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.

Ruin a book with a car: One Hundred Years of Subaru.

Things have really changed. Now I need your help.   I wrote about why I left academia, why I left America, why I left Substack - and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:   Some major personal news: steady.page/en/democracy...

47 Tucanae globular cluster. Alcohuaz, Chile, September 21, 2025. #astrophotography 🔭

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

Stacked but not-yet-processed image of the Lagoon and Trifid nebulas taken from Alcohuaz, Chile (September 20, 2025). #astronomy #astrophotography 🔭

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

Bringing down the price of drugs ✅

We need to “take our disagreements seriously,” Klein says. I wish he would! He is the one who refuses to grapple with the fact that the Right is indeed serious about rejecting pluralism and embracing authoritarianism. It’s a massive problem! And one that can’t be politely debated away.

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

perhaps the Washington Post could provide a list of the proscribed Charlie Kirk quotations so the remaining staffers know which of his words it is unacceptable to attribute to him

Nick Miroff’s Dispatch from the Immigration Dragnet: When ICE Demands Papers No Citizen Can Truly Show www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

UnitedHealthCare is a goddam clown show. But at least this 2 hour 5 minutes (and counting) call has given me enough time to submit a complaint to the Superintendent of Insurance.

Here's the story, btw, in case you want to have a gander. With gift link! wapo.st/4nnqdqk

Brutal. Photojournalist Madison Swart is doing a longterm project documenting the presence and tactics of ICE and federal agents at 26 Federal Plaza. Follow: @madisonswart.bsky.social Like most photographers, their best work is on Instagram: madisonswart

The past is present. Santiago, Chile, September 11, 2025

Mural of Salvador Allende (“The dream of Allende lives”) at the Estadio Nacional on the fiftieth anniversary of the Chilean coup d’etat, September 11, 2023. #chile #golpe50 #santiago #allende #memoria #photography #streetphotography

crazy how the "savvy" position was to cave on funding the govt in march, and part of the reason was "SCOTUS will make Trump honor appropriations, strengthening the Dems' hands in Sept negotiations," and now we're here, that didn't happen, and the savvy position is to cave on funding again.

A few questions about Brett Kavanaugh: nymag.com/intelligence...

Every elected Democrat should be talking every day about what retribution will look like. People want payback. And they aren’t wrong to want it. Tell them how you’re going to give it to them. Be explicit. It will get them to the polls better than a zillion egghead policy promises.

📷“Chile, 1971” contiene cientos de imágenes en color del fotógrafo estadounidense Michael Mauney de la Revista Life, que recorrió Chile y entrevistó al presidente socialista. “Creo que siempre sentí que pertenecían a Chile”, dijo. www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2025...

Go big or go home. I’m on board with this.

This is what a tribunal unconstrained by law looks like.

How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny

🧵It looks like the FTC will address noncompete clauses case by case. But that’s no answer to this broad array of harms caused by these manipulative employment terms. President and CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social wrote about why in her recent op-ed: otherwords.org/employers-wa...

The most expensive Lego set ever. www.theverge.com/news/770770/...

So fun fact if you are looking for a legal authority to tell the public your strike was conducted under a few days after you did the strike then the strike was just illegal bsky.app/profile/chri...

“market for US right-leaning pay TV news“

Listening to this Daily podcast @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social, I keep being struck by Americans’ inability to fully comprehend the scope of what’s going on. They can see how this affects the economy, but fail to see that it affects the politics. www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...

If you find a company to be an illegal monopoly and then your proposed remedies boost that company’s stock, you did it wrong. Our corporatized judicial system at work.

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?

Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."

“The University of Chicago administration, always the stepchild in the higher education hierarchy, refuses to be outdone by the likes of Harvard, Columbia, and Brown. It has decided to drop its wrecking ball on itself since the Trump administration has not yet gotten around to it.”

A new 501(c)(3) needs lawyers/law student volunteers to help us holding attorneys like Drew Ensign accountable. Please DM me if interested.

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If Trump dies in office, Vance will be the Maduro to Trump’s Chavez: the uncharismatic imitator who must constantly genuflect to the deceased god-emperor because he has no base of his own, even as he has to deal with the collapsing economy left by his predecessor

Shot / chaser. I struggle to see how these can be the same person. This - should it come to pass - will be (rightly) seen by challenger tech (and Big Tech) as the very capitulation the Commissioner just said Europe could not accept. Let us all hope Reuters is wrong!! www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.

1990’s-me is never going to believe that Charlie Sykes is speaking with far more clarity about the present moment than Democratic leadership. But here we are. (And I’m appreciative of it.)

This is a terribly drafted (on purposes) survey designed to lead you to view Free File negatively. The survey is set up just to create a pretext to cancel the program. Participate, but be sure that all you answers prefer "the government" doing stuff over someone else doing that same stuff.

oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

Fucker

This is called corruption.

It’s hard to dispute any of this.

Fuckers

This was the most predictable outcome and I suspect the regulators who approved the T-Mobile/Sprint deal knew that as well.

Over at The Verge I wrote about how the Trump administration destroyed U.S. wireless competition, using a disastrous (and now doomed) plan that involved Dish Network as cover: