*smashes order button*

BREAKING: Every Administrative Agency appears to have disappeared today, proving the long-standing agency rapture theory.

Good news: the rapture happened! Bad news: if you're reading this, well...

JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

I think it's fine to report on the president's ideas about public health as long as you note he touted the potential of injected bleach as a treatment for Covid-19.

LOOOOOOOL

The US has embarked on a new program of state-sponsored terror. It's different from the War on Terror (which was horrific) in that there's no precipitating event like 9/11. Instead, it's a very public, very illegal murder of civilians, done entirely in the open as a PR program for the new regime.

One could be forgiven for thinking that Trump's administration's foreign policy consists of blowing up civilians in a highly public manner to distract from its strategic retreats in Asia, the Middle East, and Ukraine.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

The Kirk memorial service is set up as a religious revival (his killing has been framed that way by Cardinal Dolan & others). The singer says: "We want the Kirk family to be healed, and we want our land to return to Jesus." Christian nationalism had become part of Kirk's brand - it's on full display

this photo; every last detail

A wonderfully reported piece, though to be honest it made me despair a little for NYC. Cleaning up Adams' corruption while dealing with a federal executive branch that is equal parts hostile and incompetent is an epic undertaking for Mayor Mamdani. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Posts claim Charlie Kirk once introduced Kyle Rittenhouse as "a hero to millions." That's true. ✅ www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

Everyone could use a reminder that the idea behind our system of government is that we cede some of our power to it in exchange for it working on our behalf. When it stops doing that it becomes illegitimate and must be changed. The idea that the people can "betray" a government organ is perverse

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

I like the No Secret Police Act because it’s a clear example of a state using its own police power to respond to anti-democratic behavior by the federal government. Its constitutionality aside, I do wonder whether carceral responses are as effective as private civil remedies—in tort or otherwise.

@adambonica.bsky.social has a great piece today arguing that the right way forward is creating a new axis around corruption and the rigged system. The fine picture he leads with is in chapter 1 of my forthcoming book with Taeku Lee. Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence!

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

god I’m so sick of hearing the stupidest people doing the most asinine thing possible every damn day

amazing

when students say mean things on my teaching evals

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

word of the day

protest disney like our forefathers and use your parents' ESPN password

Free idea that literally every Democrat in Congress could and should get behind today: Impeach Brendan Carr.

NEW: We just sent a letter to Chief Justice Roberts and the Judicial Conference urging them to examine the US Marshal Service's role in protecting judicial independence at their upcoming meeting.

yeah that is not what the statutory phrase public interest means brendan

'elderly sexual predator' does cover two of Cuomo's key bases of support

When they tell him he's the new host

Dem. leadership needs to get the frame right, then act in ways that communicate the stakes to individuals who are not paying attention, create strong narratives, and slow authoritarian consolidation. Finally getting the first step right is a significant development.

WSJ reports "Disney is monitoring the situation and sees a path to [Kimmel] potentially returning in the next several days." www.wsj.com/business/med...

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

A good day to launch a Democratic Party-aligned think tank devoted to attacking the ACLU.

imagine having the full power of the executive branch at your disposal and being so fragile you're hung up on...jimmy kimmel

A good time to remember that a whole bunch of us are getting together to speak out against this authoritarianism -- I used to say creeping, but it's really now just a full gallop -- on October 18. Join us www.nokings.org

Maybe Barnard should host a talk by Jimmy Kimmel?

It’s not power consolidation unless it’s Orban in Hungary, otherwise it’s just bespoke right wing anti-majoritarian politics that seek to institutionalize conservative politics for a decade+ by leveraging the state to enforce reactionary socioeconomic policy while prosecuting minority populations

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

absolutely insane. this is one of the centers of the U.S. evangelical movement. the city was dry until 1985!

The Culture of Life®

given the well-justified criticism it receives here, it's notable when the paper of record reports on the president's agenda in a factual, straightforward manner www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute

Whistleblowers repped by @govacctproj.bsky.social say Angie Salazar, a career ICE-HSI official now heading the Office of Refugee Resettlement, signed off on expelling at least 30 unaccompanied Guatemalan kids despite evidence that it would endanger them. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing.

oops

Nor even "an end to impoundment and rescission so that the budgets passed by Congress actually mean anything."

NEW: Whistleblowers allege that a senior government official, Angie Salazar, made inaccurate statements in a sworn declaration filed in a lawsuit challenging the summary removal of migrant children. Salazar "knew or should have known of the inaccuracies," per letter to Congressional leaders.