The President is waging war, levying taxes, and appropriating funds without the consent, or even interest, of Congress. We are way past 'constitutional crisis', and into a newly-forged constitutional settlement.

I've read a couple of history books and I can tell you for sure that rounding up your generals, having a drunk yell at them and call them fat, and then stopping paying them that same day is absolutely how you institute durable personalist rule

The latest example that the president is completely out of his goddamn mind www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Hearing people argue against their own and others basic human rights and dignity unless they grovel and lick the boots of the capitalist class is sad and maddening.

a big reason the Disney thing is important is that in the most visible fight the administration has picked, a fight they celebrated winning, ended up as a loss. it's embarrassing and demoralizing. it also shows non-political folks that the pendulum can swing back. that emboldens all of us to fight.

This is amazing.

This is amateur stuff. I have at least THREE planners that I use less than half a dozen times a year.

I had the same exact thought!

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

The funniest part of this is acetaminophen is the (perfectly safe) drug. Tylenol is a *brand*, and by attacking the brand and not the drug, the US government has just given Kenvue a massive gift when this goes to court. Their lawyers are likely drooling right now.

Now that Trump is officially backing the unfounded notion that Tylenol is linked to autism, I can finally share with the world the very niche fact that the inventor of Tylenol is also the father of Phish keyboardist Page McConnell. You’re welcome.

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

This person is called Pissshitter because their takes are both piss and shit. Asking the average American to engage with “revolutionary leftists lit” is like trying to draw blood from a rock, just ain’t gonna happen. You meet people where they are, not where you want them to be in your imagination.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters. www.wsj.com/articles/sto...

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” FCC Chairman Carr told ABC. That’s a confession of jawboning that the First Amendment prohibits. The feds are extorting the entities they regulate. It gets harder every day to publicly disagree with the government. We’re less free by the hour.

This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.

the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place

This also counts as political violence.

Bro’s gonna spend most of his sentence in the infirmary

In the blurring of memory that comes with time, it will fall on historians to point out that the deployment of the military to cities, the disappearances of student activists and immigrants, and the federal takeovers of policing all *preceeded*, not followed, the death of a demagogue.

it's a pathetic liberal emotion, but the strongest thing i'm feeling right now is total indignity at how much they hate us despite us not doing fucking _anything_ to them

In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot. And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

I got filter straws for the apocalypse so who wants to come over and drink the creek water behind my house with me to see if they work

Images of ICE agents showing up in giant armored military vehicles and tactical gear & weaponry to arrest a bunch of skilled workers who are here to TRAIN American employees in a new factory is the apex of MAGA-abject stupidity & toxic masculinity designed to appeal to morons.

The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?

My entire scholarly agenda and he just tweets it out

not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

One of the ways I've been framing this with high schoolers is that a big part of my job as a librarian is to teach them how to learn how to learn. 1/

I think it's great that every time I open up a pdf I have to close like three different pop-ups that all say "hey instead of reading this, you can have a chatbot spit out some garbage that might or might not be correct about it? do you want to do that?? please???"

Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.

Labor Day feels like a good time to remind everyone that the current administration is actively weakening labor unions and rolling back worker protections in a concerted effort to destroy the middle class and stifle upward mobility for the working class. Enjoy the BBQ.

“The Republican chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee” mentioned here is Susan Collins.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

Whew! Sen. Susan Collins should be “very concerned” She showed up as the main guest at a ribbon-cutting in Searsport, Maine. It backfired. The crowd was not happy to have her: “Shame. Shame. Shame.”

The US Air Force giving a traitor, draped in a partisan flag, a honorable funeral after attacking the legislature of the government they were sworn to protect. If the US military is willing to do that, what else would they would be willing to do for Trump? That's the real Ashli Babbitt headline.

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

“We’re listening, we hear you, we’re doing the exact opposite of what you wanted. We need five hundred billion more dollars”

Yesterday, HSI and MPD set up a checkpoint on Rhode Island Ave in DC. Neighbors stood on either end, holding signs saying “LA MIGRA ADELATE.” As HSI and MPD started to pack it up, residents told them, “we don’t think you’re good Americans” and “fuck you guys, go home.”

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Federal agents detained crews and arrested firefighters battling the Washington state wildfire!! Reasons for the arrests remain unclear after federal agents detained members of a private contractor crew during an ID check during the Bear Gulch Fire. This is dangerous to the public’s safety!!

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

WHAT FED INDEPENDENCE ACTUALLY MEANS In today's newsletter, I wrote about the way Trump sees the Fed, and the potential constitutional stakes involved here.