yes I see you are trying to go to bed but have you considered… cat

It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator

Mood.

History is a teacher from whom some people resolutely refuse to learn. Maybe this person was cutting class when History discussed the USSR.

Seriously deep cut

The most extreme example I've come up with is in #WESTVIRGINIA, where a 64-yr old couple earning $84,601/yr would go from paying $599/mo to $4,898/mo. That's over EIGHT TIMES as much as they're paying today. (The example here is based on them earning $90K): acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...

The story btw azmirror.com/2025/09/25/j...

“Starting October 1st, 2025, we will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any branded or patented Pharmaceutical Product, unless a Company IS BUILDING their Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in America.”

Trump's ordered indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is a baseless act of personal vengeance and one more savage assault on justice in America.

I don’t think I have any cases with Judge Nachmanoff right now but I’ve had many, both as a magistrate and an art III judge. he’s very fair, former federal public defender, no nonsense type.

Jesus.

very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive

New: There was an "emergency" all-hands meeting inside part of NOAA today basically to tell people they have no idea what to expect re a potential shutdown. "Even less than usual," per one source. There is no guidance yet available and no info on what specifically the OMB memo means. So that's cool.

Oh no, the right will get energized soon and lash out? Gee, what does that look like? Russia tries the same move. Pay no attention how they've been fighting hard in Ukraine for years, they totally have a lot of military capabilities they're holding back to be nice, but don't make them mad, or else.

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

This is cool.

So let me get this straight. The Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, which allows Argentina to cut its export tax on soybeans, which allows China to buy Argentinian soybeans at a reduced price, so China does not have to buy US soybeans at all.

CNN found more than 100 U.S. citizen children, many through public GoFundMe pages, essentially orphaned in recent months because of ICE enforcement. No one is tracking these children, and experts say it's just the beginning.

If you want to understand why Trump is purging Immigration Judges (IJ) + Board of Immig Appeals members, see our NSF funded ungated article. The work backgrounds of IJs strongly correlate to their denial rates. By loading up on IJs w/enforcement backgrounds, Trump is stacking the deck for denials.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"The new ballroom will be significantly larger than the main White House building." We're going to be stuck with this Trumpian monstrosity at the heart of our democracy for the rest of our lives.

Yes

Government of the people, by the people, and for the people… www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“Left Wing Terrorism is on the Rise”

If you speak German, listening to Celan read Totesfuge is amazing. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gVwL...

Impossible to even choose a pull quote in this oral history of DOGE!!! www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

I am joking, of course, but Hegseth is a bad joke. There is NO, repeat NO, reason to hold a meeting like this. Their connectivity is more than adequate to handle this without the expense and security difficulties of physically moving people. More weak ego needing performative support.

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered virtually all of the U.S. military’s top commanders worldwide to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week. Here’s what we know:

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.

According to the story, Trump does not understand why this is such a big deal. 😳

This seems to be their angle. If there’s a shutdown they won’t furlough employees they’ll fire them permanently. The fact that this is illegal kind of isn’t the point these days. I don’t see why this is much of a threat. They don’t have to do this. It’s a choice. They run the govt. when things …

Mildred Pierce-Arrow.

Thread.

😳 😱

If only we’d known in 2015 that we could just turn off the escalator.

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

Georgia people: pay attention to utility commission races! (Everyone should, but almost no one does. 😦)

This is a horrifying travesty. Mario is a journalist who was covering No Kings protests; his detention is an outrage and we are hearing reports that he may be deported imminently. Raise your voices here: action.aclu.org/send-message...

When my copy of The Onion arrived yesterday, I laughed so hard at this article. Everyone should buy a subscription.

BREAKING via @aclunm.bsky.social — ALBUQUERQUE, NM – A federal judge today ordered the immediate release of Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira, a 27-year-old DACA recipient and father of four U.S. citizen children who was unlawfully detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for 42 days.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

A Maine ballot measure restricting mail voting could have an outsize effect on older folks. “We’re not even a voting rights advocacy organization, but we’ve had to become one,” says the director of the Maine Council on Aging.

Democrats need to completely jettison NIMBYs like this. The fact that these anti-progress loons have infiltrated our party is an embarrassment

Also an astonishingly bad standup comic. Since he actually got up in front of some people, I imagine he must also have been short on self-awareness. (Seriously: listen to the audio.)

Tick, tock. Lindsey Halligan, the newly-installed prosecutor in EDVA, has less than a week to secure an indictment against James Comey before a key statute of limitations runs out. Ben Wittes and I examine her charging options. Spoiler alert: they all suck. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

TOO MUCH LIQUID

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)