gotta be honest, I absolutely don’t understand how those Epstein files have not been leaked. This government‘s a catastrophe as many have said worse than Watergate by far in criminal nature so WTF? Where are the hackers of this world? Where is the one person to do the monumentally right thing?

this great article by @debtcollective.bsky.social lays out really clearly what's been on my mind all day: everybody better get real familiar with municipal finance real quick www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...

highly recommend Destin Jenkins' excellent book The Bonds of Inequality for anyone looking to learn & really understand the way municipal finance deeply constrains cities www.destinjenkins.com/the-bonds-of...

…not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestor, but hides his descendants, and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart. - Tocqueville

“When one is unwell, it becomes even more apparent that what matters most is love, and the rest is largely noise.” Lucinda Rosenfeld writes about the resurgence of her multiple sclerosis.

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club. Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter. Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/

Kim Phillips-Fein on Melinda Cooper www.thenation.com/article/soci...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

Here’s a blocklist of the federal agency accounts that were set up on Bluesky today just to troll. You can block ‘em all at once with a couple of taps here.

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

shouldn’t the entirety of the Republican Congress be impeached for unleashing/funding all the illegal actions of Trump, Miller, Vought, etc. on the American people?

on Fox no less

From the Trump Terror Memo. Have you ever donated to a left org with a credit card? Get ready. This doesn’t mean they’re coming for you. It means if they want to come for you, you’re already cooked.

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

This keeps happening. How many people in the Uk could have told you who Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel were 3 weeks ago? Trump is a Mr Beast-style content production genius, that editors feel powerless in the face of

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years. Speaks for itself.

Apropos of nothing just happened to be teaching this passage from Grapes of Wrath this week

Kudos, NYT for writing today about how JPMorgan facilitated Epstein's crimes...Too bad I wrote about it--in 2023! www.latimes.com/business/sto...

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Has there been a day in the Trump Admin where they haven't broken the law, and egregiously?

Ruffalo, the progressive hollywood darling, staring as an FBI agent...hmm.

It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.

German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Meeting of two Horrorclowns"

Don't Be Distracted from Trump's Filth www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/12/d...

I think we need to stop using the word government when we talk about the atrocities being implemented by the Trump administration. “Government” being nonspecific and eliding who the perpetrators of illegal actions are.

"the audacity of casual cruelty"

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Again, you cannot unplug 1/4-1/5 of an R1 university's budget & expect the same quantity or quality of "things" on campus. The math simply doesn't work. And pretending it does & we can uphold our "core values," & not talking loudly & publicly about how it doesn't, is not a strategy. It's madness.

“What we're learning is that two of the country's most popular home improvement stores are contributing to the massive surveillance dragnet coordinated by Flock Safety,” Dave Maass, director of investigations at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told 404 Media. www.404media.co/home-depot-a...

For this view of the right wing bias of cops (prior to joining and shaped by the institution) all you really need to do (besides just talking to any cop) is watch Charles Burnett's 1994 film The Glass Shield. Genius (as always). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Governments ignoring and contravening shared international legal processes is not what anyone should support. This is another way they've proven ANYONE is at risk at ANY TIME. Arbitrary force tolls a bell for you.

so quaint to read posts about what is legal or not. kinda cute, boomer.

if you know fox and newsmax are propaganda machines, why do you think pointing out their lies in your echo chamber matters?

Time is up academics - Admin (easily replaceable tools of wealth management will always side with power/money) capitulates...are you going to?

The experience of the past twenty months has taught Israel’s politicians and its officers impunity: there is no action they could order that goes too far, no strategy they can dream up that might be too extreme.

Great read here

Net approval of ICE: All: -17% DEM: -80% IND: -32% GOP: +60% Quinnipiac / June 24, 2025

Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.

Unironically the thing I love about this point, is that it's a great basis to start talking to y'all about the fact that most of the people in jail in the US are just as innocent as Khalil. Many are Black folk that have been arrested with *absolutely no basis*, but wait *over a year* to see a judge.

why doesn’t CNN leave the White House press corps, and just simply comment on what Karoline Leavitt says almost like they were translating from lies to facts? who needs to be in that room to report or transmit lies for the admin?