Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54 Approval on economy: 39-56 Approval on trade: 39-54 On National Guard into cities: 42-55 On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55 Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

I wrote about whether we can protect teachers -- the celebrities in our kids' lives -- the way we protected Jimmy Kimmel. H/T to @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @davelevitan.bsky.social.

From the latest issue of American Educator from the AFT: "Economic Inequality Threatens Democracy" by Eli G. Rau and Susan Stokes: www.aft.org/ae/fall2025/...

the problem with doing WW2 revisionism on here is that everyone on this website is a thirty eight year old nerd who spent all of high school reading WW2 history books

"We are not going to let the fact that he's fucking up the market fuck up his electoral prospects, because this is a rehearsal for 2026"

I talked about rising electricity bills & the need for clean electrification on #WITHpod with @chrislhayes.bsky.social. AI & data centers are spiking electricity demand, & the Administration is restricting the building of renewable energy. Prices are going up. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f653...

Spain announces it is joining Italy in sending a ship to assist the flotilla against Israeli attacks

New: The government could shut down next wk, causing major disruptions: closing some nat'l parks, halting food safety inspections, snarling travel and jeopardizing nutrition assistance. That could deliver a blow to an economy already reeling from tariffs and more. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

I’m starting a new AI consulting company called It’s Not Going To Work, LLC. Here’s how it works. You give me $100,000, I tell you “It’s not going to work”(TM), you save $1M+ in wasted contracts, lots of wasted effort, and embarrassment. It’s a good deal. Try it out.

"Trump and MAGA allies have abandoned all pretense of supporting free speech in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, using the killing to justify an accelerating drive to criminalize criticism of the president, intimidate speakers on the left and forcibly shift public discourse to the right"

Like the kind of girl Trump drew on Epstein’s birthday card, or a different kind

I don’t know about you guys, but the most pathetic guys in high school were the wannabe bullies who, when called out or caught, immediately went for the “But I was just joking” cop out

JD Vance, speaking in N.C. today, went on a rant against Gavin Newsom and Democrats generally using rhetoric that, he suggests, helped lead to today’s Dallas shooting: “if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go STRAIGHT TO HELL!”

The president does not believe in free speech and his administration’s efforts to punish critics and coerce media outlets will continue until he can turn on his TV, flip through the channels, and see nothing but Fox-style propaganda on every network. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

“MAGA/MAHA does not like autistic people. So it has now officially blamed mothers for bearing autistic children and offered the possibility they can cure these defective people. This is wrong. Wrong on the science. Wrong on the reality. And wrong on the humanity.” www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...

⚠️NEW REPORT⚠️ Excessive force complaints against the NYPD have surged in past three years to highest since 2013—a dramatic increase during Mayor Adams's tenure.

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

“.. The U.S. soybean harvest began in September without any orders from the world’s largest buyer: China .. “.. In a typical year, China buys more than half of all U.S. soybean exports.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.agriculture.com/partners-u-s...

I think the key problem here is a continuing assumption, in traditional media, that when the White House speaks on a major topic, this is a big news story. That model can't cope with a president with no regard for truth, who's in constant broadcast mode, & who veers around from one day to another.

Silicon Valley has decided that misinformation is $$$. The only chance of having a sane society will have to come from a massive expansion of publicly-owned media. Yet what little of it we have is being shuttered…

Which things is Meta's chatbot doing that the company is worried about? Let's see, is it... 🚫 Having explicit conversations with teens 🚫 Creating sexy AI versions of celebrities 🚫 Encouraging teens to engage in self harm, drug use and cyberbullying 🚫 Pretending to be a real person ✅ Being "too woke"

I literally spent 10 min translating Lula’s speech about Palestine to English. I just need every single one of my gringo friends to listen to this man in order to maybe restore their faith in politics. This right here is a politician. This is why we voted for him. And personally, I’ll do it again.

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

YouTube will create a process to reinstate the accounts of content creators whose profiles were banned because they violated rules that limited misinformation about Covid-19 and the 2020 election.

Former DACA recipient dies in ICE custody after being hospitalized

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

BREAKING: Israel has ordered shut the Allenby Crossing, the only gateway for three million Palestinians in the West Bank to the outside world, “until further notice,” in what appears to be a response to the wave of recognition of Palestine by UN member states including key European allies.

NJ PBS shutting down next summer. “15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.” newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality. www.wired.com/story/dhs-ha...

We’re at the “riskier borrower” phase of the cycle. @wsj.com $F www.wsj.com/business/aut...

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

A friend working in—and enthusiastic about—AI asked me how kids were using it in K–12 schools now, so I asked my kids. Kids: "Cheating." Me: "Yeah, I figured, but have you ever had a teacher try to use it for something el—" Kids: "No, it's for cheating. For writing papers for you."

Congrats to @baruch.cuny.edu history prof. @profbrooks.bsky.social for your new book from @ucpress.bsky.social.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

As People Mag Points out, a treatment for autism Dr. Oz just announced Trump’s FDA is approving is sold by a supplement company owned by… Dr. Oz. people.com/what-is-leuc...

New: For @msnbc.com I wrote abt Trump’s absurd EO declaring antifa a “domestic terror org” I trace history of MAGA manufacturing antifa bogeyman to both distract from v real far right violence, & to create a pretext for vigilantes & police to target the wider left www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

Trump's Executive Order on Antifa is written such that someone recording masked agents snatching people off the streets, or asking these agents what they're doing, can be deemed a "terrorist."

I have no idea how law students are supposed take seriously anything they learn in constitutional law when the Supreme Court's entire approach to precedent and stare decisis is just "does Mister Trump want us to overturn it right now" ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

President Trump is directing the Justice Department to prosecute his perceived political enemies, upending the career ranks and raising questions about selective prosecution.

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

Trump is consolidating power mainly in areas where it's relatively easier for him to do so. When he faces real resistance, it's a different story. Stop acting like he's invincible.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

The Trump Administration has proposed a rule to eliminate the Duration of Status for international students (www.nafsa.org/Duration-sta...) and replace it with a system that admits international students to a stay no longer than four years.

Removal protections are gone. Humphrey's Executor is overruled in all but name by the Shadow Docket. Rest in peace to the Presidency, and long live the Monarchy.