To quote from @strictscrutiny.bsky.social: No law, just vibes.

This is why the Dunning School analogy was made. Some folks were uneasy with it. Our interlocutors did not like it. It is fitting.

Sounds like America may have committed a serious war crime that VP Vance laughed about, joking about “not going finishing.” This is why we do not permit extrajudicial executions by the United States military against civilians— not in peacetime, not in war, not ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...

The Trump administration has taken the first step toward debarring Harvard, a move that would make the university ineligible for federal funding.

The programs we already destroyed won’t be funded.

Mike Johnson: "The WIC program, the nutrition program -- women, infants, and children -- that program won't be funded. FEMA won't be funded."

What the fuck.

And another big tech company licks the tyrant’s boot.

On the one hand Trump is cruel, predatory and a dictator in the making. He believes he owns the country. On the other (no real contradiction), this is entirely plausible. This presidency is an erratic/predatory ID being run and directed by a small handful of toadies and degenerate policy hands.

The man behind the US’ summary execution of civilians off the coast of Venezuela is Stephen Miller.

Hell no. We don't need a delay and a pinky promise to negotiate -- we need a deal that keeps the government open and saves health care for Americans. I'm in D.C. ready to vote for that. Republicans have refused to come to the table for months. Why would Democrats acting weak change their behavior?

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Deep reds now on the cam.

Omg look at this GORGEOUS aurora in Posio, Finland happening right now! Beautiful green and red curtains are filling the sky. Europe is getting absolutely bathed in aurora tonight. Amazing stuff!

It’s both depressing and darkly hilarious how Lawfare posting has gone from “we got him on an Article 33, Clause 8, Subsection Alpha infraction, baby cannon time!” to *slams whisky bottle down* “the law is fake and I challenge John Roberts to a fistfight at the Walmart parking lot.”

Utilities, groceries, health care premiums all going sky high, and he’s blabbering on like he’s Louis XIV in Versailles.

If Congress fails to extend ACA healthcare subsidies with this budget NOW…. ….7.3M Americans will lose coverage — and that number will keep rising. Costs will go up for everyone. This is the fight.

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

“The image has been all over the news in Argentina in recent days.”

The number of cancelations Disney saw in the week after suspending Kimmel was 436% above baseline subscriber churn.

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia’s (locked) gates on the eve of their possible deportation

Unless the Senate acts, the government will shut down midnight on Wednesday. @nicholasbednar.bsky.social evaluates OMB Director Russ Vought's plan to use this shutdown as a springboard for permanent federal workforce cuts.

Last time Trump appointed Jared Kushner to solve the Middle East's problems once and for all, and Kushner's sole qualification was that he had "read 25 books on it." So you know Trump is serious this time around.

lol

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

via @micaherfan.com Immediately after the Michigan shooting, Trump implied the shooter was an anti-Christian leftist. We now know the background of the shooter. Here he is wearing a “Make Liberals Cry Again” shirt:

Am I reading this correctly? A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza? What the hell?

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The master negotiator is at it again. In his quest to "lower drug prices," Trump demanded pharmaceutical companies charge the same price in the US as they do in other countries....so they're raising the prices in other countries:

1. Wut? 2. How, exactly, do you suppose this is going to work?

lol CVS specialty told me to ask Aetna. Aetna told me to ask CVS Caremark. Aetna and CVS are the same company, btw.

My oncologist & pharmacy team at the world class cancer center doesn’t know. The pharmaceutical company that makes it doesn’t know.

Truly Kafka-esque and imagine this situation multiplied by hundreds of thousands or millions placed in this uncertainty?

just 12 hours before this a *different* 40 year old Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq shot up a bar in North Carolina www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

he's got the nuclear codes! those are real things that actually exist! he retweeted a fake ai video of himself announcing that he was rolling out magic medbeds across america!

Coffee with the Beats ☕️ Larry Rivers, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, David Amram, Allen Ginsberg 📷 John Cohen, 1957 #NationalCoffeeDay

Here's a list from @bbkogan.bsky.social on what shuts down immediately this week, if the govt does shut down. Note some of this was already targeted by DOGE. www.americanprogress.org/article/what...

Talk about a chilling effect. Most universities prohibit recording faculty members, and you would think that even stronger protections apply to recording other students.

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.

"...he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." "...no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust...shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title...from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

The Cheesecake Factory employs more workers than the coal industry. I'm not kidding.

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Even more, university professors are teaching *how to think*. I am not interested in outsourcing my most human capability to a magic box. Yes, I use calculators, computer algebra, etc. If those vanished tomorrow, I would still be able to do physics, because I learned how to do the integrals myself

The alleged shooter in Michigan. Weird that Vance and Patel haven’t tweeted out this info. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽 www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

just made this powerpoint slide. happy monday.

I had a judge presiding over one of my cases ask me if I had been a defendant in one of his cases because he recognized me. I was like nope. I'm counsel. I was dressed impeccably in a vintage Calvin Klein suit that I'd paid way too much money for. It happened in 2005ish and I still think about it.

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president