Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesnât 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.
Civil society, hey let's reduce the US Senate portion of the Electoral College by adding House seats using Wyoming, Cube Root or WYx2 rules. #uncapthehouse đşđ¸đşđŚđŞđşđłď¸âđđłď¸ââ§ď¸đ¤đ˝âđTeam Reid, Drag Race, my dogs, #đśâ´ohmmakers . nostalgia is a weapon.đđ¨
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Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesnât 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.
apple.news/ANaMEC2cPQ5-... #Epstein&Maxwell victims interview @nbcnews.com
I am not going to support the confirmation of a federal prosecutor who wants to rewrite the basic history of January 6th and who believes the overturning of Roe v. Wade was the right decision. Serrano is far out of step with Washington state values.
Clarence Thomas loves original jurisdiction. In other words, Illinois can sue Texas, and it goes straight to the Supreme Court.* * Probably. A defense might be that it's really the feds who should be the defendant. IMO they should be too, yes, but maybe not exclusively...
The fact that a cannamilk shake exists says yes.
President Trump deployed military troops and federal agents to DC and LA to respond to made-up emergencies, and is now threatening to do the same in other cities across the country.
Trump's decision to illegally punish Colorado for its use of mail in voting is a page straight out of the authoritarian playbook. He'll do anything, including manipulating national security decisions, to serve his political vendettas.
Trump is weaponizing the federal government to retalitate against Colorado for how it administers elections. On top of being a huge waste of tax dollars, itâs disgraceful and a downright dangerous abuse of power.
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."
Minnesota can act to protect our kids. But we also need action at the national level. Back to DC today. Our kids deserve better than Râs sitting back and saying thereâs nothing we can do.
Rudy Giuliani Awarded Presidential Medal Of Incest https://theonion.com/rudy-giuliani-awarded-presidential-medal-of-incest/
#đśâ´ohmmakers Something happening yet?
COMMENTARY | Eliminating mail-in voting would disenfranchise many qualified voters, including those living in rural areas, write guest columnists Kendal Shaber and Elinor Chehey. #idpol
A company looking to make clean drinking water more climate-resilient and accessible during disasters found an ideal testing ground in an unlikely place: singer-songwriter Amy Grantâs Williamson County farm. From @cstephenson.bsky.social,
@unclosetedmedia.bsky.social asked Americans to Google five queries looking for resources for LGBTQ people who are struggling. Far-right religious groups dominated the results.
Editor @brianlyman.bsky.social writes that Alabama's confirmed measles case -- the first in 20 years -- won't be the last of this potentially deadly but high preventable disease if state officials continue adopting the ideas and rhetoric of anti-vaxxers.
Because they think it won't be their family member who dies. They have no empathy for other families.
"Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State, said the unequal treatment of candidates . . . undermines the reason Georgia outlawed campaign contributions to certain state officials during the legislative session in the first place â to prevent corruption..." www.ajc.com/politics/202...
This Wired interview with @bencollins.bsky.social is fantastic www.wired.com/story/uncann...
Everything I've seen about Democrats' version of Project 2029 is far too modest and weak-kneed. Democrats need to look at the precedents Trump is setting (and shattering) and figure out how a progressive can maximally wield the power that this administration is concentrating in the executive branch.
ProPublica is hosting a virtual conversation on the changing role of the federal government in counterextremism efforts. đď¸ Join the virtual discussion on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 4 p.m. ET and submit a question:
One of the wild things is the level of condescension you'll get from "tech experts" who will say "wrong answers from Google is good, actually". I would submit that anyone who doesn't understand why Google suddenly getting basic questions wrong, that it used to get right, is bad... may be off track.
Keep an eye on this potential settlement. Google could pay $$$ to Donald Trump to settle a dubious lawsuit all while Trumpâs Justice Department tries to break up Googleâs monopoly. This could be another example of how giant corporations are enabling Trumpâs authoritarianism.
I would, Area 25-year old remarks while bobamaxxing
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oh dear, time for another blogger ethics panel
Quite
Only thing I get from this is you can see how a group of privileged white men can turn society against a marginalized group
In a 2-1 ruling, DC Circuit tossed an injunction preserving billions in Biden-era clean energy grants the Trump admin wants to claw back from Citibank, where the money is being held -- majority said challenges had to be brought in Court of Federal Claims. Ruling: buff.ly/skM3dt4
To put the effects of this distinction in more concrete terms: The order *does not* require the Trump administration to withdraw the remaining national guard troops. It can still use them for things like protecting federal property. But not for domestic law enforcement. bsky.app/profile/anna...
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
RFK, Jr. is Making America Sick Again. abcnews.go.com/Health/forme...
I'll keep saying it: RFK Jr. is a deadly threat to our public health and safety. He is razing CDC, NIH, and other health agencies to the groundâputting politics and deranged conspiracy theories over science. We need bipartisan oversight immediately, and he must be FIRED.
Republicans control the Senate But with Roy Cooper in North Carolina, the emergence of @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social in Iowa and Sherrod Brown maybe returning in Ohio, the map looks a lot better If Democrats beat Susan Collins and @ossoff.bsky.social holds his seat, the balance of power will change
This weekâs actions are the latest in a pattern showing RFK Jr. disregard for science, public health, and the federal workers who keep this country safe from multiple health threats. Nurses demand he resign or be fired immediately as head of HHS. www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
It feels like he's not been this quiet since a few months after January 6th.
Gonna keep reposting this @timdickinson.bsky.social / me item: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
In the midst of the Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration continued trying to make Donald Trumpâs fascism happen. What I saw in response, though, was heartening â on multiple fronts. Tonight, at Law Dork:
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodâs Handmaidâs Tale used to come to power.
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social was curious; so he asked Ben Smith â co-founder of Semafor, and former media columnist at the New York Times â if Smith thought democracy is under threat in the U.S. Good question.
This week, Oversight Committee Dems are meeting with many of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. We will listen to their stories and continue our work to seek justice against anyone responsible for these horrific crimes.
#Blueskyism
âSymbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnation does not bring back Roe v. Wade.â Whew
But no surprise that itâs this particular committee, which has previously managed to turn the meaning of both âWeaponization of governmentâ and âfree speechâ on their heads.
Longtime NYC Rep. Jerry Nadler tells the NYT he's retiring. âWatching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,â Mr. Nadler said, adding that a younger successor âcan maybe do better, can maybe help us more.â
And notably the foreign policy angle bsky.app/profile/dday...
the continuation of the war at this point and for some time is simply indefensible. this is a govt run by the settlers.
NYT - Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who is 78, will not seek re-election next year.
Share this with your red state friends and family. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Unprecedented corruption - 1500x what Hunter Biden made from his paintings and going directly to the president.
No I'm not surprised a bunch of too online losers with no game consider talking to a bot 'dating' but I am concerned that the losers at the WSJ consider it 'dating'
đ§ľLabor Day is a chance to remember all unions have done for America. "The first labor union in the United States was the the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (leather workers and cobblers), founded in 1794." The union crumbled in 1806, when owners won a lawsuit charging workers with..1/
People keep asking me why everyone isnât in the streets. I keep explaining outside of noticing some prices have gone up, if youâre not directly affected by federal layoffs or have undocumented family things are still chugging along. Our knowledge overload doesnât mean the normies know shit.
Happy Labor Day to the union workers who built Americaâs middle class.
Hey Australia girl, how you doin, we both could make the Murdochs live in the UK and ghost them.
This is also routine rhetoric in Silicon Valley â even by immigrant founders! â about America and nobody says shit. Journalists refuse to even *mention* it, let alone ask questions or hold anyone accountable.
At Herod's big party, Not squeamish are we? One guest made a wish, And a head was the dish, For a prize more righteous than hardy.
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
I've always believed that the 95th Congress (1977-1978) was to blame. Project Avon and Amway by Wall Street would be my working title.
The problem isnât refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Nine former heads of the CDCâappointed by presidents of both partiesâwarn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Operation Warp Speed was a good thing. It is, in my opinion, the best thing the Trump administration did. Developing a working vaccine in such a short amount of time was and is genuinely amazing.
YET MORE GUARD MEMBERS SENT TO DC: 12 South Dakota National Guard members joining D.C. force at Trumpâs request southdakotasearchlight.com/briefs/12-so...
Revoking an entire nationalityâs visas is collective punishment and never acceptable â especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
State of Working Wisconsin report warns that Trump administration polices are undercutting the economy and Wisconsin workers via @bspears.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/09/01/r...
The founding of Labor Day in the U.S. "united native-born and immigrant workers in an extraordinary alliance to demand an eight-hour workday," guest columnist Jeffrey Sklansky writes via The Conversation. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/09/01/l...
Compared to other wealthy counties, the U.S. has low levels of unionization, a modest welfare state, and a two-party system that lacks a social democratic tradition. In other words, even before AI came into the picture, American workers were facing a system stacked against them.
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Well now you know how the NY Times would airbrush Dr Mengele
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest ¡ Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Donald Trump pretends to care about Medicare fraud, but then turns around and pardons a guy who ran a $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
#đśâ´ohmmakers #joyfulmorningmovers park empty on labor day... everyone better be getting ready to head downtown for the protest later
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
Commentary by Berry Craig The Knights of Labor are gone and largely forgotten. Yet they were 19th century Americaâs largest labor organization and an ancestor of the AFL-CIO. kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/01/k...
As the nation reels from last weekâs horrific school shooting in Minnesota, authorities in Florida seem to be doing everything in their power to re-traumatize a community victimized by a different mass attack.
Maybe this time it's different
1/ If you are feeling overwhelmed by the fast paced of legal news, remember that itâs deliberate. Itâs a strategy Trump uses, flooding the zone in hopes that people will tune out. Read what you need to know here to get ready for the week: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
This is a good point. It is indeed ok to fight battles you might not win! Because much of the point is to drive media coverage and get attention.
âWhy itâs wrong to hope for Trump to dieâ by Atlantic writer
The mental fitness of elderly Presidents has been such an important issue for the media lately, so I expect wall-to-wall coverage of how President Trump has once again thrown a fit about one of his own signature policies, showing no awareness of how it arose or who executed it.
On Thurs (while I was on vacation), @aclu.org sought full DC Circuit review of the splintered panel decision that would vacate Judge Boasbergâs order finding probable cause to believe DOJ attys committed criminal contempt in the JGG case. ... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1/5
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For those interested, the White House pool reports this am that Trump has arrived at his golf course in Sterling VA and pool had a "fraction of a second glimpse" of him--"he was wearing a white baseball cap, black windbreaker and what appeared to be a white golf shirt underneath."
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-texas...
Judge Sooknanan asked Ensign about this during the hearing and tbh even he seemed reluctant to take the view that the provision he cited overrides all the other statutory protections⌠He tried to argue that the Title 6 provision is âits own form of protectionâ?? bsky.app/profile/anna...
Yesterday, after enjoining DOJ/DHS from removing dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors, Judge Sooknanan ordered DOJ to file 4 status reports *later that same day*âwith a 5th still due this morningâto prove it complied. (âPresumption of regularityâ is gone for this DOJ.) ... 1/2
Different translation of the statement about the Polish CEO who stole a cap from a child at the U.S. Open I didn't think it was possible, but it's even worse than the one that's been circulating
If this country ever returns to sanity, a whole bunch of people should be disbarred, at a minimum
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didnât file the report in time â and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Donald Trump's health care cuts are going to be catastrophic. First, Americans will see their premiums skyrocket, and millions will be priced out of coverage. Then, millions will lose Medicaid, and hospitals will begin to close. Democrats are fighting to repeal these cuts.
Iâve heard wall streeters are buying up the tariff refund rights from importers as speculative investments.
Vinay Prasad of the FDA demanded that @joho.bsky.socialâs YouTube channel be removed, and it was. Dr. Howard regularly pointed out the numerous flaws in Prasadâs statements about COVID19 vaccines and other topics. You can read about it here.
New threats from this regime come fast â we have to move just as quickly. Fighting back against schemes like Trumpâs map-rigging takes urgent resources. Your donation makes it possible. Please pitch in if you can: secure.actblue.com/d...
This is the kind of thing that is required to stop the Trump administration from doing obviously cruel and illegal deportations
On the one hand, the U.S. Government wanted to rapidly deport CHILDREN in the middle on the night. And on the other hand, a government lawyer said it will take them 5 days to explain in writing why theyâre doing it.
As if on cue, while the Trump Administration threatens rule of law to deport people of color, its allies jump at the chance to claim nonwhite judges have no legitimacy to rule against it
A three-judge panel of a federal appeals court unanimously ruled Friday the Trump administration likely acted unlawfully when it revoked extensions for temporary protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans. From @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social.
âNot a national emergency.â Retired military oppose DeWine deploying Ohio National Guard troops ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/27/n...