Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
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Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
A man who was being held in a Manhattan police precinct station house on Friday was found unconscious and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to a city official. He is at least the fourth detainee in city custody to die in a little over a week.
It’s their new aide, Billy Joe McAllister
It's Labor Day, which means I am laboring, to some extent -- because The Will Bunch Newsletter has to go out on Tuesday, come hell or high water, and I need your questions for Ask Me Anything It seems like a moment where you might have a lot of questions, so fire away
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we should bring back corruption as a liability for politicians
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Either way the Ohio National Guard is involved
Spending Labor Day on the beach in North Wildwood reading a book about Grant and the early KKK and listening to WABC from July 1970 on YouTube, as I assume most people are doing
Still with stroke face
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Labor & immigration beats have long been seen as separate beats in newsrooms. Why? Labor reporters are largely white & dont speak foreign languages, while immigration reporters are heavily Latino & speak Spanish. Let's tear down these absurd walls in newsrooms. paydayreport.com/tearing-down...
Imagine being a dv victim in danger and in need of a hero but instead count Ghouliani pulls up slurring his words and leaking hair dye and demands you get in his car that is full of empty Kirkland gallons of vodka. Scary
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
"Siri, find me the ultimate Nextdoor posting..."
Should have made clear this was in July, when Trump’s health seemed to start deteriorating
This is starting to feel even more suspicious www.aol.com/jd-vance-fle...
So, the woman whom Giuliani was helping was on the southbound side of Interstate 93. But the car in which he was injured was on the northbound side. And this all happened in the dark of night. www.concordmonitor.com/2025/08/31/r... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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That was a gift link btw! Here’s an excerpt.
My latest: Josh Hawley bet his career on the GOP’s transformation into a worker’s party. He lost. Republicans love the bosses, hate unions. www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
You have no idea
Should have made clear this was in July, when Trump’s health seemed to start deteriorating
This is starting to feel even more suspicious www.aol.com/jd-vance-fle...
I think they are working on their Venezuela invasion plans.
Trump *never* stays in DC on a long weekend (or almost any weekend.) Why did he stay there on this one? Shouldn't he be at Bedminster or Mar-a-lago?
Yes, I do think this activity has ratcheted down. Please do not take me trying to throw cold water on the craziest conspiracies as saying I think he's super healthful and vibrant.
I live near his Bedminster club. For three consecutive weekends he has been elsewhere. This is very unusual.
TIL Giuliani has a spine
It’s slowly dawned on me that Trump abruptly stopped going to his other properties in the weekend, not even Labor Day. He used to go to NJ in the summer. Now he seems tethered to the White House, where he recreated Mar-a-Lago Why?
Post a video of yourself with today’s newspaper saying this
Such an outstanding column by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social! Police abuses. Immigration raids. Dehumanizing technology. Rethinking political party loyalty. History is repeating itself. Ruben Salazar already covered it all.
What a — excusez mon français, s’il te plait — a government shitshow of unfathomable proportions
My body is tired, but my spirit is willing! Still walking because transit can’t wait. Still walking for our families. Still walking for a government that works for the US! #walkfortransit #day3
Did Trump post a week-old golfing pic as if it were today? That would really thicken the plot, huh?
This is something I’ve thought about A LOT lately- the kinds of essential reporting that large traditional media has inexplicably stopped doing. For example, why aren’t there more reporters in the streets of DC, describing what it’s like? It’s truly dumbfounding
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Weird photo. Is this the angle he chooses to show because he is being treated with steroids? If so, did the steroids also remind him of Roger Clemens? 🤔
whew, I was worried there for a minute
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Opinion pieces on @inquirer.com's home page this morning
A story told over and over in Louisiana. Only the names are changed.
"Schumer should accept defeat here. He should stop trying to recruit anyone to run against Platner. He should give everyone in the Democratic coalition a fair and unspoiled test of left-populist appeal." Agreed, @brianbeutler.bsky.social www.offmessage.net/p/graham-pla...
Will Bunch hits the nail on the head again
Just because you feel like your day to day life may have not changed that much much doesn't mean that America hasn't changed dramatically under Trump. Authoritarianism is here, right now. We all need to be as clear eyed about it as @vermontgmg.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The last 2 weeks have seen many articles clearly stating Trump has taken US into some state of authoritarianism, even dictatorship, some by indie journalists, but also, major international media. Today on 1A, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine & Spain’s La Vanguardia. 🧵 www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual. Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying. "I wrote this." "I created this."
my bluesky
I know everyone is disappointed that the rumors of Trump's death are greatly exaggerated. But look: Biden's aging undermined him politically swiftly. If the public keeps seeing Trump looking feeble, that's also a win. And pressure to roll him out there even when he's not feeling well helps.
Out here at the MDC in Los Angeles where a couple dozen protesters are outside the fence. DHS has already maced half a dozen people and just sent pepperballs at those assembled
Union get all 3 points on the road in Cincinnati AND clinch a playoff spot thanks to a NYRB draw. What a ridiculous, fun season.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
That feeling when the Union score the first goal in their biggest match of the year on my laptop, about 10 seconds before the Phillies come from behind down to their last strike in the 10th inning to beat the Braves on the phone in my hand
"How Dems Come Back: Be Real; FIGHT #DonaldTrump & His MAGA Mobsters!" I debate w @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social how Dems can win on policy/politically based on my 1st piece in a series of 4 on this called, simply, "Be Sherrod Brown" Please check out & Share! www.blueamp.co/p/cliff-v-jo...
Washington Nationals fans head to the game with the National Guard in the background:
Visibility Brigade Bucks County PA STRIKES AGAIN! 🔥 FIRE RFK! 💙Save the CDC! #FireJFKjrNOW
60 Years of 'Highway 61'--Still the Greatest Album Ever--Listen to Entire Album via Hot Dylan Alternate Takes open.substack.com/pub/gregmitc...
#tdih 1967 2,000+ people attended People’s Tribunal (because courts, press didn't pursue justice) on police killing of 3 young Black men at Algiers Motel in Detroit. Among jurors were novelist J. O. Killens & Rosa Parks. They found officers guilty of murder. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/de...
The Big Giant Head
Especially if he did a press conference and started doing the “Scooby Doo” bit
For some weird reason I have a sudden urge to rewatch “Dave”
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 “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
my wife just got back from her book club of mostly offline people and i can report that the rumor has broken containment
Actually, in this case, "Disco Duck"
Going to listen to NPR to hear if they start playing “Swan Lake”
Helping to derail this remarkable woman's nomination for a federal judgeship is one of just many reasons Lynne Abraham should burn in hell www.inquirer.com/obituaries/f...
If a genie ever grants me three wishes, my first one will be to allow grand jurors to discuss their secret deliberations. Probably the second and third ones too.
We need Woodward and Bernstein going to these grand jurors’ homes at night because this is a hell of a story
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
This makes me question the president’s health more than the size of his ankles
in South Jersey
It’s morning in America
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
In case you're wondering, in the last few months in Maine alone, ICE has detained A teenaged construction worker A jail officer A reserve police officer A pastor A soccer player www.pressherald.com/2025/08/28/l...
This is a really excellent, "America, what went wrong" article (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
"Money that could keep thousands of commuters out of their gas-guzzling cars is instead propping up an underperforming plastics plant that has already been fined $10 million for frequent air pollution." Another timely and important piece by @willbunch.bsky.social
A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.
Schwarber
this is an important moment.
As the article says .. a perfect encapsulation of why people feel angry and pissed off despite unemployment being low ..
This is a really excellent, "America, what went wrong" article (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
“Mr. President, JD Vance says he’s ready to take over for you as soon as you die. Any comment?”
Seems like he thinks about this…a lot
Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods
Harrisburg can't find $$$ to run your bus yet the state is giving up to $1.6 billion (!) to Shell's polluting, climate-crushing plastics plant that's a jobs bust and may even be for sale after less than 3 years Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...
"Money that could keep thousands of commuters out of their gas-guzzling cars is instead propping up an underperforming plastics plant that has already been fined $10 million for frequent air pollution."
hmmm, good public transportation or a new plastics plant? I know what dumbass suicidal capitalism will choose!
Money spent or not on transit is a choice. It is not the case that there isn't enough money.
Pennsylvania needs buses, not boondoggles.
If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©
Stares Directly at PA Senate Republicans
Harrisburg can't find $$$ to run your bus yet the state is giving up to $1.6 billion (!) to Shell's polluting, climate-crushing plastics plant that's a jobs bust and may even be for sale after less than 3 years Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...
It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was lynched by a mob of white men.
NEW: Anti-extremism researchers say they’ve identified group claiming responsibility for Villanova hoax shooter call, provide audio of Bucknell incident. www.inquirer.com/crime/villan...
Wow
Sometimes it's impossible not to love sports