#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

I should measure the heat of my hot sauces not based on Scoville but by how many minutes it causes you to be free of thinking about the news.

Flower Piano! What a wonderful event. Listening here to @transbay.bsky.social play Bach. At the SF Botanical Garden.

“We think of ourselves as smarter, more moral, more literate than the German public back then. But we’re not. We are just as susceptible to flattery, deception, manipulation”

I stand with @myrnamelgard7.bsky.social

Republicans: "transgenderism must be eradicated." Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us." Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."

Resign instead of voting yes on this garbage. Don’t fold to threats of violence when you are representing us. Capitulation is acceptance of a fascist regime.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Oh. Right. Of course. Putting my marker down now: they knew. They’re going to do it again. And by this time next year they’ll be bragging about it.

Fired for refusing to fabricate evidence to help get someone else fired. That’s where we are.

The people who pulled the 1987 Max Headroom Incident have the opportunity to do the funniest thing on Friday

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

Here are the first vaccine recommendations issued by the West Coast Health Alliance, which includes California, Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii:

"As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald."

They're turning this into their Reichstag fire and they're openly admitting it.

Okay @schumer.senate.gov, now it’s coming for your state. Are you going to help Trump fund his government, with a deal that he will violate and use to attack your constituents?

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

First, they aren’t “rulers” they are representatives. Though they sometimes act like rulers. Second, absolutely this “choosing of successors” behavior is terrible, rampant within the Dem party, and must stop. We should also primary incumbents. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Also, shame on any democrat politician who thought for one moment this was a radicalized progressive. We don’t radicalize toward weaponry and murder. We generally radicalize toward justice, protest, mutual aid, and community action.

There it is again: “not normal.” I seriously doubt that this language is working. I guess all these elected officials got a talking points memo saying to use the phrase. It’s far too weak.

Republicans triggered "nuclear option" to change the rules of the Senate on a party-line basis. The vote was 53-45 to establish a new rule that allows the Senate to confirm an unlimited number of nominees en bloc, rather than process each one individually.

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Kirk didn't "engage" with others in "discourse" in any meaningful sense, and certainly not in a sense any of us should emulate. His every interaction was in bad faith. He viewed none of his interlocutors as moral equals in an exchange of ideas, but as mere means to advance is propagandistic ends.

We can condemn the violence and his assassination unequivocally without celebrating what Charlie Kirk stood for.

His work was calling for lynching of trans people. Political violence is wrong no matter what and he constantly called for it.

For the first time, #USCIS will create “special agents” with powers to carry firearms and make arrests. Shev Dalal-Dheini (@aila.org) and @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social explain how this move defies Congress’ mandate and raises serious legal concerns. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/uscis-s...

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

You shouldn’t have to walk around with papers in the United States of America to prove that you belong. All I can say is that this administration should understand Chicago is a place that’s going to protect its people.

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

Organizing works part 74927982: AC Transit staff just pulled the agenda item accepting $500k from DHS to put “counterterrorism” cops on our buses! ICE out of the Bay Area. AC Transit should focus their efforts on improving trips, not bowing to Trump.

“Alligator Alcatraz is, in fact, like we always said, open for business.” DeSantis and other Florida officials took to social media to celebrate an appeals court blocking the dismantling of Alligator Alcatraz.

I’m vaccinated, flu and Covid. My doctor gave me a prescription for the Covid vaccine which made things smoother. #fuckRFKJr

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

this needs to be a bigger story — RFK is rushing to appoint SEVEN more anti-vaccine extremists to his phony vaccine panel so it’s packed with quacks. my read? he’s panicking and accelerating his plans to take away all of our vaccines. free to read: wapo.st/3JStzDh

You might know that despite a 2014 pledge to eliminate traffic deaths in 10 yrs, 2024 was one of the deadliest years on record. Less discussed but just as notable are the number of non-fatal injury crashes. Other than a brief COVID dip, they've remained at about the same level since the mid-2000s

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🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

"LLMs perform a kind of taxidermy with words, presenting them in a lifelike fashion that mainly serves to remind you that they are dead." Hat tip, again, to @lifewinning.com 's Perfect Sentences 141

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

The sheer insanity of my kid being turned away from their Covid vaccine appointment because of CDC guidelines. Utterly detached from any semblance of concern for the wellbeing of people. I am beside myself with anger.

One of my kids was denied the Covid booster today at San Francisco Walgreens. I wasn’t able to provide an acceptable reason for eligibility, they will require a prescription. Attesting to a medical condition they wrote down the name of for the other kid was good enough. Be forewarned.

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.

I'm a proud member of the Transit Workers Union. Labor Day is the commemoration of the struggle for the rights of workers to organize, unite, and fight for our dignity and fair treatment. It was, and still is, earned through blood, sweat, and tears.

Instead of stopping the genocide and recognizing the Palestinian state, Trump is doubling down on cruelty.