Well, hopefully something is clarified this evening. Stayed up until 4 a.m. the other day wondering.
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Well, hopefully something is clarified this evening. Stayed up until 4 a.m. the other day wondering.
top candidates for the announcement are: i had a pig’s heart transplanted and am stronger than ever or we are invading a country in the global south
Los Angeles— One arrest outside the MDC. Situation still volatile
Los Angeles— Another gnarly arrest around the corner from the MDC. Quite a few chemical munitions deployed
I’m outside the MDC here in Los Angeles, where a protest march has just converged outside the gate. Once again a lively atmosphere here
It’s incredible how his decency and kindness made me tear up when I saw this. The absolute opposite of what we are dealing with now.
lol
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Howard Stern is also making an announcement tomorrow. Which will be easier to predict?
Bill Belichick thinks 48-14 is unacceptable. Lucky for him the teams didn’t score one more touchdown each because 55-21 would be a healthy adult relationship.
Every Democratic member of both Houses of Congress should request in-person, on camera meetings with this man every day until either he shows up or they admit it.
there’s gotta be a MAGA lurker on here who wants to leak me something
I know there’s a lot of funny things here but the best for me is Belichick losing to carnival-ass Air Raid goof Sonny Dykes
That was the most terrifying performance by frogs since the second plague
If you watched college football this weekend, you undoubtedly saw a vague and confusing commercial from Cody Campbell about supposedly "saving college sports." It seems to be the latest tactic aimed at taking away the gains college players have made. www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
This ad w/ billionaire Cody Campbell exists to promote Trump's executive order aimed at preventing college athletes from getting paid (calling him a "former pro football player" is ... questionable & I'd love to see what contract allowed a partisan ad to be filmed at a publicly owned stadium)
when they stop being funded by billionaires
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is now less valuable than a few Chuck E. Cheese tokens.
🚨🚨 JD Vance is allegedly “moving fast” behind the scenes to seize power as an aging Trump continues to brush off rumors that his health is slipping.
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
You've got 97 seconds to summarize the labor econ literature on how to obtain causal estimates of the returns to education. Go.
It's his imagination and we're just lucky to be living in it.
The lifetime return to college remains enormous: four years of study adds more than a million dollars to expected earnings. And that yields a funny conclusion that I like to remind my students about: It may not feel like it, but these might be the highest earning years of your career.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Good question, feckless answer
Trash answer.
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Exhuming McCarthy
I know they’re more commercial, but this and Green are when they finally got great production to match the songwriting. These are their mission statements. Love this album.
The whole album is about 🔥 , about everything you think about 🔥 as being: cleansing, something that destroys everything in its path. It’s an element that’s everywhere; the metaphorical & allegorical interpretations of 🔥 are endless.” M. Stipe Happy anniversary to Document, released on 8.31.1987
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Man, I feel this. 🙏🏽😭
This thing has "If it's ever sold, it's a teardown" written all over it.
The Supreme Court accepts 100-150 cases a year of the 7000-8000 cases that are appealed to it. Part of what makes the emergency docket appealing to the Trump Administration is that it is trying to short cut this process. But even with that said, they have to decide where to expand that energy.
NEW: Huge anti-Trump protests happening across the US for Labor Day. This is the current scene in San Diego. A seemingly endless line of thousands of people on the streets! @50501movement.bsky.social #workersoverbillionaires #NoKings (🎥 10-97 News)
When he eventually passes (as we all do), they're going to cover it up for months. At least.
"He noted that snippets of Prasad’s comments still appeared on anti-vaccine social media accounts, suggesting Prasad was directing his removal demand only at a critic and not anti-vaccine influencers. In the past, Prasad has complained about censorship by social media companies."
Through its work in disease prevention, the CDC has saved millions of lives throughout the globe. Some of Trump's partisan critics question his plan to dismantle it.
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakis’ resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.
hello my name is Doctor Statistics, I have a mathematical proposal for winning elections and it involves subtracting part of my coalition
I would expect a student to raise their hand and say “that guy sounds like someone I’d never want to work with.” The day of the arrogant newspaper editor is long over, if it ever existed beyond movies and angry college students.
For what it’s worth
The people who refuse to do anything about school shootings and destroyed the Dept of Ed don’t actually give a shit about kids and schools come on.
I bet the White House staff is busy setting up a bunch of cardboard cutouts in the Oval Office like in Home Alone
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
The year is 2049. Stephen Miller rules over the smoldering husk on a country that was once the USA. The remaining population wanders aimlessly through the wasteland, lamenting the death of the economy, the environment, and hope itself. And through it all, a cry can still be heard. “I hated 2020.”
Give RFK Jr time, he’s working on it.
Someone please kill me right now.
Trump and Republicans attack unions because they know organized workers are powerful. But let’s be clear: workers built this country—not billionaires. (1/2)
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
When he does pass (everyone does, after all), it seems the over/under on how long they cover it up is at least two weeks. Based on this last week, I’m slamming the over on that one.
Three demential chess I tell you
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
What if most ppl arent actually still seething about an event from five years ago and the only ppl that are are extremely online weirdos and the reason why a lot of our news media & our political class cant see the forest for the trees on this is bc they too are way too online?
Sounds like they think this will make them one of the favored locations when Miller starts marching troops into college towns.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
"It isn’t that many more Americans wouldn’t like to belong to unions if they could —they don’t have the chance. That decline in union membership is no accident." By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in PN: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labo...
“Prune Wears Hat on Way to Car”
lol the Atlantic rules
“Ohio State has defeated six straight top-10 opponents!!!” Yes. Any team who doesn’t get a bye and who wins the new version of the college football playoff is going to be able to claim a similar streak.
MAGA got everything they wanted out of Cracker Barrel and they still want to punish the company anyway. Just about the most predictable outcome you could imagine.
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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
Miraculously, we are seeing that people care about unemployment again in the National Conversation™️ now that Joe Biden is no longer in the White House: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Brilliant
"I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago" Republicans are copying antebellum Southern rhetoric and should be treated as the Confederates they are
they’re transparently gleeful about the performative occupation of American cities
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Whether it’s Republican Donald Trump defunding NIH or Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. gutting the CDC, both parties are to blame for the demise of America’s scientific institutions.
In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How’s the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And when Trump and RFK are talking about all these medical cuts… they don’t mean insulin and oxy, right?
Aside from the obvious criticisms, why does that story need four bylines?! Do they think it’s gonna win an award?
Trump and RFK Jr. are betting that suburban moms care more about nonsense they read in Goop than about scientifically certified treatments for their children.
There is no explicit prohibition against the President cancelling elections, so it's hard to see why liberals think they are entitled to elections in 2026 and 2028. by Jonathan Turley
Good use of scare quotes tbh
In this Ohio diner, Weekend at Bernie's means when you crash at your socialist son's frat house the night before the big Michigan game. But they do know this: reports of Donald Trump's death are greatly exaggerated.
Make it stop
The United States killed American Indians and drove them from their homes in order to steal their land. Could it work in Gaza?
UPDATE: DOJ says that all but 4 of the unaccompanied migrant children have been returned to ORR custody. Transfer of the remaining four children is expected at approximately 11:00 p.m.
It’s very funny that these commercials are based on the idea that everyone knows who this man is on sight when I’m not even confident it’s the same actor year over year
Casino Royale is the best Bond movie.
if Miami wins the meanest thing you can do is text your Canes friends “nice W, looks like they’ve turned the corner”
capital one is trying to make their bank guy into a jake from state farm situation and we as a society must fight back
I will always root for college kickers (even when they reward coaching cowardice smh)
Miami playing for a very long FG attempt with a kicker who went 4/11 last year baby I’m on the ceiling
Like Kim Il Sung before him, he is the reason the sun rises in the morning