The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

It seems painfully evident that we lacked legal, moral, or other justification for the killing of eleven individuals aboard a small boat in the Caribbean. It is also entirely clear that the Trump administration, having begun by obfuscating and lying, is now simply stonewalling. They fear the truth.

Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend

“End-run” “Pushing limits” “Unusual” “Redefining” “Challenging norms” “Boldly upending” Sounds heroic, muscular. Our English language already contains the word illegal. No need to craft misleading/laudatory synonyms for suspending our Constitution. In this dangerous moment, we must speak clearly.

Tom Clancy’s Flowers in the Attic

Tom Clancy’s Things Fall Apart

For the first time, catastrophic levels of hunger have been confirmed in the strip

If only there were a phrase to describe the <checks notes> extra-constitutional domestic takeover of the <checks notes again> administration of legal affairs by the <checks notes one last time> armed forces 🤔

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Proper nomenclature for the constellation of agencies providing steroidal masked men to terrorize civilians is “Tate Force,” after Andrew Tate, the Trump-favored alleged rapist. Individual agents are correctly referred to as “Tater Tots.”

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

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Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

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We did it. We finally found the limits on executive power. 🤡

A call for comparative info and insights on advocacy groups for older adults!

I know the media is going to unthinkingly start using “Alligator Alcatraz,” but it’s disgusting and sadistic and I intend to call it what it is, a fucking concentration camp, and fuck those people who are doing this and giving it a cutesy name.

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t? So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

Anybody who wants to like everyone in their coalition doesn't really want to be in a coalition.

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...

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Behold…👇 The. Belle. Of. The. Ball. 😎✨

So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!

What the whattity-what is this headline? “Analysis.”

Land marches rightward while people do not, story at 11.

Comment on proposed FDA regulations restricting access to COVID vaccines 👇🏼

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

Rümeysa Öztürk has finally been ordered released. She has been unlawfully detained for more than six weeks in an ICE facility in Louisiana, more than 1,500 miles away from Somerville. This is a victory for Rümeysa, for justice, and for our democracy.

Put me in, coach

It doesn’t matter if they’re “coming for you next.” Even if your position and your privilege will ALWAYS protect you and everyone you love, it is your job as a conscious human being to fight for justice. That’s just the way it fucking is. You don’t get to abdicate that responsibility.

The cover of this week’s Economist.

Restoring democracy and constitutionalism and implementing electoral system change would be so, so great.

It's exhausting to think about, but everyone of conscience will have to fight fascism everywhere, and will probably have to continue fighting long after the current crop of dictators and wannabes are gone. This is a global movement that's been building for decades, and they are ascendant.

Not a biologist, but I really love the phrasing here: "perception and projection of my gender identity is not infringed upon in the least by anyone else's. I stand with my trans sisters." Exactly this.

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Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

Rumeysa Ozturk must be released. I joined @warren.senate.gov and @pressley.house.gov to demand answers from DHS, the State Dept. and ICE. www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r...