In his podcast, Ross Douthat says Hasan Piker has a "MAGA body," and aside from wondering WTF that is supposed to mean, I am struck by how much conservative men obsess about the shapes of other people's bodies.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation White House Ramps Up Effort to Remove and Alter Information on Climate Change nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Data erasure and alterations aren't just a threat to the public's right-to-know--they make it harder for the government to study, enforce, and inform about climate policy. How are federal agencies supposed to prepare for and regulate threats that don't exist? nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!" Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

every republican president of my lifetime has completely destroyed the economy

I just remembered the first time I heard of Pete Hegseth www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

What Do These Ghouls Even Want

The Pete Principle. Newsday.com/matt

The Artist Who Lived in a Cage (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/a...

I'm on Team Beardo.

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

He has a second grader's understanding of modern military forces.

The Archive's @rsanta.bsky.social talks about her new report on Disappearing Climate Data www.youtube.com/shorts/BNDSe...

Wrote for the @nsarchive.bsky.social about how the Trump administration has significantly ramped up its efforts to remove and alter critical climate resources and data this summer: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation White House Ramps Up Effort to Remove and Alter Information on Climate Change nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

What an absolute thug.

Making Hegseth the tip of the spear for the autogolpe is an inspired choice.

Deploying US troops against US citizens in American cities isn’t just unprecedented and unconstitutional – it’s UNAMERICAN. Every freedom-loving American Patriot, regardless of their political party, must speak up NOW.

Trump and Hegseth are fully embracing the "internal security" model that the U.S. pushed governments around the world to adopt during the Cold War, leading to prolonged conflicts and the institutionalization of human rights abuses.

U.S. cities are now "training grounds" for the military, said the President of the United States.

The White House Military Office Coast Guard aide has “Football” duty for Trump’s rambling speech to hundreds of senior US military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA. The ~45-lb. satchel trails Trump 24/7, enabling him alone to authorize the use of any of our ~1,770 deployed nuclear weapons.

Don't miss this riveting new piece from @katidoyle.bsky.social and @cldorfman.bsky.social on the DEA intercepts that contain critical information on the 2014 Ayotzinapa student disappearances @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Trump opens with a threat to the generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent … Have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud ... If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose."

He looks wasted.

I wonder why Hegseth wants to shelter Pentagon officials from allegations of abuse? www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

The message here is that Hegseth wants to build a military consisting of immoral, abusive men untethered by considerations of right and wrong.

Hegseth has no leadership skills and has zero idea what his job is supposed to be, so his big ideas for the military are shaving and working out because those are things he knows how to do.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

a sticker made by a woman in my friend’s building lmao

There are only 41,000 coal miners in the United States. By way of comparison, there are 100,000 **registered** yoga teachers, 361,000 Starbucks baristas and 265,000 faculty and staff members working for the University of California system alone.

This passage nearly broke me.

I went to the American embassy today to get a passport card that I could carry in my wallet to show my citizenship in case masked men try to kidnap me when I’m in the US. Seriously.

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

This is a really nice opportunity for recent graduates to do research at @nsarchive.bsky.social or another NGO in Washington, DC. We've hosted some very bright @ScovillePF fellows at the National Security Archive over the years.

According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Prayers up

A needless war that keeps killing long after it's over.

So now we're back to *not* ascribing one person's actions to a whole political movement. It's dizzying I tell you!

A historic moment here at Sheridan Circle as the four sons of Orlando Letelier (former Chilean ambassador & government official and fellow at my office) approach the place where their father was assassinated by a car bomb planted by General Pinochet’s thugs 49 years ago.

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

"In what appears to be a copy of Epstein’s itinerary, Musk had a tentative trip to Epstein’s island on Dec. 6, 2014." www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Even Teddy Roosevelt (our least "woke" president ever) called Wounded Knee "a massacre," in which "squaws, children, unarmed Indians, and armed Indians who had surrendered were killed, sometimes cold-bloodedly and with circumstances of marked brutality." 5/

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/

Novo Nordisk just bought a postage stamp sized lot in central Ohio and stuck a nail in it.

In the last 6 hours, Trump has imposed: - A 100% tariff on medicine unless its producer starts building a new U.S. factory in the next 5 days - A 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities - A 30% tariff on upholstered furniture - A 25% tariff on “Heavy (Big!) Trucks”