I’m surprised it has taken this long for the Monkey Wrench Gang to make a reappearance.

Great explainer, as usual, from @pkrugman.bsky.social, with the added value that he recognizes that 'data' is plural of 'datum' as in "these data show..." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/leprechaun...

Dispatch #3, from James C. Scott's book Two Cheers for Anarchism, Princeton University Press, pp. 16-17. [So as not to begin violating 'fair use' under copyright law, I will have to stop posting long block quotes from the book. I will post occasional paraphrasing and interpretations going forward.]

Dispatch #2 from James C. Scott's Two Cheers for Anarchism: More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called "Irish democracy," the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs.

The Republican Congress and the Trump administration made this bed; they, across all three branches, are fully responsible for the crash of our constitutional system.... @vermontgmg.bsky.social www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

The US Constitution is now completely trashed, no matter how much you may protest that it is still functioning, albeit in a seriously damaged state. The real state of the economy is hidden behind oligarchic insanity about idiotic 'AI', and financial and equity market fantasies about big paydays.

Brutally honest: "If we decide to play it safe because it’s better to tend one’s own garden rather than engage the world around us, then we deserve to become slaves.... [Arbitrary power means there] will soon be no private gardens left to tend." jneem.substack.com/p/this-is-no...

Don’t just fantasize about Trump & Co. facing justice “when all this ends.” Demand justice now so THAT all this ends. citizensimpeachment.com

It's going to hurt us, but economic and financial pressure and non-participation are our best tactics. Find any way you can to grind the economy to a halt. But we also need leaders to take big actions. www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/the-point-...

The legitimacy of the power of courts depends on their giving of legal reasons for their decisions. Lacking any democratic authorization, the absence of reasons means it's naked power being asserted, which relieves us of any obligation to obey. We may comply for prudence's sake, but we don't have to

I just told ABC that I'm not particularly convinced that any minority set-aside program (currently being used as a pretext for Trump to halt CTA funding, when we know it's political retaliation) would actually be unconstitutional. While this seems to fly in the face of cases like Croson and (cont)

The flip side of this exceptionalizing is to erase and excuse the slow and less spectacular violence of American political life. When ICE agents raid homes, when Medicaid is stripped from millions, both politicians and media speak of “policy” rather than “violence.” @eric-reinhart.com

One thing to remember: Trump may have criminal immunity for official acts but Hegseth doesn’t….

@brianbeutler.bsky.social delivering the goods: "The modern conservative movement . . . [an] invasive, predatory organism"

Far more successful when it is a mission-oriented public agency with broad public support than through a private contractor who mostly cares about the public treasure he captures through endless rent seeking.

We pulled together 8 invaluable lessons from democracy defenders worldwide who have grappled with authoritarian threats. Catch up on the lessons learned and join us in drawing strength and inspiration from these stories. ⬇️ https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/eight-rules-of-antiauthoritarianism

There are no more constraints on a president’s ability to use military force, and this president is using all that power to target civilians. All Americans should be extremely alarmed. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Oh come on. Call it what it is. A protection racket. Mobster moves is the only thing these criminals know.

We've known about Vought's comments since February. But it's good to see this in print again. He may just overplay his hand now in a way that will boomerang spectacularly.

Same here, with a special shout out to the present and former public servants in the US EPA who have endured some of the most horrific mistreatment.

Hear me out: democracy and bureaucracy were made for each other.

We need better polling than this blame game crap. How about questions regarding support/opposition to the Vought massive RIFs that GOP senators have now embraced as the primary shutdown as action?

I really appreciate what @atrupar.com does for us by covering this sort of thing. But I am no longer going to read the absolute garbage spewing forth from the mouths of these degenerates. I will not sully one more brain cell trying to stay informed about the sewer of dishonor they wallow in.

An “immigration judge” is not an actual judge in the judicial branch. They are a DOJ employee. As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

Form Energy’s R&D is right here in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Pynchon’s Vond “sees that the American future lies in the routing of all definitions of freedom through the ever-narrowing channel of security. His is a magisterial vision of a republic fashioned, top to bottom, on the model of a never-ending war waged against elements internal to the nation.”

We did not have shutdowns until Jimmy Carter’s Attorney General issued an opinion saying that he thought they were necessary in case of a budget impasse.

Governor Pritzker is right but he should not stop there. He should call on Members of Congress to abide by their oath and invoke the Impeachment Clause to impeach and remove this lawless president. @fsfp.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov www.impeachtrumpagain.org

You could support impeachment and removal, in order to stop the deepening of our divisions.

Every single federal office holder has sworn to defend the US Constitution "against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC." Trump has just OPENLY DECLARED that he is such a domestic enemy. Every single federal office holder is thus DUTY BOUND to defend the Constitution against him.

That’s what I’m sayin’… bsky.app/profile/2nda...

Just reiterating what I pointed out months ago. It was James Madison who declared in 1789 that it was the people who possessed the “decisive engine” of impeachment. We should be demanding it without pause and remind members of Congress that it is our power, not theirs. Keep up the pressure.

Forget the Epstein files. Forget healthcare. Forget all the “distractions.” When the president of the United States is openly threatening lethal military force against Americans, you drop everything you’re doing and focus your attention on that. That is all that matters in this moment.

How many times does Trump have to promise to wage war on the American people before we call him the traitor that he is?

My main reaction to this is that anyone who wants to be taken seriously as a political commentator needs to get serious about impeachment. If you're not pushing for this regime to end—without qualifications, without cheap pessimism—you're prolonging the regime and endangering your neighbors.

Allow me to add a link to the comments on the DOE Report from the Environmental Protection Network, for which I am a policy and technical assistance volunteer. www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/wp-content/u...

Plenty of jobs in the coal industry lol

Just to put it in plain terms. There was a chance that all of us could have been protected from all the crazy people in the country out of for blood and Congress was like "nope, that should only apply for us specifically. All of you should be left to die."

Maybe the morons in this ‘administration’ can put the coal industry on one of those magic hospital beds. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hey kids! Congress 101 quiz time! Question: What is the difference between authorization and appropriation?

"...we ARE in a constitutional crisis, but we still have agency and power to end the autocratic rule of an unbalanced, dangerous narcissist and his cult of enablers. Let’s get to work." contrarian.substack.com/p/the-us-is-...

Yes. The "affirmation" view partly picks up a general, media-assisted tendency to overread close elections, but it's also an internalized reaction to Trump being able to do so much without resistance. A system that allows this much policy to turn on narrow contingencies is broken.

Was asked about “viewpoint diversity.” It may sound like pluralism, but it means auditing faculty for ideological balance—confusing scholarship with partisan accounting. Pluralism rests on rigorous debate and critique, not political mandates, and rarely welcomes every opinion under the sun.

"A leader who uses military force to suppress their political opposition forfeits the right to govern." This is spot on—thank you for the moral clarity. I hope you'll stand with orgs that are putting that principle into action and demanding immediate leadership change. citizensimpeachment.com

The most stunning part of this is the notion of this lawless president and his court toadies that each election of a president invalidates all laws signed by previous presidents and they need not adhere to those laws unless they want to. Instability in the law is the very definition of tyranny.

In my Statement for the Record submitted to the January 6th Committee I explained how Trump has used war rhetoric to attack the United States. They cited it in their final report. He has attacked the nation continuously since 2015. He is still doing so: oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/items/3a1eea...

It would be best if in our solidarity we raised a chorus of denunciation so powerful that Congress and the Chief Justice of the United States removed this lawless president from office swiftly. But we must do it the hard way, with steady, growing pressure everywhere until these institutions act.

BREAKING: Today, we released the results of a recent poll showing that a plurality of voters in swing districts support impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. Read more via the article below, and join us at www.impeachtrumpagain.org @fsfp.bsky.social www.rawstory.com/existential-...