Hi. My name is Ashley Jamieson. I am an attorney. And for the last 19 months, I have been working for @USDA in the Office of General Counsel in the Civil Rights, Labor, and Employment unit as a litigation atty. Fighting for the rights of workers. And this morning they fired me.

Ahh projection, never hast thou been so perfectly in mortal form express’d

Can the SCOTUS-6 dismantle democracy fast enough to insulate Trump and his corrupt fascist cabal from the unpopularity of their policies? Stay tuned for next week’s thrilling episode of “Democracy Dying in America: A Tragedy and a Farce”

Bwahahaha (we’ve got to celebrate the wins, people)

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

the admiral in this convo understands that deliberately killing civilians is a war crime and people who do it are war criminals

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

"Human rights groups say this amounts to chain refoulement — the forcible expulsion of refugees and asylum seekers to countries where they are vulnerable to return to countries where they face persecution — and violates both domestic and international law."

Today is perhaps a good day to remind people that Jimmy Carter personally and publicly pled with Obama to recognize to the State of Palestine before his second term ended and Obama just ignored him lol

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

This is truly insane. The definition of "disappearing people"

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Just going to ignore all the moral and strategic issues and say: No, this is not true, you can win decisively by activating non voters. The math is so straightforward that when people paid to think about politics pretend otherwise, I suspect they have other reasons to make nice with Trump voters.

“Cheaper than accepting homelessness” The only reason not to house the homeless at this point? Cruelty. That’s all they’ve got left.

This is an excellent overview of how the Trump admin is disrupting life-saving cancer research. And it’s not just happening in cancer, not just at NCI. It’s happening at every Institute, ripping away cures and hope for people with every type of disease. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Here's a 🧵 about the 2020 status quo on trans rights, my theory of change and how my own work fits into it, and why I've felt so angry at certain Democrats for backsliding, particularly Rep. Sarah McBride. Writing this to get it out of my head, for people who follow me closely enough to care.

this is the second impeachable offense worse than watergate that we have read about *today*

Every single day he has more scandals than like any 20 Presidents combined. It’s unreal.

$GOOGL #H1B @reuters.com

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

Hat tip to @aoc.bsky.social, this is pretty excellent

FBI has been steadily diverting resources away from domestic terrorism investigations, decimating specialized units & discontinuing tools used to track extremism. the admin also gutted millions in federal terrorism-prevention grants. it's effectively abandoned the fight against homegrown violence.

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

I would say (2), except I went bonkers during the Trump I ACA repeal drive when it was **perfectly clear** that Trump was confusing health insurance (expensive, complicated, needed by everyone under 65) with life insurance (cheap, simple, optional) and NO ONE ever asked about this or pointed it out.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

scramble you little shits, scramble

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Looking forward to Fox News cancelling Laura Ingram over this, and subsequent FCC licensing threats from Brendan Carr

Klein’s entire political project has been problematizing minor transgressions of the left while insisting we excuse or valorize the cruelty of the right. Every few months he facilitates the ceding of more ground, assuring us it will protect whatever thing he will then insist we cede 3 months later.

something something political violence

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Blood on Elon’s hands - children dying of hunger already who would have been fed under programs approved and funded by Congress and illegally cancelled by him without proper authority

Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

UC Berkeley Hands Over Private Staff and Student Information for Trump’s ‘Antisemitism’ Probe scheerpost.com/2025/09/19/u...

I truly don't understand how democratic leadership think they are going to move forward after voting to honor a white nationalist who essentially called Black women—the base of the party—stupid. It's insulting. I find it personally insulting.

Almost certainly illegal and likely to be struck down in court. Congress has only authorized the government to set fees to recover the cost of adjudicating the application. There is no statutory authority to impose fees designed to limit the use of a visa.

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.

After months of smearing this guy as a possible terrorist or terrorist supporter who they needed to eject as soon as possible back to Egypt, the trump administration today filed a motion in court basically going, eh nvm Glorious taxpayer funded use of time www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"Right now, Beijing is offering cheap, clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington is offering tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

This is what happens when “the ones on our side, supposedly” react to unhinged attacks on trans people by saying “I understand your concern with regards to young children and athletics” rather than “stop insisting we have to check every child athlete’s genitals, you weirdo! you freak!”

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”