediately that would make a huge difference in mitigating mass shootings while we figure it out? Any ideas, JD?
He's going nowhere after Colorado. No way he's viable for the presidency as a Democrat.
I wonder if what's happening with the Cabinet is they know he's losing it, and they're trying to flatter him into complacency until he croaks so they don't have to 25th Amendment him.
Every Republican senator voted to confirm RFK Jr. as health secretary except for Mitch McConnell, who is retiring and thus was under no re-election pressure. The entire Republican Party has embraced anti-vax policies. It is pro-polio, pro-measles, pro-Covid. It's a death cult.
Trump is using makeup to cover the bruise on his hand caused by an IV drip. Question for you: what is in the drip?
People are so dumb.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
Reuters repeating a falsehood here. Most of this money was already granted to intel under the chips act passed by Biden. The rest under other pre-Trump programs
Well Goodbye Walgreens.
A federal judge issued a permanent injunction BARRING Trump loyalist Kari Lake from removing Voice of America director Michael Abramowitz. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
the thing that's so fucking infuriating about this is how much more that matters for the bottom 10% $1200 can be life or death at that level of income top 10%? $13K is nice, to be sure, but it's "maybe we'll take another vacation" nice not "oh good now we can afford to eat this month"
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Reading the new details about what went down at CDC, one thing jumps out at me: In standing up to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Director Monarez has shown the kind of backbone and integrity that often earns public servants a Profile in Courage Award— —awarded by the family of John F. Kennedy.
Do the voters of Florida care? They should be furious at the waste, if nothing else.
I believe this is what the kids call performative
*Ahem*
Michael Broadway died from an asthma attack on a scorching day inside an Illinois prison. Witnesses said a nurse didn't want to climb the stairs to his cell. A friend in a nearby cell put it plainly: “staff in these prisons DO NOT see us as human beings.”
Is there a scale we can refer to?
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
My job now is to go school to school, university to university trying to help them sort through the challenge of teaching in a world with AI and the first thing I recommend to improve the teaching of writing is cut the number of students per instructor in half. No one is going to do that, though.
The essay documents how Trump has made extraordinary progress on the authoritarian checklist. It has been infuriating to watch pundit blindspots on this, where they cannot look beyond US left/right culture war reference points. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Are you REALLY a member of the Trump administration if you're not doing at least two separate Senate-confirmed jobs at the same time?
This is part — just a small part, but a part — of the problem. They really don't believe government does anything — and don't want it to.
It should not be like this.
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
"Dems are overlearning the lessons from the last election and ignoring the new realities unfolding. Trump’s approval rating continues to fall, even among those who voted for him in 2024. They disapprove of his actions on immigration, the economy, and other issues." newrepublic.com/article/1996...
House Democrats should introduce articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. Let Republicans defend his lunacy.
Okay, free idea to any Democrat running for Congress: Say you support impeaching RFK Jr. It's an automatic winner!
The irony is that most countries would give Kilmar Abrego Garcia asylum from persecution *in* the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
“To see an unhoused person and think first of optics and not of the human soul involved is callous. That’s not what nurses do.” - a union nurse on Trump’s DC homeless sweeps.
Big rally of multiple unions in DuPont Circle in DC right now. “They want us to be quiet, but we’re just gonna get louder.”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Breaking: BILL CASSIDY is calling for CDC's vaccine advisers meeting to be postponed. "If the meeting proceeds, any recommendations made should be rejected as lacking legitimacy given the seriousness of the allegations and the current turmoil in CDC leadership."
Cassidy’s full statement The ACIP meeting next month is part of a process expected to lead to new, narrower CDC recommendations on who should have access to covid vaccines
Caterpillar warns 2025 tariff headwind will be larger than previously anticipated — $500-600MM, vs. prior guidance of $400-500MM). It now expects FY adjusted operating margin to be near bottom of the range. (h/t Vital Knowledge) $CAT d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-00000182...
1. The president is an obvious bigot 2. His administration is pursuing a panoply of racist and sexist policies 3. Lisa Cook is the first Black woman on the Fed board and has done research on economic effects of racism How are we not talking about this? paulwaldman.substack.com/p/can-we-ple...
Play hardball!!!
If Republicans want Democrats to provide votes to fund the Trump administration, they can start by restoring the health care that they ripped away to finance more tax handouts for billionaires. This fight is about saving health care and lowering costs for millions of Americans.
I really do believe she's trying to avoid DC's budget being further gutted. This addled wannabe dictator is in office for three more years; home rule could easily cease to exist if our leaders can't figure out how to manage that.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
WTH. Ridiculous.
And she's the highest ranking and Senate confirmed, so everyone is doing the right thing.
I think this is generally right, but I do understand why — given the apparent Friday deadline — some resignations today from among those who were going to be fired by the end of the week helped make this a bigger, institution-wide story and not just some manufactured Monarez story by the admin.
And playing in the sewage.
Ackman is truly insufferable.
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
I'm so sick of shitty people.
They are drunk on fascism.
It would be great to push RFK out now. Also: If we had pushed RFK out after the CDC shooting, we wouldn't have to worry about four open leadership positions at CDC with whoever steps in next. Every crisis where we wait to make this the objective means the damage will be worse when we regain power
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
Wow
America's dark love affair with off-the-shelf, military-grade firepower keeps our schools and children at risk. I wrote this in 2018. It has never lost relevance.
What jerks.
To those who wish to practice their faith differently than the state religion of Trump worship.
Remember when I told Virginia Foxx the truth about pro-lifers not really being pro-life? She got all offended. Is she that angry about the two children that were shot to death in their classroom today? Will she do something about it? You know the answer.
I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.
She's trying to get their funding back.
Hey @kenmartin.bsky.social, what about this?
Long-term, the party's problem is that rural voters have more power than urban voters. Nationalization is killing Dems. A better idea would be for the DNC to host 9 smaller regional conventions so that eg MT Dems can distinguish themselves from DC/NYC etc. Parties used to be more local/regional
