This is the 20th time the Supreme Court has granted an emergency request made by the Trump administration since January. That's TWENTIETH.

Buried in #VAGov story, a little media story. Most gender/schools coverage in VA comes from one reporter for a Sinclair station in DC market, who works it as part of Sinclair's "Crisis in the Classroom" series. His job before news media? Trump admin spox www.semafor.com/article/08/2...

After ICE agents violently detained a man in Maryland, they kept him pinned to the ground for nine minutes. He shouts “I live in America! I love America!” When a witness asks why the man was arrested, the officer shouts “Because he’s a criminal.” Full story: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

Morning walk

I'd say "why talk to Chotiner when you bragged about your friendship with Kissinger" but I feel like the same impulse that makes you brag about your friendship with Kissinger, also makes you think you'll do great with Chotiner.

Another neighbor grabbed off the street and arrested without a warrant

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28

What time is the Rapture?

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

Pack it up folks, nothing will top this.

Reading the news.

They should go talk to voters in WV who lost their homes in extreme flooding and wildfires..oh but climate change isn't a kitchen table issue.

bro just one more billionaire funded group arguing for milquetoast centrism. bro please just one more, we'll throw gay people to the wolves this time too bro, not just trans ones. bro im begging you

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

"“They thought we were just white trash rednecks & that we would just roll over & take it & not say anything." Remarkable new feature by @laurengill.bsky.social about the doubts & resistance that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' mega prison project has spurred in rural Arkansas: boltsmag.org/arkansas-pri...

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

On a lighter note, the Redford fandom on TikTok is going to be something else today.

RIP, Robert Redford. What a devastating year this has been for actors of this stature and this generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”

I have just seen a TikTok of a fan cut of Apocalypse Now set to Nelly’s Hot in Here.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.

“Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan.”

"at least 40 of about 320 people hired to work for UG Solutions in Gaza were recruited from Infidels MC"

The House member who wants to let Trump appoint D.C.'s attorney general (currently elected by residents) mistakenly says it was the city's AG who didn't prosecute two-thirds of arrests in D.C. That was actually the U.S. Attorney for D.C. – who *is* appointed by the president.

This is the same court that just said you can't use race at all in college admissions. It was always about white supremacy.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Everyone should listen to this woman: one.npr.org?sharedMediaI... - this is the hell that we now live in.

Just listened, via Morning Edition, as a woman with learning disabilities broke down crying while recounting how ICE agents racially profiled her in Washington, D.C. Even brief questioning — especially by unidentified agents with sidearms and mask — can be traumatic, Brett.

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Sep 5th 1999 - Chatur challenged Rancho to see who would become more successful. They agreed to meet 10 years later, but Rancho didn't show up. 📽️📅 3 Idiots (2009)

Woman w no criminal history detained by ICE after a routine check-in discovered she was pregnant and had a miscarriage while in custody. Judge ordered her released yesterday, citing apparent due process violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Holy shit, he actually did it!

Everything is terrible other than this incredible news (also the just-released version of Born in the USA is amazing) www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

This is a United States senator, on his official government account, publicly saying full white nationalism & great replacement theory is central to the country’s identity & the GOP platform. Also: explicitly opposing Lincoln’s message in Gettysburg Address (reference to “proposition”)

After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

On Aug. 22, a catastrophic explosion erupted at Smitty’s Supply, a major lubricant manufacturing facility in a predominantly Black town of Roseland, Louisiana. The blaze swept through the 15-acre complex that housed half a million gallons of flammable materials.

going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago

The likeliest explanation.

A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.

(*smirks imperceptibly*)

This is one of the ways that white supremacy weaponizes civility: by implying that certain people get to be served, and other kinds of people (you know what kinds) need to be grateful, without interrogating it.

Aug 29th 1997 - Skynet become self aware. 📽️📅 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)