"Along with the termination, Tulane altered the course’s syllabus, removing the article, a Harvard School of Public Health discussion about the resurgence of polio in Gaza." My alma mater continues to embarrass. Public Health students learning public health? oh no lailluminator.com/2025/10/06/t...

Electricity prices are up 38% over the last five years, and are re-accelerating this year A trade regime that tariffs the wires, transformers, batteries, & other capital goods necessary to meet growing electricity demand is just going to exacerbate our power cost problem

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself It is not clear what is behind the move by Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist. A legal ethics specialist said it could raise conflict-of-interest issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus. A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

Trey Trainor’s departure is for the greater good. He’s a lunatic, Sidney Powell style-in fact, he commended her highly when Trump hired her. He also believed politicians should use public office to force Catholicism on non-Catholics & was a contributor to the defunct & disgraced Church Militant.

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

Welcome to our new era of merit

The disabled must suffer so oligarchs can buy more mansions,lovers, baby mamas, & silicone.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

In Texas, free speech means conservatives have the right to express themselves & everyone else has the right to listen.

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

The current Israeli government is extreme to a degree far beyond even previous Bibi-led Likud coalitions

20 year DOJ vet lead counsel on critical terrorism case, fired b/c he once worked in career role for Lisa Monaco.They are simply strangling the DOJ. 1/3 of leadership has left. And the cost here has to be reckoned in public safety. Everything gets sacrificed to absurd views of loyalty and revenge.

What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that. Shameless!

AI smells more & more like Enron: you have the “smartest guys in the room” making facially nonsensical claims. Enron’s fraud hurt a lot of people. AI will hurt more.

This was posted by the President of the United States—a job once held by Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and FDR. Meantime, has the price of groceries or housing gone down for your family? How’s your kid’s job search going in the Trump economy?

Carsie Blanton is on one of those boats. As she has pointed out, their detention, in international waters, is illegal.

worth remembering that hoover's administration was defined by 4 years of economic chaos, suffering, dislocation, and fear. People genuinely believed the country itself was on the verge of irreversible collapse. He still got 40% of the vote.

This is all of a piece with things like the unlawful strike on that boat in the Caribbean. Trump and Hegseth view the military as their own killing machine, to be pointed at anyone they choose, whether it’s fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela or Americans in Portland bsky.app/profile/mrjo...

Qatar also earlier bailed out Jared Kushner for $2 billion, to get help with ending the Saudi blockade & has invested > 1.5 billion in Kushner’s fund. *Kushner was working in the WH when Qatar bailed him out.* www.justsecurity.org/69094/timeli... thearabianpost.com/kushners-aff...

This didn’t generate a ton of front-page headlines, but Trump this week signed an executive order rewarding Qatar with a NATO-like security guarantee — without bothering to go through Congress. Is this the same country that gave him a fancy plane? Yes. Yes it is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Some statistics about the 16 blue states Russ Vought wants to target: - 39% of the country lives in those states. - They contribute 44% of GDP. - They are also home to almost a third of 2024 Trump voters, some 24 million of them. www.pbump.net/o/sorry-abou...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Ditto.

Effing sociopaths.

Our refugee admissions program is almost singularly focused on bringing in white South Africans. They’re not being coded. The quiet part is being yelled loudly.

A conservative partner of mine, during the Obama years, was sure Obama was targeting red states. I understand now why he’d believe that.

Anyone who criticizes the regime is a terrorist. They are clowns, but evil clowns.

It’s the very niche constitutional exception for acts that might impact the justices’ pocketbook.

Modern “conservatism” in action: funding enormously expensive culture wars & breaking sh*t.

What’s notable is them being open that what they mean by “censorship” is people (especially children) having access to information sources that might have contradictory information from what is provided in christian nationalist controlled information deserts—and this is always what they meant

The weakness in payrolls is despite upward revisions to overall economic growth in the second quarter and an acceleration in consumer spending in July & Aug. Income and wealth inequalities mean a privilege few are carry the economy, while too many fell left out in the cold.

It’s yet another rightwing sinecure for the unqualified.

“They” say. Classic rightwing smear.

At the very least he should be condemning the radical leftists who are doing this

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

Trump continues to shamelessly promote his brand. “Pfizer will also launch direct-to-consumer sales of drugs at substantial discounts through TrumpRx.”

Trump: San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within

Also note that from his divorce from Ivana, we know that Trump too has a history of violence against intimate partners. Draw your own conclusions about these chickenhawks/REMFs—and MAGA/GOP writ large.

If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

the phenomenon that’s been going on for 20 years is more stark than ever: the court tells the conservative legal apparatus what it wants and they go manufacture it. as true with Heller as it is with birthright citizenship. it’s less balls and strikes and more calling the pitches.

Tim Cook's 24 karat golden trinket at the Oval was an embarrassment, but more than that, it was a token of policy corruption. What Apple wanted from the WH was exactly what it got this weekend: blatantly corrupt pressure to undercut rules that create fairness: on.ft.com/46tYoXZ

Welcome to America, where masked and armed federal officials will chase you down if you criticize the President.

This appears to be the full video of the Chicago delivery worker. It actually appears that an agent tries to assault him after he curses the Dear Leader Kim il Trump to their faces.

Beto would never, just saying. (Although crushing his own nuts is a big improvement over hitting someone else with an ax. Maybe Hegseth should just stand down.) youtu.be/pMrVdFnjEjs

The Democratic ask includes a handful of incredibly reasonable ways of ensuring any deal that is agreed to is *actually* carried out. But the Trump administration says that's a bright red line they won't accept - that they want the ability to come to an agreement and immediately break it.