The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Former USAID official here. The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world. It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation. The facts, below. 🧵

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

Welcome to the era of “Kavanaugh Raids.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Re 2) below, @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social and I have clear evidence of that: In the immediate aftermath of the release of Francis‘ Laudato Si, Fox News made lots of noise bashing Francis for his “woke” green agenda. Btw, this was also around the time of Trump’s candidacy to the 2016 primaries.

What the literal what

Not the main point, but this section on the Medicaid work requirements shows that the Republican model of "efficiency" is simply creating a ridiculous new bureaucracy that will force people off Medicaid.

6/? We have a hyper, hyper vigilance when it comes to dealing with white supremacy because we have needed to have this in order to survive. You have not needed this. And this is why so-called Pro-Palestinian "activists" are also a danger to us.

5/? PoC get a strategy in their heads for fighting, and no matter how lacking in strategy, you all barrel ahead damn the consequences. Whereas, for Black people, we have had to learn to maneuver, adapt, change strategies in order to survive. We have to be able to think 1000 steps ahead.

4/? And this is why I don't want to be included in PoC. You jokers are dangerous to us because you are impulsive and not strategic. You do not have the same 400 year history on this land that we do. All of you have a closer proximity to whiteness than we do. And that makes you dangerous af to us.

I've kept a discount subscription because it's my local paper, but with the Banner launching a Montgomery County section and this, I cancelled.

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others. Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

elite youth sports are so toxic and bad, without exception

Elon Musk invested so much in warping the political opinions of his AI, and yet grok remains a fan of European Union membership as a key factor of Poland's economic success compared to the UK.

I think agribusinesses are secure in the belief that the indentured servants they bring over and house (and now charge for that housing) will get to cycle in and out, just as Trump's Mar a Lago guest workers did.

This is all bullshit, by the way. There is no imminent risk of rotting crops, according to experts and farmworker unions. It's a ploy to cut wages (even below state minimum wages) for foreign workers, which will eventually hit U.S. workers too. So much for America First!

I get the idea of “we shouldn’t have even tried to deal, we should have just said no from the start,” but if we want to actually convince people that that’s the case, showing-not-telling seems far, far superior.

Let me emphasize once again that if you’re inclined toward “no deal is possible with these guys” then trying to make a reasonable deal and getting this reaction demonstrates that far better than just asserting it and refusing to try would have.

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street. Separating children from their parents. Creating fear. Taking people for “how they look.”

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers. Invading our state with military troops. Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night. Arresting elected officials asking questions.

True and also quite honestly is the statement even true to begin with? This choice was broadcasted more than any other possible choice or reasoning in the last election and look what America did. So to me it's not even true in the first place. America chose the authoritarianism intentionally.

As usual the people criticizing Democrats aren't recognizing that Democrats did the thing that they're saying they don't do. They're still doing it everyday but for some fucking reason we're here on this stupid post pointing it out to somebody who should know better.

Getting a flashback to that episode of Scandal where someone said 'There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women' and then Liv hit her with 'There's a special place in hell for women who spout that tired quote to justify their bad behavior'

Pure evil. "A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030."

As with many tech leaders, they get themselves in an arrogance-induced corner, tolerating huge amounts of risk, where the only outcome is to look dangerously incompetent and foolish, or like an evil compulsive liar.

Monstrous. "federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

If you're a reporter in DC lobbing questions about who's gonna perform at the Super Bowl to the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, you're just a shit stirrer and a hack. Plenty of things in Mike Johnson's wheelhouse you should be asking him about. Bad Bunny ain't one of them.

Let's note that Christopher Caldwell, who gets to defend Hegseth’s rabidly bigoted, sexist speech in the New York Times, wrote a whole book about how the Civil Rights Act constitutes an illegitimate departure from the Constitution. So, of course he is on board with imposing white male domination.

People have no idea how hard it is for Black women to always have to break glass ceilings, set new records, and "be the change." It literally weathers us, kills us from the inside out.

They are not Trump's enemies. They are critics and opponents. He sees them as enemies, because that's how autocrats perceive their critics. NYT should not repeat and normalize authoritarian discourse. How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I look forward to the argument that they were in danger from the crowd below

This ⬇️. Americans have shown they don’t care.

Why do you have to repeatedly lie? bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Once upon a time, the social media accounts of federal agencies weren't a stream of fascist, white nationalist garbage interlaced with whiny culture-war posts. Earlier this year, even!

What is the point of lying about this?

A hundred thousand followers, constitutional law professor, and just complete ahistorical bullshit. I understand the clout ratchet only goes the one way, but he's absolutely arguing something that happened didn't and then lying about it when called on it.

Ohio Republican lawmakers have introduced several bills to regulate abortion and reproductive health care despite the constitutional amendment approved by 57% of Ohio voters in 2023. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/08/o...

It has been incredibly demoralizing job hunting as a civil servant.

that’s this guy getting shot btw

this is a good article about the politics of a country you probably don't know anything about but also this photo of the 93-year-old president and his wife is mildly insane. his daughter has also just condemned him and renounced her family wealth on social media. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/07/b...

This is something most trans people have known for a while. But it's good to have some concrete statistics about it to help counter the idiots who seem think kids can just get a prescription for HRT from a GP and pick it up at Boots the same day.

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

If you've not got The Police/Sting in your head at the moment then you've clearly never seen this cover before.

If recreational drugs are weapons of war such that their presence authorizes deadly military force, wouldn't drugs also be arms with possession protected by the Second Amendment? We shouldn't have to ask—because drugs are not arms—but having to ask highlights how the US is not operating under law.

Oppenheimer got a lot of praise for depicting rapid pursuit of a dangerous new technology that, once unleashed, cannot be undone, which many compared to AI. But it turned out the movies’s timeliest, most currently relevant historical analogy was in depicting McCarthyism.

Calling bluffs works. If the people controlling the White House, House, Senate, and Supreme Court want to hurt America (even more than they already are) under the theory that the public will blame someone else, the move is to reject their demands and let them, not to validate the technique.

Europeans getting another lesson in how Trump always moves the goal posts. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Plus, these so-called “lie detector” tests are so frequently unreliable or wrong that the devices’ results aren’t even admissible in a court of law. Another US official says they responded to learning about Hegseth’s plans by discussing with colleagues how “seriously lame” it all was, and…