24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska; 270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina; 4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii --> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

"I'm Ben Shapiro. I'm Matt Walsh. I'm Riley Gaines. I'm Bari Weiss' sister. All that, plus Baked Alaska, tonight on '60 Minutes.'"

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

The “problem“ with economics during downturns is that the data heavy facet of the profession—one of its strongest facets as a field—makes it regressively backwards looking as the revisions come in. Baselines shift and the economist says it’s just as they predicted after a full year of revisions.

ICYMI @acollierastro.bsky.social

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone. Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.

In the Network State ideology, social order will be imposed via total surveillance. Curtis Yarvin’s “patchwork” (2008) envisions citizens who must scan into cities and be tracked 24/7. Ellison, along with Yarvin cultists Andreeseen Horowitz, will soon control TikTok. fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

En deux décennies, les sociétés européennes se sont transformées. Sans s’en rendre compte, les #démocraties du continent se sont développées en s’appuyant directement sur des infrastructures d’information et de communication américaines. @himself.bsky.social legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...

Donald Trump wants to lend $20 billion of our money to bail out a political ally and his global investors before an election. Oh, and Argentina just struck a major deal with China that crushes American soybean farmers already suffering from Trump's tariffs. “America First.”

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

"Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, Free Speech, and Whitewashing in the Media": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @marisakabas.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Among Democrats - "Which of the following political figures would you prefer?" 🔴 AOC, Sanders, Mamdani: 53% ⚫️ Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi: 33% ⚪️ Unsure: 14% Read it all here -> usapolling.substack.com/p/democratic...

If you’ve ever wondered why crime is higher in majority-Black, Democrat-controlled cities, you can just look at the data. Spoiler alert: it’s not.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

“.. There are two economies in the U.S. right now ... In August, annual wage and salary growth fell to 0.9% for the bottom third, the smallest gain since 2016 ... “.. The top third saw growth of 3.6% year over year, the most since November 2021." @jeannewhalen.bsky.social

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

The Baileys admire learned helplessness, you see.

Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.

I'm sorry, what???

Increasingly looks like efforts to shoehorn this into discernible partisan politics will fail. Right now, there's a mass movement of would-be shooters motivated solely be nihilistic meme lord shit that doesn't map onto the political identities most of us know. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Me, confronting a kid with a “Student Driver: Please Be Patient” on their car doing something absolutely inexplicable on the road: Yo, what driving school do you attend? Who is your teacher? What kind of grades are you getting? You probably need to buckle down a little bit.

When you write a piece noting that a guy promoted racism and violence, his followers immediately prove you right

It's called nihilism. gnet-research.org/2022/12/16/g...

Keep picturing Patel dropping the casings in terror after reading “if you read this youre gay”

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

NEW: Bitcoin ATMs are facilitating scams across the country. In Idaho, where there are no laws regulating the machines, I spoke to store clerks who have been stopping scams as a last line of defense. www.inc.com/sam-blum/cry...

CPI inflation increased for the fourth month in a row in August, reaching 2.9%.

US electricity prices continue rising as the grid struggles to meet new demand from data centers, household electrification, and industrial growth—retail prices are now up 6% compared to last year, the fastest pace of price increases since 2023

I see a lot of people on Bluesky saying “don’t celebrate.” And I see a lot of right wingers on Twitter who are celebrating like they finally got laid. Because they really want a martyr. It’s disgusting.

One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.

Epstein survivor Annie Farmer: 30 years later, we still do not know why that report wasn't properly investigated. We are not going away and we are not going to give up. Passing this Epstein transparency bill is one step that can be taken to prove the government does not side with sexual perpetrators

“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Conservatives now control federal research funding. The next step: actually manipulating research. A conservative law firm is demanding Brown retract research showing connections between anti-wind groups and the fossil fuel industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Link: www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll..... 13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

(Bloomberg) - President Donald Trump stunned the logistics industry on Friday by widening his steel and aluminum tariffs to include more than 400 consumer items that contain the metals, such as motorcycles and tableware. @bloomberg.com news.bloomberglaw.com/internationa...

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.

Feb vs Aug approval breakdown by Pew Overall: -4 —> -22 some of the larger shifts Hispanic: -26 —> -43 Asian: -4 —> -35 18-29: -16 —> -33 30-49: -10 —> -31 No College: +8 —> -15 www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

‼️Spending jumped 10% to a record $630 billion, while income only inched up 2% to $338 billion. Tariffs brought in more money, but Trump’s spending spree still burned through it faster than it came in. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/u...