Israel is weighing the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, three Israeli officials said, just as several Western nations move towards recognizing Palestinian statehood this month.
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Israel is weighing the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, three Israeli officials said, just as several Western nations move towards recognizing Palestinian statehood this month.
TACO time.
“If the president wants to send one state’s National Guard forces into an unwilling state, he must federalize them first. But to federalize them, he needs statutory authority. And there is no statutory authority to federalize the Guard to police local crime.”
Sending soldiers into cities under the guise of fighting crime is an unprecedented abuse of power. And it’s illegal. bit.ly/4m6TG77
If you’re called up for an “emergency” but are gardening, was that an illegal order?
The National Guardners
There also needs to be consequences— as in voters can see what they voted for. That’s why the filibuster is so dangerous: people vote a majority in but then they are blocked and so voters can’t see if what they voted for works or not.
The level of stupid this trump missive embodies is maddening.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Russia ignored Trump’s two-week deadline for serious negotiations, Zelensky said, accusing Moscow of deliberately dragging out the war. www.kyivpost.com/post/59234
A survey by the Financial Times found that economists based in the US and Europe believe the president’s attacks on the US central bank have caused long-term damage to the institution as well as to the economy on.ft.com/47V6KZz
Mobilized for an “emergency” crime wave but raking leaves, picking up garbage, and mulching trees. They should be asking if these are illegal orders that they have a duty to refuse.
The cruelty wasn’t a byproduct~it was the point! We see Felon47 & ICE as tools of fear, trauma, & political messaging. What the hell is happening? They turned cruelty into policy. Caged children. Shattered families. Abused power. It is state-sanctioned trauma. Never forget. Never forgive.
The media needs to stop calling this an “immigration crackdown.” That’s not what Trump’s doing. He’s using the military and ICE to invade cities and occupy them. Trump is itching for a fight, and he wants it with blue-city mayors and blue-state governors. The good news: they’re not backing down.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
As the federal government continues to press states for voting information, Colorado election officials are pushing back against its demands. “This all is part of a bigger ploy to further undermine our voting in this country,” a state county clerk said.
They sure are making it a long day for the judge.
The fact that national guardspeople are raking leaves, mulching, and picking up candy wrappers makes it pretty clear that the mobilization for an “emergency” is an illegal order.
Trump, true to form, is a shithole person.
The DeSantis regime will do more to protect sidewalks from chalk than children from bullets.
if only that would disqualify him from being on cnn again
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:
Investigative stuff is why I subscribe to independent media, including the handbasket. For me reason, large media with 1000x the resources will never do what I want, which is tell me what's what, who's who, and who's a little bitch.
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
Wow. I want every university counsel who is thinking about cowering before the Trump Administration’s threats, to read this and understand the caliber of attorney that has you shaking in your books. Yet another player in Trump’s army of incompetent thugs. www.propublica.org/article/leo-...
“No lawyer talk! Terrell bellows to DOJ lawyers. No law, just threats, bombast, press conferences. That’s how our universities are falling.
The Trump administration “channels of influence” are more like dry arroyos.
Trump wants Gaza to be Tech Bro country #1.
As Pope Francis pointed out, a UBI could be extremely valuable not only to those who do work that’s traditionally unwaged, but also to those who face seasons of disruption in their waged employment. https://tinyurl.com/2b9vrstx
Wait, I thought Trumpian MAGAts were against interminable nation building efforts?
Remember when Trump trotted out an innocent Black child who was a cancer patient, like he was a prop, and then MAGAs pretended to be offended when we didn't celebrate that publicity stunt? Yeah...Trump's fascist policies have defunded pediatric brain cancer research. MAGA wants Structural Eugenics
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
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Ok, that’s a desperate exaggeration. Feed the cult, tuppence a lie, tuppence a lie.
The government claims they spent a month carefully identifying children that “met the criteria” but now it’ll take another week to prove it.🤔
“Oregon will see a two-year budget with a positive $472 million balance evaporate and turn into a $373 million deficit under the Trump administration’s tax and spending policies, economists told state lawmakers.”
Relocating the 2.1m gazans is equivalent to relocating the combined populations of Delaware and Rhode Island.
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
Suddenly constitutional “penumbras” are back on the menu!
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.
one can support the museum here: woodsonmuseum.org/shop/
To not name and shame the rich donors Trump has pardoned when he bellows about cracking down on criminals is political malpractice.
The headline calls this unexpected consequences, but I would call this extremely expected consequences.
Good background on an interesting and promising challenger to Susan Collins, the Senator with the most “concerns” she doesn’t act on.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Raddatz, effectively: “Why fight evil?”
On why the media is suddenly covering Epstein: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
Mallory McMorrow: "When we take back power, we need a party who is not afraid to use it."
Meta will always “struggle” because Zuckerberg has never understood and doesn’t fundamentally care about negative social impacts so it rarely gets effective attention, and never before bad things have happened and are baked in.
After this administration hangs a portrait of Robert E. Lee at West Point, perhaps they could put up a nice one of Al Capone at the FBI. Or Mary Mallon at HHS.
Any help? How about raising taxes locally to do the needed local work?
Trump is still whining about windmills built in sight of a golf course; there ain’t no way coerced relocation of Palestinians is going to magically be forgotten and bring peace.
People who know things don’t know things, but people who don’t know things know them. Vibes, man. All we need are vibes!
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
we’re still waiting on Trump’s tax returns from his first term.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
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.
“Pirro’s tough-girl shtick may elicit praise from the boss and favorable coverage from her former Fox News peers, but it doesn’t translate to credibility in court.”
Trump at his golf club today. He hid from the public for days and won’t let the press pool near him.
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
It's not Trump who normalizes autocracy. It's the rest of American news media. The Guardian can and should stand apart as the one outlet unafraid to declare autocracy is here. Stop asking. Declare. Has Trump succeeded in normalising American autocracy? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
2/ The Kremlin's presentation of territorial gains statistics ignores the significant losses that Russia is incurring and the gradual, creeping nature of Russia's advances — painting an incomplete picture of Russian performance on the battlefield.
… plans to forcibly displace 50% of Gazans.
In the hands of this SCOTUS, the legal concept of "irreparable harm" has become utterly detached from--if not downright opposed to--the reality of irreparable harm. This is perhaps the core defining feature of any formalist legal approach.
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
People who might be comfortable with their neighbors quietly disappearing aren't always comfortable when the grotesque human rights abuses involved are made public. They don't like to imagine themselves as the bad people you make them seem like when you point out what's happening. So keep doing it.
These signs everywhere are so much more aesthetically pleasing than a rainbow crosswalk, right?
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
ICE forcing firefighters to stop battling a wildfire and make them all show their papers, then arresting some active firefighters and pulling them off the line shows there's no bottom. As @aselrod.bsky.social pointedly argues, it's nothing less than an "active assault on virtue wherever it exists."
Trump admin has not contacted Illinois nor Chicago — they’re been planning their invasion of Chicago in secret.
A resonant echo of the famous September 1939 headline: “How the Hitler-Stalin Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Poland.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
TRUMP IS AMERICA’S BIGGEST LOSER.
Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor 😳
Because it's true
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
My Roberts epitaph waiting: He presided over a court and authored major ops. featuring a low quality mix of misinfo and legalistic rhetorical devices to reach tortured, dishonest, and cruel decisions that were antithetical to democracy and the aspirations of the Constitution and its amendments.
Pretty funny that these people can debate with a straight face what Lisa Cook put down on a mortgage application when we know the president of the United States said on a loan form that his 10k square foot condo was 32k square feet --- all the Republicans are just fine with that.
And a possible dry run for invading Mexico.
An SSA source tells me chief data officer Charles Borges sent out his involuntary resignation email to select offices within the agency a short while ago, but then a few minutes later the email disappeared from the inboxes of those who received it with no explanation.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
The experts are being forced out of the federal government, leaving Trump’s kooks, crooks and hacks to ruin our country.
@nytimes.com fixed it for you: “Trump Issues Illegal Order To Reinstall Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library”
Canada on Notice: The Attack on International Law Is an Attack on Canada open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
if you’re a political “enemy”, Trump will make it easier for one of his goons to get you
There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
Cruela is gonna get somebody killed.
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
Unceasing Trumpian sabotage.
In the last week alone, top officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Federal Reserve and the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) have been shown the door amid clashes with Trump and other top officials. | Analysis Read more: https://cnn.it/4oYbXG0
Four African states running out of special food for starving children, aid group says reut.rs/4n8OgJI
"We spent a huge amount of time aligning with our European allies and our Asian allies on a collective strategy to de-risk from China...When I go to these places now...what they're talking about is de-risking from the United States." Jake Sullivan joins @timmiller.bsky.social:
Rfk jr: Don’t bother me with the facts, my mind is made up of Trump’s vibes.
MAGA is trying to kill you www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...