Happy September Equinox! Today the dividing line between day and night runs exactly from the North pole to the South pole, and the sun is directly over the equator. This is an actual image of the Earth today, taken from the Himawari-8 satellite.

The comedian forced out by the US Administration due to his speech—in flagrant violation of our Constitution and by illegally perverting FCC regulatory duties—had been targeted by the US President *by name* prior to the arrival of the pretext.

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1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands: apnews.com/article/chin...

They also know about rapid fascism: Hitler appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg: Jan 30, 1933 Reichstag Fire Feb 27, 1933 (29 days later) Reichstag Fire Decree Feb 28, 1933-- ended civil liberties (30 days) Enabling Act March 23, 1933--effectively made Hitler dictator (53 days)

Well, what do Germans know about creeping fascism anyway?

I’m nostalgic for the days when Americans lectured other countries about violations of civil liberties.

If you’re like me and feeling increasingly hopeless and powerless about rising fascism, here is something you can do about it ⬇️

Am guessing not. But good try @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

The US Administration, and I’m quoting verbatim here, “doesn’t give a shit” about whether its execution of 11 people had a legal basis. It just claims absolute power to kill any person, at will, that it decides to kill. The same people now illegally deploying active military across our homeland.

We will never get accustomed to it. The US military has zero reason to be deployed in the homeland. It’s an extremely dangerous, unspeakable perversion of their mission.

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

The "Battle of Liberty Place" monument in New Orleans had an inscription (added in 1932) that said "the national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state."

"Southern California city launches web page to track immigration raids Anaheim has seen about half a dozen ICE operations since June, with recent raids reported at a Home Depot and Euclid Car Wash. The city, along with local residents, is using social media and its website to provide real-time...

Democrats are roughly three times as likely as Republicans to say climate change poses a major threat to the country (78% vs. 24%).

Read more on how American’s views of global threats differ by party and age:

Grok showed up in my Tesla this morning, and started speaking to me without me trying to trigger it. I saw a tab called "conspiracy theories", clicked it and asked Grok about climate change. This is what Elon Musk is telling Tesla drivers about climate change.

It always starts as a joke. "President Trump Quips About Canceling 2028 Elections If U.S. Is At War" www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

How to: be an American

The Constitution protects your right to record law enforcement in public.

"Word's out we're going to have to incarcerate this one."

Shame on America 👇

I recently had a thoughtful conversation with neuropsychologist and environmental ethics advocate Pınar Şengül about veganism, animal suffering, and the ethical choices we make in daily life. youtu.be/U8tRO51-w8A?...

I had never had a serious conversation about not eating meat until one day at lunch with a fellow student at Oxford. He explained he was a vegetarian, and why. It was the first time I’d been asked to think seriously about the ethics of what was on my plate. That conversation changed my life.

And just like that Trump is back to blaming Ukraine for being attacked. His anti-Russia period lasted maybe a month.

Meet Syn57, a living cell that only needs 57 codons, not the standard 64. Here's my story on how synthetic biology is tackling the mystery of our bloated genetic code. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Hf4f9v

I've studied the immigration enforcement system for 15 years. Democrats may express outrage at Republicans over Trump's immigration policies now, but the truth about who to blame is much more complicated. austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-immigr...

"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in." --Thomas Paine, The American Crisis Number IV, September 12, 1777 books.google.com/books?id=QDR...

As anti-vaccine zealots in the US government turn their backs on children around the world who will die needlessly from preventable disease… …it is worth remembering and celebrating what we accomplished when people entrusted with life-and-death assistance had the capacity and honor to deserve it.

NEWS: Kenneth Chesebro, "architect" of the 2020 fake electors plot who pleaded to criminal charges in Georgia, has been disbarred from the practice of law in New York, per order issued today by New York appellate court.

So this was illegal. Who will punish them?

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory. Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

On June 19, 1865 Military Order No 3 was brought to west-Texas by General Granger to enforce Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. While slavery wasn’t formally abolished until December of 1865, Juneteenth is celebrated as the end of slavery and freedom for millions of Americans.

Hard to argue with that.

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

This is an illegal perversion of the US military, deployed in America, against Americans. No ‘insurrection’ nor civil war exists. I never thought I would live to see this. Our Congress has the Constitutional duty to stop this lawless, escalating rampage. And it turns its back on us.

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

The posse comitatus was uncontroversial until Congress made it an enforcement mechanism for the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and said “all good citizens are hereby commanded to aid and assist in the prompt and efficient execution of this law, whenever their services may be required.”

Before any other founding fathers publicly called for independence, Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published on Jan. 10, 1776. It was THE call to independence. "O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind." "...in America THE LAW IS KING."

He said he wanted to be a dictator This is the essence of dictatorship Meeting peaceful protest with military force

No Kings Day in the San Francisco Bay Area Join us in Dolores Park at 11:30 AM. We’ll march starting at noon sharp to Civic Center Plaza, where we’ll have a brief rally. indivisiblesf.org/events/2025/...

The whole thing started when ICE agents jumped out of vans at a Home Depot in tactical gear and charged at a group of day laborers.

I know everyone's been breathlessly waiting for what I was going to write about LA. here you go - gifted www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

My husband’s cell was getting calls from people thinking they were phoning a certain city’s police number. He was puzzled—his number doesn’t appear on any web page. Then he learned that if you Google “[city name] non-emergency police”, the AI overview hallucinates his number. Thanks, Google!

I see that over at X the users are having a polite disagreement over immigration policy with my colleagues from @cato.org

I wrote about the recent spate of anti-Zionist violence against American Jews and how such assaults just make Zionism's argument for it. "The unwitting agents of Zionism throughout history have been those unwilling to tolerate Jews in their own countries." Gift link to the full piece:

It is both true and seldom honestly acknowledged that "the creation of Israel was the consequence less of Jewish choices than of all other Jewish choices being foreclosed by non-Jewish powers." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...