www.politico.com/news/2025/09... #ProudBlue. A Dem victory tonight ensures Trump/Epstein files release will pass. Democrat Adelita Grijalva is expect to win. But in Special election anything is possible. The Republican candidate lost to Grijalva’s late father by 27% in 2024. Bad news for MAGA Mike

"My curiosity was aroused by the idea of giving structural form to the images in my drawings. These forms come from observing plants, the spiral shell of a snail, seeing light through insect wings..." Ruth Asawa (1926-2013)

Ruth Asawa by Nat Farbman for LIFE Magazine (1954)

Kimmel is back, but many Americans won’t be able to watch. Two companies — Nexstar and Sinclair — control hundreds of local TV stations and have business deals pending Donald Trump’s approval. They won’t air Kimmel tonight. I’m pressing for answers on potential corruption.

A Line Is The Main Protagonist : Paul Klee’s Black and White Lithographies (Sheldon D - Flashbak) #PaulKlee For German-Swiss artist Paul Klee the line is “a dot that went for a walk, part of a concept of the infinite as cosmic/earthly tension”. flashbak.com/paul-klee-li...

out today “Gullah Jack Style” this one is some 21st century Hoodoo Funk it features Pete Cosey doin’ guitar incarnations Napoleon Maddox breathing live through rhythm Onaje Allan Gumbs running the hoodoo down on Rhodes and me on the beat Check it out: melvin-gibbs.bandcamp.com/album/amasia...

Looks like the meeting with Zelenskyy was a good one. Trump now backs Ukraine’s 1991 borders instead of offering up Crimea to Putin.

Headlines matter. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The Trump administration’s assault on the rule of law at home and abroad continues.

“People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.“ -1984, Orwell

well, that’s my lunchtime sorted

The rapture has been ruptured.

Ah, yes, but the price of eggs, the price of everything… the prices, sir, they are [checks note] …shit. Never mind

This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing. Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.

they have a choice: deal with the reality of america and carry on by themselves or keep prostrating themselves for this demented, dangerous dunce. The leaders that choose the latter should not be leaders much longer

Summary of Trump’s speech to the UN today: 1. Your countries all suck. 2. None of you know what you are doing. 3. The US is better at everything. 4. All because of me. 5. I’m right about everything. 6. You should listen to me & do what I say. 7. And give me lots of awards.

really something about seeing him ramble incoherently at UNGA that drives home the sheer lunacy to which we have grown accustomed

He only has one speech, and it's whatever's on his mind at the time. It's genuinely not good.

"Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft." - John Coltrane

Trump is getting noticeably dumber. Would not have thought that was possible.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UN chief warns world leaders that humanity has entered 'an age of reckless disruption and relentless human suffering.'

The headlong push to authoritarianism is starting to hit some hurdles, writes Robert Kuttner. prospect.org/politics/202...

Remembering John Coltrane on his birthday 🎂 📷 Lee Friedlander, 1960 "John was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality." - Albert Ayler

Declining empire ruled by a bewildered senile old man is such a heavy handed metaphor it’s wild we did it twice in a row

The "free speech" president tells everyone that his critics will face the full power of government.

"Human rights groups say...forcible expulsion of refugees and asylum seekers...violates both domestic and international law." "'...removals that bear the hallmarks of forced disappearances...,' says Rebecca Sharpless, a University of Miami law professor who studies ICE flights."

Spotted on The Mall this morning 💀

AI is theft and pollution How we been yelling at white people about AI for weeks and y'all ain't been listening?

Despite the available evidence, the White House says border czar Tom Homan didn’t take $50,000 in cash in a Cava bag from undercover FBI agents. So why doesn’t the FBI resolve the matter and simply release the tapes? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The Supreme Court could say the president’s allegedly illegal actions must be put on hold while the Court reviews it. Instead, they repeatedly say Trump’s abuses must be allowed to go forward while in dispute. That’s entirely a choice. There’s no basis in law. Made the opposite call with Biden.

Under Kristi Noem, taking small children as hostages is now standard operating procedure for ICE agents...

I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else. The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…

For the record, the local police had to arrive to free the girl from … the federal police. This is horrific. It’s undeniable that we will need trials for ICE officials and officers after all this. “Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.”

his brain is dying

Paul Klee ~ Small Village in The Autumn Sun, 1925 #PaulKlee #FirstDayofAutumn

thank you @thewiremagazine.bsky.social @burningambulance.bsky.social

Trump is consolidating power mainly in areas where it's relatively easier for him to do so. When he faces real resistance, it's a different story. Stop acting like he's invincible.

Important to note that Congress has never passed any law giving the President authority to designate anything as a “domestic terrorist organization.” As a result, this would appear to have no direct legal effect beyond acting as a statement of policy for the Executive Branch.

Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

It's interesting that the white nationalist true believers always look like this droopy, unkempt old fart. The so-called master race is just slobs that also happen to be lazy thinkers.

i keep saying this but there's a way in which the Podcaster Regime and their inability to close their mouths may give at least some individual defendants or litigants some real gifts. this is smart lawyering

Thanks John Oliver

Holy shit

Congrats to Stephen Miller for being the reason why the US finally becomes party to the Rome Statute in 2029

Since Donald Trump reëntered office, the Justice Department has dismissed career federal prosecutors for an array of unjustified and self-serving reasons. In the hierarchy of the Administration’s horrors, the firing of Erik Siebert is “about as bad as it gets,” Ruth Marcus writes.

Fuck ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL of this racist bullshit.

“Everybody has a lifespan, and eventually you do get into some sort of decline phase. The United States is still enormously powerful, we’re not on the verge of disappearing from the great power equations of the Earth, but is this thing pushing itself towards some sort of terminal failure? Yeah, “

I've been doing a lot of reporting on this, for instance this:

As part of WIRED's Politics Issue, read @stevenlevy.bsky.social on how the vibrant, outsider Silicon Valley he discovered as a young reporter decades ago, has changed utterly, to become a place bowing before Trump With incredible art from @coldwarsteve.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/silico...