Photos of the suspects.

3 people set off of a bomb at Harvard medical school yesterday and it's barely gotten any attention. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This is meant to stop stores from charging more not less. This is such a perversion of what this rule is meant to do.

Correct - and if you want to build a firewall against national right-wingers, you need to do it at the state level. I worked for a Democratic state rep who tried to hammer this point home to young people who only seemed interested in presidential elections.

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems. Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago. SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

Excellent answer from a Polish politicien to a far-right girl... hope she understood !

Guys, @ninaburleigh.bsky.social is always good but she’s been on a heater the last few weeks. This Russ Vought dude—the one who said he wanted federal employees in trauma—is such a fucking loser.

It's never comfortable to recognize a double-standard, but when the deaths from wanton butchering in Sudan are "mass killing" but deaths in a war with Hamas in Gaza are "genocide," maybe a little dispassionate judiciousness is in order.

The genocide in Sudan is not the event happening now, and I was teaching classes about this stuff a long time before Bluesky existed, but don't let my identification of a double-standard get in the way of your rage.

I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"

This! When you say "Listen, Reagan and the Bushes and Trump are the same," you're actually reassuring low-info voters that Trump isn't a crazy choice, because unlike Bluesky folks, millions of Americans would vote for those guys again.

Nothing in nature fails to impress, and humanity has lost its mind.

I feel like the Fairness Doctrine is becoming the new “we ended the gold standard, so [fill in the blank].”

"To Trump, Reagan’s composed performance, with its affirmation of consensus, is almost intolerable. It must be discredited not because it is inaccurate but because it represents an entirely different model of what presidential authority looks like." -Jake Lundberg www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...

We need to fight. (gift article) www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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People ask: “Is America really in danger of slipping into authoritarianism?” So I brought on someone who’s spent decades inside the national security world...Steven Cash of The Steady State... and his answer is the clearest, most sobering breakdown you will hear anywhere. youtu.be/6Inn3GAfSlo?...

Read alongside. open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...

“My president.” “Most powerful man in the world.” This is cult-of-personality conditioning. Authoritarians demand applause. #SteadyStateAssessment

"Give Donald Trump this much: He has never tried to hide his malice, his lawlessness, or his desire to inflict pain on others." - @peter-wehner.bsky.social Trump's authoritarian plans are out in the open. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

And this is it's so important to reject nihilism about freedom and voting. This is gonna be tight.

Our country is suffering from "an erosion of a deterrence against violence" where "political violence is not necessarily taboo anymore." It's a "seismic shift in American democracy." Alongside @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social on the terrific @truthinthebarrel.bsky.social with @amymcgrath.bsky.social.

Overheard this exchange between two women in line at Safeway this morning, one of whom still had a "Kamala Harris for the People" button pinned to her purse: "I mean, tell me, what 𝑖𝑠 going on in this country?" "It's going to hell in a handbasket, that's what." www.mediaite.com/politics/hou...

The inherent problem is that everyone treats this tech as a replacement for knowledge and experience. It's absolutely not. And what will happen is the potential degradation of the pipeline of people with that knowledge and experience who don't get a chance because of misuse of AI as a replacement.

Worth a Listen youtu.be/8OkgVemHf2g?...

Tom Nichols: “This whole notion of deploying riot control troops to every city — for what? What kind of disorder are they expecting? Perhaps millions of people voting, going to the streets to express their choice in an election?” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

There’s nothing too crazy for these folks

There's a concerted push to weaponize medical billing against trans people and their healthcare. Using alternate billing codes for coverage is ubiquitous across the medical system for all kinds of care. This is not unique to trans healthcare but it's being portrayed as such to target access to it.

Stephanie Mulhern Ogorzalek for @cfr.org: "Ending child, early, and forced marriage is essential to cultivating the next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers who can drive inclusive growth and democratic resilience."

The Trump administration will soon be releasing two Medicaid rules that would ban medicaid funding for gender affirming care for trans youth and any Medicaid reimbursements to any organization that provides care to trans youth. This would be a de facto national ban www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Thanks to the shutdown, we didn't get the first estimate of Q3 GDP today. And private-sector data offer no good substitute for official GDP. The shutdown offers lots of lessons about what private sector data can and can't do. New at @piie.com : www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Dutch liberals, together with the Dutch center-right, fight back www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

Honestly, of all the things to worry about, this one is not on the list. (Yes, you can trigger disasters with nukes underwater, I guess, but I'd worry more about having 20 minutes to live before the city you're in evaporates in a fireball.)

The president wants to resume nuclear testing. This is a really bad idea - and he can't even get his facts right about why he wants to do it: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Three years from now, we’ll wonder why we were afraid of the abyss and realize it was only because we hadn’t met what comes after it.