If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸 www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

It took me a second to figure out the person on trial is the victim of the shooting and not the ice agent who shot somebody

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If profits shape the energy transition we need to understand the biggest profit event this century: the 2022 oil and gas price spike. Very happy our paper is now out in Energy Research & Social Science. Thread by lead-author @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social 👇

DEI for me, not for thee.

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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there seems to be an almost inverse correlation between being a right wing whacko and the ability to feel shame.

Former USAID official here. The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world. It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation. The facts, below. 🧵

Attention Attorneys: Federal Trans inmate transferred to men’s prison. Denied medical care. Denied phone privileges. Needs help. youtu.be/4bYm4VIEAkM

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees: -the right of the people peaceably to assemble -to petition the Government for a redress of grievances -the free exercise of religion -freedom of speech If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

This is GOP #Corruption! Under the law, federal employees are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not some to-bit demented despot. aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump...

I cannot stress enough that the #1 rule of firearm training is you do not point your weapon at anything you do not fully intend to shoot. These untrained fools need to be prosecuted when this is all done

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

New MSS front company just dropped

Since the election, Republicans refused to negotiate at all with Democrats - on anything. But now we are told that the Democrats should give in negotiate in good faith.

US military action is done with the American people’s money in the American people’s name, as is DOJ. The people’s elected representatives in Congress have oversight authority. They are 100% entitled to this info. You know who doesn’t have to disclose legal advice? Personal attorneys and advisors.

NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety. Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...

How do you find a compromise budget that reflects the priorities of 535 members of the House and Senate when Trump will just withhold any money he doesn't want to spend? A representative democracy cannot function as Trump has broken the US system this year. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

We’re getting very used to this but the statement is unusually unhinged.

Once again "imminence." Once again, an unaccountable expansion of Presidential power to deploy force. As I told @npr.org last week, this has the potential to be another forever war, any group can end up being treated in the same manner.

The Bob Ross Estate has agreed to sell 30 of his paintings at auction, with all proceeds going to local public television stations. [AP]

"Are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?" "You're a poopyhead" "I repeat, are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?" Silence. Bondi ain't defending Trump on this one.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

NEW: ICE purchased custom-made vans from a company called TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV) that are equipped with fake cellphone towers designed to spy on phones. TOSV president said the company integrates the cell-site simulators into their vans, but does not manufacture the surveillance tool.

At some point, we're going to have a bunch of people claiming they never voted for Trump to try to distance themselves from this administration when they clearly did vote for him.

A secret meeting with X. A senior State Dept. advisor just out of college. The VP's speech in Munich. Pressure on European regulators. What do they share? They're all part of an agenda to turn the transatlantic alliance into a far right international: www.techpolicy.press/trumps-state...

If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no. Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.

1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation. defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

This jibes with @abenewman.bsky.social and my writing, but goes much, much deeper than we have done on the bureaucratic transformation of State.

Trump’s State Department Wants to Use Tech Policy to Remake Europe In Its Image www.techpolicy.press/trumps-state...

The firehose of corruption makes the reality of it staggering. And that’s the point. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

tl;dr: The US is treating Europe as its main adversary

The Trump regime’s desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, but its capacity is very much not.

Just to be super clear here also. The photographs in question here have been described as 2 topless teenage girls pointing and laughing at trump who has a stain on his pants. No fucking wonder they won’t let that see the light of day.

Typically, federal government shutdowns don't have much macroeconomic impact because all the workers receive backpay after they return. If they never get paid at all, that changes things quite a bit. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss. His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr... He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety" Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime www.404media.co/police-said-...

Team Trump has been announcing since Biden was president that this current president if he were elected in 2024 would invoke the insurrection act just if he felt like it, so yes, that seems like where this is headed

Substack is a bad place.

Any wonder why they wear masks?

They aren’t going to “cancel” elections but the idea of having free and fair elections is over unless something changes.