They've lost the 9yos

Vance once called Trump "America's Hitler."

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New in PN: Trump posts his Watergate tapes "People! The man literally used his social media platform to tweet out a demand that his attorney general prosecute his opponents, ones he’s already characterized as 'guilty as hell.' This isn’t 'venting.' It’s criminal."

"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.

This OR GOP activist, who was indicted for his actions in DC on January 6, spoke at an anti-political-violence/Charlie Kirk vigil last night in a Portland suburb.

Must-read; important to interpret recent events in terms of how Trump could turn the US into a competitive authoritarian state where the government abuses its powers to undermine the opposition even as elections continue to be held

I’m really not comfortable getting Rove, Kristol, Frum, Yoo, Carlson, and Hanania in the divorce.

Extraordinarily corrupt. I watched FCC chair Brendan Carr's full interview on Hannity. Carr basically said straight out that coverage of Trump he deems overly hostile can be decreed contrary to the "public interest," and thus grounds for yanking licenses: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

FOX paid out over $1 billion in settlements for their lies about election fraud. The FCC has no problem with their broadcast licenses.

Trump-friendly billionaires are consolidating control over American media, steering legacy brands and social platforms in a new conservative direction.

PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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Right, and that’s also why we are talking about them.

You go to all that trouble to build a normies-only party but then you recruit people with weird hair!!

When you've lost John Yoo, it's time to lawyer up.......

This is giving Ann Arbor NIMBY vibes.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

According to the “Global Terrorism Database (GTD)—arguably the most widely-used dataset in the study of political violence—anti-abortion activists constitute the single most common perpetrators of terrorist attacks in the United States.” Source: jkertzer.sites.fas.harvard.edu/Research_fil...

Don’t worry, there will also be ACTUAL EXPERTS on the Constitution from @umich law school, poli sci, etc.!

“There’s no reason to send the National Guard into Atlanta—absolutely zero reason,” Geoff Duncan tells me. “If Trump wanted to really solve crime in cities, he would be partnering with mayors and governors." He also strongly criticizes Trump ICE raids as "inhumane." newrepublic.com/article/2005...

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We are back with the #polisky halfway through September eJobs count, which is looking better (9/1-9/15): September 2024: 64 total positions (46 open to assistant TT) September 2025: 54 total positions (39 open to assistant TT)

JD Vance wants to go after the Ford Foundation, eh? Interestingly, the Ford Foundation has long been in the crosshairs of the American far right for their supposed funding of "hateful, radical left, anti-white propaganda." Here's an example of that talk from the 1955 edition of The White Sentinel.

Vance: "There's no unity with people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF and the Ford Foundation...benefit from generous tax treatment...How do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family."

I don't know if the authors are sharing it publicly yet, but follow @simko.bsky.social on here as he's one of the authors and also does lots of great work that's super relevant to folks working in the local government space.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

"Political violence is antithetical to small-l liberal democracy and the murder of Charlie Kirk was wrong" and "Charlie Kirk advocated for a brand of politics that was steeped in bigoted values and did not foster constructive discourse" are two thoughts you can hold simultaneously without exploding.

Breaking News: Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election. He could face decades in prison. nyti.ms/4pyzL3Q

Totalitarianism Can Be Terrifying. It Can Also Be Thrilling. He Taught Us Why. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

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Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Them: but what about Bill Cli All of us:

Penn State is searching at the Assistant Professor level in in American political behavior, broadly defined. We are seekign someone who can offer undergraduate and graduate courses in political methodology or social data analytics.

WE'RE ALL GONNA GET RICH!

What's going on? Has he issued an executive order on marital rape??

incredible sentence here, beginning to end

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

If you were gonna list institutions that wouldn't be well-served by 'safe spaces', you might start with the military.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

BLESS HIS HEART.

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This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

As flagged by Democracy Docket, Mitchell recently appeared on a podcast where she highlighted a president’s ability to intervene in voting by citing a “threat to the national sovereignty of the United States.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

“I’LL BET YOU GOT THOSE LITTLE BASTARDS VACCINATED TOO”

Sorry if this was posted here already, just a hot new Berkeley Econ joint www.nber.org/papers/w34170

Gorka: "We will find you and we will kill you. If you're a jihadi with American blood on your hand, if you're a cartel member bringing powdered death into America, you have declared war on us and we will turn you into red mist. It is that simple."