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Related? www.popville.com/2025/09/head... The helo wasn't on adsb, so gov/mil.
Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
What in the actual F Alexandria? Flying over Potomac Yard
No one could have predicted.
The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers
Through eight months, 501 people have now died on Virginia’s roadways in 2025. Each of the last four years, I’ve offered bills to provide a new, dedicated funding stream for the Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program so we can prevent deaths and injuries. The Governor vetoed it this year.🧵
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
Chevy: for all your illegal drug operation needs! Must be trying to compete with the Toyota Hilux.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
If you can track the boat on camera to slaughter everyone aboard then you can track the boat on camera to intercept the boat and arrest them
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
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 – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
HUGE. The 5th Circuit joins many other federal courts in holding that Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was unlawful. The judges emphasize that the law is fundamentally about *war* and about military actions; not illegal immigration or drug trafficking.
shouldn’t the people still on big twitter be happy that the people they hate are all over here on tiny blue sky instead what are they complaining about
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
Yeah fuck this shit. America belongs to everyone. Immigrants are our strength, and the reason we’ve continually been a beacon of hope is because we welcome people from everywhere. Fuck this Nazi shit. It’s unamerican and it’s cowardly.
Arguably the single biggest obstacle to the American herrenvolkists is the fact that every single American read the Gettysburg Address and Declaration of Independence when they were in school
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
Emergency water main repairs in Alexandria could disrupt service overnight www.alxnow.com/2025/09/02/e...
Like the old quote goes, anyone who would give up their liberty in exchange for security will live happily ever after, both free and safe
WTF? This is part of the ceremony of citizenship. These people aren’t against illegal immigration, they’re against legal immigration as well, and always have been.
Two things can be — and are — true here: Bowser is not the champion DC needs in this moment, and The Washington Post has become a Trump rag. A newspaper that actually cared about the city in its name would not publish such an inflammatory, bullshit headline.
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Is there any precedent for a state sending its National Guard uninvited into another? I mean, that's skirting close to an attack
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
This guy gets it. This is the way.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
Please do not go to a voluntary interview with Secret Service, plz never meet with any fed without a very good lawyer present, and plz definitely don't call the president a terrorist Nazi to SS when you voluntarily talk to them without even a bad lawyer present plz don't gamble on a grand jury
also, what do you think people conclude when they hear you say Donald Trump is a "wannabe king" who is "attacking the American people" (both true things Jeffries has said) and also that you want to find common ground with him? Probably that your criticisms are insincere or that you're weak or both
The serial criminal is the guy in the White House.
There’s room for joy in our politics @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.
he's talking a LOT about baltimore. a scary warning for the city. "they don't need housing, they need to get rid of the criminals"
I hope it's more disagreement than marginalization, but I also think (hope?) that you don't simply reject it out of hand. We may disagree but you engage honestly.
This is simultaneously too modern and too old fashioned at the same time. A "pop-up brothel" in the same article that the sex worker was charged with "running a bawdy house"?
I'm too practical, I always see these things and think "who wants to clean *seven* bedrooms?"
The more I look at politics in other cities, the more amazed I am that Alexandria has such good governance.
Becky, we can't have a debate about the name! That would be strife and therefore Not Good News!
It's so obvious that they hate any place where they can't control the discourse. "Here's why you should give the police more money and treat trans people like trash and... Hey! Come back here!"
There is no constitutional reason why Congress couldn't do this, as laid out in the Harvard Law Review: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
So much of this preemptive crap about needing to vote for the eventual Dem nominee no matter how bad they are is just people trying to manufacture consent for exactly such a candidate. I say no.
#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...
Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
Why not begin by rejecting fascist framing: about how advocates for standard democratic socialism and activists working for liberation from white supremacy are”far left,” and about what “defund the police” means? Why begin by swallowing that framing whole?
Maybe begin with a thorough reading of “letter from a Birmingham jail” instead.
they’re all this guy
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Every conservative principle that could have merit is already represented in the mainstream Democratic Party, not to mention fully abandoned by conservatives themselves. What's left? Bigotry, sadism, tantrums over corporate logos. This is what you're trying to find common ground with
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
That's right, FEAR THE FUCKING TURTLE.
Announcement tomorrow, 2PM.
RIP Graham Greene - you can watch CLEARCUT for free (with ads) on YouTube youtu.be/rb9QHMnI__s?...
Look, I'm aboard the bandwagon, but... King of the Road?
The societally optimal level of crime is not zero. This isn't intuitive, but it's true. The cost of getting crime to zero is to strip away all individual freedoms. It's not worth the trade-off.
Graham Greene has died. A Canadian acting icon, he earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves. He also won a Grammy, Gemini and Canadian Screen Award, along with the Governor General's Performing Arts Award. He also earned a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
Start a public campaign to raise money to pay Muriel Bowser to care more about the People than her other donors.
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
Laura Loomer will definitely let us know. Or maybe it'll be Charlie Kirk?
Of note, as always, that many federal employees are Black and an attack on them is explicitly an attack on Black workers, in particular, Black white-collar workers.
Perfect temperature, perfect sky, charcoal chimney smoking away, cicadas providing a soundtrack. My only problem is having to go back to work tomorrow!
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
In Chicago, thousands protest against threat of ICE, National Guard deployment reut.rs/4newN2y
This is "the one big trick" that the right has mastered. They present their movement as just "the authentic voice of the volk outraged by Democratic overreach," when really what they're doing is just old fashioned political mobilization. Organize a passle of pissed off people & call it a movement.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
the correct answer to this question is “what kind of a question is this, what the fuck is wrong with you?”
I don't *think* this is what's going on, but we should at least be aware that close to death rumors can be useful if you need a strong man saved by God moment to buck up flagging poll numbers.
Wait, the statement that he was out fostering puppies and kittens while also helping an elderly person cross the road wasn't true? I'm shocked!
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
I was already pretty done with the news media but seeing clips yesterday from the Sunday shows where an anchor is like “but what if living in a Police State does reduce car jackings? Why would you be against that?” probably was the end
pregnancy fetish man thinks birth control is evil, news at 12
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
im constantly getting flagged down to help women victims of domestic violence by the side of the road
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
PSA: there's a guy in a police vest hanging out on the platform of Van Dorn Street Station. (not APD, they are marked as APD)
Rudy Giuliani absolutely did not try to shortchange a sex worker and then was pursued by her colleagues, don’t you dare suggest such a thing
I'd like to think that after experiencing 2024 people could finally agree that maybe it's healthy for the frontrunner with bad approvals to face a primary
Important story At a recent Manhattan protest, security guards snatched two brothers, dragging them inside the Egyptian Mission to the UN where they beat one with a chain and choked the other. NYT notes foreign govts have used embassies and diplomatic outposts to crack down on dissent. Gift link!
"Ohh, you ordered from the Fake Alexandria location"
Always fun to do an online order from a restaurant, get there, and find you ordered from the wrong location.
The Washington Post is not allowed to mention the concept of the Network State. But I wrote about how Trump's Gaza fantasy is a pure expression the Network State ideology, as is the lust for stealing Greenland. www.techpolicy.press/trumps-gaza-...
Just leave some raw fish out on your counter for a few days. That'll clear it right up.
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
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.
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
“I never thought I had one day to cancel Sunday worship because it is not safe for our Latino siblings to come to church,” said Rev. Hernández, rector at St. Stephen and the Incarnation, an Episcopal church. “But here we are …”
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
The benefits of living near @letsmeatdelray.bsky.social !
I will say the presence here is ...intimidating, deliberately so. Local and federal officers, masked agents. Most seem more intent on the crowd response.
Disabled people have been warning about this EXACT SCENARIO since 2016 and raising the alarm that if Trump installs a fascist government *this is what would happen* We very literally predicted all of this. None of it is a surprise. People just don’t listen to the disabled so you are caught off guard
I’m afraid that for as well-intentioned as this is, it’s simply flat-out wrong. RFK Jr fits P R E C I S E L Y into the fascist/authoritarian (very specifically, the *Nazi*) approach to violently importing racialism/nationalism and “alternative healing” into medicine and the life sciences.
if it makes you feel better though you can pick one for if they ask. they won't ask probably but if they do it's ok to lie. there are not diabetes cops who will arrest you for falsely claiming you have diabetes