Since returning to office, President Trump has waged a global trade war without parallel in modern history. On Thursday he announced a slew of steep tariffs on pharmaceuticals, semi trucks, kitchen cabinets and furniture. Here's where things stand for the world.

ah yes, the paragon of wokeness

Terrific thread on the latest ignorance and ugliness from the Trump administration

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Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

A legal expert on public records law was appalled that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is claiming that emails between his office and Elon Musk are all private. “It appears they’ve charged you $244 for records they have no intention of giving you,” he told @lmcgaughy.bsky.social.

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders. we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today. The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

As I write about in Holding It Together, the self-help market is built on the fumes of the gaslights it uses to persuade audiences that if they're struggling, it's because they didn't lean in, or wash their face, or let that sh*t go. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

ICE is solely responsible for the animosity towards them. If they want to stop being labelled the Gestapo, they need to stop operating like the Gestapo. If they want to be seen as law enforcement, they need to abide by our laws.

"We need to turn down the temperature and try to find common ground"

This is the predictable & unprecedented new level of open corruption that happens when the president openly monetizes his hotel in plain sight for four years & we don't do anything about it.

CUBAN: “The reddest areas are getting toasted. There are two worlds.” @mcuban.bsky.social tells us Trump’s policies are hurting his own supporters in rural areas, while the rich thrive. Full interview: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMN7mUco/

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

"Before he became chair, Scudder argued that the party’s base should be decentralized from Austin, and that the state party should not have a role in legislative affairs." What? www.texastribune.org/2025/09/25/t...

When the Scholars Strategy Network Medicaid working group briefed folks on the BBB in June, we got a question about how to do a Medicaid work requirement that minimizes coverage losses. My answer was that that wasn’t the point of work requirements. Acceptable alternative answer: Not Like Georgia.

Propaganda works, and Stephen miller and the rest of them know that a constant parade of fear will indeed do much of their work for them

Someone get Jessica Fletcher to figure out this doozy of a mystery

Disney/ABC put Kimmel back on air. Sinclair & Nexstar are blocking him. These are state-licensed stations funded by ads, not Disney. Pressure advertisers, file FCC complaints, and push back on corporate censorship. #FreeSpeech #NoKings #Kimmel

Today's bonus "One First" looks at how #SCOTUS's removal rulings have reconfigured the relationship b/w stare decisis and emergency relief. "There may be persuasive justifications for such a bizarre reconfiguration of equitable relief. But, once again, the justices aren’t deigning to provide them."

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Great stuff ..... this one well worth your time @Ronni, give that US fracking billionaire and Energy Sec Chris Wright is invested here in the Beetaloo basion and various US Atlas thinktanks. #Auspol must read heated.world/p/charlie-ki...

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

Reasonable to ask why poverty rates are increasing when we don't change policies (the article does not try to sort through explanations) but blaming Biden when he spent a lot of political capital reducing it is unreasonable. The piece is not an analysis of poverty but an exercise in score settling

The statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands mid-frolic wasn't the first anti-Trump artwork on the National Mall in recent months. But it was the first to be removed, despite having a permit.

My column. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/24/t...

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

This is insane—a school is paying to put its students under AI surveillance, empowering a glitchy system to delete schoolwork, expose student journalists’ sources, and out queer students to their parents

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

I’d seen the nutty excerpts of Miller’s speech at Kirk’s memorial, but hadn’t seen the whole thing. It’s easily the most unhinged, unapologetically fascist rhetoric I’ve ever seen from someone in US government. It’s more of a discount, Dwight Schrute Goebbels than Goebbels. But still.

Charleston quite famously wanted to enforce it's fugitive slave laws in Boston

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices. www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

So many women have been talking, writing and warning people of the dangerous ideologies and biases of tech in Silicon Valley, for decades, and it’s so infuriating that so many men (not OP here) just flat out ignore it and act surprised at the technofascists infecting it now

President Trump ran on promises of lowering costs for working families. But because of his #BigUglyBill and draconian cuts, millions of people will see their healthcare bills double. Another broken promise. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

We are sensing a theme

On CNN just now, Kristi Noem repeated the debunked claim that Sen. Chris Van Hollen had margaritas with a prisoner in El Salvador. Trump’s dictator friend Bukele arranged for margaritas to be brought to the table to set up Van Hollen. Everyone knows that, but it’s Homeland Security policy to lie.

Tom Homan said he was recused from anything to do with government contracts. Turns out he wasn't. He played a role in the process to move immigration detention contracts through the Defense Department www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... With @racheladhe.bsky.social and @sooophie.bsky.social

I genuinely cannot emphasize this enough. Law enforcement manufacturing evidence and testilying isn't novel to the Trump administration. It's not even more common. They're just worse at it so they're more easily caught doing it.

Just gonna leave these here...

Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma. For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social

I'm going to start calling all staircases "fatal funnels." "Do you want to take the elevator?" "Nah, I'm going to go up the fatal funnel instead."

I know the person that wrote this headline was cackling.

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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Jimmy Kimmel's return drew 6.3 million viewers last night -- triple his typical audience. Even more impressive is he drew this while Nexstar and Sinclair preempted the episode, representing 23% of US households. Kimmel's monologue has also garnered 26 million views. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/24/j...

Judge Restores Another Batch of Frozen Grants to UCLA https://bit.ly/46CBWuk

I don’t always agree with Chair Powell – but he is right. Prices are up 2.9% from last month. And they’re higher than they were a year ago. Why? Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff policies.