This is the new Tom Holland umbrella dance for me ... it must be shared.

new episode of the unclear and present politics show! www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

It’s obviously not a coincidence that state media is so poorly written that it feels like a chatbot used a worse chatbot

“We’ll build you a nicer house after we steal the copper pipes and burn down your home”

Well this is quite something (I'm old. I don't know what the youths are listening to these days unless it flashes by social media or one of my kids makes me listen to it)

Just posted this 🤭

"A copy of the arrangement I reviewed shows that the United States has agreed to pay Eswatini $5.1 million to take in up to 160 so-called 'third country nationals'" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The major themes of my book are: voluntary & involuntary migration, ability to remain (set roots where you want without legal prohibitions), citizenship, federalism. Depending on the venue, (history or polisci, liberal arts college, law school) I tailor the talks with subsets of those themes.

On this day in 1893, a white mob lynched Bob Hudson, a Black man, in Weakley County, TN, after he defended his wife, who was targeted because she filed assault charges against a white man.

Here are the members of the Illinois Press Association board, which has taken the side of Trump's thugs over the interests of a free press. 2/2

Joining the ranks of media capitulation and cowardice is the Illinois Press Association. Under CEO Don Craven, the group joined a lawsuit against ICE’s attacks on the local press and protesters in the Chicago area. But his board ordered him to withdraw from the suit, and he resigned. 1/2

Ninety-three farm bankruptcies in Q2 — nearly double the number from the end of 2024. @fortune.com fortune.com/2025/10/04/f...

Live TV, folks. 🤓

My recent 18,000 word newsletter took me maybe 7 hours total between note taking, research and writing, and maybe 15 diet cokes, the human brain is truly remarkable

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

Bezos liked the idea of owning the Post, but has no principled belief in the role of media in a democracy. As soon as the Post did not align with is evolving worldview/business interests, he degraded it. And now it's core base of readers are also losing trust in it! bsky.app/profile/donm...

Hard not to see parallels of attacks on public institutions and the traditional media. Both have limitations but served an essential function. Take Weiss at CBS now. She railed against MSM, created an outlet that absolutely failed to match it's quality, and will now be paid to degrade it.

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

But that is precisely the situation right now according to SCOTUS itself. They are constantly deciding major issues via the shadow docket, without any reasoning or final order, to ensure those rulings are *not* legally binding and can be reversed whenever they feel like it. That is illegitimate.

Fuck this shit.

Where is civil society as everything crumbles? You'd love to see some reporting on this but journalism is a huge part of the crumbling. Can't manage 1% of the outrage over Bondi going to the right of Hannity in an oversight hearing as they did for Bill Clinton saying hi to Lorreta Lynch.

Good morning let’s learn Chinese together

the only appropriate response will be to triple down on supporting the targeted groups rather than to do what so many people usually do which is to run away from them.

You can argue the GOP’s strategy for some years now has been to egregiously lie about their own policies and it’s been fairly effective

Thune is gambling on the idea that the median voter does not have even the most basic knowledge of the bill that Trump and the Republican Party just passed, which made reducing access to health care a core means to pay for tax cuts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-trumps...

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

Kyle Korver's portrait from the 2005 All Star Game (three point contest) looks like he's in Hoobastank

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

One delightful wrinkle in the story of Portland's white supremacist former OR GOP chair is that at the same time he was acting like a racist troll, his daughter was falling in love with a Black preacher at her church, much to her father's chagrin. rightlandia.ghost.io/the-art-of-t...

In 1989-90, while this movement to take MLK's name off of a Portland street was gaining traction, very few mainstream outlets or Democratic politicians were willing to call that movement "racist" for fear of being unfair. But the guy behind it was a stone cold white supremacist w/ neo-Nazi ties.

Partially in response to Seraw's murder, Portland changed the name of Union Avenue to MLK Blvd. In 1989, the white Christian Nationalist former chair of the OR GOP immediately organized a massive movement to *take MLK's name OFF of the street.* rightlandia.ghost.io/on-this-mlk-...

Since the topic of "antifascism in Portland" is currently in the news, it's worth remembering that an early moment in that history occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the "white pride" murder of Seraw inspired the formation of the Coalition for Human Dignity. kboo.fm/media/99339-...

It’s important to note that invoking the phrase “white pride” in Portland has particular meaning. In 1988 a group of neo-Nazi skinheads called “East Side White Pride” murdered an Ethiopian immigrant in SE Portland. www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/ser...

This person also thinks Soros is “satanic,” author she’s a “pureblood” because she has not been vaccinated.

Benny Johnson and Oregon MAGA activist (and convicted J6 felon) David Medina accompanied Kristi Noem during her visit to Portland. Here they are amplifying a local MAGA influencer with some, well, interesting ideas about race and religion.

How's that plan coming?

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

🚨 Horrifying. Does misinformation do real harm? Yep. Who believes FALSE claim Tylenol causes (true / probably true) autism? - 41% of parents - 57% of Republicans Thx MAHA / MAGA. Dark Age 2.0 www.kff.org/public-opini... via @kff.org

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... bsky.app/profile/jame...

“Reporters, take note: there are zero mainstream articles pointing out that the White House now considers birth control a form of abortion.” @jessicavalenti.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

With so many examples of media cowardice on a national level, I'm gratified to report in this article that Chicago's local journalists are aggressively exposing the Trump regime's cruelty and lies.

Re the shutdown, this is one of those moments when it's crystal clear who's fighting for whom: econjared.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Absolutely dying at this tiny ass Po-Boy from the revived Emeril’s in The NY Times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

It's the classic authoritarian playbook: smear your opponents with baseless lies so that you can try to shut down peaceful, organized dissent. We won't be intimidated. We won't be cowed. We won't bow down. No Kings.

"Siri, what is a 'subtweet'?"

“Fired for no reason”: Former immigration judges speak out against Trump’s assault on the courts

New from @jeremymberg.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: "Silence may protect an institution from becoming an early target, but history shows that it increases the likelihood that that institution (and many others) will be become targets over time." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/deafening-...