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"Christian Osborne has been itching to serve his country since he was discharged from the Marines after refusing the coronavirus vaccine." And there it is, ICE in a nutshell: Guy who couldn't follow orders and was kicked out of the Marines longs to wear a mask, carry a gun & round up brown people
And remember that FIFA is deeply corrupt. They’ve done tournaments in Russia and Qatar in the last decade. Saudi Arabia is hosting in 2034. bsky.app/profile/asel...
The AI said clearly to drink a cup and a half of whiskey
Folks love to say Congress has been broken for a long time, and they're not wrong, but this is still a total collapse in the institution compared with trump I or any other period in US history
This is unbelievable. Reminder the Virginia Governors race is this year. Make sure to get out and vote for @abigailspanberger.com GOP campaigning in a government vehicle.
photos of Trump's hand today (via Getty)
A source in the Epstein meeting with the survivors and Speaker Johnson told me that powerhouse attorney Sigrid McCawley informed him that there would be the names of other men who trafficked her clients in the DOJ's Epstein files
Dear 2nd Amendment voters: If Trump can send the Texas National Guard into Illinois against that state’s will, what stops the next president from doing the same, except to take your guns?
Per request, the 7 most appalling policing statistics… with links 🧵 1. Cops in the US kill on average 3 to 6 people per day mappingpoliceviolence.us
A federal appeals judge defends the legal rule of New York Times v. Sullivan on defamation, actual malice and public figures
Schmitt's speech about the "destiny" of "our people" & our special role in preserving "western civilization" reminded me of this draft of a 1952 Senator McCarthy speech. It was written by a staffer named Francis Parker Yockey, a key figure in the history of American fascism. bsky.app/profile/seth...
📣 IMPORTANT: I can't stress this highly enough: 23.4% is the weighted average premium increase for *currently unsubsidized* ACA enrollees only. For most of the > 90% who currently receive federal subsidies (~21M Americans, myself included) the NET rate hikes will be higher than 23%. MUCH higher.
Reid: Bondi is not a real AG. She just works for Trump. All these U.S. attorneys — what’s her name from Fox (who I hope is sober) — she’s not a real U.S. attorney. She works for Trump. They’ve gutted the DOJ. The DOJ doesn’t exist. The FBI doesn’t exist. It’s all just Trump’s employees.
This is quite a work of historical analysis by sitting US Senator, Mike Schmitt. Call me weird, but when far right populist politicians start talking about "something deeper in the soul of our people" in the context of defending violent racialized conquest, it makes me a little queasy.
Oldham’s dissent would justify Trump’s straight-up murdering people on the high seas several hours earlier and whatever atrocities this regime has coming soon to a city near you. Here’s my law school buddy Raha putting it all together: demophilia.substack.com/p/trump-just...
::taps mic:: Autism is a) not caused by vaccines and b) a mental health diagnosis made using criteria developed specifically for humans and therefore impossible to diagnose in dogs. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
The level of grifting and BS that is fed to these silicone valley men to help them “live forever” is so sickening. “Dario Amodei speculated that A.I. could double the human life span “in five to ten years” I’ll bet everything I own on “No. No it will not” 🙄 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
So not only can't Judge Oldham be troubled to count up how many colleagues he has, he thinks 167 of a thing is multitudinous.
As of Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers have officially made it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers.
H David Baer: "Hungarians understand that removing Orbán from power means regime change. Regime changes come with instability, and on election day, voters may choose the evil they know over the evils they don’t." Or maybe not.
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.
If the boat was running large amounts of drugs then the people who manufactured or bought the drugs in bulk and arranged the trip were not on board the boat, and if you wanted to work your way toward stopping those you would want to capture the people who were on the boat
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
Honestly, this sounds like a scene from the next Borat movie. Rudy's appearance in the last one was also X rated. www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giulian...
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
So far during the second Trump administration, this puts the US military at: —1,000+ air strikes in Yemen (in March-April) —65+ air strikes in Somalia —5 air strikes and 2 JSOC ground raids in Syria —1 night of B-2 strikes on 3 sites in Iran —1 air strike in Iraq —1 air strike in the Caribbean
REP. @yassaminansari.bsky.social on the bipartisan demand for the Epstein files: “This is the most corrupt administration in 🇺🇸 history, and this story shows it more than anything.”
Oldham’s dissent is the judicial equivalent of some MAGA guy’s flying a TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT flag
Important that we not desecrate the flag
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
House GOP Looks to Cut $13.7B From 3 Agencies: Report "House Republicans are considering a $5.2 billion cut — or a 27% reduction — in Title I funding for low-income schools and districts under a fiscal year 2026 proposal released Monday." And more cuts than that, too. ground.news/article/hous...
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
#BREAKING: Fifth Circuit (Southwick & Ramirez, JJ.) holds that President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua is unlawful, and blocks AEA removals in the Northern District of Texas (over a lengthy dissent from Judge Oldham): www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Trump on school shootings: "We have great teachers that love our children, and if you took a small percentage of those teachers that were in the military and you let them carry, that's something that a lot of people like. I sort of liked it."
So the right wing Polish president who wants reparations from Germany and denies Ukraine access to the EU until they “return” the remains of those killed in Volyn is visiting the WH tomorrow. Prepare for a wave of anti Ukrainian narrative.
He sure showed these 11 bad guys in a literal canoe who the real terrorist is with a million dollar missile.
There is no cure for rabies
Republican men standing with Trump against the Epstein victims to maintain the cover up.
He knows what's in them. He knows what he did. He's scared to death the world will find out what he did.
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
Trump will learn Chicago isn’t a city you mess with. This is a place that saw regular pizza and said, “Hey, what if we make that about 2 inches deeper and put more cheese on it?” This is a place of bare knuckles and hard work, a place where resistance runs deep. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Not going to stop thinking about the comment that Trump is sending Confederate armies to occupy Northern cities. How much more is there to say? That’s not a “distraction.” It’s what the white supremacists who tried to secede have wanted for over a century. It’s not a distraction to them at all.
In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago. "If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary." h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social
This is weird. But it's Rudy!
NEW: The Supreme Court is being asked to decide if private citizens can still enforce the Voting Rights Act after a federal court ruled that only the government can sue to stop racist voting laws. If SCOTUS upholds the ruling, it could end the ability of voters to challenge anti-voting nationwide.
I have now lived a long and full life, with a Republican Treasury Secretary saying that adding a national sales tax -- imposed on an odd assortment of goods -- *raises* economic growth. Can't wait to raise other taxes to raise growth further. Or to double tariffs so we can double growth.
When he bloviates falsehoods like this, no effort is ever made by the White House to correct anything he says.
New: Judge William Young today took the unusual step of apologizing to conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, after they accused him of defying a decision by the court by ordering the Trump administration to reinstate NIH grants. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
when you’re upset at the cool kids for not inviting you to their lunch table
In #Florida court filing, attempted assassination defendant Ryan Routh offers to settle case with a round of golf with President Convicted Felon: "A round of golf with the racist pig, he wins he can execute me, I win I get his job." www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/t... h/t @mikestucka.bsky.social
Well, I'm no JAG, but yes, I think illegal, for following reasons: 1. Civilian vessel 2. Not self-defense 3. No attempt at interdiction (i.e. disable engines) 4. Int'l waters 5. No PID on folks in boat (could be civilians) 6. No declared state of war or hostilities so unclear authorization
The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.
20+ years ago when the CIA participated in the lethal targeting of suspected drug traffickers in Latin America, the fatalities (and ensuing coverup) were something of a scandal. One of the key players would go on to have a leading role in the CIA's torture program. www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/w...
🚨NEW: Native American voters have asked SCOTUS to overturn the 8th Circuit decision holding that injured voters cannot enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act through a private right of action. drive.google.com/file/d/1wY-o...
Cybersecurity experts who spoke to TPM described the situation with Kristi Noem's poorly hidden secret Facebook as "sloppy," "inadvisable," and a problem for "basic operational security." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-sec...
oh i forgot about hochman. that's probably the nazi who wrote this www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
Someone made a deliberate choice to not make these searchable PDFs.
The House Oversight made each individual page its own TIF file, making it extremely hard to search through. Look at this. It's a page of Todd Blanche's interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, already released last month. Each page counts as one file. That's how they got to 33,295.
Many of these Epstein files remain redacted. So much for transparency.
So the House Oversight Committee just released 33,295 pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Nearly all of it was already public. The committee hasn't said what's new. If I wanted to obscure new info about Epstein from the public while pretending to be transparent, this is exactly what I'd do.
It is striking the extent to which a certain segment of politicians are now pretending that American history ended in the mid-1800s.
⏰Reupping this thread on @janemanners.bsky.social latest brief taking on the unitary executive theory. This is a must-read for anyone interested in a historical corrective to the administration's claims... @brennancenter.org
More background here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-...
WATCH: GOP Rep. Thomas Massie reveals Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rep. Nancy Mace, and Rep. Lauren Boebert will support his discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. He also says the Trump White House is "absolutely" whipping against the move.
Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Trump just released 33k pages of the Epstein files… that were already released. Another Trump fraud. Why is Trump hiding the Epstein files if he did nothing wrong? 🤔
Seven www.wusa9.com/article/news...
"Prominent critic of RFK Jr. blocked from FDA vaccine committee Paul Offit, a pediatrician and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, can no longer participate in the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Like this is just not acceptable, sorry
One Third Of AR Farms Are Teetering On Bankruptcy Commodity prices continue to plunge due to retaliatory tariffs imposed by buyers - China and other countries. AR Farmers lost $1.4 Billion as prices spiraled down to an eight-year low. Retaliation profits no one. talkbusiness.net/2025/08/arka...
Federal Appellate Court Finds the NLRB to Be Unconstitutional This matters to you if you work. Rights you had for 90 years are gone. Employers can now violate whatever rights workers thought they enjoyed. How did we get here? prospect.org/justice/2025...
We have the near final results: —Democrats won in Florida's SD15 by 45% (72.5/27.5). Harris had won this district by 23%. —Democrats won Florida's HD40 by 50% (75/25). (Harris had won this district by 35%.) (Presidential results courtesy of the always indispensable @the-downballot.com.)
See through it.
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
French investigating judges have issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad, the former Syrian ruler, and six senior officials of his ousted regime—all of whom appear now to be hanging out in Moscow under Putin's protection, for killing and wounding a group of journalists during the Syrian civil war
Just a reminder that Miller has been planning all along for the possibility of sending NG troops from red states into blue states. radleybalko.substack.com/p/trumps-dep...
I’d really love to know the decision tree from OSD to SOUTHCOM to the Ships in the area to the dude that actually pulled the trigger
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.
If you're surprised by Trump's embarrassing transformation of the White House decor with ostentatious gold accents and floor to wall gold knicknacks, remember --- draft-dodging Grandpa, deported from Germany, was a pimp who got rich selling liquor and women and owned a brothel.
Trump underfunded the already seriously understaffed and highly problematic Immigration Judges (IJs). Immigration law is very complex and specialized. Doubt these temp judges know WTF they're doing. See our NSF funded research (ungated) on existing IJ problems. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/10....
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
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.
this commute is also through some of the richest suburbs of Chicago, I don’t think they’ll be happy seeing humvees pass by Lake Forest and New Trier HS
Gov. Pritzker today: "In the absence of significant federal coordination, we’ve gathered information from unauthorized patriotic officials inside the government and from well-sourced reporters about Donald Trump’s plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
BREAKING: WaPo is easily duped.
Letter to the editor: Gov. Ron DeSastrous says #Florida's congressional map is defective. Has he forgotten that he drew it himself? www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinio...
so are the troops going to commute from the naval base every day because like
BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, D.C. Circuit denies the Trump administration's request to let Trump fire a Federal Trade commissioner during appeals. Citing Humphrey's Executor, about the FTC: "To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court's decisions that bind our judgments. That we will not do."
I don’t know how this is possible. Texas cannot control guard sent to Illinois without violating Illinois sovereignty. It must be federally controlled units, otherwise instead of a Posee Comitatus problem, we have a major constitutional crisis.
“The latest trope to have captured Lee’s fascination is ‘Scotland Girl.’” A U.S. senator is posting weird AI slop fetishizing a Scottish 12 year-old who was arrested for brandishing weapons at a Bulgarian couple.
Senior DEA officials who study international narcotics trafficking have consistently said that the Trump administration's claims about Maduro and Tren de Aragua are false and have been confabulated to justify harsh treatment of Venezuelan immigrants and military action against Venezuela.
Ward 1 stands up for and protects each other, especially in difficult times. I'm so proud to see residents in our ward taking action. @51st.news 51st.news/dc-residents...
The rest of the county is about to find out what those of us who live here already know: Chicago is a tough, hardworking, resilient and yes, beautiful city that will not cave to Trump. Read this from my friend & fellow Chicagoan @markjacob.bsky.social:
Kristi Noem is in charge of America's domestic cybersecurity agency. On a poorly hidden Facebook page, she seemed baffled by how a video of "dogs in leotards" ended up on her feed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-sec...