Trump trying to send a DM to Pam Bondi but actually posting it on TruthSocial instead raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental acuity.

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

"With each new crisis in recent years, we are reminded that we cannot rely upon President Trump to tamp down the anger and the passion in the aftermath of political violence"

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

@mbta.com 71 bus stopped and turned lights off at 58 Mt Auburn st (heading towards Watertown sq). This delayed the morning route by about 10 minutes.

what this sounds like to me is the administration is cutting money for efforts to support integration and sending some of the cash over to HCBUs, under the view that this is where black students ought to go www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

Let's say it again: 1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off. 2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off. It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.

Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania are struggling to find workers. They're pushing lawmakers to move faster on a farm labor solution, even as Trump cracks down on immigration. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do," said one farmer and three-time Trump voter.

In May, the Trump family's crypto start-up @worldlibertyfi.bsky.social announced a UAE investment of $2B. 2 weeks later, the WH agreed to allow the UAE access to coveted AI chips. The 2 deals are more connected than previously known, even spurring conflict of interest concerns inside the Trump WH.

Please read. Greg’s not an alarmist. He’s a straight talker.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

No one cares about my take on shutdown politics but here it is anyway: To me everyone is talking around the central issue. I believe there is a world in which Dems could "win" the shutdown -- as @brianbeutler.bsky.social says, not by making it a negotiating tactic on side issues, but by ...

This is Ziggy. He couldn't contain his excitement for pool day. There's nowhere he'd rather be than here with his fish. 13/10 (IG: k9aquaticcenter)

Republicans aren't going to save us. The mainstream media isn't going to save us. The Supreme Court isn't going to save us. We will not stop Trump from destroying our democracy through de-escalatory politics. We need to fight fire with fire.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social from @stonekettle.bsky.social "Russia bombs Poland, Nobel Peace Prize for Trump? -- NYT Probably"

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

Emperor Nero rolls out the entertainment.

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

The fact that -- before enactment of the "Big Beautiful Bill" -- House Republicans went up to a Democratic colleague to "confess" they were knowingly voting to do grave harm to the nation, and their own voters, exemplifies the rot at the heart of the Trumped GOP.

Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.

It is pathetic that these companies and universities expect to be the singular exception in human history to capitulate to a tyrant ONCE and then be left in peace forever. You’re either a mark or you’re not.

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

Anyone else notice a pattern in the government officials Trump is firing?

i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not

lol NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...

@honest2betsy.bsky.social !!!

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

I'm starting to think that Trump’s tariff policies may not be in the interests of the American people.

How can any American with a shred of respect for democracy and/or education continue to defend this kind of blatantly illegal, corrupt, and self-destructive malfeasance?

Warren Demands Dems Refuse to Participate in Budgeting So Long As Trump is Freezing Funds talkingpointsmemo.com/news/warren-...

Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.

Continued thoughts about being a person of privilege in a supremacist society while trying to oppose supremacy, and the some ideas on how best to avoid becoming an obstacle to that struggle by resisting the supremacist urge to center darkness. www.the-reframe.com/total-eclips...

reminded of one of the greatest pieces of quantitative research ever to be undertaken – @ryannorth.ca's 2009 analysis of the number of letters U people use to spell "excuuuuuuuuuuuse me, princess" full deets: qwantz.livejournal.com/112122.html

That there’s a police state.

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists. This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

Today, a DOJ lawyer confirmed that the U.S. plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he’s released from pre-trial criminal detention. The lawyer said the government won’t wait until Abrego faces trial. Less than two weeks ago, a White House deputy press secretary decried that as “fake news.”

Photographs of ICE at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles If you’re not from LA it can be hard to appreciate the way this has completely altered a major community space I learned to ride my first bike in that park, and then we had paletas from a vendor after … www.instagram.com/p/DL0MEgjhz7...

Why?

This is a Hubble telescope image of the farthest reaches of the universe. It's not even anywhere close to the spot where the "My conscience wouldn't allow me to vote for either 2024 candidate" folks can fuck all the way off to.

The hidden mandate to cut Medicare. Yes, Medicare.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Murkowski’s vote. It contains, in one action, so much that defines our pathetic political moment: Selfishness: I’m taking care of me and mine, the rest of you can pound sand; Lack of accountability: I know the bill is bad, hopefully someone else will fix it;

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

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

A new ProPublica data analysis adds empirical weight to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of miscarriage — which occurs in up to 30% of pregnancies — far more dangerous.