shellshocked at Trump's turnaround on the war

It's always striking how readily Trump can change course if he's exposed to other voices. Perhaps the most tragic irony of the Trump era is that Trumpism would not be half as dangerous without Trump, yet Trump would not be half as dangerous if he weren't surrounded by Trumpists

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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:

wait I wanna be raptured too!

Gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Talking points leaked to me show US diplomats instructed to call accusations of Israeli genocide in Gaza "politically motivated and categorically false" as well as a "propaganda campaign"

An 11-year-old Michigan boy was expelled from school for a year after he took a gun away from a classmate, disarmed and disassembled it, according to his mother He’s now enrolled in a non-accredited online program as he tries to keep up

The Trump administration has not sent any Coast Guard admirals up for Senate confirmation because Kristi Noem lives in a home usually reserved for the top admiral of the Coast Guard and she "she doesn’t want to get kicked out of the commandant’s house." nymag.com/intelligence...

ah shit, I had swapped lambda and coreweave around to make the diagram more sane and forgot to move the super micro funding arrow from coreweave to lambda. fixed

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

Pope Leo is said to have accepted Cardinal Dolan's resignation and to have picked his successor as New York archbishop. Will Dolan serve in retirement as spiritual advisor to Turning Point USA? In any event, his adherence to the GOP is far stronger than his adherence to the Catholic Church.

"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

No no no no no no. The answer to government censorship is not government investigations of the target. You investigate the government actors. Do the thing you're empowered to do: oversight. Not the thing the Trump administration was doing: intruding into editorial decisions.

In his entire answer he notably never once denies taking the $50,000.

Dammit

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

Ah, I see, shadow docket *plus* rocket docket for whatever Trump needs. Reminder that the emoluments clause case filed by Maryland & DC started June 12, 2017 and then was stalled for so long that SCOTUS dismissed it in January 2021 without a decision because Trump losing made it moot.

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

JB Pritzker is the twice-anointed Great Khan of Illinois and future Khagan of the Eagle Throne. By the will of Tengri, he is destined to rule an empire the rivals the Khans of old.

Notably and unusually, neither Fox News or Newsmax is carrying Trump's autism press conference live

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

The President sounds like this all the time these days and is clearly non compos mentis but it just gets a pass from Congress, from the courts, from the media, from Wall Street, from every institution, because it's Trump.

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.

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"Democrats don't know how to effectively oppose Trump's agenda" Agree: 72% Disagree: 21% AtlasIntel / Sept 16, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

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All the super straight, Christian, MAGA warriors broke down Grindr, the gay dating/sex app, yet again. The last time it broke down...the RNC in Wisconsin.

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

🇵🇱‼️ Sikorski: If another Russian missile or aircraft enters our airspace and gets shot down, don’t come here to whine. You have been warned.

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

4th deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -arrest low risk -no legal rationale -violates international law -no evidence of who US hit If really traffickers—very much an if—the move is interdiction. Would get evidence and intelligence.

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

Who is Lindsey Halligan? - Former Florida insurance lawyer turned Trump defense attorney - Filed the special master lawsuit that delayed Trump’s classified docs case - Convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge of reviewing Smithsonian bc she didn’t like some of the exhibits

LMAO WUT

Just over on @cnn.com leaning into #newspeak But enlighten us. What exactly is a “chief loyalty enforcer?”

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

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

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

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.

you practice romance with a candlelight dinner at sunset; i practice romance by dying needlessly for her honor in a duel. we are not the same

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X