"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." -Dune, 1965

The word that keeps running through my head about this administration (among others) is "adolescent." These are people with a little boy's idea of what sounds manly.

The speaker of the house just said he didn’t see the president tell the military to get ready to attack liberal cities and tomorrow’s headlines will be “Democrats Refuse To End Shutdown”

Post marching band jam session I love the director coming in at the end, "Go home!" 😂

It’s going to take a lot of time and money for the next Democratic president’s administration to remove all this tacky crap.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

WATCH: He’s bragging about fucking you over. #TrumpShutDown

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

Generals I have gathered you here today to make sure the military isn't doing anything gay or black

Note: for Hegseth, it's "females" and "men." Not women and men, and not females and males. Females (the aberration) and men (the gold standard template of humanity).

When he says female this is all I can think of

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

This is a 5 alarm authoritarian fire

Isn’t science great? Too bad about NIH and the US share.newsbreak.com/f8ogu93o?s=i4

This precisely. 100%. 10/10. No notes. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Me too, facepalm guy

I just voted against a GOP bill that gives up Congress's power over spending. Instead of working with Democrats to stop premiums from DOUBLING next year, Republicans are sending us straight into a shutdown—and pushing bills to give up their own power and hand it over to Trump.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Reno NV. Attended a work meeting there, held in the convention center/casino. I wanted to claw my eyes out from all the cigarette smoke, it even permeated into the non-smoking rooms and my hotel room. Then you go outside and it's 105F. I got heat stroke. Never again.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

WTF

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Freedom is 20 kitted up feds armed to breach the bin laden compound chasing a delivery worker bsky.app/profile/marm...

Evil

Trump is building a personalist regime where every university must bend the knee or lose funding and every business must bend the knee or face tariffs, H-1B fees, and regulatory blackmail. You can't cover each domain in isolation; they are all the same story.

79-year-old US citizen & business owner in Van Nuys, CA, was slammed to the ground *twice* by masked ICE agents. He was just asking for his employees to be allowed to retrieve papers proving they're legal immigrants. He suffered multiple rib fractures & a head injury w/ possible brain damage.

Our mainstream media is pathetically feckless.

WHAT THE HELL GREEN BAY

Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share

Wow Eagles wheels are completely falling off

Where was the penalty on that incomplete ? Both teams came together.

RFK Jr. and Friends keep repeating that “we need to listen to the mothers” on the topic of vaccines and autism. But they don’t want to listen to mothers who advocate for gun control or want vaccines to remain accessible to all.

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss

The so-called “conservative” party - the one that claims to believe in limited government & hyperventilates constantly about the SOCIALISM of the radical leftist Democrats - now supports coercing government ownership stakes from private corporations & having control over their personnel decisions.

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

starting to think congress' power of the purse doesn't exist anymore.

“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... #ScienceUnderSiege

BREAKING NYT:   Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.   Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

We are knee deep in fascism