"Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs," an agent can be heard saying in the video. "Hey, I can give it through the door," a man is heard saying in response. "You can do it right here," the agent says, pointing to the ground in front of himself. on.nbcboston.com/3phHyWE

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

Here's your period reminder that "Luddite" does not mean "hates technology/progress". It means "hates how technology/progress benefit only the bosses while the workers get the shaft".

Republican Sunday: YOU HAVE AWAKENED A DRAGON OF WHITE RAGE WE WILL SWIM IN THE BLOOD OF OUR TERRORIST ENEMIES AS THEIR CHILDREN WORK OUR SLAVE CANPS Republican Monday: we’re sweet widdle puddy tats what never hurted a fly and the mean man’s post fwightened us so bad we cwosed up our widdle eyes

The Supreme Court has clarified the Administration's theory of checks and balances: a blank check is a kind of check, and a negative balance is a kind of balance.

Today - the baby as a balloon theory - probably reached a new level, but as my rule notes, there are more levels to go.

Then Gov Newsom trolled them again...posting one of Trumps tweets where he said the same thing about Bernie

The Republican appointees on the Court are simply not engaged in law or adjudication. Their project is to empower Trump and Republican Fascism.

10) Then they arrest her. She will likely be charged w/assault on federal officers even though she did not assault any officers. Just like the father they just murdered dropping his kids at school, they will lie in court & claim they feared for their lives. Note Chief Bovino shows up for the press.

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024. Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

huh, the entire alberta energy grid was free for 16 hours yesterday wind power was overproducing, so it just... goes to zero apparently

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

Broadview, IL today

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

The good news is that Dems can use the new powers of the Unitary Executive granted by SCOTUS to do these things and then legislate them closed again afterwards.

Our wholly owned so called Supreme Court… It’s so blatant by now that they don’t even try to fake it.

SCOTUS, AKA the Kangaroo Court, has just overturned 90 years of precedence, further empowering the executive branch, which is meant to be the LEAST powerful branch of our govnt, to politicize and corrupt independent institutions. 🆘🇺🇸 www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...

I guarantee you everyone in this administration and half the supreme court is committing tax fraud. Easy pickings next time.

We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.

SCOTUS must be expanded and reformed to restore our democracy

Remember, according to Evangelicals God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the called. This thought-terminating cliche is what they tell themselves whenever DJT or his cabinet ppl fk stuff up.

Just wanting to put it out there that when Landry appointed Sheahan as the Head of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries there were a bunch of pieces in local papers about how severely unqualified she was for this position in a state like ours where fishing is pretty damn important.

Honorable mention to the parts where lewandowski has also been taking bribes from china and israel, the coast guard can't have a leader because noem wants to stay in the commandant's house forever, and when they get called to the WH for a meeting bc everyone hates them. Read the whole thing!

The whole administration in one quote

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

He wants to achieve what Will Saletan failed. Because after years of pushing "compromise" with them, Will Saletan was forced to admit that the pro-life right wing are full of shit.

This bill would count, though. @pressley.house.gov @ayannapressley.bsky.social

Great read! Easy to see Klein is not personally discomfited by abortion bans.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Ok so he admits taking the money. The follow-up question is going to be whether he reported this $50k on his taxes. Any reporters who dont ask him this question are hacks.

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

EVERY. FUCKING. TIME. People desperately want to live a life of dignity. That’s the default setting of a person.

LOL

You’ll get a good feeling by joining a No Kings protest on October 18.

So much this👇

corporations signed up for dim authoritarianism because a generational destruction of the regulatory state is incalculably valuable, but the risk of suddenly being randomly imploded by this bizarre cult for no reason is not zero

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

Holy shit RFK Jr just used the idea that we should "believe all women" to defend the idea that vaccines might have caused their kids' autism, I am INCANDESCENT with rage

I thought autism was caused by drinking coke with pop rocks in it

"TikTok's Algorithm Will Be Controlled by Oracle in the U.S." is a scary prospect. Giving another far-right billionaire another social media platform to use for propaganda.

I have no idea how law students are supposed take seriously anything they learn in constitutional law when the Supreme Court's entire approach to precedent and stare decisis is just "does Mister Trump want us to overturn it right now" ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

At the White House smugly awaiting triumphant poll results for my “make pregnancy hurt more” idea

and always remember this guy told us to drink bleach.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Yeah well Biden renominated Brendan Carr to the FCC because making bi-partisan nice with autocrats is more important than protecting the American ppl.