"Well, there's your problem..." #DonaldTrump #Escalator

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

The whole world slows down for the dull boy who never learned economics. Tariff Uncertainty Expected to Slow Global Economic Growth This Year www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

Next up from the @wired.com Politics issue: @noahshachtman.bsky.social with the definitive look at Elon Musk's outsize role in the space race. "Even before the election, I had been asking US space officials: ‘You have yoked yourself to a very mercurial personality. Doesn’t that concern you?’"

Regardless of where the Trump admin lands on H1-B visas, the absolute shit-show they created this weekend is yet another deterrent to convincing smart, qualified people to come work in the United States:

ICE denies using excessive force in Broadview, Illinois. Never mind the videos…

Think in terms of unifying the opposition rather than breaking Trump's support. Bouie and French mostly agreeing. A lot of good stuff here.

“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

He’s right. Nutshell: the more clean energy you pull off the grid, the more you have to go “up the stack” of more and more expensive polluting units, which sets the grid price, which consumers pay.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

#ProudBlue Trump ordered 4 boats, in international waters, to be blown up killing at least 14+ people Military lawyers & both Republican and Democratic lawyers believe these were illegal actions The White House has offered no proof to justify murdering these people

An absolute clown show. Avoiding chaos like this is one of the many reasons a for *not* having EOs be the normal method of legislating or regulating. You really want more careful review than “Steve Miller doodled it on a napkin and Trump signed it with a sharpie.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Another fine day standing with the fiercely determined folks at #nokings #teslatakedown #Indivisible in Rockville MD

"No vaccine was tested more extensively than the RNA vaccines, and no vaccine was given to more people than the mRNA vaccines, & they were found to be incredibly safe...and effective. They saved 20 million lives, & they stopped a pandemic that was shutting down the world." -Drew Weissman

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake, don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year. Don’t bother. Please. And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

All the best people.

Seems pretty clear to me: "the First Amendment forbids the government from using coercion backed by threats of punishment to suppress speech." Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Judge tosses Trump suit vs the @nytimes.com, saying it does not properly lay out a legal claim. “A complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective. Not a protected platform to rage against an adversary.” Trump has 28 days to refile. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

I'll say it: against all expectations, the media are covering the Trump censorship story right. They're not pretending it's about Kirk, they're covering Trump as a broad threat to free press and speech, and they're speaking broadly about the stakes. It can be done!

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Again, chaining up a bunch of Korean engineers was both shameful and an incredibly stupid idea

If you know about Korea, you know that people will tell this story for generations. Given the scale, tech savvy, cultural sway, strategic importance, and national pride of ROK, this might be *the* most lastingly damaging, idiotic move team MAGA has made. Blessed by SecState Marco.

Don't take my word for it, listen to Harry Enten

Another gorgeous day to remember the patriots in Lexington, and to mock Elon and the other clowns who never learned the lessons of history. #teslatakedown is truly the mock heard round the world.

"Asking us to build factories and invest then arresting and detaining. Is this what an ally does?" -- Protest sign at airport where South Korean workers, including engineers with work visas, were returned www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.

🚨 HAPPENING NOW! Thousands march in Washington DC to #FreeDC of Trump’s federal takeover.

Another beautiful Saturday to give no quarter, and no rest to the wicked. #teslatakedown in Rockville MD. Unlike TACO Donny WE won't back down.

So I’m pretty sure I remember this right. But in one of those interviews I believe Michael Wolf said that Epstein suspected Trump of dropping a dime on him to the authorities. They got in a dispute over a real estate deal. That was their falling out. Trump was trying to buy an estate that …

What Epstein records have not been made public?

It should be noted that a sitting president has never removed a Board Governor in the Federal Reserve’s 111-year history. And more importantly, many economists, over 500 and counting, have expressed alarm that such a move would endanger the Federal Reserve’s independence from political whims.

“.. ‘They'll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people,’ he told the reporter ..” @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/09/04/e...

Fine weather for #laborday today!

Tesla could have settled for $60 million, got hit with a $240 million judgement, and it was caught covering up Autopilot crashes in the process... but now they figure the right fancy lawyers can put the toothpaste back in the tube www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here

Farmers in Arkansas going broke. They voted for this. #econsky www.kait8.com/2025/08/27/w...

The USDA is giving the public just three weeks to weigh in on a key step of its attempt to scrap the Roadless Rule, which protects almost 59 million acres of forest land from road construction and timber harvesting.

“.. I never have seen an instance of an advanced, affluent country with among the finest scientific resources .. under assault, not from small pockets of the public or people who have unusual beliefs, but from the government itself.” @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

My wife needed a test for a rare parasite. Johns Hopkins's Infectious disease team told us that the CDC no longer provides the serum test. JH Hospital then had to cold call a hospital in Canada to begin a process of having it perform diagnostic testing. Expect a lot more of this.

🚨”Milk prices jumping from $7 to $14… produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year.” Trump’s grocery prices are already too high but soon it could be so much worse. fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

"3,000 CDC staffers have left since January, with thousands more gone from the FDA and NIH. The expertise drain also hits cyber defense, nuclear safety, weather forecasting and disaster response."😱 Enabled by a complicit GOP Congress that will live in infamy. www.axios.com/2025/08/30/t...