"He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners" -The Declaration of Independence

this is going to be a fucking shitshow, lmao

Paedo Protector act.sumofus.org/go/739478?t=...

A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change. This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.

Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.

RFK Jr. is obviously a dangerous fraudster. But he would not have the power he currently has without being aided by the Republican Congress—in some cases, by members who should know better. I despise RFK Jr. but I also harbor a different flavor of contempt for doctors like Cassidy and Barasso.

Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.

I can't scream loudly enough that the people leading HHS right now are liars. RFK Jr. Marty Makary. Vinay Prasad. They are liars. And the lies they are telling are the lies eugenicists like themselves tell.

The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false. Lots of people are going to die.

That tired old lie about immigrants being job-stealers? Pfft. Immigrant-led businesses employed nearly eight million Americans, according to 2019 data from the New American Economy👇🏽 open.substack.com/pub/americas...

This is the funniest, most-unexpected turn of this Friday afternoon.

Good day to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Still. But we are back in a reality where Ukraine is being pushed toward capitulation. Myroslava wants her son to live in a free world. She voiced The Counteroffensive's stance: Trump's peace plan is a roadmap to more war.

it’s less commented on but RFK, jr. is the end product of decades of credulous, unserious, dereliction of duty from the press in the same way trump is

In this post, I address Trump's shameful attempt to reprise the Munich agreement with Ukraine - and what US and European supporters of Ukraine can do to counter it: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

A-freaking-men.

We in the U.S. are all living in an increasingly dangerous world because a bunch of anti-science idiots have been put in charge of our public health system.

This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.

If you are thinking about sending money to Amy McGrath or some long shot senate candidate, stop yourself and send it to your state’s legislative candidates. More bang for your buck and more likely to make a difference. A strong state legislative slate will boost the top of the ticket, too. 3/3.

Controlling state houses also gives you way more control over the election infrastructure, from everything from districting to ballot access. If you control the statehouse, you nip election fuckery in the bud. Dems aren’t gonna get better conditions than this. Better make it count 2/3

I mean jesus christ, it was not that long ago that "papers please" was damn near universally accepted as a 2-word shorthand for the kind of oppressive society that we beat our chests over being better than

I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.

Yeah, here's hoping it doesn't happen in this or any ideologically-aligned successor administrations. If it does, it's going to be a hell of a lot worse.

To reiterate: aiming a firearm at a non-violent bystander who is not resisting arrest or posing any threat is an illegal use of force and possibly a crime. This ICE agent should be investigated for misconduct. No one is above the law.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

Abolish ICE. Prosecute CBP. These are moderate positions.

Full endorsement of this sentiment. We need to concentrate less power in an office that has been shown to be easily corruptible.

On the eve of an election too. Sue CBS

Commentary: For every meal a food bank provides, SNAP provides nine. The impact of even a temporary delay cannot be understated. Hunger does not discriminate by party, and everyone needs to eat. minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/03/f...

Perfect. 60 Minutes edited out an important part of its Trump interview in which he boasts about extracting millions from its parent company on an utterly meritless claim . . . that 60 Minutes selectively edited its Kamala Harris interview.

If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.

Yes, an important test for the midterms.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court permanently BLOCKS the administration from implementing part of Executive Order requiring documentary proof of citizenship on the federal voter registration application. A BIG VICTORY for our clients--DNC, DGA, DSCC, DCCC, Sen Schumer and Leader Jeffries--and all voters!

This just genuinely does not show up in the data. At all.

China bought 30 million metric tons of soybeans from the US last year. This year under Trump it will be 12 million.

Seriously? The Economist can fuck-off with this normalizing bullshit headline. If I were still a subscriber, I'd be cancelling today.

Trump is a paper tiger, he is not popular.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Hero mentality here.

Hey, just want to mumble that this is wildly illegal and inappropriate and would prompt impeachment proceedings if we still had a functional Congress instead of one run by a blind, deaf and mute Renfeld wannabe.

lol remember when people earnestly said Trump was an alternate option to the imperial-interventionist American military-industrial complex absolute idiocy, obvious for more than a decade

This is a great development, even if it is an absolute shame what this HHS has done to MMWR.

"...so much of what Rowan and Trump are proposing is so obviously affirmative action for mediocre American conservatives..." - @dandrezner.bsky.social danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-dismal...

I think Illinois should eliminate the 3 GOP districts we have here, tbh

Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

The first thing the State Dept account did here was threaten to use Bluesky posts to strip people of visas and investigate non citizens. That's a real threat against every Bluesky user and it's absurd the account isnt banned yet.

Doctor groups need to ‘step up to the plate’ as CDC guidance becomes harder to trust, former leaders say www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/f... via @statnews.com

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid It's racism all the way down

Making our country more vulnerable.

This means that measles is also preparing to make its way round the world. Anti-vaxxers are not only too stupid enough to realise that the risk from the disease is astronomically higher than the risk from the vaccination. They're also selfish enough to put everyone else at risk for their stuipidity.