Even with a farmer bailout, if there is no market for beans, there is no incentive to plant next year. I’m not a farmer. I didn’t vote for Trump. But the only two businesses we have left in my town revolve around corn and beans. My town will fold. My school will close. It’s over for us.

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News --> Steve Bannon tells me he fully expects Trump to use the Texas ICE office shooting as the hook to unleash law enforcement on liberal immigration groups by connecting political violence to anti-ICE rhetoric. This is going to get ugly. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2009...

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

RAKING IN = expropriating from importers and consumers

Incredible. NYT reports that career DOJ prosecutors investigated James Comey and directly informed Trump's political appointees that there was insufficient evidence to get a conviction. Gonna keep suggesting that Trump's authoritarian designs are running into deep resistance (see piece below).

"The high water mark of America’s influence over the world has come and gone." Interview: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

So many coverups. Release the Epstein files. Release the Homan tapes. Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.

this is an incredible read:

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

It's not the corruption. it's the low sum. 50k? russian street level punk money. So? Racist, corrupt and stupid, classic Trump team

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

It looks like Ed Wood landed a Plan 9 saucer on her.

Here is the @uaw.org statement on the arrests at Hyundai (h/t @lfelizleon.bsky.social)

On left Rubio 2016: "We write to express grave concern about the campaign of extrajudicial killings...by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte under the guise of his so-called 'War on Drugs.'" On right Rubio 2025: Praising presidential killing of alleged drug traffickers

New Banksy artwork appears on court building showing judge attacking protester

Really excellent explanation by Ryan Goodman of the legal justifications (or rather the lack thereof) of Trump’s boat strike, and of some the (chilling) further implications. An important conversation, I thought, if not a cheering one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T1V...

From today's "To the Contrary" Newsletter: Trump Loves the Smell of Brutality in the Morning. charliesykes.substack.com/p/trump-love...

Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.

Paul also voted against the Big Beautiful Bill. I'll be curious to see how this develops. He was in the upper quintile of Republicans disgracing themselves through sheer toadyism in the first Trump term. But now he's starting to treat Trump like a lame duck rather than a god emperor.

He hates it when his depravity upstages his tyranny.

Reporter: What is your message to President Trump? Epstein Survivor: Listen, I don't want to send a direct message to him. I'm already scared enough. Just pass the vote. Listen to us. This is not a hoax. It’s not going to go away

Putin will decide how to handle the United States after talking with Trump.

"I thought they were going to make me board the plane like they did with the other kids from the shelter, but they asked me for my name and told me I was not on the list." A terrifying declaration from an unaccompanied child nearly removed to Guatemala straight out of Schindler's List.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

A federal appeals court rejects the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to mass deport Venezuelan nationals. The Brennan Center and @cato.org filed an amicus brief arguing that using a wartime law for these deportations is a flagrant abuse of power.

Thank you. People need to stop pretending we cannot foresee where this is all headed.

Oh, I was so close.

Scott Jennings and Ben Shapiro are currently both sitting at a panel table on CNN, not OANN. Seems like a pretty good barometer of where things are in this country. 😕🇺🇸

Kristi Noem literally attacked CBS for not airing her *false* claims about Abrego Garcia. If this continues, journos should state plainly that they're not in the business of amplifying MAGA lies and smears, and any official who expects them to can stuff it. New piece newrepublic.com/article/1998...

Media & Political Elite consider this publication (and many like it, hi NYT), which is normalizing & legitimizing Trump functionally ending Constitution & usurping authoritarian power, as left/liberal/pro-Democratic despite fact it is very literally pumping out pro-Trump disinformation.

Deceptive editing is how they’re attacking media coverage they don’t like. They want every channel To be FOX.

If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.

The truth is there is no secret plan to defend American democracy. But what gives me hope is when people reject the cool cynicism of despair and choose to act rather than surrender. That is what keeps democracy alive, @marcelias.bsky.social writes.

What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:

President Trump’s most recent attack on mail voting is part of a concerted effort to undermine our elections. The administration has provided us with clues about what comes next. The good news: key actors can be ready to respond. bit.ly/4fRIqtA

QAnon memes were not a small part of what mobilized Trump’s January 6th mob. Ignoring this is a dangerous mistake and we are making it twice.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

RFK is by far the most dangerous lunatic in an administration staffed exclusively with dangerous lunatics.

NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.

There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Heroes, every one.

Oof. Trump is a chaos agent, but this list from @donmoyn.bsky.social is a disturbing reminder that he is surrounded by Vought, Miller and many others who are not. They're terrifyingly methodical in achieving Trump's goals and their own.

If Trump, who pardoned violent Jan. 6 felons, actually cared about D.C. crime, he would not have appointed a TV personality or an unqualified political buffoon to the U.S. attorney’s job, nor would he have cut more than $1B in D.C. funding.

Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’

This from @lizsaila.bsky.social is one of the most important projects I’ve ever seen. Looking at the data you can visualize the various intersecting strategies as various groups disseminate legislation templates. With a complicit news media, they manufactured the political will for where we are now.

Wonder what Foxnews would be talking about all day this week if Obama had done this?