Florida state officials say they are keeping a close eye on how teachers react to the assassination of Charlie Kirk by pledging to investigate and punish any “vile, sanctionable” behavior from educators. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Judges are playing a lynchpin role in upholding the nation's Constitution and laws in the face of Trump's manifest disregard for them. But six rightwing Supreme Court Justices are increasingly at odds with the rest of the judiciary, and are acting like Trump partisans, not judges

Harvard University says it has started receiving notices that many federal grants halted by the Trump administration will be reinstated after a federal judge ruled that the cuts were illegal.

It’s remarkable to watch mucb of the American right, including the president of the United States, blame the entire left and Democrats for the actions of a murderer who hasn’t even been identified yet.

Wait, hang on - Bolsonaro was convicted of attempting a coup in Brazil...? You can do that?

Has the State Department ever warned a group of people not to mock something? I don’t mean telling State Department employees to be diplomatic, I mean threatening nonemployees with state punishment if they make jokes, bad taste or otherwise. That’s Putin, Xi, Erdogan stuff.

Naval Support Activity Annapolis, in coordination with local law enforcement, is currently responding to reports of threats made to the Naval Academy. The base is on lockdown out of an abundance of caution.

On the first anniversary of 9/11, I gave a speech in Greece, which you might find of interest all these years later. www.nationalreview.com/2002/09/chan...

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s sobbing wife told a judge that her husband was “not the man I thought he was” before she was sentenced Thursday to 4½ years in prison for selling the powerful New Jersey politician’s influence in exchange for bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car.

Putin's puppet

Russia’s mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children is a moral outrage. Russia is sending abducted children to military training camps and preventing them from contacting their loved ones. We must work to reunite these children with their families. www.nbcnews.com/world/ukrain...

NEW from me: Trump and Mike Johnson have all but blocked the release of the full Epstein files. But Massie and Khanna might not even need any more Republican votes. If Democrats hold their seat in #AZ07 and Grijalva signs, it will have a vote. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump continues to give Russia break after break and benefit of the doubt. This will encourage Russia to further escalate, knowing the US won’t step up and respond. “I’m not happy about anything having to do with that whole situation. But hopefully it’s going to come to an end.”

Authorities detained, interrogated and released an innocent person in connection with Charlie Kirk's killing. The Provo 25-year-old now is being attacked online.

The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s toxic legacy is underway #Trump

Please support independent media, where shows like ours still have the freedom to remind you that Charlie Kirk made his name on hate and division without anyone getting fired

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Vinay Prasad, who is making it harder to get the Covid vax, barely comes into the office: there's nothing wrong with working at home, but it's ironic - and he's getting special treatment while other workers cannot . www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @motherjones.com @juliametraux.bsky.social

Florida plan to end vaccine mandates will face challenges in state legislature www.reuters.com/business/hea...

🧵We The People have the power. When it’s coordinated, loud, proud with multitudes of folks we can make good trouble and make it happen. Good job Chicago! 👏⬇️

🎁 Article Best to 👂🏽, it's a long read. In about three weeks, the government’s funding will run out. Democrats will face a choice: Join Republicans to fund a government that Trump is turning into a tool of authoritarian takeover and vengeance or shut the government down. #Pinks nyti.ms/42h8RTV

First, Mike Johnson said Trump was an FBI informant. Now he says Trump “was the only one more than a decade ago willing to help prosecutors expose Epstein for being a disgusting child predator” So, how did Trump help prosecutors? What did Trump know from all his time with Epstein? wapo.st/46erJUZ

Seven months after they voted to confirm longtime anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the nation’s health secretary, some Republican senators are having second thoughts. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump would tell you Alcindor should be thankful he took the time to set her straight. He really would tell you that.

Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets on the country’s Independence Day on Sunday in dueling political protests, opening a tense week that is expected to conclude with the conviction of former President Jair Bolsonaro. nyti.ms/4nhoqmu

This is not only a tell about his current politics, it’s a tell about how ignorant about race he is in general. What was the “1900 white population” exactly?

Just 10 years ago if the President signed an executive order, Republicans would scream that he is a dictator. Really.

We’re talking about the social and historical construction of racial categories in my 100-level class on Tuesday. Elon should jet up and join us. He might learn something.

Several of my neighbors voted for Trump. If I said to them "he's deploying troops to US cities & unleashing polio & measles on the country & deporting people to foreign gulags & allowing millions of people to die of AIDS in Africa and raking in billions in crypto pay offs" they'd think *I* was nuts.

I consume a good amount of normie, center-left political content (New Yorker, NYTimes, Atlantic, Bulwark, Hayes, Maddow, etc.) produced mostly by people who've been in the US politics biz for over 2 decades...and in the past month there's been a noticeable shift in tone and urgency.

Wait isn’t this the war Grandpa Don dodged?

Bill Kristol is right. Never forget that trump surrounds himself with those who will take the Fall..."I didn't know," is his defense byline.

You guys see where this is going? Right?

More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center.

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Everyone knows that Trump's signature trumps the First Amendment.

Trump announces federal law enforcement to perform policing in Chicago and Baltimore. "For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, @france24.com Annette Young welcomes Eric Lisann, Legal Analyst and former U.S. federal prosecutor." www.france24.com/en/video/202...

Administrative burden is a great way to slowly squeeze people out of benefits programs.

"It’s rare to pack so much culture-war toxicity into one short post over something that matters so little." But Chris Rufo can do it! @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Rufo's anti-woke authoritarianism: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-chris-...

People need to get fucking serious because this regime is moving its pieces into place.

What’s really happening here is that because Ukraine couldn’t have Tomahawks, they developed their own cruise missile, now in serial production, and it has twice the range of a Tomahawk and a larger warhead. Nobody will buy the US weapon when there’s something better offered elsewhere.

This Rothkopf piece nicely crystallizes what this past week demonstrates about the nature of the Trump regime, and what we need to do about it now and in the future.

I can’t get over how old and sickly Trump seems in every setting now. The fact that the DC press corps is making this the lead question and topic in DC is astounding. He’s clearly not well—even by Trumpian standards of clarity.

This is leadership.

MAGA, MAGA!

It's frightening how Americans are just falling into line with fascism almost without a fight. It foreshadows what will happen in the UK when the fascist intimidation starts. We like to think we are not so easily crushed, but I don't think so.

Elon Musk’s DOGE generated some $21.7 billion in waste across the federal government in the first six months of the year. www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-d...