Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by attacks on the Constitution so extreme that even judges Trump appointed in his first term are aghast.

NEW: A majority of voters (55%) support the Block the Bombs Act, which would prohibit the U.S. from selling large bombs and heavy artillery shells to Israel.

He’s the only Republican there. He sent all the rest of them home again to avoid a vote on the Epstein files. Since Johnson has become Speaker they have probably been in recess at least 3 out of every 4 days. And they’ve done NOTHING on health care for years. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Earlier this year, @theradr.bsky.social wrote this helpful piece listing ways to engage in "good trouble." Definitely worth a read for anyone who's still unsure where to start. www.lifeisasacredtext.com/goodtrouble/

Bari Weiss has officially been announced as the editor in chief of CBS News. “She’s not a reporter; she’s never been in the field,” a 60 Minutes producer told Adam Piore for a recent profile of CBS. “Talk about controversies.” www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...

Novel idea: “If you believe you don’t have to abide by the law of Western Australia, then there is no way you can be considered a fit and proper person to be able to hold a licence to own and possess a firearm.” thenightly.com.au/australia/so...

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

All 45 staffers at the "Department of Government Efficiency" were apparently too valuable to lose, as the agency was completely unscathed by the temporary employment suspension. trib.al/oLvnmwO Meanwhile, he furloughed 89% of the EPA, 87% Dept. of Ed, and 71% of HUD.

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities! We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

One city decided it didn’t want a data center and the community had about three weeks to organize. We talked with Dr. Mike Bogan from the University of Arizona about what went into Tucson’s efforts, including his role as a scientist, and learned A LOT www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

This is an Epstein shutdown.

Fuck ICE.

Good one. "Kavanaugh Stops" for when DHS officers grab US citizens on the street and detain them for anywhere from 20 minutes to a couple days, and "Kavanaugh Raids" for when DHS officers raid a worksite or apartment building and detain US citizens for hours/days while they check everyone there.

New polling suggests that Trump’s efforts to falsely claim that Democrats shut down the government because they want to provide “free health care for illegal aliens” are not working. Nearly half of Americans blame the shutdown on Trump and Republicans in Congress, and for good reason.

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Whoa! Employees at the SBA received a template for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats. 🚨 A clear violation of the Hatch Act

Millions of veterans got this email from the official VA account with a blatant political smear and lie about the government shutdown yesterday. This is a massive violation of the law and federal regulations using our government resources for political actions.

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

BREAKING: Dr. Jane Goodall, an animal rights advocate, has died of natural causes at age 91, the Jane Goodall Institute says in a statement.

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

I heard someone refer to PH as "Full Metal Jackass" and thought that pretty much hit the mark. 🎯

New from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern? Some states are threatening to end SNAP. Why? Trump is setting state governments up for failure, cutting resources, adding administrative burdens while imposing massive financial penalties for errors. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

September 30th marks the end of an era as our Deferred Resignation Program (DRP) colleagues officially separate from the National Park Service. To those who faced this difficult choice under pressure: you deserved so much better. forms.gle/3gdxRdzndr5C...

a government run by internet trolls, for internet trolls.

This is after a 2022 policy change had started to increase convictions for domestic violence by removing commanders from the process. They had started to have more real consequences for domestic violence and now Hegseth is working to reverse it. www.military.com/daily-news/i...

Your regular reminder that residents of Puerto Rico are American citizens. This shouldn't be a difficult concept to grasp and yet...

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

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."

With the dismantling of the CDC, it's a good time to revisit the geography of the Covid-19 pandemic, which featured dramatic regional gaps in adherence to public health advice, vaccination rates, and resultant deaths. www.nationhoodlab.org/vaccinations...

Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.

Hard to express how bizarre and frustrating it is to hear these non-academics press their hallucinatory visions of what campuses are like. Truly no relationship to the reality.

Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"

Republicans cited Pathways as a model for the federal Medicaid work requirement law passed in July that will take effect after midterm elections.

This is the very definition of concentration camps.

Abolish ICE

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. 'Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile' is in select theaters October 2. To find a theater near you, visit: theonion.com/badpedophile

What in the absolute FUCK. The only words I have right now are F-bombs.

never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or elon musk where he was on december 6, 2014

Trump, far from being the victim of witch hunts, is the orchestrator of them. But even he has never sunk this low. This is a crime against the best values of this republic. It is a profoundly un-American act. trib.al/tV3TpCU

Per the Des Moines Register: The superintendent of Des Moines schools has been arrested by ICE www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

It is a troubling sign of where MAGA is headed that we find ourselves re-litigating the most infamous massacre of Native Americans in US history.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.