This is an absolute disaster. Bailey has been one of the most insanely fascist AG's out there going after abortion and gender affirming care providers along surf targeting progressive orgs like Media Matters. Things are going to get so much worse.

@brainnotonyet.bsky.social And here we go “We found a few very interesting things, and one of them was an increasing susceptibility of people who define left of center to support or condone the killing of either conservative politicians or corporate elites,” Horder from NCRI said

This week on #TheProfessorIsIn, we dig into official economic statistics. What are they? Why does the government provide them? Why there's a trade-off between accuracy, timeliness, and cost. And why it's so important that these numbers be produced free of political interference. youtu.be/oSbnv2drRkA

RFK Jr. knows the consequences of his rhetoric. “Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption,” and a fascist enterprise. He accused C.D.C. employees of covering up vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse.” Gift link.

Watched the 1994 film Nobody's Fool last night. It's got Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Margot Martindale... I'd never heard of it before but it's EXCELLENT. an almost painfully accurate depiction of my grandparent's generation and small town America just before oxy.

I will say, if you want an author who has a stronger writing style but does a lot of great hard sci-fi page turner sort of stuff, I have found that Adrian Tchaikovsky rarely lets me down.

A house divided, again. The ongoing war of redistricting echoes Civil War era political chaos, while Republicans edge eerily close to their Confederate forebears. From Harold Meyerson: trib.al/4I57BkT

Oh?

The UK is imposing a trans bathroom ban by fiat and it's being done by their equivalent of the Democrats. Trans men will be banned from all bathrooms and facilities because they're banned from the men's for being AFAB while being banned from the women's for looking like men and "causing alarm."

One contractor hired to work on the new Fort Bliss immigrant detention center is a company whose owner previously co-owned a business that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire undocumented workers and conceal them from immigration authorities.

NEW: “In the end, Abbott’s brief is not a serious legal document. It’s an entirely political one.“ Wherein I answer your burning questions about several niche areas of Texas state law—and tell you how I really feel about Greg Abbott’s no good, very bad brief. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-le...

NEW: Ayman Soliman is locally renowned for helping the families of dying kids. Now, friends say he’s been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Less than five years after urging rioters to "kill" police, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Justice Department. Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating officers on Jan. 6 and yelling "kill 'em." www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

There may not be another President in recent times who has delivered more victories for the Confederacy than Donald Trump - from names to statues and symbols, the Lost Cause is winning again. That's my column in the @ajc www.ajc.com/politics/202...

PSA: if you're interested in understanding how ICE is scaling detention, you should read the GEO Group (GEO) earnings call from today. I don't have time to excerpt it fully but there's a ton of stuff in here. george-sharing.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/GEO+Group+In...

Big Balls.Victim to His Own Ideologies Pitfalls

Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. (Published Oct. 2024)

The Center of the American Experiment is one well-connected node in a large network of right-wing money moving through Minnesota and the US, with unfettered access to the billfolds of billionaire donors and the bent ears of Republican legislators. unicornriot.ninja/2025/the-dee...

The moneyed class is now in the finding out beginning stages

the lawyers who filed this probably should not be lawyers and also should be deeply ashamed of themselves

False flag event to help Trump federalize DC It was Big Balls also

Supply and demand side phenomenon. We stopped investing public resources in education as demand for it soared (roughly by an order of magnitude, maybe two). It’s the same phenomenon as decaying infrastructure or housing.

here's me talking about him www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

I am the left Stephen Miller but I'm trapped in a day job and debt and have semi debilitating chronic illness and have family obligations

This neo-Nazi is married to an elected Republican who holds local office and has “liked” some of his social media content. She claims she doesn’t share his views, but I find that hard to believe.

I spoke with 40+ sources for a look inside the Anti-Defamation League. Here’s some of what I found. ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x) nymag.com/intelligence...

You have probably read too many news items about hedge funds draining the lifeblood out of newspapers. Some of you have lived it with your own paper's demise. Treat yourself, then, to the story of one hedge fund's complete defeat. Alden Global Capital is the name. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/alde...

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds. Then the harassment began. Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel. Six credible threats to his life. More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

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“We aren’t sure why she has been overlooked all this time,” a North Carolina animal shelter wrote.

FWIW, the architect who designed the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago in the late 1920s, Joseph Urban, referred to it as "the Mussolini Room" because it was modeled on Rome’s Chigi Palace that was then occupied by Il Duce.

On Trump's enduring appeal to people who have no real problems and let their comfortable, empty lives drive them to obsess over petty annoyances and call it their politics.

Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US. www.wired.com/story/china-...

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

Leaders of the American Patriots Three Percent (AP3) militia have forged alliances with law enforcement around the US. Internal files reveal their strategies for building these ties and where they’ve claimed success. (Published Aug. 2024)

Behold, the leading political philosopher on the right.

White House just ended the de minimis exemption for all commercial shipments. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Master race

this is so fucking creepy www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

What's funny is if they did this with a black model, the right-wing racists and neo-nazis would be going absolutely insane. There would be death threats and bomb threats.

I'm tired of all this possum hate, of course this shows his privilege as an elite part of the journalism class, might as well call all of us trash, no gods no masters no kings

reupping this piece, since the seat that Emil Bove just filled could have been filled by Adeel Mangi last year

We need a Huey Long to do some dirty work for a few years

In markets large and small, these nonprofit news organizations are achieving traffic numbers that many commercial outlets would envy. Here’s our first monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United States. buff.ly/8yo3BfO

“They get a kick out of playing dress-up and acting tough,” he said. “But they actually have no idea what they’re doing.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off