The CIA’s deputy director has “abruptly demoted” the CIA’s acting general counsel & installed himself in that role, thus taking “control of making legal judgments for the agency while continuing to help lead it…” (This follows Hegseth’s termination of top military legal officials in Feb.) 10/6/25 1/

Big Picture. University administrators need to be clear on the kind of college environment they are charged with cultivating. University campuses should be intellectually challenging but physically safe. We threaten ideas, not people. We embrace rigor, not violence.

As someone who relies on her paycheck to live, this is scary: www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

I had a bullet go through my bedroom window and I still have never felt less safe than I have these past few months. turns out you can't really feel safe in a city when you watch your neighbors get yanked out of their cars by masked thugs! Imagine that.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rent is skyrocketing in SF. “But prices in Oakland, which saw a boom of downtown apartment construction right before the pandemic, are still much softer than they were in 2019. Prices are down 21% from six years ago” www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

the smosh potato is less of a recipe and more of a technique for getting a potato with a creamy center and cronchy edges there are many ways to make these such as boiling and pan frying or roasting and deep frying but here is one that uses just one cookie sheet and a ziploc bag for minimal cleanup

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event. I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

Barbie Anderson is trying to conserve the milk her three young children drink in case she doesn’t get her WIC benefits on October 15 as scheduled.

So cool! Brennan Gilmore captured this photo of Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) on Saturday about 10 miles east of Charlottesville. This comet might become visible to the naked eye later this month. More info at cwg.live

Found it. The judge. www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

A great many delusions here, but also: Noah Smith is in his early 40s. Even without googling, he was alive for all of this. So was I. Has he scrambled his brain so badly he has fake memories of the 90s in which the American left cheered Communism and then, after 9/11, allied with Al Qaeda?

cool website you've got here, @jay.bsky.team

Yup. I've had employer-provided Healthcare my entire working life But the ACA permitted me to change jobs without all of the Healthcare costs for my disabled wife to be 100% uncovered due to "pre-existing conditions" Just because you dont get your insurance through an exchange, you still use ACA

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

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Reminder that Benny Johnson took money from russia to spread divisive content in the USA.

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

And Joy Reid and her ancestors arguably built and did more for this country than his: "the typical black American has much deeper American roots than the typical white American Trump himself whose grandparents were all foreign-born is an excellent example of relatively shallow white American roots"

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Per @washingtonpost.com: New polling shows most U.S. Jews say Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza — and 39% say genocide. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"it is impossible for a few thousand men to rule over 350 million if those 350 million decide they do not wish to be ruled" -Gandhi

“The Democrats need to empower messengers that the establishment is scared of, people who don’t delight megadonors.” Color me skeptical, but a good column!

my landlord has asked me to give up the room if i cannot come up with the rent by tmrw. he rented it to me in good faith, despite the evictions on my record. i get where he's coming from - he needs the money bc his wife is also very ill & he's doing all he can to provide. please help if you can 🙏🏽

Credited to Rene Syler: "Look at her face. This is Major General Lorna M. Mahlock, USMC, the first Black woman in Marine Corps history to reach general officer rank. A trailblazer, a warrior, a woman who's earned every credential, medal, and command in her story." 1/7

I really appreciate Justice Jackson contrasting the lower courts' meticulous and responsible approach to judging—extensive deliberations, written opinions—with the Supreme Court's slapdash, unreasoned work over the shadow docket. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Also you better not carry that shit around after this is over bc that shit is literally nazi paraphernalia. In 2075 folks gonna be finding these in pawpaws basement like "OH no!!!"

I’m not a Zionist and I do not personally believe the pro-Palestine movement is primarily motivated by antisemitism, but the responses in this thread go some way to explaining why even many of my Jewish relatives who hate the Israeli government have trouble embracing the pro-Palestine movement.

Important and difficult to read article.

30s are wonderful. It's a good time to develop your career and consider children, if that's part of your vision for your life. Prioritize your health, and reevaluate alcohol consumption if applicable. That was a time in which some of my friends transitioned from social drinking to alcoholism.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

This was done at the direction of Pam Bondi. The US government is now dictating what apps you can have on your phone. The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I have been listening to @rememberthispod.bsky.social ‘s series on the blacklist, so this is of particular interest! Highly recommend the pod & that series in particular for a deep dive into what the blacklist did in its time.

$35/65 🙏🏽

We are entering a massive negative feedback loop that will impact the very foundations of what we used to consider the public good, all to subsidize tax cuts for wealthy elites who will never experience the pain of the loss they're imposing on the rest of us.

www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

Obviously anyone who *actually* assaults an officer has always been arrested. The circle of people “suspected of threatening” an officer includes everyone at a protest who they feel like arresting.

Black people this affects us too. The white folks have been calling our citizenship a “favor” since 2024 on every podcast that will have them and are using the same scripture they used to justify segregation to uphold this ideology

I have been wondering why they haven’t waived the filibuster yet and this seems like a reasonable explanation.

I can attest to both the beauty and the quality of the work. I recently commissioned some pieces for my wife (wedding anniversary and Winter Solstice gifts) and they are absolutely stunning. And working with Aji to coordinate all this (and or past purchases) was a joy.

Wowzas, the backstory on Tom Homan’s alleged $50,000 bribe www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

But these guys have convinced themselves it's a chess game or a math equation or a word puzzle to be solved, and that being Very Smart Dudes they will thread the quantum needle and somehow find the path that lets them maintain moral self-respect while bowing to evil.

This is TNC, and this is the foundational difference between his politics and Kleins’s. At a basic level you either believe in the biologically deterministic myths that historically and currently animate hate and exclusion and oppression, or you fight them with everything you have.