LGBTQIA+ As we resist those who claim diversity distorts scholarship, let’s run through the acronym & show how easy it is to find the rainbow in every era. We don’t even need to look beyond the Renaissance celebrities that are household names today! (Countdown to Inventing the Renaissance) 1/?

"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs; the [Willamette River] shall swarm with frogs which shall come up into your house...

A Message From The Frog Resistance - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance. www.youtube.com/shorts/TpZFS...

"if anything employment outcomes are worsening more rapidly for those with fewer skills looking for blue-collar jobs than the highly skilled seeking knowledge work" on.ft.com/43eYeRZ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com as ever doing the essential work. It's not just AI. And education still matters

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info. SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Bobby McFerrin does a thing where he'll sing Bach's first prelude along with someone else singing or playing the "Ave Maria" that Charles Gounod wrote atop that prelude. In this transcendent 2005 clip, McFerrin pulls this stunt with a live audience. See you around.

Some interesting findings about gender in polling released this week. More at link: www.pbump.net/o/the-americ...

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

Y'know I'm not supposed to say that word things are correct or incorrect because that's classist and snobby and gatekeeping etc.? "Woah" is incorrect.

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Both could be true.

There are any number of legitimate reasons to use the passive voice, including not knowing who did the action you’re describing, or the whom is more interesting/germane than the who. Exonerating the Gestapo is not one of those legitimate reasons.

I'm Canadian, but it fits worldwide. “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.” - Susan B. Anthony

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

"Economists stress that the Fed is not flying blind. Sahm said a better description was that the central bank is driving with a dirty windshield. “They will find ways to bring information in. They have navigated shutdowns before. They will make the best of what they have,” she said."

@timmiller.bsky.social: “The Commerce Secretary is really stupid…He's just being dumb enough to say the obvious truth, which is that 'my fellow cabinet members and the President of the United States, who I work for, are covering up something related to this sex trafficking ring.'”

"This guy wants to do bad things to the country overall. You can't believe what he says, you can't believe his promises. He's dangerous and he's nuts. And that transcends all of these individual issues." Not a bad reason to shut it down. @gtconway.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social:

The latest episode of George Conway Explains It All: Substack: www.thebulwark.com/s/george-con... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_UE... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5laf50E...

An “immigration judge” is not an actual judge in the judicial branch. They are a DOJ employee. As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

Excellent rebuttal from the WaPo Guild. So glad you are fighting these people, you deserve to be appreciated and backed up.

2020: Biden, 51.3% popular vote, 306 EV; Trump, 46.8%, 232 EV 2024: Trump, 49.7% popular vote, 312 EV; Harris, 48.2%, 226 EV

Thanks to @meidastouch.com for airing this week's MSW Media UnJustified podcast with me and Andy McCabe tomorrow. You can watch it using the link below, or listen to the audio pod wherever you get your podcasts. Andy will be breaking some news.

This is Portland right now. We’re“under siege” by pollen and potholes, that’s about it. We have a ton of live webcams if you want to watch us go to the farmers markets or walking our dogs, we love dogs. Release the Epstein files. www.camscape.com/webcam/pione...

I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.

I'll add that soon, we'll also be posting the course's syllabus / reading list; we're working on an online version.

good morning, super friends.

No one told me how great this petite book feels just holding it. Plus, you gotta love the poetic introduction written by two stellar writers. I am ready for this journey. A marvelous gem so far, @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

This is fascinating, 94% of college students had heard of Charlie Kirk - and 70% of those who heard of him disagreed with him puck.news/what-college...

icymi a few days ago, important developments out of Missouri:

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

If we can’t read Bram Stoker's Dracula together whilst enjoying a vintage bottle of Château Margaux paired with dark chocolate tiramisu in front of a crackling fire in a Victorian mansion during a full moon on a cool October night with the sound of wolves in the distance, then what’s the point?

This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

💯 Excellent op-ed. It deserves to be available to everyone who is interested in reading it. GIFT ARTICLE www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Dutch Baby, that princely, puffy Yorkshire pudding of a breakfast pancake, is #RecipeOfTheDay, I’m pleased to be able to report! www.nigella.com/recipes/dutc...

Executive orders cannot supersede federal law or the constitution. Federal law sets visa fees, including for H-1B visas. And the maximum fee is $4,500, according to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-113). Current State Dept. site: travel.state.gov/content/trav...

This is all extremely weird; it is both appropriate and necessary for people to say so. Charlie Kirk was a sleazy podcaster who constantly said repugnant things—that's all he contributed to society—but they're treating him like the Virgin Mary, MLK, Audie Murphy, and Superman all rolled into one.

I have submitted a FOIA to the FBI for all video evidence & docs created in the investigation of Border Czar Tom Homan & his acceptance of $50K in bribes for favorable government contracts. I'll be publishing updates soon on my human rights newsletter. No paywall: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

⏰Reupping this thread on @janemanners.bsky.social latest brief taking on the unitary executive theory. This is a must-read for anyone interested in a historical corrective to the administration's claims... @brennancenter.org

This bizarre piece from the State Dept was funny and philosophically inept already after J.D. Vance's attack on Europe's supposed lack of freedom of speech. After Kimmel's firing it's REALLY funny. At least no US diplomat will lecture us again, amirite? statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-f...

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

I also want to add @boltsmag.org to every list. It is a nonprofit magazine that does AMAZING work covering electoral politics from a left progressive perspective.

Dutch late night TV has its take

NEW: The FCC chairman's actions leading to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel were "manifestly improper" and "antithetical to our history of constitutional freedom and free speech and the First Amendment." That's George Conway @gtconway.bsky.social talking to our JVL www.thebulwark.com/p/conway-des...

@milleridriss.bsky.social joins @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social to discuss her new book, “Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.” They explore the intersection of gender, radicalization, and violence. www.buzzsprout.com/2074610/epis...