If we can't figure it out, well.... @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/fda-...

If Democrats really want to put pressure on Republicans, they should start putting out plans for how they’ll use Trump’s new unitary executive powers to bypass GOP senate map advantages in the coming decades.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.” The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

This is terrifying! ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents) This is Trump’s America.

The 9th circuit panel handling the appeal of the Portland TRO seems to think, “Yes,”to this hypothetical, at least for Trump.

Perry turns to the fact that drugs have been dealt in Chicago for decades in violation of federal law. Perry asks if that means "the president has had the authority for decades to deploy the National Guard here?" (I also believe she prefaced this hypothetical with "riddle me this.")

Hhs sec is a rich failson who lacks a basic understanding of human anatomy but like most aristocrats is adept at kissing ass bsky.app/profile/atru...

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

I heard they screened SAVING PRIVATE RYAN at the White House and Trump cried over all those poor soldiers who sacrificed their lives defending Normandy Beach.

Is there a black politician that at some point or another Trump hasn't called "low IQ?"

The modal score on my wife’s very-challenging exam on Monday was a 96%. For the essay question, half the students independently hallucinated the exact same thing about time value of money which has nothing to do with anything she’s been teaching…

A small example, but because I was following experts whom I wouldn’t have heard from otherwise I was able to prepare friends and families for the COVID pandemic three weeks before the mass rush by nearly everyone else.

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner. www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

Something’s wrong with the wi-fi.

Justice Jackson is obviously correct. SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE are now illegally going to have their status terminated early — as every court other than the Supreme Court has found so far. Not a single word of justification from the Justices in the majority to justify this. NONE. Not one.

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!

if you respect the law and the constitution, the trump administration has no use for you

"He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us."

Most graphs of the fertility rate depict the 'period fertility rate', which is based on a single year's data and doesn't necessarily reflect how many children women actually have across their lifetimes. I've used data from the Human Fertility Database to show the cumulative number instead:

I don't like court packing, it's not my preferred thing to do, I wouldn't do it for just about anything else, and I'd take other ways to get to the same result, but their presidential immunity diktat must be firmly established as anti-canon, null and void, bogus from the day it was issued.

I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

What they want is Dems to join them in dabbling their fingers in the blood. There are absolutely no circumstances under which anybody loyal to the Constitution should vote to fund a government controlled by Donald Trump. They are covering their own asses by demanding that line not be clearly drawn.

What I want to see from Democratic candidates: 1) SCOTUS reform 2) DC and PR statehood 3) An entirely reformed immigration system. 4) Limits to executive power, via constitutional amendments and via taking back powers previously granted by legislation.

Well, this does apply to recent precedents.

After Judges Henderson and Katsas invoked it without being prompted to do so in the court of appeals, they quickly thereafter amended their opinion to delete the argument after both sides agreed it was incorrect. Yet now it's the basis for the SCOTUS' decision to grant emergency relief.

Trump was standing less than a mile from the Bergdorf Goodman department store where he sexually assaulted @ejeancarroll.bsky.social when he said this.

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

Everyone should’ve walked out; no point in treating an unserious person seriously.

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

Technologically advance a band: Nick Cave and the Genetically-modified Seeds.

This case makes clear that the point of work requirements isn't to keep people from exploiting the system. It's to ensure that the system has a steady supply of people to exploit. atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/19/m...

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

No one type of candidate can win everywhere! Duh! Be tight on values, flexible on policy.

Remember @politico.com claimed that Trump wouldn't allow anyone who worked on Project 2025 to work in his administration? www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

For all the criticism of Democratic leadership, this is a strong statement. Specifically 1) It frames this as a matter of corruption (which should be the central theme of Democratic campaigning, imho) 2) It emphasizes what Congress (not the courts) should (and if Dems retake a chamber, can) do

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

On the bright side, the $720/year we were giving to Disney can now be redirected to better purposes:

The centrist brigades point to a single outlier election ('92 Presidency which had 3 candidates at a unique post Cold War moment) when their strategy worked and ignore every other data point in modern Democratic politics.

My spouse hadn’t heard of Kirk, and I hadn’t really listened before either. So we put on a podcast, and I don’t know how anyone who has actually listened to his propaganda of hate can celebrate his work even if they rightly mourn his violent death.

This is one of the weaknesses of civility politics, it falls for the form. That humiliating content farming is debate-shaped, we have to treat it as legitimate! Fox News is news-shaped, we have to treat it as legitimate! The Free Press is newspaper-shaped. etc etc.

Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.

It is truly horrifying what is being alleged against the Trump administration in the Ghana case. Here is from an affidavit filed in the case today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🍿🔬 Why do some popcorn kernels stay stubbornly unpopped? #Food scientist Kate Yoshida explains the pressure-cooker #physics that turns kernels into fluffy snacks – and what to do with the holdouts. 👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post...

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

We are so lucky as a nation that after so many years of SCOTUS judges doing violence to original intent, a New York real estate mogul who has never read a book managed to identify about 20 judges who could finally bring the authentic vision of Madison and Hamilton into the 21st century.