A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise. www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:

Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss

Sep 30: USDA issues guidance saying they can use contingency fund Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds Nov 1: no funds go out Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts

A great story about a truly malignant figure www.propublica.org/article/paul...

someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that

This is the moment for print. People will want to read the truth and when it’s hard to find online people will want paper.

Jesus Christ, this has got to be one of the worst public statements by a leader in history

The latest from the Great Leap Boerward…

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it"

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

this is right www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...

I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad. But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout. Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...

The authoritarian assault on higher education continues - UVA and Harvard have to hold the line www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

Wichita Falls Times, November 27, 1977

here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning

Of course he was going to bomb Iran. Is there an antiwar party in the U.S.?

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

Pretty much exactly what Tooze predicted two days ago adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚 www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...

funny how Jeff Bezos pivoted to " We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets" thinking that would be obviously pro-trump

BREAKING: Republican-majority panel of the Republican-majority NC Court of Appeals rules 2-1 that the Republican candidate for Supreme Court (their colleague on the Court of Appeals) wins the election even though he got several hundred fewer votes than the Dem appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=...

NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1. More here:

GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse ME IN 2025: ah, okay

DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

By the way, here is the latest from Reddit on DOGE attempts to shut down the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Because of public outrage, they will try to do it quietly. Don't let them

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

Before I had to sign off I said I thought that Dems were moving toward folding. When I came back online I was very pleasantly surprised to see Schumer's floor remarks. But since I was in transit I didn't have access to @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social's reporting. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/after-h...

NEW: Chuck Schumer says Senate Democrats won't provide votes to pass GOP funding bill as shutdown draws near Dems say they won’t support a “partisan” House bill they lacked input in writing. Deadline: Friday midnight. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

BREAKING: @schumer.senate.gov is whipping Ds to vote for the Trump-Musk coup continuing resolution.

More like “the Great Leap Boerward,” am I right folks

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

Rest in power to Reverend Nelson Johnson, NCA&T student activist, Communist Workers Party labor organizer and lifelong activist for social justice at the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro. Johnson was arrested for “inciting a riot” after the Klan killed five of his CWP comrades on Nov. 3, 1979.

CNN with an absolutely gigantic story: "Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system." edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...

The federal government's new top HR attorney has said "Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish" and "Slaves owe us reparations," according to a new report from @pogo.org. www.pogo.org/investigatio...

No North Carolina law enforcement official has cheered President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda as much as Rockingham County’s cowboy hat-wearing sheriff, Sam Page. www.theassemblync.com/politics/bri...

1/ Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn an election loss by throwing out the ballots of over 5,500 military and overseas voters—despite having previously used the same method of voting himself, ProPublica reveals. A 🧵👇: www.propublica.org/article/jeff...

Extremely grim judicial coup underway in North Carolina.

north carolina republicans about to make “democrats cannot legally win elections that might deprive of us of power” a principle of state constitutional law

RFK Jr. has thrown a grenade into the North Carolina election. He waited too long to remove his name from the ballot—then persuaded the far-right NC Supreme Court to do it anyway, an egregious violation of law that has canceled early voting indefinitely. slate.com/news-and-pol...

“For many library workers, the material consequences of unchecked capitalism are the stuff of everyday life.” Emily Drabinski on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism: inthesetimes.com/article/publ...