This is the 20th time the Supreme Court has granted an emergency request made by the Trump administration since January. That's TWENTIETH.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

This headline says it all about where we are on the rule of law. “Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Dark Jedi Council tells Emperor that he can abolish the Senate whenever

I’m grateful that action is being taken to address yesterday’s violence at 26 Federal Plaza. When we insistently bear witness, there are limits to the cruelty people will support. Even Trump’s ICE can’t escape that indefinitely.

Everybody who reached out to Sinclair's advertisers this week: you did this. Boycotts work.

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Let’s spell this out. Trump fired a qualified U.S. attorney who refused to do his bidding and installed his own personal lawyer to punish a perceived opponent. Justice needs to follow the law, not politics. This is an attack on the rule of law. Full stop.

I am dumber for having read this. A sorry pairing of deep dishonesty and feigned credulity, culminating in a studious avoidance of the actual issues.

Probably no man bears more individual responsibility for electing Trump the first time, and this is also transparent bullshit bsky.app/profile/phil...

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

LA TAULE. C'est la une de Libération ce vendredi.

How did antebellum constitutional politics in Louisiana shape a century of racial inequality? @JERPano’s latest by Lacy K. Ford traces the long arc of Black struggle from slavery to civil rights through Louisiana’s 1845 & 1852 conventions. Read The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/23/l...

I did Nazi this one coming

Erik Siebert, the federal prosecutor whom President Donald Trump pushed out Friday for declining to prosecute his political enemies, listed as an attorney on 675 federal cases. His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, who's Trump's former lawyer, has worked on only three.

When did The Onion decide to make a Jeffrey Epstein mockumentary? Once Trump started acting “dodgy” fielding questions about Epstein. “There's this big gap where information should be," @bencollins.bsky.social said. They thought "it would be very funny to fill it with complete fucking nonsense."

From @jimsciutto.bsky.social, thus far just on Xitter.

Great assignment!

"These are the facts of American history. They are not distortions, nor is displaying this information at national parks ideologically motivated. These and similar facts explain much about our nation." slate.com/news-and-pol...

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

This @reuters.com summary makes it sound like Trump was offering up a normal, right coded speech instead of the insanity we all saw yesterday.

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

So sad. And this is in a wealthy state.

Why are we bailing out Argentina’s economy?

Who wore it better? Eric Adams or the Torah cover?

Trump’s own team tripped the elevator emergency stop and fucked up the teleprompter, but Utah’s Trump toady extraordinaire throws a MAGA tantrum Btw, anyone remember MAGA saying anyone needing a teleprompter was dumb? Apparently only if that president was black

Imagine if AI had this low of an error rate. Maybe big tech should put all their lobbying money into raising the cap on Social Security!

What a fucking G.

Teaching a favorite session today on #FrederickDouglass #Narrative — after decades of scrounging cheap original printings (1799 - 1832) of the #ColumbianOrator … I finally have enough to give one to each student & say, DISCUSS: What kinds of things could an enslaved teenager learn with this book?

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Notice how Trump just blamed women for Autism?

I am tickled.

Trump: "Asceda -- well, let's see how we say that. Ascenem -- enophin. Acetaminophen. Is that okay?"

It's too much liquid

Where @kashana.blacksky.app absolutely obliterates a certain kind of media profile...

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Best thing I've read in a while

tom homan:

If you want to cancel Disney, but are reluctant to do so because your kids like to watch one or more of its shows, then this is an opportunity for you to step up and be a good parent. Explain to them why you are cancelling it. Teach them about doing the right thing. Kids are smarter than you think.

As always, read @jamellebouie.net. Here making clear that the fight is, as so many have long warned it would become, against gov't-as-would-be-bully rather than by gov't-as-good-faith-actor. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Still incredible which one of these guys is viewed by the state as reacting inappropriately.