To the extent anyone cares, the legality of tapping into tariff money is identical to the legality of tapping into federal income tax money, because they are both taxes that accrue to the treasury. Appropriations are still needed to spend it

The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org

It's stunning and incredibly irresponsible that anyone has paid for business education given Ea-nāṣir's archives have been available to read since ~1750 BCE.

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” -Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.

Members of the Board of Captains of the Federated Big Boats System monitoring global vibes and making decisions about How Big and How Stuck.

I don't--can't--know how it's resonating with all voters, but Johnson doing a daily shutdown press conference and while simultaneously preventing the House from convening really feels like it's run its course and is actively hurting the GOP now.

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

Every single time I get a UPS package

Remind me, do taxpayers pay the president’s salary or does the president pay ours? Do we work for the president or does he work for us?

Nelson and KBJ are finally to the point where they're arguing thta the 15th Amendment doesn't have a *time limit* and the Voting Rights Act is just the mechanism to make the 15th Amendment work. Brett and Amy don't actually think the 15th Amendment should be made to work so...

Must be nice for Johnson that his *real job* is being shitty at his titular job. He is qualified. A dysfunctional Congress can't pass legislation, leaving room for the Executive to usurp power and the Judicial to rubber stamp. A dysfunctional Congress can't take action to reign in the Executive.

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines. We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help. My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes. I hate having to ask this

I know encores are kinda bullshit, but it really drives home the point when you save 1) your current single, 2) your biggest hit, and 3) your original breakout song.

I am also from FROM Portland and this is the right of it. The only thing I would add is that Portland was very blue collar until about 2000 and there's an underlying work ethic element, too. It's not Be Weird And Slack-Off. It's Be Weird And Get Your Shit Done (be it normal or weird).

Happy Columbo’s Day

That the third in line for the presidency has no idea what extra-constitutional actions a president from his own party is up to is obviously grounds for removal—his or the president’s. Or both. Obviously.

Quick question: If the Republicans are right, and someone is paying millions and millions of us to protest, and has done it hundreds of other times, and they STILL can't figure out who's funding us, aren't they way too stupid to hold office?

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

They could reopen the government by voting to suspend the filibuster (51 votes) and then passing the funding bill (51 votes). Republicans have 53 votes. They could avoid this if it really mattered to them and they think you're stupid enough not to realize it.

Well let Trump do it, but by the time he’s out of office we’ll figure out it was a mistake to let a president do that

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Could not replicate; RTS.

Love you, Bottom of the Hill, but you really gotta turn up the vocals. Especially women.

!!! The Format got back together! Gonna have to check out their album.

Look I'm happy for the ceasefire and hope it's the beginning of a durable end to the current conflict, but... ...you DO NOT get credit as a "peacemaker" for facilitating a genocide until the aggressor has done enough damage and is sufficiently exhausted to want a break to consolidate their gains.

This is why I’m not celebrating just yet: usually they never give that land back.

Once again not the most important thing, but I'm always struck by the insane wastefulness of this. The frog is not a threat. Y'all are just pissing away hundreds of taxpayer dollars to make some random cement spicy. If law enforcement can't use resources responsibly then they must be taken away.

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

Gavin Newsom fucking sucks, part MCXVII he still has until the end of the week for the rest of the bills so unfortunately it’s time to suck it up, call his office, and politely ask this living hairpiece to do the bare minimum to protect the most vulnerable among us

whats the point in "dealing" with the Trump administration when this is the person executing the deal, and is openly promising to violate the laws and break any agreeement? If you want to bargain for something in the shutdown fight, make firing Vought a condition of any funding package.

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

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It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

If Dems win in 2026, we need hearings to publicize the abuses by federal law enforcement. Then pass a bill creating a path to sue for those abuses. Trump will veto it. Let him. Let the public see these videos & hear from victims, & then learn there's no way to hold the abusive officers accountable.

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Blue state governors need to start coming up with some clever orders to "call up" their Guard units so they're simply unavailable when POTUS comes illegally calling.

I tried to write a pithy response to Trump's abuser language/framing here and utterly failed because it's already so on-the-nose that it felt gross. So, more obliquely: "I'm gutting the government--which I was already planning to do--because you gave me the excuse" is quite the shutdown messaging.

"I am the government, I can do whatever I want and nobody can stop me" does not fit well with "The Democrats have shut down the government"

Kori Schake: “Yesterday morning, Trump and Hegseth behaved reprehensibly. Their speeches…were tantamount to incitement—a genuinely dangerous effort to suborn the military’s oath and condition them for using violence against their fellow Americans.” foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

In advance of our coverage of Season 3 of ALF beginning next week, we're launching the Sexiest Picture Of ALF competition. Add yours to this thread. We'll start.

National parks left open during a government shutdown under the last Trump administration experienced permanent damage - vandalized petroglyphs, chopped down Joshua trees - but they plan to keep them open once again.

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

He stands out not because he's any kind of radical but because he seems to understand the escalation ladder we're on here, and how many steps up it we already are. He's not just being hardline on principle, he's escalating because he's actually thought about the strategy of how this plays out.

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.