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...

I respect “War Pigs” for its moral simplicity. Listen to that on 10 and then read one of those 1,000-word op-eds that amounts to “the reasons for state violence are complicated.” Which do you find more convincing?

Did a news roundup, mostly because, under cover of Epstein, Dem leaders pulled a fast one on the grassroots voters demanding they fight harder—on the grounds that quitting is easier, and those of us holding them to a high standard pretty much suck. www.offmessage.net/p/jeffries-m...

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

So true.

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

"I do not want to do subsistence agriculture" is maybe the most common motivation for things in human history

Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress. But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/1974...

So THAT’S why Homer Simpson says that…

Lol, 10/10 work here David Paterson www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/n...

As I've been saying www.readtpa.com/p/the-grok-w...

Trump Wants to Rule as a Dictator. Make Him Do It. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

Trump take scientists

Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

Keep in mind, as @michellegoldberg.bsky.social does in her deservedly brutal oped today, that Musk couldn’t have wreaked so much damage without the compliance of the “lying or misinformed” Marco Rubios in this administration. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

The unanimous panel is made up of Reagan, Obama, and Trump appointees.

At the same moment that China is reaping the rewards of following the American model of building research partnerships with higher education, America is following China's Cultural Revolution model of destroying higher ed via a culture war. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/budgets-as...

Evil. And media helped bring this evil to life.