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The tank's role is to draw aggro

...I get that we sound like crazy people to anyone not online enough to know who Posobiec is, to know what QAnon is, to know what Pizzagate is. People who don't watch press conferences and roundtable and the insane fucking fascist shit being spoken out loud across the internet. I get it.

In the second-hand bookstore she visits before her journey, she finds a dissertation on children.

"Not the only one." Reacting to WSJ reporting that the now-deleted Donald Trump post demanding AG Pam Bondi prosecute his political enemies was meant as a direct message, Preet Bharara bets there are more such messages.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson starts term by wearing Charleston sweetgrass necklace

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

Don’t let this go @housedemocrats.bsky.social

If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus. We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu. We would all be healthier. I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control. I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

500 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics are at risk of closing because of the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill. Many are in rural areas. Meanwhile, Republican-held US House districts and states Trump won in 2024 rely more on ACA coverage. They're selling out their own voters.

Trump is threatening to withhold back pay for federal workers furloughed during the shutdown — which goes against a law he signed in 2019, by the way. This should come as no surprise: Trump and his businesses have been accused of stiffing hundreds of their own workers out of pay over the years.

America is barreling toward one of three outcomes before the midterm elections. Today’s Office Hours discussion question is which of the three do you think is the most probable? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-where-are-we-headed

1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson. Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million. This week, Trump returned the favor. Follow along for details.

The Justice Department had 36 attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians when Trump took office in January. Today it has two. See how this works?

the witches are clearly the wisest collection of characters on Discworld, but there is definitely something to the wizards' philosophy of sitting around in a building with very thick walls and eating regular large meals

in this one particular respect, the new aristocracy currently setting the world on fire is quite authentic they have never once contemplated the possibility that they might be wrong

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

that the entire republican party and the supreme court have enthusiastically gone along with this is a structural issue that also needs to be solved and we cannot simply return the pre-trump status quo, yes

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

lmao this dolt is beyond parody. yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

look I am not his audience and know very little about Bad Bunny but an extremely cursory google search tells me that he is in fact one of the most popular entertainers in the world today this statement only works if by "broader audience" you mean "conservative white people"

Day 4: PUNK ROCK 🎸🤟 #SuperBatober #Inktober #inktober2025

keep calling and telling them to stand strong the difference between last time (when they got yelled at incessantly for caving) and this time needs to be a chasm in terms of the feedback they're getting from constituents we can get them to hold

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

senator mary peltola let's make it happen

Reading the Weird celebrates spooky season all year long, but now an Edgar Allen Poe deep dive feels...thematically appropriate. This week let's discuss "Metzengerstein," Poe's first published story 📖 reactormag.com/two-stables-...

Some of these "brilliant" people are just stupid.

This is AI psychosis.

Please don’t be naïve people. The person in this photo is a white male Christian pastor Citizen You are next. Do not fool yourself.

When we tolerate a system that incentivizes people to climb over and dehumanize others for power, we end up with everyone in power being people who do this. Capitalism will continue to churn out these monsters until we dismantle it

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it? MJ: Again, it's a distraction

This post also has a link to my conversation with @tlyza89.bsky.social about tornado ratings and complications with the EF scale causing inconsistencies in ratings and contributing to the lack of EF5s

With the June Enderlin, ND tornado having been upgraded to an EF5 by NWS yesterday, want to share my post from late June doing a deep dive on the evolution of the storm and why I suspected it was a violent tornado then. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Imagining some special agent suddenly remembering the dossier of the whereabouts of Amelia Earhart they had buried under their coffee mug and case files on Jimmy Hoffa and Lee Harvey Oswald.

(2/2) No doubt history will speak to the MAGA cult; how easily they were gaslit; embraced the most flawed cult leader ever; rallied around grievance; railed against their own interest; fell for an obvious con. But the unforeseen disaster - the biggie - is the media's wide normalization of a madman.

(1/2) It's quite a phenomenon that a 79-year-old man struggling with speech and gait, can tell an audience that prices are down when they're up, that tariffs make other countries pay which they don't, that he has solved wars he hasn't, over and over again, and it gets reported as sane utterances.

The last part is what most infuriates me.

I just rewatched the Bondi hearing. (Oy, the things I do sometimes, contrary to my own mental health.) I didn't catch it the first time, BUT - while Bondi was prepared to show fangs and make Trumpian body noises in response to almost everything, she was silent and guarded on one topic. Epstein.

New in PN: Lessons from a Red Scare "As Emma Goldman hoped, and Louis Post later demonstrated, the American people are capable of turning the tide against repression — even if that effort feels hopeless in the moment."

“The notion that hepatitis B is only confined to transmission for prostitutes, drug users, etc., is such an ignorant and uninformed way of approaching infectious disease” - Dr. Jason Goldman of @acpimphysicians.bsky.social. Bingo... #MedSky + #IDSky www.medscape.com/s/viewarticl...

“If I can’t dance to it I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Emma Goldman

ICE is using your tax dollars to target children. A child in my district was deported days before the start of the school year. We are demanding answers on why K-12 students are being arrested and whether the Department of Education is fulfilling their obligations to students in custody.

The Miller Meltdown & MAGA Shutdown with Rep. Goldman-- no one sharper, more insightful on Miller, the law, etc. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

This week a report was released that brings many factual bullet points together in a new and comprehensive way while leaving opinions out of it. This report will help you understand how and why this man got away with as much as he did for as long as he did. kaitjustice.com/the-epstein-...