you know what probably isn't great for military readiness? turning a blind eye to violent hazing, sexual assault and bigotry, while purging leaders on the basis of race and gender.

Religion note: there is an entire wing of Christianity that disagrees.

I cannot emphasize enough how wonderful birding is. Low entry cost, can do it essentially anywhere, birds are very cute....

This one will make waves. Based on an original longitudinal data set, Darci Schmidgall documents a *positive* link between states funding crisis pregnancy centers & abortion rates. IOW, such ”pro-life” alternative-to-abortion measures may backfire. FREE to read. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

To do what they are doing at this scale you have to dehumanize. It's just not possible to be this cruel and believe that these people are just like anyone else. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

It's a small step from here to prohibiting professors from teaching about climate change, slavery, colonialism, racial discrimination, evolution, and the efficacy of vaccines.

So much of the current anti-antifa panic is MAGA wanting to relitigate the 2020 uprisings, which scared the shit out of them

Awful news that Kaleb Horton died. A talented writer who in another time would've been getting $5 a word with an expense account. Read his skilled filleting of the Entourage movie web.archive.org/web/20150605...

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.

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.

David Barton, the widely ridiculed and perpetually corrected "amateur historian" who has mainstreamed the idea that church-state separation is a myth, will be advising the Texas State Board of Education on social studies curriculum.

As I was saying... Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America blasted out a letter obtained by Gateway Pundit (lol) in which RFK and Marty Makary tell Republican AGs that they "will conduct a study on the safety" of current abortion pill regulations, namely allowing telemed RX sbaprolife.org/newsroom/pre...

finished THE AMERICANS for the first time and wow, what a masterpiece of a show.

Watching red states wreck their own universities, on purpose, has been stunning to watch.

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

that’s fine more tylenol for me

In case you missed it last week: A profile of the man sending armed Americans into Gaza—who went from selling a drink for ravers to the center of Israel's catastrophic aid in Gaza www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

WASHPOST: Surveillance in DC from the air: Nearly 80 helicopters were identified flying over D.C. as Trump crackdown continues, with the flights most intensely focused on majority Black neighborhoods. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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...

The legislation “would require every public university in the state to construct ‘a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza’, with a statue of the assassinated Republican activist and a sign calling him a ‘modern civil rights leader’, or pay monthly fines.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We've been continually updating our live guide to redistricting with every new development. Bookmark it here! www.the-downballot.com/p/the-downba... And here's a quick summary of all the latest news this month:

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

husband and I racing to take pics of the NORTHWEST PASSAGE sign in Grand Central

Don't be chickenshit.

The federal government is dictating what speech is permitted. *DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY

finally I can feel safe in downtown DC

Another big reason this is such a great release day in horror. Happy book birthday to @nadiabulkin.bsky.social and the collection ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY! Nadia's first collection of stories is a serious classic. If the new one is even a little better, I might not survive it.

not the end of the world by any means but need to complain real quick that Trump take international vintage

These estimates of public support for violence (from www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...) are inflated - *much* higher than what we and others have found using question wording that reduces acquiescence bias: brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-... The vast majority of Americans reject political violence.

I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

‘ANDOR’ has won the Emmy for Best Writing in a Drama Series. See the full winners list: bit.ly/EmmyWins25

What a gift to find as I finish Sam Tanenhaus's Buckley bio that @ositanwanevu.com has reviewed it www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

They just shit canned a professor at Texas A&m for discussing how gender is handled in children's books.

husband who doesn't come to the night market because he's busy with a Jonathan Franzen novel

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

‘They are hunting us:’ Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown 19thnews.org/2025/09/chil... via @19thnews.org

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm" @alexhorton.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit. archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...

A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

...Alexander did not burn his boats?

TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE ERA RODNEY DANGERFIELD: i tell you i get no respect. the daimyo says i have to commit seppuku to restore my house’s honor. okay. i write my death poem, no problem. i ask my wife if she’ll be my second and she says she wants to be my FIRST!

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.