Why the sudden urgency behind the WH power grab & flex? Could it be because every admin policy initiative is failing and unpopular? Or because bad as things are now, they're about to turn much worse for most Americans & Team MAGA wants to intimidate them into not complaining?

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

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Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

Just look at what happened with solar investment - it’s astonishing. Solar has seen the most rapid investment growth, soaring from $142 billion in 2015 to a projected $441 billion this year.

bongo and kash

Reading much tonight on Charlie Kirk, who he was, what he said and believed -- from both admirers and those deeply opposed. It does not matter. None of it. What matters is that political violence made routine against any voice, left or right, marks us as a failing, dying republic. This is horror.

Visit From JD Vance Last Thing Utah Needs Right Now

Just gonna put out there for the record that assassinating people is bad no matter how much you disagree with them

Reposting this great guide to Building Resilience to Targeted Disinformation given the current situation. Which situation? Take your pick. It’s a situation shitshow out there. That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Stay safe out there.

For the White House, the strike on a boat in the Caribbean is a laughing matter. For a senior Pentagon official, it's a "crime" and an "attack on civilians." Full story: theintercept.com/2025/09/05/p...

In addition to being extremely weird, the spectacle of tech executives kissing the ring at the White House last night showed that the only principle left in Silicon Valley is power www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

Let’s remember: What CBS cut were vicious unproven slander and uncharged allegations by a Cabinet secretary targeting a private person. If we can’t draw the line against such hideous lies, is there no line left?

A dollar for every New Yorker. $8 million. The maximum, achieved early. And yet another charming, witty video.

Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.

Knowing this badass is in charge of running Signal gives me hope. Here’s to supporting platforms that actually care about our privacy and don’t just see our collective data as their own personal goldmine.

In his excellent book The Undertow, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social identifies the importance of Ashli Babbit to trump’s incipient ( when the book was written) fascist movement. Their first martyr; a powerful performance to coalesce around. He’s only proven more right day by day

This future sucks

When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault

Lol, we need the "AI" that is killing the environment and guzzling untold amounts of resources to save the environment. This is 1984 type of marketing, like "ministry of peace" that is actually the war department.

More Whittakers, less Zuckerbergs (Musks, Thiels, Sacks…)

Important piece from @melissagiragrant.com yesterday: DHS "is openly making appeals to far-right and white nationalist groups in its recent ICE recruitment drive, and some have, in fact, volunteered.... For the far right, it’s as if the street fights they started in Trump’s first term never ended."

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

A National Guard Tactical Vehicle T-Boned a Civilian Car in D.C. 🔗 www.404media.co/a-national-g...

I've clung to grim belief that 1968 would be darkest year I'd see in US. Horrific assassinations. Real (not show) military occupation in DC. Tet and MyLai. 'Police Riot' in Chicago. Nixon/Agnew. Not so certain any more. Back then 2 parties still functioned. A prez could resign for "good of nation"

on top of everything else, vance and hegseth are filming all this for another trump admin hype video. See this post from @fritschner.bsky.social and note all the extra, non-press cameras including the guy walking backwards just in front of vance.

Team Eric Adams Get Through Entire Day Without Any New Crimes Challenge

the guys who the term “face like a slapped ass” was invented for

Sam Altman plugged a homework cheating machine into a coal fire plant & people used it to ruin their marriages & it cost us 8 great lakes & lost $9.4 wubillion dollars (subsidized)

*Rick James voice* "You either fuck the couch or the couch fucks you"

“Southern Strategy Jesus”💀 This man might be my soulmate.

I find I am normally in the 'no need to panic' camp, but this development is extremely, robustly bad, especially if the administration, as it has suggested, intends to violate the 30-day statutory limit for this intervention in DC.

Rare footage of Marie Curie. This clip is terrific. Here she receives the ACR Gold Medal and talks a bit at the end #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEa...

This is a real AP photo

Been on an impromptu work call for 20 minutes before I had a chance to get coffee. Going to file an OSHA complaint.

The White House posted an insane video of the police arresting the sandwich guy in a safe and wealthy neighborhood.

I have thoughts. Firstly, Bunch is absolutely right about this. I say this as someone who has worked for corporate media and small media. This is spot on:

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up theonion.com/austral...

Moira Donegan digs into the darkness that is Ghislaine Maxwell and finds a complete moral vacuum. Insightful and bleak. ‪@moiradonegan.bsky.social‬

MAGA: “The FBI is politicized, weaponized.” Also MAGA: “The FBI will hunt Democratic state lawmakers for the Texas governor”: www.axios.com/2025/08/07/f...

Like many technologies, AI is designed to kill humans, but in the most soulless way possible, stripping away even our ability to own and express our pain. Bertolt Brecht: "In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing, about the dark times.” AI: NOT SO FAST

Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on. It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

We spent $750 million developing a state-of-art sensor to monitor atmospheric carbon, which has the added benefit of monitoring global vegetative health.... and the Trump administration wants NASA to crash it on purpose. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

I think @garyseconomics.bsky.social and I were separated at birth… admittedly 20 or so years apart, but still! 😅

Oh good, Joe Kent—whose ties to extremists include palling around with Joey Gibson and hiring a Proud Boy as a consultant —will lead center for counterterrorism www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster” NO PAYWALL! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Look at these numbers and think of how often the Democratic party claims to love and want these voters. …And then think of how hard the Democratic party has worked to stop Zohran Mamdani.