As a "special government employee," he "works 130 days a year for the DHS while maintaining a business with outside clients... he wouldn’t have to disclose those clients, making it difficult to determine if they might present a conflict of interest' with his DHS work. Let's end this loophole!

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

This should be getting a lot more attention. And no journalist should sign it. "The idea that a member of the Pentagon press corps or a reporter writ large can only write what the government tells them to, that's not how it works in the United States of America." www.rawstory.com/pentagon-267...

As in the 1920s, the scandal is not just that they are breaking the law; it is how far they can grift without breaking a law. SCOTUS has so constrained our bribery laws that you could take $50K IN CASH from contract-seeking strangers & DOJ will wonder if it has a viable case.

I'm glad @tvmojoe.bsky.social did this. I thought for a while there I was losing my mind when I felt like this whole day was totally bonkers. Four minutes for a slain senior Democratic state legislator (and her husband and, God help us, her lovely doggie.) And jokes from Sen. Mike Lee.

They may try to limit our speech and our right to address our grievances, but we control the power of our labor and our wallets www.unburdened.blog/p/we-control...

Murphy continues to be a really clear voice

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

Senate Democrats should introduce a “Melissa Hortman day of remembrance” and see if Republicans object to it.

This is an outstanding article, about a shocking situation. That anyone can consider Adams a viable candidate for reelection is absurd. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

did tom homan get to keep the $50k that undercover cops gave him in a brown bag as part of a sting?

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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I was surprised and disappointed that Patel wasn't grilled on his definition of "credible" when being asked about the Epstein file evidence. Seems like the same things should apply here.

I DID think of those. Not only can he take bribes—huge ones —even the agents can.

This is a critical point, and one the media MUST handle better. Don't want to say this is "trafficking"? OK, say the asylum seekers are being "shipped to foreign prisons without due process." But this is NOT deportation! They are not being returned as free people to their homeland!!

RELEASE THE HOMAN FILES!

I'm not easily shocked. But I just cannot get my mind around these facts. There is a RECORDING of Homan accepting a bribe. And yet he occupies a government position where he can target people for deportation or spare them - at his discretion. Think of the bribery possibilities. It's staggering.

NEW: In a break from decades of history, the Trump administration has started detaining virtually everyone facing deportation — even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades. Dozens of judges, with increasing alarm, have ruled the policy shift illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Specifically, he told the agents, who were posing as businessmen, that he'd help them get federal contracts from a Trump administration.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

The President is flat-out saying it is illegal - now, currently, today - for the media to do stories about him that he doesn't like. How much clearer does it need to be, folks? The First Anendment's head is on the block and he's holding the ax! For God's sake, Congress, SPEAK UP!!!

Update: He has resigned with honor. Let us hope courage is contagious and starts to spread all through the DOJ...

Does anyone else find it extremely alarming that our national defense is in the hands of people so clueless and naive that they think this edict had even a tiny possibility of success? Did they all just fly in from their childhood homes in North Korea??

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Let me fix that headline: "Shutdown looms as GOP fails to pass bill...." Democrats didn't "block" anything. The GOP didn't have the votes to pass the bill without Democratic votes, and they did absolutely nothing to win those votes. So who is responsible? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

RFK Jr, who is causing unprecedented damage, is deeply unpopular with the public. Democrats absolutely need to demand his firing as a basic minimum for supporting any effort to fund the government.

Did Trump repeal the law of supply and demand? Fewer workers w/ no drop in demand=higher labor costs. Higher labor costs w/ no drop in profit margins=higher prices. Unless he thinks the loss of those low-paid workers AS CONSUMERS will cut demand enough to offset labor price pressure? Seriously??

Why on earth would Cardinal Dolan of New York choose to flail his way into this intensely and dangerously polarized topic right now, and in such a ludicrously extreme way? He doesn't have a deal before the FCC. Perhaps he has federal grants at risk? I don't know. This just makes no sense...

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Gee, I wonder how that could possibly happen - returning Kimmel to the show from which these very people removed him? Wow, that sounds really difficult! I wonder if they can figure out a way...?

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

NEW: After threats from the FCC, ABC capitulated to the Trump administration and indefinitely pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s show off air. While this is a scary moment for our country, it’s more important than ever to stay in this fight, @marcelias.bsky.social writes.

there's always a twee—errrr, 1939 news story that someone should have paid more attention to

So let's focus on the larger issue: If local stations can refuse content from ABC/Disney, they presumably can also - if pressured by local audiences -- refuse content provided by Fox News? Like the show whose host called for homeless people to be killed?

In a story on Judge Kelly's finding the govt's case re Guatemalan kids fell apart like a house of cards, Politico said it got no immediate response from the White House, DOJ, ICE, or HHS. Here's the thing: KEEP ASKING. Why is DOJ lying in immigration cases? List the cases, the lies, and KEEP ASKING.

Carr's FCC echoes the McCarthy era: In 1954, the FCC accused Edward Lamb, a wealthy Democratic labor lawyer and TV station owner, of being having anti-American views and tried to revoke his TV licenses. Lamb fought back, and won. He had far more spine than ABC. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...

Trump's NYT lawsuit claims: "President Trump secured the greatest personal and political achievement in American history." Malignant ego! Our founders fought the world's most powerful empire to create a new nation. Lincoln put down a massive slave-owners rebellion. FDR led us to victory in WWII.

Carr was the author of the Project 2025 chapter on the FCC, whose first words include: “The F.C.C. should promote freedom of speech." He claimed the big tech firms censored conservatives. So if you voted FOR Project 2025, he's betraying you. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

That this expression of opinion was seen as a fireable offense is surreal. Oh, yes, and also utterly indefensible in a free country supposedly led by politicians devoted to "restoring" free speech.

Trump said in July that he wanted Kimmel fired next. July. Kirk was still alive in July. This has nothing to do with Kirk. Nothing.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

Red states accused the Biden administration of "jawboning" -- coercing social media platforms to "censor" content (mostly COVID misinformation), merely by liaising and flagging false content for those companies. Now the FCC *explicitly threatens* a network over content but that's all good?

If Biden'd FCC had embraced, back then, what Brendan Carr is attempting now, it would have revoked every Fox and Sinclair affiliate's broadcasting license and filed a fresh suit vs "Fox News" every day of the week that had a "y" in it.

Remember: It is ABC taking Kimmel down, not the FCC. It's doing so after to a patently unconstitutional threat from the FCC, whose chair didn't agree with something Kimmel said. But ABC has the option of ignoring the threat and fighting any retaliation in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...