Apropos absolutely nothing else there is still a rather rude awakening which is yet to come for those in the Democratic Party and in the camp of liberalism writ large if they think Israel's public image is at all recoverable among young and nonwhite voters and apparatchiks.

In the Oregon troops case, the Ninth Circuit panel granted an administrative stay of the Saturday OR NG TRO but *not* the Sunday deployment TRO. "Thus, the effect of granting an administrative stay preserves the status quo in which National Guard members have been federalized but not deployed."

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

I joked about it but it may actually be worthwhile for every Dem who gets on tv to start saying Stephen Miller is the real president

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.” The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

This is maybe the most insulting thing you could say about a human being lol

Gotta find me some more vel/Kleya fanfic tbh

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. (Published July with @texastribune.org)

🚨BREAKING: Trump announces Israel and Hamas reach deal on hostages, Palestinian prisoners www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Credit scores are now falling at the fastest pace since the Great Recession. www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/e...

Trump take Assassin's Creed

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

DropSite receives confirmation that Hamas has agreed to a finalized version of the ceasefire framework and is prepared to sign it tonight

So this is funny. The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump: We took the freedom of speech away. Americans: Yeah, we know. www.pbump.net/o/even-2-in-...

Gonna say it, not enough games about defeating Klansmen, Confederates or neo-Confederates.

I'm bummed for the big obvious reason, but this would have absolutely featured Richmond and I have been dreaming of seeing my hometown in a video game my whole life

“Hamas is committed to securing the release of former Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti as part of the agreement with Israel to end the war, a source familiar with the matter told TOI “Barghouti’s fate remains absolutely central to these talks,” the source said.”” www.timesofisrael.com/mediators-se...

Not sure what's worse: never getting to play this or not being at all surprised that C-suite cowards canned it

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War • Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave • Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan • Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash (via Game File)

this is fine www.nbcnews.com

Trump used military force to strike 4 ships in the Caribbean, killing 21 people, and has not provided sound legal justification for doing so to Congress. I’m forcing a vote with Senator Adam Schiff on whether the U.S. should put our troops in harm’s way to conduct these strikes.

You'll fare a lot better in terms of coping with this stuff if you just internalize that being pro-Israel has long been considered an elite litmus test and now being pro-Palestine is becoming the litmus test of the forthcoming next generation of elites. Ideological reproduction on the issue flipped.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

I managed to conceive of a reason Jack Smith might want call logs for GOP senators that isn't rooted in Joe Biden "weaponizing" the government. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

I’m guessing the commercial carrier landing fees at Denver exceed $155.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

Something not fully appreciated in the Riyadh comedy festival discourse is that in many ways Saudi Arabia is getting *more* repressive www.thenation.com/article/worl...

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

From 2017 to 2024, the number of data centers in the U.S. increased from 318 to 5,208.

If I'm hearing the Speaker and Republican leadership right in this press conference they are now saying they will keep the House in recess for the fourth week in a row as troops and federal workers start missing their paychecks

ICE in Portland is limiting media access to Fox News and right-wing influencers, while stonewalling the local news media. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

The U.S. went from "your personal IRS and Social Security data is tightly protected" to "we gave a kid named 'Big Balls' access to view and download all your data because screw you" in the span of less than six months.

37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers. Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.

O’Neal leads 54% to 46% with 60% reporting, but local media called it for her and Pruhs conceded. This is the first election on my guide for this fall to be resolved: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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.

hell Pritzker could fund this on his own, he's rich enough. the Great Khan ought to have a Praetorian Guard, it stands to reason

he probably doesn't! most American police forces are some combo of rogue paramilitary and criminal gangster conspiracy! but that's all the more reason to start standing up some loyal formations bsky.app/profile/kitc...

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

Remember: "I was just following orders" wasn't a valid defense at Nuremberg either.

John Roberts Colorblind Constitution bsky.app/profile/dlkn...

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

BTW if you read these emails you may get the sense that they're recent but they're actually from 2014. Frum has been on the same job for an additional 11 years without this being public knowledge.

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.