I hadnt realized this was an industry standard term Thats neat. its the same thing a tesla engineer tried blowing the whistle on and elon and his head of security tried to assassinate him via swatting

I live in Huntsville, Alabama. This city was a podunk until the nazi rocket scientists came here in the 1950s with Wernher von Braun. The public schools had as many students who were primary German speakers as English. Vance again speaks as a willing stupid for the rapist trump. 🧪⚒️ #Trump#USA

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

i made a helpful reference

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Lots of folks want to have a gotcha, "did you know: America has always had corruption!" No shit. But did you know: a huge reason millions of people came to this country was because it was *better* at things like the rule of law and not being openly corrupt. For real. bsky.app/profile/anil...

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

uh what the fuck

Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results. So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.

“If you don’t let me spend infinite amounts of money on failed surveillance tech, we’ll end up in a hellscape where no one marks the minorities for death”

Will Ted Cruz Go to Prison for the Lies He Told as Part of the Jim Comey Indictment? www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/w...

Couldn’t agree with this more. Not only does our algorithm-focused entertainment model trap us in binge-watching loops, it also prioritizes the safe and the nostalgic over all else - encouraging endless rewatches of Friends or The Office over a new show or an original movie.

That would be some "tweak".

So the water boy is going to rally the career hard ass top brass of the military……….yea right… so basically he’s going to be having an eyeball rolling festival

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

I don't want to speculate, but you have to think that the hours that Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein spent over lunch in 2017 almost certainly featured one of the most normal conversations of all time.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

You might also remember when Ken Starr was forced to resign from Baylor University for failing to act on the reported sexual assaults of at least 6 students.

*clears throat* lmao

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This is what I keep coming back to—from stuff like this, to the "debate me" MAGA bros who show up on college campuses: the desire on the right for prolonged engagement with the left is wildly asymmetrical and unreciprocated, and speaks to a kind of contempt laced with deep affinity and desire.

Part of what's so repugnant about the right to the left—or, I guess, at least to me—is that they keep demanding so much soothing and affirmation from us; like needy children.

This is so bad and so stupid and so fucked up www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

this is the most online administration in history. i hope we never get one this annoying again, but i do still enjoy that they let us know that posts about really bother them lol

Really getting to the bottom of the barrel on “Epstein Distractions” I guess

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Thank you to all who called or emailed to complain. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

The fun part about these things is that every time he releases some other set of files, it reminds everyone he *could* release the Epstein files too But he won't Because he's in them

Tapping the sign

The rules have changed. Mike Johnson wants to wait until the official results come in October 14th to swear in Grijalva.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid funds b/c of Trump’s “pocket rescission” argument and b/c enforcing the injunction would affect foreign affairs. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

This totally upends the appropriations process. It's the very definition of hiding elephants in mouseholes.

As Kagan notes the statute is clear private rights of action are preserved, nor does the ICA allow for unilateral withholding of funds. It's anti-impoundment. What's left in is a googoo anti-waste bill, not a surrender of Art I powers.

This provision kicks in if the President says hey we can do this cheaper. It's not a line item veto, which was itself separately enacted and held unconstitutional.

Obviously the timing is significant too - trump wanted to run out the clock on funding that would expire but which congress wouldn't have voted to approve. This rewards bad faith, which, in itself, makes any application for equitable relief unwarranted.

This is an infuriating and shameful scandal. The Roberts Court is condoning Trump’s law breaking, again, pure and simple. There is no serious path forward for democratic government without Supreme Court reform.

Weird that that MAGA and Republicans are so concerned about a government shutdown. I seem to remember 2 yrs ago, they were all for it. If my memory serves me correctly, the Weaker Speaker was ousted because he worked with Democrats to PREVENT a shutdown. So strange…

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false: www.wired.com/story/herita...

"The point of this kind of flex isn’t Jim Comey any more than it’s Tish James or the New York Times. The point is that after he comes for them, he can come for you. That’s how authoritarians work, how they have always worked, and it’s why it’s useful to read the Niemöller poem backward."

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

Peter Thiel Antichrist Fiasco Sparks International Concern The reviews are in: “problematic,” “unsatisfactory." Tough sledding for the German-born Palantir billionaire and DIY theologian, who bombed in front of top Catholics in Hitler's birth country. www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

My only surprise is that Miss Dog Killer has *any* limits on what ICE thugs can do.

If anyone knows anything about this ICE agent, you can reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

NPR @ximenabustillo.bsky.social says the same ICE officer on leave after this viral video of him shoving an Ecuadorian woman in NYC is the one she recorded violently arresting a court observer and cursing at her last month www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

listen I am NOT a military security expert but I HAVE seen “Star Trek: Into Darkness” fourteen times aren’t there generally, like. pretty good reasons. why you avoid bringing in all your biggest military leaders from all over the world and then announcing exactly what building they’ll be in when

This is basically what happens when someone’s intern level kid gets given the top job and all the experienced competent brass has to show up and pretend the kid’s ideas are good because he’s in charge now www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

NEW -- As former FBI director James Comey fights the federal charges lodged against him, he appears to have an important, unexpected ally: Donald Trump's big mouth. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

It's good that our wise business guys backed the free market president who is now telling them who can and can't work at their companies

ICE is not policing the border. ICE is doing *internal* abductions. I guess he thought the incendiary part of his argument would overshadow the stupidity of the rest.