Thomas Andrews, who runs a business in upstate New York restoring vintage computers from the 1980s and 1990s, said he was shocked to receive a tariff bill from UPS for approximately $1,400 on a part worth $750. He said he assumed there must have been a mistake. “That’s extortion,” Andrews said.

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"Some say we can ‘solar-engineer’ ourselves out of the climate crisis. Don’t buy it" [even if it's being sold by the #NewYorkTimes] | My evergreen @theguardian.com commentary with Ray Pierrehumbert: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

same. every time I see more coverage of this thing I’m like “Jesus Christ”

It's like they made a clone of Goebbels but somehow the volume got stuck on "screeching banshee"

“The obvious next step in that playbook is to expand from targeting immigrants to go after anarchists, leftists, and other opponents of the regime…” What does that mean? How can we prepare to weather the storm? Read this @crimethinc.com how-to guide

Complete and total surrender

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

There’s a reason I asked Pam Bondi if she was capable of saying “no” to the president.

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Holy shit. The administration might be evacuating the ICE facility we've been protesting for weeks. If this ends up happening, it's a huge deal. Protests matter. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."

🧵 "The tweet garnered attention online after the riot on Wednesday, which led to the death of four Trump supporters as well as one police officer, who was reportedly violently bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher." - The Daily Dot, 2021: www.dailydot.com/news/charlie...

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Rep. Jim Himes: "I still can't get over the fact that I think for the first time in our history, the U.S. military...is now killing civilians who have been convicted of no crime. There's a reason we do trials in this country."

WELKER: Do you believe Brendan Carr's comments were appropriate? RAND PAUL: Absolutely inappropriate. Brendan Carr has got no business weighing in on this.

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

Great work and why I subscribe to RS. From www.paradigmjet.com website:

I still don’t know who’s behind is behind the owner shell company, “JET BLACK MANAGEMENT GROUP.” Thank you again to my editors @rollingstone.com. They are still doing great work amid some corporate BS. Read the story www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is minor if you aren’t an ICE flight tracker, but I’m also revealing here for the first time that the sneaky GIV that has been doing ICE flights to Africa since mid-August is operated by Paradigm Jet Management. I obtained FAA docs proving it. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The second secret flight landed in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Mali, according to pilot communications we obtained. ICE, DHS, Air Force and the governments of those countries did not answer questions about whether that flight carried third-country nationals. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We're gonna find out that they just killed a bunch of them

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

🚨Suddenly🚨Republicans are speaking out against the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel. I am exceedingly grateful; however, I find it curious the concentration camps did not cross any lines for them.

Donald Trump is unfurling banners of his own face on government buildings across D.C. He has spent at least $56,000 so far. trib.al/UgfCGxk

Well worth reading. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... Quote below is from Jamelle Bouie.

You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.

nypl book of the day But Not Too Bold Hache Pueyo Dália is the newly appointed keeper of the keys for the volitale spider-woman Anatema and risks her life to solve the mystery of her predecessor's death in a house steeped in death and dread.

Right… isn’t 50k the standard signing bonus at ICE now?

I wrote long today. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

“What is therefore worth stressing is the myriad ways in which the Trump administration has been unable to autocrat its way out of a paper bag.”

Thousands of activists marched in New York City Saturday to “Make Billionaires Pay,” calling for climate justice, democracy, free speech, gender equality, a stop to the Trump’s immigration crackdown and a ceasefire in Gaza. Flag with the image of Princess Leia reads "WE ARE THE RESISTANCE"

Nothing screams “small government, free speech warrior” like the FCC chair rocking state-mandated jewelry of a convicted felon. Brendan Carr went from pretending to guard the First Amendment to cosplaying as Trump’s mall cop.

“Silencing protesters. Getting Jimmy Kimmel taken off air. Ordering Mahmoud Khalil's deportation. Another week of Zeteo's project to document the growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.”

JFC. These people are horrendous.

The one surefire way to get people to stop saying mean things about you is to send out a press release, insisting that they stop saying mean things about you. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

View from the Crest Trail in the Manzano Mountains in New Mexico. Manzano Peak is over 10,000 ft. One of my favorite hikes. #hiking #backpacking #NewMexico #landscapes #photography

Homan is just going to deny the story until people stop asking, like every other administration criminal, right?

So much rot.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

mastodon just isn't a good place for people to share news/writing. it's kind of deliberately designed *not* to be useful for people who want to build an audience for public facing work. 1

Every aspect of their business must suffer financially. Everything Disney now does is complicit.

“you dont influence anyone on bluesky” buddy, the only way to influence anyone on the internet is by getting aunts and uncles to share completely made up facebook slop

My retired professor of Old Testament from undergrad (one of the dudes that really challenged me throughout that Pentecostal degree) posted this meme and it really made me laugh.

"We're not going to let our freedoms & our rights be taken away from us. A lot of us have been on the front line fighting too long & too hard to do it...I'll tell you, I'll fight til my dying day to make sure that we defend our democracy" - @SenLouiseLucas bluevirginia.us/2025/09/us-s...