“what about when Lincoln executed the Dakota. What about when FDR interned—“ “Bitch the current president is sending troops into major cities to terrorize people based on lies. You for that or against it”

Really important to internalize that the president of the United States is ordering troops into major population centers precisely to create violent confrontations, for the sole purpose of intimidating, criminalizing and disabling opposition

I’m a MAJOR owl fan, but my favourite is the burrowing owl: ✔️v frowny & grumpy-they know what you did last Tuesday ✔️digs holes then peeps out of them ✔️EXPERTS at the wobbly head bendy neck owl thing ✔️long leggies ✔️does very silly running on said leggies 10/10 no owly notes HIGHLY recommended

Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM (From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...

Foreign aid cuts have already led to THOUSANDS of deaths, and estimates show the cuts could lead to as many as 14 million preventable deaths by 2030. But sure, Trump is the one that would suffer irreparable harm from an injunction telling him to release funds that were already directed by Congress.

'Autocratic slide' Sounds like a good name for the stuff that's adding up

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

Accurate. This is, in essence, what all the shadow docket rulings are saying.

Says the man who’s masterminded the illegal and inhumane detention of many thousands of people.

Don't turn away. This is what they are doing to immigrants who show up to their court dates, to comply with the law.

See, I understand that Trump was unhappy about this. But as hosts to the UN, the US has undertaken special obligations to allow leaders of countries otherwise considered hostile the US (Iran, Cuba, North Korea, etc) to come here and freely speak their minds. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

When I said “it wasn’t a genocide then but may be now” my point is that for the awhile Israel’s response to the 10/07 massacre was reasonable or at least understandable. At some point along the way, however, it was no longer about the hostages and became a pretext for ethnic cleansing by Netanyahu.

To put it another way, this court thinks the Constitution established the President as, in effect, an omnipotent and omniscient god-king, and that the only thing that can compel the President to refrain from personally exercising decision-making power over everything is the President's modesty.

Kid2 lost a lot of his sense of smell when we caught covid in 2022. I didn’t notice for awhile because I was dealing with my own fallout. We haven’t re-checked recently, but the loss was so significant that he couldn’t smell an open container of vinegar literally right under his nose.

A diminished or lost sense of smell has been connected to weight loss, reduced quality of life and depression, and those who can't smell also might not be able to detect dangers like spoiled food, gas leaks or smoke. www.upi.com/Health_News/...

So, please, stop with the romanticism and the secret wish that you're Le Resistance. Democracy is in danger and saving it is more often a matter of legal and electoral drudgery than street drama. The situation is bad, but try to imagine "shush that child or we're all arrested" bad. /8x

Is America now as repressive as a junta that only lasted 7 years? No. Is America as repressive now as the USSR was in 1987, when it "liberalized?" No. People use "fascist" b/c they have no frame of reference for repression. /3

This only happens to you once

If I understand this right, the majority are saying that if the law says or implies a president must act a certain way, but the president doesn't want to, then it's the law that is wrong.

Homeopathy is dangerous pseudoscience. Avoid anyone promoting it. Read more in this piece I wrote LONG ago: news.immunologic.org/p/homeopathy... 🧵

This story should shock and offend all Americans. It is a violation of our shared values. It is possible to enforce our immigration laws, without ripping away people’s basic dignity and rights.

I’m not trying to single this person out because this instinct is incredibly widespread, but the tic that liberals have developed, that people won’t care unless you explain how government stuff affects them personally, is rooted in elitist contempt for voters, and more importantly, NEVER WORKS

No, I’m sorry, no, stop tying yourselves in knots trying to figure out the Super Secret Joe Sixpack Language That Regular Americans Speak. Just say what you believe in the plainest and strongest language available to you

Man who has long been despised at a distance makes extravagant arrangements to be despised up close.

the next Dem congress should reassert the power of the purse, specifically over the Supreme Court’s budget no, you cannot have money for staplers until you start respecting the constitution again

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The typical American is going to have a much, much easier time accepting "Trump and his cronies are illegitimate tyrants" than "AMERICA IZ DED RIP".

There is an increasing threat of heavy rainfall early next week from coastal Georgia through the Carolinas and into the southern Mid-Atlantic states, which could cause flash, urban, and river flooding.

this needs to be hammered into the skulls of every elite individual and institution on every measure - reputationally, financially, morally - you come out better if you fight the guy stand up! it’s the right thing to do and better for you in every way! how often does that happen?

Mother of God. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

Everyone is starting to notice our egregious typographical error. We are sufficiently ashamed. Please accept this corrected version of our guide:

lol This is funny joke for those who know, which is a lot of people admittedly, but I think this bit of infamy needs to be made explicit for the few people who might be unfamiliar with who we are dealing with. Smart people took his advice.

Like, you cannot have a functional governmental system with Caesaric exemption, and it seems that Roberts really believes Trump has a Caesaric exemption. Let him be Caesar then and govern by the weight of his muscular will alone.

Because he was on the winning team, a lot of people don't realize what a massive risk de Gaulle took in secretly flying to London. He was tried in absentia for treason.

An important tactic Trump learned as a private citizen is that if you’re rich, you can wreck people’s lives with completely frivolous litigation, even if you have no chance of winning. This terrorizes everyone else who might get on your bad side by, say, demanding payment or reporting facts.

We’re losing not because Trump is popular and strong but because the opposition is obsessed with finding clever tricks to win his voters by talking about unrelated things, rather than talking about the only thing that matters right now, which is how bad he is.

OMG It was such a *terrible* idea to put the world's most extreme, dangerous anti-vaxxer & conspiracy theorist in charge of HHS & to put his biggest fans/boosters/hype men (the MAGA/MAHA Fox News MDs & PhDs Drs Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, Prasad, Makary) in charge of other health agencies/committees

I'll never forget the abuse piled on public health workers like me by Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, and Prasad. Fact is, they won the pandemic, and the mindset that allowed them to do so is tearing our country apart.

HEGSETH: Real warriors FIGHT GENERALS: [noise of restrained approval] HEGSETH: Real warriors DRINK GENERALS: [somewhat less noise] HEGSETH: NOBODY tells real warriors how much to drink or when or where GENERALS: [awkward silence] /1

I have seen this play out for ten years: The thing they accuse you of having “TDS” for fearing today, they will excuse or ignore tomorrow. This is a law of contemporary American politics.

As I will keep saying: the president and his co-conspirators, inside and outside the regime, do not mean what they say. They do not care about the truth behind their words, only whether those words can achieve a desired outcome. In this case, the outcome was bad for Sinclair.

Lovely days in fall always remind me hanging out with the nosy cemetery cows in northern France.

And again… vaccines save lives. And it’s not just about protecting yourself. It’s also about protecting those around you.

People are attached to the word Fascism because we're a country - both right and left - addicted to high drama. We're struggling right now with a man who I've said "has the soul of a fascist and mind of a disordered child." But fascism? Sober up. Put your Big Kid Democracy Pants on.

The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic – is violence against the truth.

MORE: Comey will be arraigned on 10/9. His son in law Troy Edwards — a federal prosecutor who helped convict several Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy over Jan. 6 — has resigned from DOJ in protest. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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