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NEW: During an emergency hearing on Sunday afternoon, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plans to deport hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children. Read my live coverage of the hearing on @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
New: The NIH cancelled more than a half dozen grants focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth. Turns out that's indicative of Trump's broader mental health plan—defund research, incarcerate people, & disappear the workforce. Took a deep dive w/ @juliametraux.bsky.social for @motherjones.com:
What can history teach us about saving democracy today? Marc Elias sits down with political historian Heather Cox Richardson LIVE on Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. ET. Members can hear exclusive questions and connect in the chat. Become a member to join:
Disgusting! Trump penalizes students doing cutting edge research in top US universities. Jealous insecure little punisher: what kind of leader pulls this crap on his own country’s best and brightest? Worst leadership of all time! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
An important reminder from @rweingarten.bsky.social this #LaborDayWeekend: We meet people where they are, and we realize it's what they hear and feel, not what we say. #WorkersDeserve
CHICAGO…
On your way to or from a National Park or whatever you are doing, this is a great listen on the importance of parks and what the plans the Trump admin has to gut it even further would mean for generations ahead podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Thank you @phoenix509.bsky.social 💙 @markrf400.bsky.social @freddierose.bsky.social @maplemama20.bsky.social @abbarsha.bsky.social @roray1010.bsky.social @christymche.bsky.social @sandyj.bsky.social @dougieg633.bsky.social @trixie57.bsky.social @habsmtlcanadiens.bsky.social
After Trump’s reckless decision to remove fmr VP Harris’s Secret Service detail, sources in California say the state’s Highway Patrol will work as her protective detail—for now. It’s great to see immediate pushback against Trump’s retribution tour. More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/obama-call...
MAGA is desperately trying to convince voters that expertise is bad, or suspect, or untruthful Success at that is a key step toward not only authoritarian control, but also the end of our species - eventually
🇪🇪🇺🇸 Estonian extradited to the US for helping Russia acquire American electronics, — Militarnyi • He is suspected of years of attempts to circumvent US export controls. • He created shell companies and misled American suppliers in order to purchase technology for Russian defense contractors.
🇺🇸🚫🇺🇦 Trump is seriously considering stepping back from the diplomatic efforts regarding Ukraine until one or both parties begin to show more flexibility, - Axios
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
During a town hall Wednesday in Worth County, Iowans urged Hinson to “stop lying” after she claimed that the president’s key legislation had ushered in “higher wages” and an improved cost of living. “Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “For who? For you?” trib.al/KPLYXyQ
signed a letter challenging the leadership of Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump. We shared their letter of dissent about a week ago.
If you aren’t completely loyal to the regime or dare to voice dissent, you risk being removed. Time and again, anyone who stands up is pushed out. Most recently, the Environmental Protection Agency dismissed eight employees after they
On Labor Day, we rise together. While billionaires buy up our government, we’re coming together to demand a country that puts workers first. Find an event near you: www.mobilize.us/mayd...
Recently Divorced Man Thinks Everyone Else's Relationship Is In Trouble https://theonion.com/recently-divorced-man-thinks-everyone-elses-relationshi-1819566132/
"Congratulations to President Donald Trump and his whip-smart administration on turning America’s brave National Guard troops into the most expensive gardening crew in human history." https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/28/trump-national-guard-picking-up-trash-dc/85853498007/
📣 ICYMI: For the third year in a row, we're being told to make do with less water from the Colorado River. Families, farmers, and tribes all depend on this lifeline, yet $400M in conservation projects that could help are frozen by Trump’s budget cuts.
Everyday heroes. Tell ICE to fuck off every chance you get.
Trying to make sense of the news without losing your mind? Same. This is where I check in. thinkbigpicture.substack.com
Federal judge in Maine orders release of Ecuadorian man whom Border Patrol flew to Texas
Police must confirm Maine suspects have waived constitutional rights before they are questioned, top court says
Do the Tough Guys feel safe yet?
This is why Republicans have to cheat with maps. They can't win on policy.
📲 Now is a moment to call your Senators and Reps! 5calls.org/issue/rfk-hh...
In Indonesia, rising unemployment and inflation have driven days of demonstrations, which spread across the country after a deadly clash with police. nyti.ms/4mKFpOo
Watch: Chicago mayor draws line in the sand with executive order defying Trump
#AI #ICE
Reup: John Roberts gave Ed "Big Balls" Cositine live and unaudited access to every Americans' social security data. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
163 years ago today, white-supremacist terrorists killed 123 soldiers from the NY 5th Infantry in 5 minutes, the greatest loss of life of any US infantry regiment in the Civil War.
Trump's fascist propaganda sign on the door to the shitters at Manassas National Battlefield Park
Trump did this
I’ve polled 40 students at my liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. 60% report that they avoid AI chat bots like the plague. 75% report having a generally or strongly negative opinion about how AI will impact the future.
Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump/GOP attack everything that’s blue from blue collar workers to blue states & blue cities! This is the most anti-worker, unAmerican administration in USA history! Trump is a union buster all to help billionaires including himself! He knows unions fought & won rights & dignity! Stand with unions!
"The thing that we have to do as labor is show up, stand up, speak out to make sure that people know that... the fight for a good life, the fight for a better life is our fight, and it's everybody's fight." — @rweingarten.bsky.social #WorkersDeserve #LaborDay
Trump is widely loathed here in Chicago. We will resist.
Israeli airstrike kills Houthi prime minister in Yemen, rebels say
The act will phase out intentionally added PFAS in children’s products, cosmetics, sleepwear, underwear, menstrual products and dental floss by 2032. www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/08/illi...
FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
AB 288 just passed out of appropriations and is all about protecting workers' right to organize and making sure no worker is left behind. Thank you for Asm. McKinnor for protecting workers’ rights to organize.
In other news, I am here for the mockery of Joe Rogan, his pal of mediocre comedians, and all these podcaster tools who promoted Trump and his fascist agenda. Finally happening at a mainstream level. The damage these hacks have done to young men...generational.
Dr. Daskalakis didn’t quit public health—he quit Trump’s public hell. Enough really is enough.
UPDATE: NORTH CAROLINA carriers have posted their *approved* avg. 2026 #ACA rate filings. Overall, the weighted avg increase is 27.8%, but there's also something weird: Around 263,000 NC enrollees seem to be "missing" somewhere. acasignups.net/rate_changes...
Probably shouldn’t have voted for a champion of pocket recessions as OMB director then! This was always their plan. #mepolitics
We must continue to show we are not afraid, we are strong, we are united, we laugh at the stupidity of this pathetic regime, & WE ARE THE PEOPLE & hold THE POWER. To do that we need millions out on Labor Day attending events planned across the country. Find an event & let’s go! www.fiftyfifty.one
You have the right to be yourself at your public school, no matter what lawmakers say. Learn more at aclu.org/lgbtqstudentskyr
An SSA source tells me chief data officer Charles Borges sent out his involuntary resignation email to select offices within the agency a short while ago, but then a few minutes later the email disappeared from the inboxes of those who received it with no explanation.
Weather Channel airs report from WAGA's Tony Thomas in flooded Mobile AL: "The whole entire area is underwater." #katrina20inrealtime
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
One thing that can prevent school shootings? Locking up your guns. A shocking 76% of school shooters get their gun from the home. Across America, 4.6 million children live in homes with access to unsecured firearms. If you own guns, lock them up. If you don't, ask others to do so. #EndFamilyFire
Now, if he could just get a pierogi...
The map of Sun Day events has bloomed 🌻 There are now OVER 200+ events celebrating the incredible power of solar energy and what it can do for our communities and the world 🌎 Here are some more events to inspire you 👇🧵
Republicans aren't running for office...their polls are dropping...their own base is mocking them and yelling at them at town halls... And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered. Ask yourselves why?
www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r...
In addition to everything he details about data concerns, which is important, do note that Borges makes three statements that certainly sound like an employment lawsuit is coming: - "involuntary resignation" - "constructive discharge" (means, functionally, you fired me) - "hostile work environment"
Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy, one of the world's foremost experts on public health, is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization committed to the scientific method
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
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.
"Survival should be the bare minimum. Yet in New Orleans, it is not a guarantee." Today marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. But is the legacy of the storm more lethal than the hurricane itself? Our latest collaboration with @capitalb.bsky.social:
What happened before, during, and after a hurricane, flood, and lies and racist violence hit Katrina should be remembered accurately, even though it was narrated with wild, destructive inaccuracy at the time, by government officials and mainstream media. Wrote about it here, five years after:
Hearing the the Social Security Admin whistleblower who whistleblew a few days ago has now “resigned” involuntarily. Trying to get additional confirmation. This is the chief data officer of SSA.
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:
Hello from DC and the CFPB union! When worker power is under attack, what do we do? 📣 Stand up fight back! Help us #StopVought and defend federal workers by signing our petition: change.org/p/stop-vought
Day 4 of #FuckICE week is here. I’m going after my late readers today. Do you make the lame ass FBI female body inspector joke? Than fuck off! Everyone else, spam this shit! Criminal investigator (special agent) ice_1811applicantinquiries@ice.dhs.gov
BREAKING: Hack photographer and current CDC COO Lynda Chapman is forcing us to return to office by Sept 15. This is so tone deaf. We have been traumatized by a shooting that was TARGETING us. Lynda - have you ever hidden for hours hoping an active shooter doesn't find and kill you? No.
#ICYMI: Me on Trump's latest request for "emergency" relief from #SCOTUS (on foreign aid impoundment), and how it depends upon an emergency the government manufactured and a claim that DOJ failed to properly preserve below. In other words, it relies upon the justices not caring about being played:
A judge sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, who argued that state and federal officials violated NEPA by building a detention center in the Everglades without conducting the required environmental review. The agencies must now dismantle the facility within 60 days.
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
#KinsleyGaffes
Actually, we really don't want you or your ilk in charge. Feel free to depart.
He is also one of the leading public health scientists in the nation, responsible for saving countless lives in and outside the United States, so there's that.
this is an important moment.
The saga of the most deadly brain worm in human history continues...
Join Brennan Center experts for a virtual discussion on this summer’s biggest stories impacting democracy, including gerrymandering, presidential abuses of power, and elections on Thurs., Sept. 4, at 3 p.m. ET. RSVP: bit.ly/4lIUNtm
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American elections withstood great pressure in 2020, 2022, and 2024. Doing so again will take vigilance, courage, and ferocious determination to defend democracy. bit.ly/46ETsQp
Some impressive new data from Ember today on the UK's solar boom and how it compensated for lower than usual wind power generation during the first half of the year. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
NEW: The Trump administration said it will boycott a regular UN review of the United States' record on human rights. This sets a dangerous precedent and weakens critical protections at home and abroad. We will continue to hold the Trump administration accountable for human rights violations.
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
Watch. If you claim one of these to get a vaccine, they’ll use it later as a preexisting condition to crank up your health premium or kick you off your plan.
A Conversation About Christian Nationalism, A Much Bigger Threat To America Than You Know
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
"It’s not what the law calls sufficient cause suitable for firing a Federal Reserve governor. It’s just an assault on the independence of the Fed." www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
Breathtaking lack of self-awareness from non-Emmy winner Donald Trump to Emmy winner Seth Meyers.
@burness.bsky.social reports on how this would greatly affect people with disabilities and older voters. My favorite quote: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
NEW: Conservatives in Maine have placed a measure on the Maine *this* November that'd restrict the ease of voting in a lot of ways — notably, with new barriers to voting by mail. (The rules would be in place by next year's key Senate race.) Learn more:
We have become Russia. amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
Trump's false claim here--about how "radical left globalists" (i.e. Soros) are the puppeteers who fund & organize civil rights protests--is the same basic story that the fascists of the 1950s and 60s told about the civil rights protests of that era. It's a familiar cocktail of racism & antisemitism.
Trying to do a dictatorship and accidentally screwing around and creating the Dad Corps is an amazing feat
Denmark summons US envoy after report of Americans carrying out influence operations in Greenland apnews.com/article/denm...
Heroes, both him and the sandwich.
Another infuriating aspect of ICE roaming around D.C. that I hadn't thought about. I just talked to a D.C. woman whose husband is undocumented and whose employer is refusing to pay him for work he's already done -- and threatening to call ICE if he keeps asking for the money he's owed.
MAGA: "Government healthcare is socialism!" Also MAGA: "YAY, government-run trains!"
JUST IN: A federal judge rules that a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his America PAC — alleging they broke a promise to pay voters for signing a political petition — may proceed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
