RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115311749184649533 Look at us, we are the shithole country.

Right Wingers Dick-Stepping Their Way Through Shutdown www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/03/r...

"Trump's 'compact with universities is just extortion... the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it." Very good from UC Berkley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Higher ed leaders should all do so, and donors, unions, anyone with influence should pressure them to.

Was Faith a 12-year-old?

CBC: Alberta baby born prematurely dies due to measles, in province's first death Baby born early after mother contracted measles, province says "...Alberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in the province in March. The province says […]

Exactly this. Trump is trying to wiggle out of murder accusations.

Don't have full confirmation on this yet, but hearing that Guevara was sent to El Salvador this morning, which is just fucking shameful. He was here with legal permission and this was 100% punishment for his journalism about protests.

Never should have stopped calling these guys weird. They're so freaking weird.

Trump and MAGA intend to starve their rivals and adversaries of federal funding when/wherever possible. Defenders of democracy will need to push back by starving the federal govt of revenues. This means, eg, NY and CA withholding $$ they send upstream. It also means tax resistance from […]

Can someone please explain to Cortez Mastro that her votes in support of the GOP CR only serve to piss off the people who would otherwise donate/volunteer to her campaign. Her next opponent is going to attack her for the shutdown anyway.

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

…a #government #shutdown …will force active-duty service members to continue to serve WITHOUT PAY…. During a #governmentshutdown, all active-duty personnel, as well as #nationalguard who are currently deployed, must carry out their assigned duties WITHOUT PAY until the shutdown is over…. This […]

This is accurate. It's on Trump, MAGA-GOP, because Vought (!), and of course Miller, and their little Project 2025 was all about destroying govt as we know it, democracy, and crushing souls.

"ICE goes masked for a single reason - to terrorize Americans into quiescence." - from a decision issued today by a federal judge (appointed by Reagan)

Hegseth: The military is for killing people and breaking things. No more rules of engagement. Trump: I’ll be sending the military into U.S. cities.

Corruption might be an integral part of #american #institutions #governance and the norm for elites, but it is not—and was never—considered a #virtue. Whomever is trying to persuade you otherwise is gaslighting. Don’t let them.

Well @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov

RIP Aaron Swartz 🥺

Remember, this is what led to the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (which led to the arrest of Congresswoman LaMonica McIver): the city's concerns that the building was not inhabitable. After that, inmates escaped thru a drywall exterior wall.

Miller

Trump and Miller want it to become the "norm"... violence vs fellow Americans.] Power play/intimidation right now, and especially during elections. They're already trying to make it impossible to vote, and this is part of it.

The dumbest Administration strikes again. https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/115273730886329369

#EpsteinFiles 🧵

5/ Flooding... and it gets worse. bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.

Republicans, Trump included, are zeroing in on transgender people and blaming us for the looming government shutdown. They are demanding that Democrats cave on transgender rights. Many of them are copying the same talking points in their messages.

The guy who ordered prosecutors to get no-billed under Jeanine Pirro's watch (and is now demanding investigations of Open Society Fund) got promoted in spite of his DWI.

People seem determined to remember Charlie Kirk as a devout Christian. This includes mainstream and liberal descriptions of him and not just MAGA hagiography. But look, the things he said about people were in direct contravention of Christ’s teachings. It’s deeply perverted to suggest otherwise.

One of the terrible things about being a lawyer is being able to see where the chain of logic ends. For instance, one of the benefits of claiming that Tylenol causes autism is that it enables prosecutors to go after women (of color, most likely) for child endangerment with every autism diagnosis.

Reup: Scott Bessent is bailing out Javier Milei--even as Argentina is poaching US soybean markets--to help his party win a legislative election next month. www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/24/s...

I’m not surprised but I really don’t want to be completely fucked. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115256801849198470

As you consider Bessent's one-two punch Bessent -- first bailing out Milei only to have Argentina replace America's soybeans in China -- remember that Bessent owns a ton of North Dakota land. Bessent's policies are likely to lead his "neighbors" to get foreclosed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Let’s look on the bright side of this Tylenol thing: there are law students out there who will spend their entire careers litigating cases based on the President’s statements today.

They fucking better. https://channels.im/@mlb/115251051659846827

Given that these prosecutors’ offices are where federal cases are filed on a day-to-day basis, the move strikes at the nuts-and-bolts foundations of the criminal justice system. It seems intended both to create a frictionless path for prosecutions of those who have run afoul of #trump, & perhaps […]

Wow. Not at all surprising, but wow. Blatant corruption is perfectly fine (encouraged, even) in this administration.

Hey Democrats! Stop sending this bullshit.

11 #democratic #ny Officials #arrested Trying to Access #ice #detention Cells Brad Lander, the city comptroller, was arrested again. Jumaane D. Williams, the public advocate, was among protesters detained outside. #law #immigration #trump #revengepolitics #tyranny #fascism […]

Chilling.

My long-running opposition to hate speech laws is that "hate speech" is ambiguously defined, with unavoidably subjective elements, and there's no way to prevent the govt from defining expression it disagrees with as hate speech. Although I should also note they're doing this without a dedicated law.

115-113 is bullshit, but Bud did it. Holy. Fucking. Shit. #boxing

Wow. I think Crawford has figured Alvarez out. #boxing

Love how people are valorizing Kirk for exercising his free speech rights while the Trump regime is firing military service members who exercised theirs. Charlie Kirk shooting: suspect set to face aggravated murder charge - live updates […]

So, this was a Nazi on Nazi crime over the Epstein files?

It's looking more and more like Kirk was killed to spark violence against the Left.

Kash Patel has an SJC oversight hearing on Tuesday. I wonder how he would respond if asked whether he gave Trump advance notice that the Kirk suspect is just a too-online gamer boy raised by Republican Christians?

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A kid radicalized by neo-Nazis shot two kids at a high school near Denver yesterday, out of obvious concern about crime.