Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can. Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop. Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵 www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...

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This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

University of Arizona says no to the evil Trump compact!

To bring the mood up on the timeline, a classic

Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

A life update: this wound up paying off. I'm still applying to several jobs that are hopefully careers, but I've got my survival needs covered by a job at the airport that I'm apparently pretty good at. And instead of being in an office alone, which was driving me mad, I see 20k people a day.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

The last physical pool sighting “Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 3:49 PM. Trump was answering questions for 30min.”

You asked me to confirm Trump sightings Went through all pool reports. This is the last activity involving second party that confirmed that this occurred. “On background from a WH Official: Can confirm the President has spoken with Governor Walz. Wed, 12:32pm ET”

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

@saltdoc.bsky.social fyi, altho you may have already seen it or have your own references.

This Signal group scandal is going to result in Goldberg getting charged but none of the Trump Admin officials.

None of these Democrats should enjoy a moment's peace. Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gillibrand (NY) Hassan (NH) Peters (MI) Schatz (HI) Schumer (NY) Shaheen (NH) They've effectively just voted for Donald Trump's agenda without putting up a fight. Never let them hear the end of it.

Josh is busy doing some stellar reporting on the fiasco in the Senate, so I'm going to take a moment to ask people to subscribe to TPM. I've been following TPM since the 2000 recount and it's always been a reliable, informative source of news for me. Josh & his team are amazing!

I’d answer this two ways. I had heard that a shutdown over 30 days opens up new legal pathways for layoffs. But I talked to an expert on govt employment who explained to me that that’s not true. He made a secondary point about some regulations they’re trying to change and if that …

If voicemails are full, you can also email these staffers in Schumer's office: mike_lynch [at] schumer [dot] senate [dot] gov meghan_taira [at] schumer [dot] senate [dot] gov

This is what it is - -->lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit<-- and we must keep saying that.

What I find most ironic about billionaires like Musk working to demolish the fed gov't is that their wealth depends in a large part on that beauracracy. Their assets are protected by federal agencies, their workers are educated and trained by fed-led programs, and they all receive massive subsidies.

Definitely — here you go: o oregontrail.ws/games/the-or...