The Gizmo loaf is lounging on his scratching board and I’ve been assured and is definitely not plotting anything with the Martian dude in the background 😹😹🦁🦁 #KittyLoafMonday #teamfloof #CatsOfBluesky

Todays decision is a good illustration of Howell and Moe's argument IMO. SCOTUS allowed Trump to remove the sole Dem member of the FTC, despite 90 years of precedent and the clear intent of Congress. It is one more example of a court enabling a strongman presidency. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Trump is unique, but he was able to make use of unitary executive theory that other Republicans had pioneered. The logic of a powerful but personalized Presidency that the Federalist Society and others pioneered is tailor-made for a strongman. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

Moe and Howell point out that both parties have embraced an empowered presidency, but are asymmetrical in their approach to the state. The GOP skepticism of the administrative state led them to develop governing logics of a powerful state, but centered in hands of the President, not administrators.

“‘I’ve been here more than a dozen times, and every single time I have seen a lawless abduction,’ said Comptroller Lander, while sitting cross-legged on the floor outside the elevators of the first floor of Federal Plaza.”

The Emperor endorses Crafty Cow Cat Sofas.

it's almost as if they want to justify a full content ban by creating the material conditions via being shitty

Yeah, like there's already a checkbox for "hey this is sexy thing," just expand that instead of going "actually, don't post sexy thing in general, ew"

That's what I've been saying like,, even artists that worked around the lack of labels (by saying idk,, CW: noncon on their posts) are going to stop cuz of this TOS change to avoid getting nuked It helps nobody and just makes things worse for everyone all around :/

what fucks me up about the Bluesky TOS update is fucking every adult creator i know wants MORE labels and filter options. we WANT more granular control over the labels and spoilers we can put on our work so people who want to curate their timeline to avoid us CAN DO SO

Yonatan Zeigen’s mother, Vivian Silver, a 74-year-old Canadian Israeli peace activist, was killed in the October 7 attacks.

What they really want is to reimpose the social strata of the Jim Crow era south, but nationally: - Not-white people are explicitly second-class citizens - A large number of poor white people who lack social standing, but "at least we ain't those not-white folks". - A small, white, educated elite.

Something imo consistent both with imperial decline and with the overall southernization of American politics

Fundamentally they see their ideal role as a colonial ruling class I think.

it's also a fantasy of domination of those they deem to be their social and cultural enemies. and then, among some of this number, a straightforward belief that the proper place of many millions of americans is servile labor

i don't think there's anything more to this than an ignorant and adolescent need to destroy but to the extent that there is, it's that a closed-off country of poor, low-wage workers is easier to control with imposed hierarchies (see: the american south, 1890 to 1965)

One thing that remains fascinating to me is how much radical Trumpism wants to move down the value chain, instead of upwards to more value-add + complex production and research. Instead, RFK kills the NIH and NSF.

Ten years after countries promised to cut climate pollution in the Paris Agreement, countries plan to produce more than twice the amount of fossil fuels that would be consistent with that deal. n.pr/46sDnvh

On Oct. 7, join us for ‘Killing the Story,’ a conversation with journalists who attempt to publish accurately & factually about the genocide in Palestine. We'll explore media bias, the Palestine exception, pressures from the Israel lobby, & other paths for coverage. tinyurl.com/killingthestory

One of my DMin students is doing a research project on ex-pastors and he's looking for people who left ordained ministry for nonreligious work to complete a survey. Participants can remain anonymous, but he would love to interview any who are willing. Please share! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Good news #Montreal you have a pop-up Cat Museum!! Me Minou was rescued in Montreal. They are raising money to find a permanent home for the cat museum. If you live in Montreal please visit while you can, runs until Oct 12, 2025. mtlcatmuseum.ca laruchequebec.com/en/projects/...

You're looking at a one cat serial crime spree pro. Turned on fax machine/ copier last night. At least we have 120 copies of our tax returns from last year. Zero remorse.

I wholeheartedly agree 🥰🥰

UPDATE 9/22/25: On Sept. 19, Maklad said he was flown from Texas to Venezuela, where Venezuelan immigration agents weren't expecting him & hadn’t agreed to accept him. He was flown back to Texas & still has no answers about how long he’ll be detained or what will happen to him.

Combine this dismantling of fair housing enforcement with the evisceration of the CFPB and the efforts to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and you have a perfect recipe for racialized hyper-predation in housing markets. Lots of money to be made at the expense of low-wealth folks of color.

Thousands of Brazilians protested in all 26 states and the federal district against a possible pardon for former President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies, who were convicted of attempting a coup.

This month's bonus episode is about the pundit reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk, from Ezra Klein to the freaks at National Review.

The experience of every center-left and center-right party across Europe for the past 15 years has proven that trying to be a more moderate and reasonable version of the far right just drives voters to the real thing.

"let's suggest stuff Dems have been doing and already proven to not work"

Did these people suffer brain damage and forget that Dobbs irrevocably changed this equation? The ppl who want abortion outlawed are (a) not pro-life and (b) are pro-authoritarian! Things are not business as usual!

In 2024, abortion beat the Democrat on the ballot in Florida (+14), Arizona (+15), Missouri (+11), Nevada (+16). In 2022, it gave us a "blue undertow" that staved off the full red wave.

I regularly have dems in LA tell me there is too much construction.

for all of the discourse on here about how “all democrats agree pro-housing policies, we don’t need ‘abundance’ because it’s already the consensus”… I went to a block party in my 90% D neighborhood of Manhattan and rich boomer NIMBYs set up a table to block new housing. We still have a ways to go

Taking this with me as we enter the Days of Awe: “Whether we like it or not, the State of Israel’s insistence that they speak for all Jews means that it is up to us to reject this narrative about what our relationship to Palestinians is and should be.”

This language that Kirk's followers were using to describe some shadowy indistinct "they" (which Trump described as "the left") is straight out of the nationalist frenzy following 9/11. They're evil, can't be negotiated with, a threat to western civilization, etc., etc.

I didn't watch the rally, only listened to the Daily on it, but it struck me how the language used to describe the "they" that killed Kirk (with the exception of Erika Kirk's, which was actually quite remarkable) is that it is indistinguishable from the way many Americans used to talk about al Qaeda

It was a great action. This audience knew the stakes and was ready to let Disney know. At least one audience member sent a letter while waiting in line.

Today, we leafleted audience members in line for The View, Good Morning America, and LIVE with Kelly & Mark to encourage them to join the fight to show ABC/Disney no president or corporation can deny our right to free speech.

We’re suing to stop the Trump-Vance administration from freezing over $300M in funds for the Department of Labor’s Senior Community Service Employment Program. These grants fund crucial employment opportunities and job training that serve as lifeline for tens of thousands of older Americans.

The Trump-Vance admin is freezing $300 million in grants for programs that help older Americans find jobs. It’s baseless, unlawful, and causing real harm to thousands – so we're going to court to reverse it.

Gaza’s children have become vulnerable to life-threatening rare diseases, Ghada Abu Muaileq reports. A doctor in a hospital pediatric ward described how catastrophic health & environmental conditions from Israel’s genocide & blockade are increasing the incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Important to note that Suzanne no longer works at PEN and doesn't represent them; PEN is doing essential work in fighting book bans, which, of course, is the right's version of cancel culture.

I wrote about PEN America's terribly misguided report on cancel culture, which they titled Booklash, when it came out in 2023. lithub.com/whats-wrong-...

I cannot believe this woman, who retaliated on PEN staffers speaking out for Gaza, is still insisting that the threat is coming from both sides. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

Was wondering if @lastweektonight.com would address the Kimmel stuff briefly or make it the "main story" (even though its "main stories" often involve months of prep and research). Looks like they went for it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPT...

Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network. n.pr/3Kdrsdy

Link without paywall: archive.is/SRTY5#select...

The man found dead in a Long Island jail cell on Thursday after being detained by ICE has been identified as Santos Banegas Reyes. According to his family, county and federal officials have ignored them as they demand answers about the circumstances that led to his death.

“The man was being held under a partnership between Nassau County and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under which the county provides 50 jail cells for immigration detainees and receives federal reimbursement in return.” Local cops are complicit in immigrant violence.