Seems like a great time to abolish the Electoral College

Also good on @cbschicago.bsky.social for running the footage of press being tear gassed and protestors including @katmabu.bsky.social being brutalized. Quick before the "Free Press" era begins.

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

Though I don't know who needs to know this, I learned one minute ago that Rachel Carson's Maine cottage is available to rent by the week June-Sept. Listened to Jill Lepore's beautiful essay about Carson in "The Deadline," & rooted around a bit to find this: rachelcarsoncouncil.org/wp-content/u...

Liguria region in Italy advises emergency and healthcare teams to mask up for growing numbers of influenza patients.

Almost nobody my age or younger has a real shot at owning a home. We need to ban hedge funds and private equity from buying homes, restore federal support for building housing, and expand VA-style home loans so working people can actually afford to own where they live.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

The next time anyone from DOJ so references their agency they need to be immediately corrected. It's now DOR, the U.S. Department of Revenge, which pairs nicely with the new Department of War. The trash who now govern us have outflanked Orwell entirely. They show you the lies and just shrug.

When Donald Trump took office eight months ago, the Department of Justice had 36 experienced attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians and police officers. Today it has two. www.notus.org/courts/doj-p...

That man 💯 beats his wife

Please join us tonight, rain or shine, for a mass mobilization to make clear: We want ICE out of New York City. We won’t stop showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

As always, support your local station. They need it more than you know. And, if you can swing it, adopt a station in another state: adoptastation.org

When you’re unable to refute the main point

I think ABC thinks they found a compromise that doesn't really cost much and I think they're wrong

I strongly endorse this @gregsargent.bsky.social suggestion newrepublic.com/article/2006...

Give a man a fish and you can feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you can wait for him offshore and then blow him apart with a precision-guided missile for trying. We are the world's most soulless cretins, deserving of the deepest contempt from any and every civilized society.

Just openly posting his war crimes

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

It's almost like a bunch of people want us all to understand and experience stochastic terror firsthand right now. Ostensible news outlets are helping with this project for clicks. #StopClicking #BanBillionaires #TaxTheRich

Would be nice to see the arrogant tech bros working the freeway off-ramps for coins.

Democratic socialism is bad because it could lead to socialism. Socialism is bad because it could lead to communism. Communism is bad because it can lead to authoritarianism. But going straight to authoritarianism is OK?

Anyone remember how much these notebooks cost a couple years ago? I'm fairly sure they were $2 or less. Now, they cost more than $7 each, and that's if you can find them. They and paper of any kind are the only bulwarks against AI for humanities teachers. Our students don't have this kind of money.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Our latest: undark.org/2025/08/15/o...

Indeed. Whomsoever among us is willing to volunteer to keep America safe from homegrown, tinpot Himmlers and their soulless desire to abuse people of color and those trying to move to a better life will have my admiration. They will indeed be defending the homeland. Or whatever remainsof it.

It is not deportation when you suspend habeus corpus and forcibly transport a human in custody to a nation where they have no connection, citizenship or affiliation. It is human trafficking. The United States is the world's shithole nation. Lawless. Soulless. Evil. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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Hey, the BIG 3 of the religious Right are finally dead. Jerry Falwell Pat Robertson, and James Dobson. I hope yall get to join your buddy Paul Weyrich in hell

Answered!

I wonder if the goons signing up for those fat ICE bonuses realize how eagerly Stephen Miller awaits one of them getting popped so he can move onto phase two of his master plan.

Kind of wonder what the coverage would have been like if it was RNC headquarters that was targeted like this. Or the Fox News building. Or Trump Tower.

Dearest Fellow Teachers, If you're like me, you have at least 47 emails over the last handful of days from the tech department explaining various status of some 162 platforms we use. This is capitalism at its worst & none of us signed up for it. I'm sorry. I pushed back as hard as I could. #EduSky

Stephen Miller just accused Ca Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass of “CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY." Mental. The people in charge of America are not well.

I’ve said from the start, Putin is not to be played with and Trump played Puffer Fish because he was not near him. Putin PROBABLY wouldn’t outright kill him now…being President. But his family is spread out, everyone knows he only cares about one. Just saying…killers kill.

It's a psychological fundamental that if you seriously believe reading a book will transform anyone into a homosexual, you are, in fact, certifiably gay yourself and simply white-knuckling and overcompensating your way through a fraudulent life.

Sergei Lavrov showing up in a CCCP (USSR) shirt has Reagan fucking *spinning* in his grave - and should be cause for alarm for every American. Many elected officials will have nothing to say about it. I was 11 when the Berlin Wall came down. This is fucking insulting.

This is not about crime. It’s about power. (+ distracting from the Epstein file cover-up)

#Ventucky #VenturaCounty Board of Supervisors debate a resolution supporting immigrants and farmworkers with actual dollars. It is way long. Public comment is toward the end. Good work, Dems. #FuckICE www.youtube.com/live/_hguRdy...

"Ghislaine Maxwell remains the only child-rapist in history to receive well-wishes from a president of the United States." Lawrence O'Donnell

Lately, I'm thinking justice is not it's all it's cracked up to be. Mercy has a better record.

It is even money at this point that a plank in the GOP platform for the 2028 election will be: "Kill The Poor." With all due respect to Jello Biafra.

I urge others to take notice and find their courage. Because if the First Amendment is to mean anything at all, it must mean that no government—regardless of party—gets to decide what is true, who gets heard, or which voices are silenced.

After months of cowardly capitulation to this Administration, Paramount finally got what it wanted. Now it's time for companies, journalists, and citizens alike to stand up and speak out, because unchecked and unquestioned power has no rightful place in America. I dissent. 🧵

British information campaign: Know Your Parasites #UK #Britain #parasites #politics #GreedyBastards #tyranny #elites #ObsceneWealth

So, CEO salaries have multiplied by more than 10 times, while worker pay has risen by a fraction smaller than a quarter. For every dollar a CEO made in 1978 he (there were no women CEOs in 1978) makes $10, +/- 12 eggs. For every dollar a worker made in 1978, he or she makes $1.24, or +/- 1 egg.

Why isn't #eatabagofdicks trending here on Bluesky?