Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

This dude’s private jet is airborne over Africa again.

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published October 2025)

Not just a tragedy for America, but, given the central place the US occupies in the research ecosystem, a tragedy for the world.

“The currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons ‘placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.’ The Manual defines ‘hors de combat’ to include ‘persons . . . otherwise incapacitated by . . . shipwreck.’”

Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith: “But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.

Any speculator who bought Trump’s memecoin at its peak after it was announced inauguration weekend would have lost almost the entire value of their investment by this month. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens? You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate? Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

The frogs have spawned! Dublin represent! #NoKings

Wore it to No Kings in Paris. #NoKings #IndivisibleParis

Again, @warren.senate.gov got here several days ago (unsurprisingly). But this is ALSO a story that is just as easily pushed by lefties -- by progressives, by tankies, by populists -- bc the way you make this story go viral is play on the suspicions of people who use the term "globalist."

You'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger Star Wars fan than me - but I can do without while Disney is actively capitulating to this unprecedented assault on free speech. Fuck you, Bob.

Who could have imagined that a guy who uses the moniker “Ka$h” would take over the FBI and shut down the bribery investigations of his buddies?

I propose a thought experiment. How would the Republicans in Congress react if this set of events had been orchestrated by the Biden Administration? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

austerity is theft@x Normally, when a civil rights leader dies, their supporters spend days reciting their greatest quotes and preachings. So, it's notable that the right has devoted the past two days trying to get Olive Garden waitresses fired for critical TikToks, while avoiding his body of work.

FBI agents are not trained to patrol streets. And every agent that is assigned to do that is NOT investigating: *foreign spies stealing gov’t and trade secrets *foreign and domestic terrorist threats *crimes like fraud, corruption, trafficking, and violent crimes (among others) Do you feel safer?

“The more you study crypto, the more it looks like a Carl Hiaasen novel full of colorful grifters staying one step ahead of the authorities” Excerpt From The End of Reality Jonathan Taplin books.apple.com/us/book/the-... This material may be protected by copyright.

The cop's family should file a wrongful death suit against RFK (for stuff he said before Bill Cassidy confirmed him) and the NGO that has made RFK rich.

BREAKING: A police officer has died after he was shot by a Anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist, who opened fire near the CDC complex and Emory University in Atlanta. Your stupid conspiracy theories are literally killing people.

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

President Trump didn't like the jobs numbers, so he fired the person responsible for producing them. It's a move that has been tried before, by leaders of countries from Argentina to Greece to the Soviet Union. It rarely ends well. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b... #EconSky

A bit of (my) Silicon Valley history… youtu.be/Jn4__qhM9Ro?...

GOP Rep. Robert Bresnahan of Pennsylvania voted for Trump’s budget on Thursday, conveniently after he dumped his shares of stock in a Medicaid provider. https://trib.al/lFGDEk2

The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

@cstross.bsky.social Ok I’ve been telling people about accelerando for decades, but when I read this story it completely reminded me of Manfred…. sfstandard.com/2025/07/05/r...

Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry.

Who did this? 😂

The Peace Candidate.

Take note.

Trump is skipping over all potential checks on use of force. Intl law - no claim of self defense. US law - no AUMF, does not meet WPR criteria, Article 2 so stretched it’s tearing. Partisan congressional notification only. Intel and defense principals objected. Vast majority of Americans opposed. 1/

BREAKING: RFK Jr. fires ACIP, the panel responsible for advising on vaccines. This breaks a promise to Sen. Bill Cassidy, who voted to advance Kennedy as HHS secretary on the condition that he would, among other things, keep ACIP in place. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

Trump's lawsuit was flawed from the start: Journalists editing interviewees' answers for time or clarity is both routine and protected by the First Amendment.

Awesome hosting CASBS fellow @decelles.bsky.social for a CASBS podcast recording. Fmr fellow & Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @johnmarkoff.bsky.social chatted w/Katy on topics engaging her research on organizational design, human interactions & behavior We'll publish the episode in a few months!

Josh Hawley is calling on FEMA to aid recovery efforts following devastating storms that ravaged the state last week “only months after voting against a bill that provided more disaster relief funds for the agency.” www.newsweek.com/republican-s...

No Democrats should be supporting Trump’s self-enrichment. If your Democratic senator voted with the GOP yesterday, they need to hear from you today (especially if you’re in New Jersey): indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold her Trump Media stock on April 2, the same day as the president’s “Liberation Day” press conference. Trump Media fell 13% in the following days, before rebounding. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org

Where can I contribute to repurchase these books?

I checked. It’s real.

There's always a tweet.

In addition to sharing beautiful images from her science, the Harvard scientist Trump jailed, Kseniia Petrova, has this to say about doing science in Russia and the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

Just hit me that the importing of white folks from South Africa and exporting of brown people is actually, literally an attempt at a great replacement