Me and the family went to downtown Chicago over Labor Day weekend. We walked the streets, played in parks, and rode public transportation the whole time. Never felt unsafe or even uncomfortable. The city was absolutely beautiful and we had a great time.

Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account

Very clear lines and definitions here, we should not ignore it.

With no comment, in his own words:

This was not a political sting operation where an official is induced to do crime. Homan was *actively soliciting bribes*, the FBI heard about it, and so gave it a try. Worth also highlighting this was a grift since he was selling influence prior to the election—so before he had any to sell

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

This alone is 1mm people, enormous implications for the labor force.

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

Hot Girl Sumer is here again

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

I used to believe in taking the high road and leading by example with a non-partisan led districting. I now see the error in that logic and I think Dems should gerrymander so hard that it takes a constitutional amendment or court to end all partisan gerrymanders.

“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

I think about this constantly

So this stuff is genuinely very disturbing and dangerous bsky.app/profile/atru...

They are stripping our govt like meth addicts ripping copper out of a house. This would be the subject of a full congressional inquiry in normal times.

if Trump were actively trying to impoverish and deskill the united states for the sake of our competitors, what would he be doing differently?

I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.

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In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered one of the greatest speeches in US history. Today it’s often presented in abridged form, though, and skips what seems like a long-winded introduction. If you read the intro closely, however, there’s an ingenious structure. THREAD👇🏽

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

Wisconsin Republican Derrick Van Orden celebrates depriving millions of Americans of health care, school meals, and food assistance, while voting to add trillions in debt to cut taxes for billionaires

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

How do you feel like the good guys while shooting artillery at starving unarmed civilians in line for food?

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Which means a baby born in New York to undocumented parents will be a citizen. But a baby born to undocumented parents in Kentucky will not be a citizen. This is madness.

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

I thought that was a paraphrase. It’s a direct quote. 🙃

The city began hiring many more civilians in 2023 and 2024 to handle incidents that don’t require a physical police response and carry out tasks that don’t need a commissioned officer.

Picking radishes is no easy task. Efrén spends 8-10 hrs/day on his knees, picking and sorting the radishes into small bunches to fill dozens of crates a day in CA's Ventura County. He's proud to have worked in America's fields for 49 years. #WeFeedYou

The Union forever, hurrah! boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars; While we rally round the flag, boys, we rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!

"I bought the US government fair and square" is literally the argument he is making in public.

As Trump slashes science spending, we could, quite literally, lose some of our best researchers to China. This hurts our research progress and leaves a lasting mark on the economy, higher education, and national security.

This is us now. Don't look away. Good on the standers-by who recorded and tried to intervene.

Judge Wilkinson is an appointee of Ronald Reagan and has been on the shortlist for previous Republican presidents for nominations to #scotus. This is as emphatic of a warning it gets for everyone and a notice for Roberts SCOTUS.

god I love this bit and I agree with it on the merits

— “Backbreaking work on turnip farms and factory lines is good for you, actually” — Destroying universities — “You don’t need so many things” — Elites attacking elitism — Hate/contempt for cities — “Suck it up for the greater good” Am I crazy, or is MAGA starting to sound kinda’ Mao-y?

An alternate news universe.

“Trade wars are good and easy to win” -famous (non) economist

High-efficiency geothermal heat pumps are as cheap as gas or electric heating alternatives when built into homes from the ground up, say startup Dandelion Energy and homebuilder Lennar. They're building 1,500 homes in Colorado to prove the proposition: www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo... #energysky

There are pages and pages of this stuff. Hard to overstate how badly the White House is torching potential for economic activity rn. www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

The officials involved in this must be held accountable. You can't just send a guy with valid status to a foreign prison and then say "oopsies, we shouldn't have deported him. oh well!"

I especially appreciate this argument because: “they can do it but they shouldn’t” is a line people are going to need to get used to re actions against noncitizens. Law gives the exec branch a LOT of power. The converse is that exec gets to choose when to use it.

Not to be all woke, but I don't think this is the way our justice system should work

If I was intentionally trying to create the aesthetic of bragging about a concentration camp I established, I don’t know what I’d do differently than this.

Gift link: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal