Let’s hope the administration listens.

Love to see it.

This keeps getting worse.

We’re pretty cooked. No one I know seems to think there’s much to worry about and those who do are at a loss about how to convince everyone else otherwise without coming across as totally paranoid. We need leaders speaking plainly. We need organization. I hope #NoKings ramps things up.

What's happening in Chicago is not normal. The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

Important warning

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

I hope journalists and academic administrators read this excellent walkthrough of the Trump admin’s latest attempt to seize control of higher ed. I’m relieved Balkin thinks this effort is so poorly managed that it’s likely to fail miserably. But the demands are striking.

The “just a flesh wound” stop. A subspecies of the #KavanaughStop

@aoc.bsky.social is hands-down the best communicator in Dem politics right now. Her wonky confidence in government’s ability to improve people’s lives makes her appeal genuine even as she effectively moderates her message for different audiences. Wish centrists could get over their hangups w/her.

TIL about the “Parole in Place” program and I am that much sadder about the state of our country for it. Compelling military service to prevent a parent’s deportation? Generational servitude is not a good thing. Just let them stay.

I find it incredible how Palestinian rights can activate so many people. How can we get people to care this much about other causes? I mean, Italy elected a far-right nationalist government. It’s vicious to MENA refugees fleeing the conditions that resulted from European racism and colonialism.

@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social Reliable voting constituent here. This is the way to deal with Trump. Do not fold. Do not give him money to invade American cities, dismantle American universities, break American labor unions, sicken American children, burn away America’s future.

This. It makes it much easier for me to avoid ever watching CNN again when I’m flipping past and Scott Jennings is on—the man is an empty suit stuffed with whatever lies Trump and the GOP are peddling any given day. Shame on @cnn.com for keeping him on their payroll and constantly on the air.

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it.

Imagine if British newspapers put only half the energy they spent obsessing over Starmer’s curry in Durham into covering the fact that a former top figure in UKIP, the Brexit Party and Reform UK has just pleaded guilty to eight counts of pro-Russian bribery.

It’s important for consumers to speak with their wallets and object to the elevation of Bari Weiss at CBS News. In some ways this is worse than Kimmel—CBS is installing an administration-friendly propagandist to run its news division. Cancel your Paramount+ #CancelParamount+

MAGA: If you want to know what the rest of the world thinks of Donald Trump, here you go. They think he's an idiot and a buffoon. Because that's what he is. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I am a big “No” to nuclear meltdown in the middle of Europe This reality has too many plot threads already, and the Ukrainians really deserve a break. This seems like it should be fixable with appropriate pressure. Is this administration applying any?

Another reporter, Madeline Fening, had her trial postponed to January. Griffith was offered the extension but declined. The postponement arose from prosecutors admitting they'd offered to drop the cases if journalists essentially gave up the right to sue. That's unethical and unconstitutional.

This is not a fight about tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin. We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

This is true for many Planned Parenthood clinics. Even in the PP clinics that do perform abortions, it’s only one of the numerous family planning and health services they provide to mostly to low-income patients in marginalized communities who rely on them.

TradCaths: Wives who fail to comply with our Church’s rigid hierarchies and submit with their whole hearts to their husbands are condemned to hell. Also TradCaths: Fuck the Pope.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

It’s kind of strange how Sen. Murphy’s recent social media spots seem like pep talks directed at his fellow lawmakers more than his constituents. I mean, I’m glad someone’s saying this.

This passage nearly broke me.

“The behavior was pure misogynistic abuse, and it’s a growing movement in American culture right now.” www.glamour.com/story/the-mi...

1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

Nope. Not good.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Adams and Cuomo’s actions. But they won't decide this election. In just over 5 weeks, we'll turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas — and deliver a government every New Yorker can be proud of.

I am so infuriated by this line of reasoning. The reason MAGA shouldn’t crime is because they will be held accountable under the law, not because future Democratic presidents will target them. MAGA’s not worried about either, because they don’t think Dems will be in power again in their lifetimes.

It’s nice that Trump wants to turn Gaza into Dubai, but how do the people that live there feel about it? How about after you point out Gulf monarchies exist on armies of cheap migrant labor, which is likely what most Palestinians will be stuck doing while Gulf magnates build villas on their land.

I am so infuriated by this line of reasoning. The reason MAGA shouldn’t crime is because they will be held accountable under the law, not because future Democratic presidents will target them. MAGA’s not worried about either, because they don’t think Dems will be in power again in their lifetimes.

If Democrats Take Strong Economic Stands, They Can Stop Being Defined by Their Enemies (new post) nomoremister.blogspot.com/2025/09/if-d...

Federal Unionists Network letter: "refuse to support any budget that does not rightfully return the power of the purse to Congress and ensure any and all appropriated funds are spent on our critical public services" #nokings

TBC, it shouldn’t matter whether the guys on the boat were trafficking drugs or not - it was murder. There’s no death penalty for drug trafficking, even after due process.

This is the kind of thing that will seriously undermine faith in the FDA.

The professor suspended in the story below is an 84 year old Jewish man with a daughter and grandchildren living in Israel. No doubt he’s high on ADL’s list of antisemites because he’s acknowledged that Israel is committing genocide.

CHRISTIAN IDENTITY IS A WHITE POWER THEOLOGY, not just identifying as Christian. Christian Identity believes that white people are the lost tribe of Israel and all people of color and Jewish people are descended from beasts or from Satan. (1)

I really do hope the phrase “Kavanaugh Stop” or “Kavanaugh Encounter” sticks.

Yikes

I’ll have what he’s having.

It actually matters that the paper of record and major news organizations are telling us that when the antifascists take power they’re going to act like fascists. It’s just completely bonkers thinking by our national press.

Apparently this is the center-right approach. Joe Scarborough did the same: “MAGA shouldn’t set a precedent of bogus prosecutions because progressives are salivating to do the same when they get in power.” Idiotic to counter rising fascism by arguing the other side is the same, esp when it’s not.

This is really good news

With government funding set to expire Tuesday, Speaker Johnson refuses to bring the House back. He knows seating Adelita Grijalva, just elected in Arizona, would trigger a vote on the Epstein Files. Putting politics ahead of governing is reckless and wrong.

Peter Baker is basically both-sidesing retributive prosecution and the weaponization of government. What Democrat do you see winning power and taking advantage of the “precedent” Trump sets by concocting bogus prosecutions of political enemies? To Baker, that’s the most likely outcome. Lunacy.