Trump slaps 100% drug tariffs. #econsky

The story btw azmirror.com/2025/09/25/j...

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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Reid Hoffman, the billionaire founder of LinkedIn, funded E. Jean Carroll's litigation against Trump.

Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening every day www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u... Right out of the authoritarian playbook.

Comptroller Lander’s 2nd post says “Seconds earlier, her husband had been abducted by masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves, did not present a warrant, did not give any lawful grounds for his detention” The federal government is openly disappearing people, then attacking their families

Marco Rubio is the acting Archivist of the United States, as it happens

The National Archives under the Trump administration released @mikiesherrill.bsky.social full, unredacted Navy personnel file to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign. This is an unprecedented and illegal weaponization of the National Archives and private, personal records to attack a political opponent.

I don’t think I’ve ever loved anything as much as ICE loves violently attacking women.

WaPo is constantly trying to convince Americans that Trump's lawlessness and complete lack of fealty to democratic norms and procedures is mirrored in the Democratic Party. This is a lie intended to provide cover to Trump's illiberalism, and it's why the paper is more Pravda than Post these days.

But… Why?

“without a stated reason” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Seattle trying to recreate Stonewall more than half a century later. Disgusting.

Organizations are racial structures

NJ PBS shutting down next summer. “15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.” newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

Trump’s attack on vaccines yesterday — delivered from the White House — “was the most dangerously irresponsible press conference in the realm of public health in American history” @pauloffit.bsky.social told us. More on Trump’s false claims with @lenasun.bsky.social

NEW: With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, we wrote about the pseudoscience underpinning yesterday's chaotic, bizarre, disturbing autism announcement at the White House www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

is this not just kidnapping?

Not the Ghana Must Go bag being appropriated and sold for $3000. 🙃 I just…🤷🏾‍♀️

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So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

People should look up Horst Wessel and how the Nazis used his murder to create a martyr and accelerate their movement and march towards fascism.

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

You hear a lot about the FIre free speech rankings, which dominate media coverage: More info about their methodology, which excludes calculation of state level policies. Instead, it is basically student assessment/institutional policies/events. rankings.thefire.org/methodology osf.io/6d5gv

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

The most corrupt administration we have ever seen. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

I can't be the only one who remembers the Facebook Papers when Frances Haugen made a bunch of internal documents public showing the company knew it was, among many other nightmarish things, encouraging suicidal ideation in teen girls Eg: www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1...

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

"a man two friends short of a podcast" is an INCREDIBLE turn of phrase. Language is beautiful

What a photo. ( @staceywescott.bsky.social )

(to the tune of Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law") "Takin' a nap, takin' a nap!" (whispered to no one) "Still punk as hell, man"

ICE assaulting a congressional candidate just like feds have assaulted other elected officials.

Trump is firing his own nominee, because he will not go along with the President's conversion of the DOJ into a lawfare retribution machine. Imagine what happens when the DOJ is only made up of people willing to engage in such abuses of the law. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

Hegseth's Pentagon: Start Snitchin' Secretary of War leads PC crusade after blasting political correctness earlier this month theintercept.com/2025/09/17/m...

Extraordinarily corrupt. I watched FCC chair Brendan Carr's full interview on Hannity. Carr basically said straight out that coverage of Trump he deems overly hostile can be decreed contrary to the "public interest," and thus grounds for yanking licenses: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This story is not getting the attention it deserves in fact it should be so shocking that it took over the CK story at this point. However, you would be hard pressed to find more than a couple people who even know what happened

Well that's not suspicious at all 🤦🏻‍♀️

“Ideas don’t deserve platforms simply because someone is willing to argue for them loudly. They earn legitimacy through evidence, peer review, and sustained engagement with reality.” Excellent stuff as always from Mike.

Very telling example of ideological blindspots. Dylan Roof not part of the extended MAGA cinematic universe for reasons you can figure out for yourself.

A wide-ranging whistleblower lawsuit alleges that the way the U.S. collects and distributes life-saving organs has been corrupted by greed, lax oversight and methods designed to maximize payments from Medicare.

Really makes it clear what kinds of crimes he does and doesn’t care about

Me, fleetwood mac, michael mcdonald and the cranberries

Jamming along with yacht rock to motivate me through this writing group