Nancy Pyne of the Sierra Club said the court ruling “reaffirms that Donald Trump and his administration’s attacks on clean energy are not only reckless and harmful to our communities, but they are also illegal.” apnews.com/article/trum...

Arthur Caplan: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, but RFK Jr. And his cronies cause stupidity.

I have to ask my figure skating friends if this is a double axel a backward lutz? or www.pbs.org/newshour/art...

The Supreme Court, tears in their eyes, said, "Sir, you can do what you want until we hear this case on the merits and the damage is already done." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Disney blinks. Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday variety.com/2025/tv/news...

“In some ways, this bears a family resemblance to the Red scare of the 1950s," but "It’s not just a single ideology, and it’s not just one senator. It’s an across-the-board exercise of the whole of government to bully universities, law firms, the media, all of us into a kind of obedience.”

Is there such a thing as an institution of lower education? conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Reclaiming a toxic river. Beautiful! Joyous. We can have nice things. If we work at it. “There are now river otters behind the Lyric Opera,” said Margaret Frisbie, executive director of Friends of the Chicago River. “We’ve seen beavers, muskrats, turtles. There’s wildlife everywhere.”

Climate change action without the now irrelevant US. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“There are many valid criticisms one could make about the details of the H-1B program, which could definitely be improved. But Trump’s attack on the program is purely destructive, knocking away yet another pillar supporting American greatness. @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

bad news is illegal now www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

"confronting a tyrant requires courage. Large profit-driven corporations like ABC and CBS have none. Columbia and several other universities, as well as the law firms that surrendered to Trump, have shown little. But The New York Times and Wall Street Journal have displayed backbone,as has Harvard"

In a saner nation, leaders would harness the shock and outpouring of feeling over the death of Charlie Kirk in order to press for common-sense gun laws that might help reduce the ongoing slaughter. This is not that nation. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Comedians "reduce the tyrant to human size, or even less than human size." @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Arrest. Prosecute. Every time. The Right is giving them permission. The law must not. www.kut.org/crime-justic...

"Even for a president who has shattered the traditional norms of maintaining distance from the Justice Department, Mr. Trump’s unabashedly public and explicit orders to Ms. Bondi were an extraordinary breach of prosecutorial protocols that reach back to the days following the Watergate scandal."

every year, I wish Demi Adejuyigbe was still doing his amazing "September" videos. So much work! But so much joy. www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

VIDEO. BAG. CASH. “Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said in a statement on Saturday that the investigation ‘was subjected to a full review by F.B.I. agents and Justice Department prosecutors. They found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing.’”

Like ABSCAM, but they get away with it. “On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case and sources.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

“In the world I know, the Times story would initiate a Justice Department investigation and an impeachment inquiry, and Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff could be counted on to resign by week’s end. In the mystifying world we inhabit today, none of these things appears likely to happen.”

There’s a name for governments that do this kind of thing. What is it, again? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

People who think government is the problem rarely do government well. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

“A complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective,” Judge Merryday wrote. “Not a protected platform to rage against an adversary.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

that was quick www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"State censorship." Good hed, NYT. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

Free speech is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/tani...

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Texas A&M has become a terrific university, but its leadership seems to determined to make it an Aggie joke. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/18/t...

RFKJr and Donald Trump are really going to take us back to the good old days. Make children dying from preventable diseases great again!

An astonishing gift to Huston-Tillotson. Some good news. www.kut.org/education/20...

An astonishing gift to Huston-Tillotson. Some good news. www.kut.org/education/20...

“Another question on that test was, “Who does a U.S. Senator represent?” Previously, the answer had been ‘all people of the state’; on the test introduced in December 2020, it was ‘citizens’ in the state.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...

"Trump hasn’t filed these lawsuits to win in court. He has sought wins in the court of public opinion. These lawsuits are aspects of his performative presidency." open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

I don’t read these only for Lamb’s wordplay and insults, but they would be enough. www.audible.com/pd/B0F7Z13GS...

Good hed , NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

A lovely little Kei van on the road. Don’t worry, traffic was stopped. This is Austin, after all.

The new report "concludes that the original endangerment finding was accurate and 'has stood the test of time.' It says that there is now even stronger evidence that rising greenhouse gas levels can threaten public health and well-being, and that new risks have been uncovered."

Cravenness in our time, part 1,000 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Somebody's been hitting the ivermectin a little too hard www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

"Trump told voters that they could indulge their resentments and still walk away richer and more prosperous. But they can’t. To embrace nativism in a global, connected economic world is to sacrifice prosperity for the sake of exclusion." @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

It's been amazing to see how this story is connecting with readers. I hope you all will keep sharing the piece, about two dads moving through unimaginable grief in the days and weeks after their daughters died at Camp Mystic and fighting for positive change. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/16/t...

This is an extremely basic point, but one that bears repeating: in a law-governed society, the state cannot simply murder people it has identified as potential criminals. It does not matter if those alleged criminals are foreigners. If you illegally kill people, you have committed murder.

TAB: Trump always blinks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

TAB: Trump always blinks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

Good stuff, NYT. "Mr. Trump’s aggressive moves to target only his political opponents is a continuation of his attempts to wield power — through lawsuits, executive orders and public intimidation — to punish people and institutions that power the political left, or that he believes wronged him."

How about “oops” www.Washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

If the state is going to punish every offensive loudmouth, our campuses will empty out. I guess the First Amendment only protects speech that the right people agree with. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/16/t...