This is Alex Pretti.

He’s saying an arrest warrant by a judge and an “administrative warrant” by an immigration official are the same. That's like saying the hall monitor instead of the principal can expel you from school.

Prasad presents himself as a reformer challenging “groupthink,” but his reforms dismantle the very systems that preserve transparency. What he calls skepticism is strategic erosion, a slow bleed of scientific integrity from within.

Hilarious...🤣🤣🤣 #opossum #possum #possums #playdead #dog #dogs #dogsky

#musk #trump

I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.

Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP. If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them. Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.

They introduced legislation to ban weather controlling chem trails. They’re trying to ban a fantasy that doesn’t exist from a conspiracy theory that isn’t true. We’re so beyond rational argument you should just start accusing them of trafficking fairy dust to the continent of Houston or something

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?” @aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

Why do the videos on Bluesky inconveniently stop playing with 20 secs left- any fixes for this?

The CIA’s deputy director has “abruptly demoted” the CIA’s acting general counsel & installed himself in that role, thus taking “control of making legal judgments for the agency while continuing to help lead it…” (This follows Hegseth’s termination of top military legal officials in Feb.) 10/6/25 1/

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened? Oopsie, Stephen.

The vast majority of undocumented migrants are undocumented bc we make it too hard to be documented, for no gd reason. They’re net payers at all levels. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. As a group, they aren’t freeloading, or violent, or wutevs; just people, and they make America/ns richer.

This is history textbook stuff right here.

So exhausting..

Enjoying this so far from @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

Just going to leave this here.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is getting attention bc RFK Jr. & his antivaxx goons plan to use VAERS to claim COVID vaccines killed children. This is an actual VAERS report for a reported death after COVID vaccine. This is what these people count as data showing “death after vaccine:”

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” -Wilhoit

The line Trump referenced today from Apocalypse Now, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," is about the absurdity of war and the profound psychological damage it inflicts on everyone involved. Seems like Trump was, unintentionally, right on target. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

This is a deeply reported, heart-pounding read Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Clearly all the fuss and opposition to universal healthcare was never about death panels

I still think about this piece: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-m...

18. But there’s resentment based on bigotry and prejudice, and there’s resentment based on actual material harms done to you and your family by a president who breaks the terms of the American dream, with impunity, all while falsely claiming that the dream is coming true.

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Part status anxiety, part desire for dominance. www.pbump.net/o/too_many_p...

The only thing that gives me hope about how evil this administration is their incompetence. Some of them are just dumb and unqualified. Some don’t think for themselves or compromise themselves as sycophants. But other’s incompetence comes in the form of hubris that blinds them to the consequences

Tomorrow, the President is going to order the national guard to militarize the nation's capital (despite crime being at a 30 year low) after sending Congress home to prevent them from investigating evidence he committed sex crimes against children. The Congressional GOP is unified behind him. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

heads up -- this is very well done. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Reinhold Niebuhr was also (and imo, rightly) pessimistic that education could cure political dysfunction. To his eyes, communities vote selfishly based on what seizes power for their side, and then reverse-engineer the moral arguments thusly. Can't "educate" that away.

I wrote about this in "Our Own Worst Enemy," and used a study of an Italian town in the 1950s as an example of how we're repeating that cycle.

Sigh. Here we go again. So once more, to add to the "myths that do not die," the older voters who are the mainstay of Trump's support were educated during the supposed golden age of public education. People my age, who went to good public schools and cheap colleges. /1

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Trump and MAGA want to take America back to this. Pittsburgh, 1940s. "These photos were taken right before "smoke control" laws took effect." www.treehugger.com/think-air-qu...

Reminder that as a corporate lobbyist, Pam Bondi represented scores of clients facing federal regulatory scrutiny — including Amazon, Uber, and GM. She also represented the government of Qatar and ICE contractor GEO Group. "Conflicts of interest" is an understatement.

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it