Just imagine what is being saved for the book this week.
You know, I could write something useful and interesting here. I could use a bunch of single word declarative labelsā¦ something like, āDjinn. Jokester. Joel.ā Or some such. But instead, I think Iāll just leave this space blank.
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Just imagine what is being saved for the book this week.
look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens
My statement on @nadler.house.govās decision not to seek re-election next year.
Wow: 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change." āWatching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that."
i love the unmistakable sound of a skateboard going down the street
why it's such a big deal when the leader of a major empire sheds the role's legitimacy for the sake of grabbing power
Nate Silver mostly exists just to remind the rest of us to be grateful that we are not Nate Silver
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, weāre called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. Itās not a coincidence heās targeting Chicago:
2 weeks after being violently attacked & arrested. "Good job, Mayor Bowser. You're a Fascist, too.ā
Future presidents might consider bestowing a kind of anti-medal to certain past recipients. Call it the, āpresidential black spotā or something like that.
$1,000,000 a day.
They pitched religion and crypto to Trump as the easiest marks to cash in on and he couldn't believe it took him this long to give it a shot. All those years wasted scamming developers and sitting in courtrooms for a real estate long con when he could've just opened a megachurch
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
I bet the White House staff is busy setting up a bunch of cardboard cutouts in the Oval Office like in Home Alone
Courts still matter.
Wisconsin Avenue #ChalkCrime
I can't sit for too long cuz of my back
Rated NCC-1701 for violence to red shirts
It's often been debated if Trump could pull off a fascist takeover of the United States, because he's clearly not very smart. I talked to @anneapplebaum.bsky.social about that for my newsletter
Happy Labor Day from Hoganās Alley (and Nancy and Sluggo)!
New in PN: "By the time you read this, the White House may have put out a Labor Day statement. It will no doubt offer an effusive tribute to Trump, who in his infinite beneficence has delivered workers a utopia of prosperity. But back on Earth, he's the most anti-labor president in modern history."
I would have liked Bluesky to keep growing after the mass post-election surge, but I get why the numbers have settled in. Given that it isn't growing, it's remarkable that it is the number one source of traffic for many, if not most, publications, especially smaller ones.
![James Ball @jamesrball.com In January this year, Bluesky had about 1.6m accounts liking a post each day, and about 800,000 actually posting. That peaked at 2.2m and 1.1m respectively later that month. Today, itās 1.2m likers and 600,000 posters. Thatās a steady loss of 25% (or nearly 50% from peak) in seven months. [Graphs below] Left graph titled Daily Likers (blue bars labeled āUnique Likersā). Right graph titled Daily Posters (red bars labeled āUnique Postersā).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yobyqjt4hs5icoihvaombhhn/bafkreiatu6r5kfrtinewumzetkuicupy5askf2iqwpphvsaptsiff2sjum@jpeg "Click to view full size")
āI've been close to Bette Crocker for thirty-eight years.ā ~ Henry Fondant
why so many Vietnam War movies and basically no GWOT movies? the former was done *to* Boomers, while the latter was done *by* Boomers *to their kids* they are always the victims, never the perpetrators - and any other narrative is shut the hell down
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administrationās 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 āare in the process of being removed" today.
To be able to say things like this with a straight face, you have to know with certainty that you are talking to babies
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
The most frustrating thing about Harrisās alleged gaffe on trans prisoners is that almost no one bothered to defend it on the merits. But the policy is fine: When the state provides healthcare it should also provide transition care!
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
RFK Jr looks like heās been sampling the diseases at the CDC
Today is a great day to donate to wikipedia. Tomorrow works too. donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to...
People are complaining about this but itās true. You couldnāt make Life of Brian today. They already made it in 1979. If you tried youād just get weird stares
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says āCan I help you find something?ā āIām looking for the obituaries.ā āThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.ā āNot the one Iām looking for.ā
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
Worth remembering that any time I say "It's happening!" I'm talking about Paramount making James T. Kirk canonically bisexual
Again, it must be asked, if this administration were trying to sabotage the country and intentionally screw over its own citizens, what would they do differently?
NEW: Social Securityās chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
Alan Dershowitz has become a querulous, lawless buffoon and serial abuser of the legal system. This lawsuit was indefensible and a contemptible example of the sentiment āI am famous and important, you canāt disrespect me.ā
WhatsApp confirms it has fixed a security flaw that allowed hackers to get into Apple devices without any interaction from the targeted victims. www.whatsapp.com/security/adv...
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim OāNeill, 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.
The CEO of Bluesky is 34 meaning that sheās four years younger than all of us and I do kind of feel betrayed by that
Ironically this is still less water than the data center used to power the AI itself.
BREAKING: Federal prosecutors in D.C. have filed two criminal counts against Jan Carey, the NC veteran arrested for burning a flag in protest outside the White House this week. w/ @sophrosenthal www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Jared Leto is an important example of why itās important to separate the art from the artist because, in doing so, it gives you the chance to hate him twice as much
What if: Congress were to pass a law requiring an in-person visit from an OMB official with official letterhead physically signed by the president in order to āfireā anyone and everyone serving in the federal government? š¤ Letās make āfired by social mediaā a relic of this dumb American chapter
HAPPENING NOW: Hello from the media room in DC district court, where Judge Jia Cobb is set to hear argument on Lisa Cook's motion for a temporary restraining order to block her removal from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ā¬ļøš§µ
only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading
Destroying the American university system, previously the envy of the entire world, is the goal of both of far-right Christian culture warriors and also America's geopolitical rivals, notably Russia and China.
an incredible statement from a member of a court that lost its insanely partisan conservative majority because the people of wisconsin rejected them
Thatā¦ is the entire point of the Federal Reserve.
Iām sorry what is Hamnet, a social network for SÅsuke and Ponyo?
Imagine someone wanting this so badly. Then imagine serving under them
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he is sending CHP officers assigned to Crime Suppression Teams into San Diego, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Central Valley, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area. He will, among other things, use predictive policing to suppress ācriminal activity.ā
Yesterday, HSI and MPD set up a checkpoint on Rhode Island Ave in DC. Neighbors stood on either end, holding signs saying āLA MIGRA ADELATE.ā As HSI and MPD started to pack it up, residents told them, āwe donāt think youāre good Americansā and āfuck you guys, go home.ā
Seeing stories like this, a lot of people say: "The laws don't matter. No one is enforcing them so they're not worth the paper they're written on." That's doomerism. The fact is, federal law hindered the bad guys a lot in this case. We should put more teeth into these laws. They matter. š§µ
You will rarely see a better encapsulation of Tesla
Well-behaved sandwiches rarely make history
three guesses which party this guy is in
very funny that the world's most high profile epic-science-rocket-to-mars guy lost the actual scientists
Trump administration moves to bar states and even private (!) nonprofits, such as Red Cross, from helping undocumented immigrants after disasters. Evil. s2.washingtonpost.com/4467742/68af...
Is this a sub-skeet?
If someone freelancing for a major donor did this during the Biden administration not only would Joe Biden have been impeached and removed from office but the person who did this and everyone who facilitated it would be facing +25 years in federal prison.
Important weather science news tonight: NOAA has canceled procurement of the next phased array weather radar R&D instrument. Along with the obvious blow to PAR weather research, it is consistent with other moves by admin to push forward quickly with NOAA cuts. More: https://tinyurl.com/my8hx8j6
How am I supposed to teach Nixon when THIS is happening? šļø
Tesla rejected $60 million settlement in Autopilot case that ultimately cost it 4 times that amount
Isaac Chotiner interviewed Biden's close friend and last ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and in the interview Jack Lew explicitly defends Israel killing children. Lew's defense of this is so offensive that Isaac Chotiner interrupts him twice and then says outright that he's wrong.
PA Congresswoman @repsummerlee.bsky.social Denied Entry to ICE Facility Her Committee Oversees - ICE's Moshannon Valley Processing Center is operated by the private prison contractor GEO Group. migrantinsider.com/p/summer-lee... from @pabloreports.bsky.social / @migrantinsider.bsky.social
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldnāt write it
We call them Skeets because of this guy and we call it Bluesky because he was blue
hereās a link to every single one of these cowards: never vote for them again newdemocratcoalition.house.gov/members
When can we expect a reboot of New Coke?
To lose one grand jury to a no bill, Ms. Pirro, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. Three, however, reeks of gross incompetence. h/t @seamushughes.bsky.social storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
šØThe National Guard is now picking up trash in D.C. These images will not make recruiting brochures.
This is a free campaign ad for Trump. It tells Americans that the NewDems caucus supports Trumpās general ideas, and says Trump is not a fascist and Republicans are normal and worth working with (ābipartisanā.) This is electoral poison. It hurts the D brand and so every Dem, me and you included.
Does anyone know what happened between May and August this year?
If youāre asking people to not adapt an attitude of āI donāt give a shit anymore, let āem burnā about Trump voters hospitals closing youāre asking them to be better people than Trump voters. Thatās a reasonable ask, Trump voters are pretty bad. But you should acknowledge thatās what youāre asking.
Finally a use forā¦ wait, still not it
Utterly depraved.
the fate of the republic rises and falls on the fate of this one man; that is not an exaggeration to say. This is because of how the trump admin has positioned this case, and why theyāre not gonna stop terrorizing him. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
nothing's aged better than the thing so many people said would age poorly newrepublic.com/series/37/tr...
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Heard a lot of buzz about the death of James Dobson since last Thursday? Need a primer on the monstrous man and his malign influence? The latest Bugbear Dispatch (now on Ghost!) gives you that plus a case for speaking ill of the dead when they deserve it www.bugbeardispatch.com/lets-speak-i...
DOGE staff at Social Security have put the sensitive data of hundreds of millions is at "high risk," which could have ācatastrophic impact,ā according to internal SSA docs. This was not only foreseeable, but widely predicted. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
NPR - A senior federal judge ordered Trump administration official Kari Lake to submit to questioning under oath in ongoing litigation over her efforts to effectively dismantle Voice of America despite Congressional mandates that it be maintained.
Hard to believe that Jerome Powell failing to publicly defend the Federal Reserve's independence immediately led to President Trump citing a pretext to claim he had fired one of the Fed governors.
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
Appointing Jeanine Pirro leads to Jeanine Pirro-level results. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
During Trumpās first term, officials were warned of the traumatic consequences of family separation at the southern border. They continued with the policy anyway. They know exactly what theyāre doing to kids.
20 countries have now stopped shipping all valuable mail parcels to the United States. Itās a result of the White Houseās large and chaotic taxes on Americans who buy products made with any input from overseas (ātariffsā). If you listen closely, you can hear small businesses dying.
The Florida Transportation Department on Sunday once again painted over a rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the Pulse Memorial after protesters filled it in with multicolored chalk.
The US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has affirmed that it violates the Constitution to exclude timely received mail-in ballots just because the voter failed to handwrite in the correct date. Thrilled to partner w/@eliaslawgroup.bsky.social on this. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![__________________________ OPINION OF THE COURT __________________________ SMITH, Circuit Judge I. Introduction The ballot is a building block of our democracy. Perhaps no civic act has greater importanceāor consequencesāthan a citizenās casting of a ballot. Our Constitution calls upon the States to regulate the mechanics of how its citizens cast their ballots so that those citizens may meaningfully express their voices in what George Washington once called āthe last great experiment [in] promoting human happiness.ā1 But our Constitution also calls upon the Courts to scrutinize such regulations to ensure they do not unduly burden votersā voices. This inquiry is often a difficult one. It requires a court to balance the Stateās constitutionally mandated duty against its citizensā constitutionally protected right. But āthere is āno substitute for the hard judgments that must be made.āā Anderson v. Celebrezze, 460 U.S. 780, 789ā90 (1983) (quoting Storer v. Brown, 415 U.S. 724, 730 (1974)). This appeal asks us to make one such hard judgment. We must determine if the Commonwealth of Pennsylvaniaās requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or 1 Letter from George Washington to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham (Jan. 9, 1790) (on file with the National Archives).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wovz3whdkughp6decczypkqq/bafkreieamj5gfoifz76xhoxw4zcc7kdrt4wpiayemnxavaa65vg5motxka@jpeg "Click to view full size")
JUST IN: A federal appeals court concludes that discarding mail ballots in misdated or undated envelopes violates the Constitution.
Did the founding fathers want a king? Here's what a group of originalist legal scholars had to say.
Iām convinced Trump could announce heās bringing back human sacrifice to assure the harvest and the Times headline would deem it āunconventional plan for farmers.ā