It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.

Our story describing the Panoptes bacterial immune defense system is now finally peer-reviewed and published today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new Cochrane review pooled >100,000 participants across 14 trials of RSV vaccines: - In older adults,RSV vaccines ⬇️ RSV-related lower resp illness by ~70%. - In pregnant people, vaccination halved the risk of infants needing medical care for RSV & ⬇️severe dz by ~74%. www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

it is worth mentioning that many of these laws are written so broadly as to define any discussion of LGBT topics as pornographic

Here you go: “I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction,” says Leo Garcia Venegas, the lead plaintiff in a new lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice challenging warrantless ICE raids reason.com/2025/10/01/i...

📣 OK, with ~3 hours to go before the midnight government shutdown, I'm going to go through ALL 50 STATES +DC ONE BY ONE to remind everyone of how many Americans healthcare Democrats are fighting to save (and this is just #ACA exchange enrollees; don't forget about Medicaid). Please bear with me.

Literally doing the Black Helicopters conspiracy theory 1990s conservatives were so afraid of. academic.oup.com/california-s...

Just masked armed men emptying entire apartment complexes now?

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Ope this is going off Ok folks! My Congressman is a MAGA clown who's on multiple ag committees. As a farmer, I need ag policymakers who tell Trump no. So for every donation to Kim Hardy, who's running against my Congressman, I will post one (1) ag fact. secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Extraordinary move by Judge William Young:

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

See thread for an alt text version of the threatening note the judge included in the ruling alt text and a link to the text of the ruling.

Demanding an end to Italy’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, half a million people abandoned their workplaces, schools, and universities. Niccolò Barca writes that they were inspired by a slogan: “Blocchiamo tutto.” (“Let’s block everything.”) www.thenation.com/article/worl...

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians" is peak absurd NYT phrasing. Even the flimsy rationalizations put forward deny that's what they're doing; they ludicrously claim these are combatants somehow. But nobody denies this sentence is the literal definition of murder.

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care. #DidThisToday

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This is a good thread and I think what it points to more than anything is that a successful nominee who expands beyond the base doesn't do so through policy but by being a quality combination of novel, enjoyable, and safe-feeling -- Reagan, Clinton, Obama.

I wrote about this in "The Unaccountability Machine" - when you describe leveraged buyouts to ordinary people, half of them say that it should be illegal and the other half are often convinced that it already is.

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So exhausting..

The only reason I have relatives in Philly is 100% b/c my grandaddy’s brother whistled @ a white woman. He fled Alabama hopping a train & didnt get off until Philly for fear of getting lynched. And instead the Klan nearly lynched our family in retaliation for *that!* I am (1) generation from that.

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

That quote is not out of context, the full version is worse.

To get an idea of how much net ACA premiums will skyrocket for millions of Americans if Republicans & Trump refuse to keep the improved tax credits in place, pick a state from the drop-down menu: acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...

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And Coates then shows how easy it is to actually be thoughtful about these things by drawing on his own experience with regard to Palestine and voting for Harris and taking people who were angry seriously and explaining why he stood where he did.

This is very good but also the actual answer to this question regarding transgender people is to relentlessly push people on our side to demand full human rights for all transgender people in all instances. That's how we move the Overton window the same way activists did with same-sex marriage.

i genuinely think donald trump didn’t realize this was ai and thinks he said this himself

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is. Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

“Oregon is our home. Keep troops off our streets.”

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

When I saw that poll that showed that every single German political party's base wants an arms embargo or sanctions or recognition of Palestine I was floored. The turnover is coming whether the establishment blocs in each of these countries knows it or not.

Qatar’s efforts to woo Trump by investing with Steve Witkoff were explicit. We reviewed a memo where the strategy was laid out, and Qatar’s lobbyist confirmed it on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Just ran into one of the people who was in the audience for this talk at the native plant sale this morning, this shit WORKS.

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Not what should happen when your job is to enforce the law: “The next day, she wrote him an email in which, as quoted in the New York Times, she stressed the need for ‘compliance with court orders and the Constitution.’ Shortly thereafter her work cell phone and her work computer stopped working.”

I love the way science used to be written. Is it necessary to know that the author was pushing his baby in a pram while making observations of insects? Perhaps not, but it provides delightful context, while assuming the reader is familiar with his previously published baby-wheeling-related work.

There were 20 Medals of Honor awarded for Wounded Knee. That’s more than were awarded for freaking D-Day (16). In case you think any of these medals handed out that Hegseth is so bent in protecting were anything more than genocide participation trophies.

Checked this out recently and it looks quite neat:

Good thread discussing how so many medals may have been awarded at Wounded Knee precisely because of its contemporaneous recognition in the US as a horrific & shameful premeditated massacre:

Rather ominous snipe from SecDef in response to a concerned observation by the former Commander General of the US Army Europe about the upcoming meeting of all the US military commanders ordered by SecDef:

As an islander, seeing people in the states having meltdowns over the increased prices when Pacific Islanders in U.S. territories have been paying well over that amount for our goods for the entire time we've been under U.S. occupation is quite something.