I posted this earlier in the morning on the day that Kirk was killed so no one read it and it wasn't that important, but it does explain this pretty well bsky.app/profile/anne...

Not like it would be justified if they were drug smugglers, but I think it hasn't gotten enough focus that a boat with 11 people onboard heading from Venezuela to Trinidad was almost certainly migrants. These were probably, at least for some of them, people fleeing Maduro. That's who they murdered.

The executive has encouraged the legislature to compel the executive to release files the executive holds and has chosen not to release despite calls from legislators. It's unclear whether the executive will veto the legislature's bill, and whether the legislature will over-ride the executive's veto

thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014

Your constituents have sent a message that they are mad at Republicans and you want to compromise with them? This sucks, man.

this is so much more embarrassing than any of j. edgar hoover's little outfits could have possibly been

supreme court poised to side with "No We Shouldn't" in landmark case "We Should Shoot The Economy In The Head For No Reason v. No We Shouldn't"

florida man

A few months before I left TPM, Dick Cheney got a heart transplant and we thought he might die, so @davidkurtz.bsky.social asked me to prewrite his obituary. I did as instructed, David never even gave it so much as a copy edit, and now, 13 years later, it’s live, purple prose, TKs and all.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Not Tamales. Change one letter, ruin a candy.

NEW: The Trump admin just ended the practice of automatically extending work permits when people file to renew them — meaning that if USCIS takes too long to process a renewal the applicant loses their authorization to work legally. The interim final rule applies to renewals filed after tomorrow.

I wrote about how Border Patrol taking the lead in immigration operations mirrors a shift that happens often in concentration-camp regimes, including Nazi Germany, and some ways we can respond.

Morning light shines upon convection within Category 5 Hurricane Melissa.

A jaw-dropping view of the sun setting on Hurricane Melissa tonight. Melissa continues its approach to Jamaica as a powerful, major hurricane.

Democrats should hold a press conference and announce that if Mike Johnson has no interest in running the House they'd be happy to do it for him

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

This profile in the @kentuckylantern.com of five No Kings protest organizers from across Kentucky is really great kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/16/d...

paramount theater, oakland, california, 1978

The president is claiming the power to make up a war so he can engage in extrajudicial killings

This Day in Labor History: October 2, 1968. the Mexican military slaughtered students protesting in the Tlateloco Plaza at the edge of Mexico City. The Tlateloco Massacre demonstrated the complete corruption of the Mexican Revolution’s ideals!!!

friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

This passage nearly broke me.

Dr. Sakuhei #Fujiwhara would be elated to see this 6-day forecast. When he wrote his paper on the process we now call the "Fujiwhara Effect" in 1921, numerical modeling and satellite imagery were still decades away. #Imelda #Humberto rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Eine Klein Late Night Music Abundance adonis Ezra thought he was the Mozart of moderation, but Donald Giovanni's minions are playing him like a magic flute. And after last night's requiem for Jimmy Kimmel, we may all be descending into hell. by Maureen Dowd

STEPHEN A: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue. [BAYLESS nods] You KNOW I am sensitive to the First Amendment, BAYLESS: Absolutely STEPHEN A: BUT!

This is a THREAD of people NOT FIRED. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Very good @jamellebouie.net piece (gift link) exemplifying what I like most about his writing: a truthful, full look at US history doesn't prompt hate, but a complex love. Creedal America is good, and worth fighting for. Attempts to deny and distort the history is part of a campaign to destroy that.

USTA to Broadcasters: DO NOT show Trump getting booed. Streisand effect:

Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics

TOP 10 FOOD CHAIN LIES bell made of tacos king made of burgers house made of pancakes factory made of cheesecake bees made of apples hut made of pizza queen made of dairy wings made of wild buffalo garden made of olives barrel made of crackers

This radar loop of Hurricane #Katrina in 2005 spans August 28 at noon (CDT) through the morning of the 29th at 8:54am when communication with the radar was lost.

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict

Turns out you can indict a ham sandwich, but not the guy who threw it.

The constant doomerist fascism drum beat is just really annoying because it refuses to grapple with some really basic administrative questions, like, importantly, how do you gut administrative state and then expect to wield administrative power over resistant localities?

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Zuckermuskian solipsism They just don’t think other people are real. by Cory Doctorow (who isn't here?) Arendt described this as "Radical Evil," and I first wrote about it when Trump was cursing the press at his rallies for not showing the crowd when his campaign agreed the camera wouldn't move.

- Total restoration of all impounded funds - Total end to (para)military occupation of cities - Total end to illegal IEEPA/Section 232 tariffs - Resignation of everyone involved in the Hegseth Signal chat - Resignation of RFK & restoration of mRNA funding - Etc.

Slightly diminish a band: Kilodeth

I have a hard time believing that voters really care about crime when a plurality voted for a convicted criminal who committed serious crimes against the country and vowed blatant lawbreaking in office. I believe voters care about this subject, but “crime” is not quite it. They mean something else.

Reminiscent of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee”:

Trump is constantly concocting fake emergencies while doing everything in his power to accelerate the major existential crisis of our time.

Jamelle Bouie: Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

The Kennedy’s Dead

my sister accused me of stealing clothes and i nearly shit her pants

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

What perfect album came out when you were 16?

We're in the Orbanization of our media system now. It's happening. CNN's Brian Stelter drew this assessment from Gábor Scheiring, "who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...