Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm. Real life:

Defund the police

Green Horse in Landscape by Franz Marc, 1912 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137775

Protein powders to now be sold in “regular” and “unleaded” formulations.

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

Birth of the Wolves by Franz Marc, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137619

Actual Anti-Facist

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Everyone who was raising alarm bells under Bush and Obama are shouting “I told you!” right now.

In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country. Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.

Hi from northern Italy where all the trains are canceled or very delayed. Free Palestine!

Exactly. He has to own this.

There was no characterization. That’s what he said. But this is Speaker Johnson. Too scared to speak with integrity. Too weak to lead.

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

"Would you say the US is in a political crisis?" Yes: 79% No: 18% Quinnipiac / Sept 21, 2025

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

is this not just kidnapping?

The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

Unless you track this media as part of a study or through a job at Media Matters or the SPLC, there is no reason to listen to any of this, you will not learn anything but you will be driven insane in upsetting ways.

Breaking: Northrop announces work on new stealth strategic bomber that can absolutely not be seen, codename “Epstein Files.”

“It is telling that those claiming they are for free speech are the ones punishing and silencing those who exercise that right. ... “It is also notable that every single Republican censure resolution against members of Congress targets legislators of color.” theintercept.com/2025/09/16/i...

"we cannot express our regrets profoundly enough, but it is our hope that you will use these two free passes to return to jurassic park"

‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

My god…

If we had a functional news system in theadlines like : “massive protests as police occupy two of the largest cities in the nation as well as nations capitol” Would be used here. Instead authoritarianism has destroyed our ability to fully understand the Republicans declared war against the nation.

🧵 The “Skull Mask” (worn here by a federal agent) is favored and worn by domestic and international Neo-Nazi militant accerlationists. The skull echoes the Totenkopf, or "death's head,” worn by Nazi SS officers who guarded concentration camps.

Breaking: Kennedy Center to lease space to Spirit Halloween.

Here is an except of what I wrote that seems to have triggered Cleta. To read the full thing and get access to all Democracy Docket premium content, sign up here: hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Setting aside the incorrect claim about herd immunity: defector.com/setting-asid...

There is a world where Lorena Bobbitt, Lauren Boebert and Ashli Babbitt are all the same person.

This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day

James Dobson dedicated his life to evil and the world is worse because he made it so on purpose. defector.com/james-dobson...

Cosplay is more important than feeding people and giving them healthcare. This regime's vanity is outrageous.

The site did an “investigation” into preexisting conditions in starving kids in Gaza — the same logic that would have you believe typhus killed Anne Frank.

New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.

As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

“The country with the Statue of Liberty deprived us of our liberty without any kind of evidence,” Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan who was held in CECOT for months, said two days after he was returned to his family.

Adams is predictably an asshole. Also, many communities could do what Krishnan wanted & protect immigrants by expunging minor offenses, taking away pretexts for deportation. And, universities can & should expunge student disciplinary records, especially those w/minor offenses. most won’t.

I am lowkey mesmerized by the fact that the NYT essentially has two homepages rn: one where the world is burning and the other where we are making cocktails out of glacial ice

On the left: Washington Post report: Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... On the right: Background reading, Professor Jason Stanley's vital Sept 2024 book www.simonandschuster.com/books/Erasin...

Trump Prepares to Revoke Lifesaving Abortion Care for Veterans More crucial coverage by @jesswash.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/07/29/t...

In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy, the Trump administration proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced.

NEW: EPA to revoke 2009 finding that climate pollution endangers humans.