In rebuke to Trump administration, judge rules for Harvard on many key issues in the funding cutoff cases. I’m glad the university held fast rather than buckling under to the bully. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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In rebuke to Trump administration, judge rules for Harvard on many key issues in the funding cutoff cases. I’m glad the university held fast rather than buckling under to the bully. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls. This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine. This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
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
have actually decided that the only thing funnier than Trump planning Biden’s state funeral is Biden attending Trump’s
Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publicly operated jails These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the incarceration of people who are mostly accused of no more serious offense than crossing the border without permission
implausible ascription of rationality!
Except that more and more voters are choosing not to affiliate with either party. So the ones who remain are more diehard. Notice too the GOP score has dropped some (small but down from 85%).
Activists continue to disrupt ICE hiring events. Here is a report from one recent action in #Atlanta, GA. itsgoingdown.org/anti-ice-act...
In retrospect, Trump's early move to create a sovereign wealth fund was an ominous sign of his interest in developing a sort of personal piggy bank to hold the proceeds of corporate shakedowns and expropriations [Tad DeHaven, @cato.org]
"Wouldn't miss it for the world!"
The finale of Don Giovanni is playing
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Right now in Michigan, we’re in the middle of a budget showdown. The Republican Speaker of the House slipped a provision into the budget that would kneecap our Attorney General – and make it near-impossible for us to take the Trump Administration to court.
no wings?
the last, you'll agree, is just the worst
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
BOSTON LABOR DAY MARCH 9:30-11:30 - start at Statehouse and walk to City Hall. Be there!
I hope his gravestone reads, "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!"
Beaches? It's the whole damn country!
Maybe his gravestone could read: THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
What do you call a dent in the Kant car? Ding an sich.
#SundayThoughts Thank you for your attention in this matter!
The greatest irony will be seeing Biden at his funeral
Beyond racist killings, often by the KKK, which were essentially legal in America until only about 60 yrs ago, the vast majority of crimes including murders are intra-racial; with the notable exception of mass shootings-though we never talk about “white on white crime.” www.ebsco.com/research-sta...
NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
It seems to me one of the best arguments to the court is that if this is truly a national emergency, the president’s own party controls Congress but has done nothing to address it with legislation, so how can it possibly be an emergency?
The USS Lake Erie, a guided missile cruiser, has passed through the Panama Canal into the Caribbean to join other US warships and a submarine off Venezuela.
Fair enough, but AOC is in the house. Which Dem senator do you think should be the minority leader?
Some fools are telling me that legislative people can never be real leaders, that the skill set is different. Bullshit. Watch this LBJ speech. Is @schumer.senate.gov giving speeches like this, citing Lexington and Concord, about the reanimated Confederacy conquering DC? Do this, Senators.
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
Have you asked his spouse?
Pretty much
The new Pulte-Trump crackdown on mortgage occupancy fraud is nothing if not selective.
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
CHICAGO…
He thinks if he pretends to be the Führer long enough, everyone will treat him as the Führer.
Right, but not even close to the crimes committed there. One has to expect that the files contain worse.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
I bet if we played "YMCA" backwards, we'd hear Vance saying "I buried Donald"
How businesses deflect responsibilities for addressing modern slavery in their supply chains | theconversation.com/how-business...
We haven't lost yet
Until the TCJA, the top 400 US individuals by wealth and the full US population both had effective tax rates of ~30%. The TCJA reduced the Top 400 individuals’ total effective tax rates to 23.8% in 2018 – 2020, well below those of the full population (still ~30%). www.nber.org/system/files...
Was just thinking of this earlier Not today
I’ve heard it before but it gets better every time!
Laura Rozen is not the WH pool reporter, but the 3rd post in this image is what did the critical mass
Seems like a pleasant dream from which we will wake up to something worse
Yes yes yes
BINGO
If they were comfortable and unbothered they wouldn’t be gerrymandering like lunatics.
At one point, far along EK muses about reading history books 10 years from now, where things have gone badly, and everything now would read as straightforwardly leading up to that. Indeed. Show me all the comparative data where things start like this and don't end like that. How hard is this?
Either it's sincere & EK's a fool, or he's deliberately trying to temporize and appease. I don't think he's a fool. Misleading his listeners into agnosticism, hesitation, and ultimately inaction is not meeting the demands of the moment.
The handwringing, contorted efforts to be "fair minded," treating the current situation as if it were a gestalt shift, between "what voters voted for" and accelerating authoritarianism was off-putting. Most immigration voters wanted violent criminals deported. Not gross violations of civil rights.
I listened to this bc I wanted to hear @radleybalko.bsky.social, who was excellent and worth it. But it reminded me why I stopped listening to @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
I can't imagine that this book is really one of the more damning things in the files, given what we already know of the procuring and the island, etc.
FINALLY
“ the Trump administration is now asking foreign mail carriers to act as import tax collectors on behalf of the U.S. government — something they aren't set up to do or may be refusing to do.” Normally, this is done by the postal service of the receiver, not the sender.
Anxiousdough?
Written order to come within 30 days (he issued it now bc the law is supposed to go into effect Monday. Rough holding is that it likely violates the 1A to compel companies issue disclosures related to DEI and ESG they don't think are true. Trump-appointed Judge Alan Albright.
A serious, grave concern for all of us.
choqué
We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
zing!
As @emptywheel.bsky.social has explained very clearly, at a minimum, Putin knows exactly how and how much Russia conspired with Trump for his 2016 election win, something Trump has been furiously trying to distract from ever since. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
It's OK. Eventually we all die anyway, right?
Seconded. Also, if you are a law student or a lawyer and wants to "get off the mat", a new 501(c)(3) dedicated to hold people like Pam Bondi, Emil Bove, and Todd Blanche accountable needs your help! DM me if interested.
A thoroughly unconstitutional usurpation of power: "Vought… has led the charge on pocket rescissions, telegraphing … once the clock wound down on the fiscal year.… the administration’s untested theory … lets the President zero out any already allocated funds he chooses."
as menacing as I've ever seen it
Sauce for the gander, and all that
a lot of sepulchral & goth vibes recently
This is worth your time 👇🏽
Whatever the accuracy and value of “Democracy Indices”, this is truly remarkable and again shows the striking disconnect between the U.S. legacy media and U.S. political reality.
The last clause undermines the one preceding
Excellent, esp. as it goes on, from logos and Cracker Barrel to Baudrillard to culture wars to fascism. "Conservatism is now the protection and hoarding of old-seeming simulacra and simulations, hence all the AI-generated “traditionalism.” Naturally, this brings me to fascism.…"
Because the thing is, this is real but also, it's not real. This image reflects the reality that Trump *wants* a total state in which he is the unquestioned leader, but we do not actually live in that state, at least not yet.
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.
I miss the old brand #CDC
6th c. fresco discovered in excavations of the old Lateran palace in #Rome thought to be the oldest portrait of St. Augustine. It was found in a space identified by archaeologists as a library.
couldn't contain himself, could he
Tough gig
Soon Our Dear Leader will want one
Citation for $245 million number:
The Florida government has signed contracts with at least $245 million of taxpayers' money for this this short-lived un-American photo-op cruelty.
Portugal’s President Rebelo de Sousa: “The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He operates as an asset.”
“Academic freedom is at the heart of what makes a strong university. It’s a key to attracting top teachers & researchers & essential to our state’s economy – the freedom to teach, research & speak out on issues of concern.” — Belle Boggs, North Carolina AAUP President
A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...
post of the day
And the advantage of this is … what? Remind me how we're "winning."
this is doing the thing i hate most in this moment aside from the authoritarianism itself. you are not being savvy or clever when you do this. you are instead paving the way and making it easier for them. stop doing it.
TIL: the singular reflexive pronoun 'themself' has been in use since the 1300s, and 'themselves' in the plural since 1466 and as a singular reflexive only since 1529
Right to the point. It's not about crime. It's about slander and intimidation.
Though I'm glad to hear they feel the heat. And that Markwayne Mullin is afraid to ride the subway. Real tough guys.
One thing that’s funny about this is that he didn’t actually live in New York City.
NEW: Internal records show how Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt has worked to get Elon Musk access to state and local officials ahead of a formal bidding process for a Houston flood project. Both stand to benefit should Musk be selected. By @lmcgaughy.bsky.social and @chengyilun.bsky.social
@sulliview.bsky.social, as always, gets it
Landlords say they can’t afford a rent freeze, but have $2.5M to give to Cuomo. Reminds me of corporations that spend millions to bust unions instead of just raising wages and offering benefits. Doing the right thing is always cheaper than the cost to block it.