So are all these new presidential powers going to apply to the next Dem in office or nah

RFK jr and Trump need to go after cheese next, bc too many people are being killed by their bedsheets pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Other, more serious countries, have actual supreme/constitutional courts. We, alas, have a 9-member super-legislature whose Wizards in Robes issue rulings that are now no more grounded in the law, Constitution, or history/data/evidence than the burning of entrails or the reading of tea leaves.

I’m just glad hypocrisy isn’t alive to see this

Another baby step toward the dissolution of the union

I wish there was a less cumbersome way to say anti-anti-fascism

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I’m not entirely sure how China benefits from my 13 year old getting hooked on Boomer rock, but their little singy dancey app sure is good at it.

I don’t want to alarm anyone but there’s a lunatic in charge of the FBI

WAPO is just the NYTimes doing a bad impression of the NY Post

Are we also back to freedom fries? Just trying to keep up.

This administration is putting US troops on US streets while insisting that these troops can only ever be used for killing people. Meanwhile, rightwing tinfoil hat wearers who have been warning for decades about this EXACT scenario are like, "meh, seems legit"

Everything is so stupid now

Simultaneously bringing back the "Department of War" and starting a new armed conflict with Venezuela will clinch the Nobel Peace Prize for sure

I’m sure Eric Adams will make a great ambassador to the Marshall Islands

This can't be real

Pangs of envy every time I see how Bolsonaro is being handled in Brazil

the Nazis literally tried to discover Atlantis because they thought Atlanteans were aryans and would prove German racial superiority Fascism has always been anti-intellectual and full of pseudoscience

I hereby issue an executive order in my capacity as an associate professor of music forbidding voter ID across the United States. It has the same legal force as any executive order Trump may issue regarding voter ID. States should use their best judgment in determining which to follow.

I don't know about y'all, but I for one can't wait to hear from the illustrious conservative justices why Biden didn't have the power to forgive student loans but Trump can go ahead and levy hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes and upend the global economic order. Should be fascinating.

So when is the blue state shadow CDC starting up?

Here’s the link to file claims in the Anthropic case: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

The bottom-of-the-barrel lawyers that remain at Trump's DOJ took the old adage about a grand jury indicting a ham sandwich a little too literally

Big deal I also engage on social media

Can you impeach a deceased brainworm?

My favorite thing about the Brightspace CMS is that it has the power to choose for itself whether or not to execute any function. Keeps life interesting. Will it update that assignment after you press enter? Who knows? It's a mysterrrryyyy!

Given how Trump is monetizing the presidency, the supposed "excessive" judgment against him represents just two weeks of personal earnings. If I committed massive fraud, I would be very thankful to only have to give up two weeks of my annual salary.

If he had just stuck to riling up a crowd to murder the officers rather than throwing his deadly sandwich at them he would have been fine. Indeed, he would have been employee of the month at DOJ

Sandwich thrower guy for president

So the Trump admin has quietly demoted the status of the Consular Report of Birth, the official birth certificate for USians born abroad, presumably as part of their denaturalization efforts. Went to the embassy to renew our daughter's passport only to be told they need her foreign birth cert 1/x

Epstein files going unredacted bc a Doge kid got mugged

Potential for a dirt-cheap treatment for a devastating and pervasive disease? Maybe we should continue to fund Alzheimer's research and not rip away all the grants from Harvard.... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

They were never complete, but I liked the democracy and rule of law we had in the US and I’m sad that they’re gone

I'll say one thing about Hazony in this interview: he doesn't gaslight--even as he praises some of the biggest gaslighters in history (Vance, Hawley, etc). He doesn't even pretend to have answers to why his ideological commitments don't hold up to empirical scrutiny, just accepts it.

Jared Wise was caught on video yelling "Kill 'em, kill 'em" as Jan. 6 rioters skirmished with the police. He called officers Nazis and the "Gestapo." He's now "a valued member of the Justice Department," a spokesman said. www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Relatively certain I wouldn't have both my parents around in 2025 without mRNA vaccines. But I'm also relatively certain that even if RFK jr believed that fact he would still defund mRNA vaccine research. He wants my parents dead. He wants your parents dead. He wants a lot of people dead.

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Seriously tho, where are the articles of impeachment for rfk jr? This is not hard.

The tourism industry must love this

So is the money that the White House is extorting from universities going directly into Trump’s pocket or

I for one am looking forward to the US creating eleventy million jobs a month for the next three and a half years

Congrats to Bill Maher on his first well-timed joke. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Mind-bogglingly corrupt.

Traveling from NY to Abu Dhabi with an entire household and a pinched nerve in my lower back AMA

Just how big was that earthquake?

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

I have no idea who is going to emerge as the next Democratic nominee for president, but I do know they will only get there by promising to jail every member of the Trump administration and go completely scorched earth on every conservative institution in the country.

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