Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

When you give yourself a Department of War, soon enough you are going to find a war to fight.

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

This is much, much more significant than the Comey indictment but has gotten like 0.1% of the media coverage

Suddenly: tremendous amount of gas and pepper balls fill the road. People running, canisters exploding.

Assisted by ATF agents here, CBP just rushed out of the gate and immediately into the crowd to seize safety gear (umbrellas, shields) from protesters. Loaded them into this truck. Saw feds tackle and arrest one person between parked cars.

Happening now: at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and other CBP/ICE agents emerge to patrol Beach Street and escort a vehicle out. They ordered people out of the street, walked to the end of it and then back to the fence.

ICE has escalated week after week. They have told the village of Broadview that tonight will be a "shitshow", terrorizing residents and using more force against protesters. I would not be surprised if we see dramatic escalation from ICE tonight. 2/6 www.fox32chicago.com/news/broadvi...

Endless lies. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

grandpa has good days and bad days but increasingly it's only bad days. losing it. brains leaking out his ears.

It is the damndest thing. We could be greater than ever, if we embraced progress, but instead our greedy establishment is trying to use the failed policies of Latin America from 60 years ago. Please help make this destruction of our country stop.

it is just a straightforward statement of fact to say that the trump administration sees any black student at an elite institution as one too many

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

Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke. What he’s uncovered in California is a nightmare. www.wired.com/story/the-la...

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.

They *know* ppl are fed up with what they’re doing. They *expect* the public to be thr enemy, cuz they *know* that they’re doin unconstitutional shit. Has anyone seen the “proof” of the supposed “knives & drugs” allegations? 🤔🫣 “No due process” means this isn’t “law enforcement” but “law breaking”

Elon Musk, a white South African, will end up causing more misery across the African continent than anyone else in recent history

Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me. But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)

He Mar-a-lago’ed the a White House, the cheap scum ball turned the seat of power for the Western world into a fucking resort for the richest people. Tell me again how strong the ignorance and racism is in America? That they’ll vehemently support this guy still drives me nuts. #DumbFascism

Elite impunity is the core of our problems today.

As with his demands of Zelensky regarding Biden and DOJ with election fraud, it seems Trump just wants an announcement of alleged wrongdoing by Comey so that he can be portrayed as corrupt. Weakness of charges are irrelevant. When Comey is acquitted, Trump will blame the judge.

Maher: “If you're tracking the rise of autocracy, we've just transitioned from the muzzling-dissident phase to the prosecuting-political-enemies phase… At this rate Trump could be in a general's uniform by Christmas.”

This is precisely the claim that evidently animates the rigthwing majority on the Court: That any "burden" placed upon the regime by insisting the constitution is still in effect, the separation of powers is still a thing, and the law is still the law, causes the government irreparable harm.

Real post on another network:

Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.

Always read Farias. Roberts’s “maximalist language in Trump v. United States not only granted Trump a shield from criminal investigation and prosecution, but also handed him a sword to order criminal investigations and prosecutions—even sham ones.”

SCOTUS overturning a lower court to allow Vought's long-sought goal of a de facto impoundment is just one more example of a broader pattern: they consistently side with and enable the hostage takers, whether the hostages are federal employees or grantees. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

NEW: In 2018, Paul Atkins was paid $1,450/hour by Devon Archer's defense team as it fought charges that Archer defrauded victims out of $60m. Last week, the Atkins-led Securities & Exchange Commission dismissed a case that could have recouped the victims' money. The SEC says Atkins recused himself

It’s hard to convey the insanity of a thirty-something White House staffer getting an interim US Attorney appointment and marching into the grand jury room alone four days later to indict the former Deputy Attorney General and Director of the FBI

Props for this video.

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Excellent thread. If it salutes like a duck...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false: www.wired.com/story/herita...

Afghan interpreter held by ICE for months to be freed, San Diego judge orders A San Diego judge has ordered the release of Sayed Naser Noori, an Afghan interpreter who was detained by ICE for months. Noori expressed fears of retaliation in his asylum ap…

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

It speaks to the interest in Epstein that a detail from Dems today has created a frenzy about Peter Thiel. But anyone already following knows there are many ties between Thiel and the pedophile. As my colleague @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social reported: Epstein invested w/ Thiel as recently as 2016.

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

President Donald Trump has dispatched federal agents to Portland, local elected officials said in a hastily scheduled press conference on Friday night

WATCH: Here’s where Netanyahu says the purchase of TIKTOK is important so Israel can “battle” for public opinion 🤔 (Sure sounds like they plan to manipulate the algorithm, with the help of the Trump allies buying it — and sounds like Elon is helping them too)

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

Wisconsin Republican Bill Berrien quits governor's race amid pornography fallout https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/wisconsin-republican-bill-berrien-quits-191440759.html

excuse me, to discuss grooming?

Just…unbelievably and grossly negligent.

JD Vance appropriating the term "blood libel" to describe legitimate criticism of ICE agents is one of the most antisemitic things I have heard in US politics in the past few weeks. Yet this administration has somehow managed to convince a lot of people it actually cares about fighting antisemitism.