The latter decision is usually blocking the former

On left: President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025: "The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States." On right: (Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.

#Pinks #ProudBlue Child Separation is in full swing. Where are these kids actually being taken and what’s going to happen to them? There is no oversight or accountability. What’s happening to the children?!?! www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

People better start going to prison for this and by people I mean ICE.

Yup. The only way to understand them is they've been pickled in Fox News.

Lindsey Burke, long a proponent of dissolving the Department of Education, is now overseeing its dismantling from the inside. Billions in programs have been shifted, half the workforce cut, and core services for low-income students and students with disabilities thrown into uncertainty. Read more:

"Writing for the Texas Observer, the Dallas-based journalist, with help from Tristan Lee of Bellingcat, has exposed several neo-Nazis, including an ICE prosecutor who was operating a White supremacist X account." That's right www.dmagazine.com/guides/best-...

If you want to see the strategy, I wrote a long read on the once-in-a-century attack on civil rights that were in the midst of. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

Trump's hateful rant and violently repressive action targeting Somali-Americans, ending free national park admissions on MLK day and Juneteenth, and an NSS calling for Europe to be whiter—all this week. No doubt it's extremely racist. The only question is whether Americans think that's good or bad.

Aiming to give Republicans an extra House seat in 2028, a Trump-aligned nonprofit has put $4.35 million toward supporting a proposed ballot measure that would repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law.

If this is what it takes to keep him away from the Pentagon, I'm all for it. Let's make more fake medals, one per month for the next three years. He'll end up with so many medals he'll be competing with North Korean generals.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

If you love movies and watching them in cinemas, this is disastrous news. Whatever Netflix says, this will erode a long tradition and have massive repercussions across the entire entertainment landscape.

Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

Since Trump took office, only upper-class wages have outpaced inflation. Everyone else is losing purchasing power. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Researchers in Brazil identified anti-inflammatory properties of a cream made with the propolis of Amazon stingless bees, with results similar to commercial healing ointments.

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

"climate change ideology" Good lord we're cooked (literally & figuratively). "But think about the kids!" -says conservative man shoveling coal into the world's furnace

"A historic document leak creates new opportunities to hold perpetrators accountable. Today, one of the largest document leaks ever from Syria’s intelligence services was made public." Damascus Dossier reveals regime's systematic brutality - Civil Rights Defenders share.google/rjRv1rStW3RT...

"Cosmic filaments are the largest known structures in the universe: vast, thread-like formations of galaxies and dark matter that form a cosmic scaffolding. They also act as "highways" along which matter and momentum flow into galaxies."

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Prison rape is wrong. Jokes about prison rape are wrong. Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong. If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity. BUT A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.

What is terrifying is we all sit with a sinking feeling that President Trump will pardon it.

"It was all about business. Oligarch money. Projects. Investments. And now Ukraine is about to pay the price for those conversations. My sources are telling me that in that Miami meeting, Kushner and Witkoff are not negotiating. They’re delivering an ultimatum."

"Across northwestern Africa’s sun-blasted rim, the Maghreb, six years of drought have slashed wheat yields, forcing countries such as #Morocco, #Algeria and #Tunisia to import more grain, even as global prices rise." #ClimateEmergency

“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that: - labeling is censorship - fact-checking is censorship - transparency is censorship - research is censorship What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.

What sticks out to me is how absolutely unafraid of prosecution this psychopath is. Part of it is narcissistic personality disorder, but it's mostly the perceived weakness of Democrats. Should they retake power, no one expects Democrats to hold anyone accountable.

I'm assuming this read better in the original Cyrillic

41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

AHEM zeteo.com/p/trump-nati...

Burrowing white nationalist ideologies into offical government policy. This all needs to be removed root and branch with no typical tepidity.

Truly surreal universe we're living in here. There is no bottom to this administration and no Republican or conservative who prefers proximity to power than any moral standing will raise anything more than a shrug.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

Apologies for yelling, but— ERIC TRUMP'S NET WORTH HAS INCREASED BY ABOUT $360 MILLION IN THE PAST YEAR.

By me and @andy-rowell.bsky.social Two fossil-fuel billionaires with close ties to Donald Trump bought millions of shares in the company they co-founded just days after a meeting with senior White House officials, who then issued them key regulatory permit www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Done

A big deal (or it should be):

Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October www.france24.com/en/live-news...

“If a fascist is merely someone who opposes democracy, then let me be clear: I oppose democracy — and have always opposed democracy,” Jason Lee Van Dyke once wrote. Now, he’s running for office.

You knew it, right? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I would love a still photo with the names of all of every single pathetic, sycophantic jackasses standing behind Trump and going along with this