This is quite good.

I explain how the Trump administration is increasing "assaults" on its agents by engaging in racial profiling and illegal arrests of US citizens. If ICE cared about officer safety, it'd return to ICE policies that protected officers & Americans! www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

"According to the Trump administration, ICE agents suffered about 90% fewer assaults under Biden than under Trump. Biden’s ICE better protected agents by adopting interior enforcement policies that reduced chaotic interactions with the public." msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Here is the original thread, with some replies in agreement and disagreement.

I keep seeing some people downplay the systemic risks of the current investment bubble in AI. A lot of it makes sense to me: it's mainly cash not debt, just an accelerated schedule of planned build, can be repurposed if AI disappoints. But this kind of entanglement makes me wonder about wind-downs.

Zeke Hausfather: Around 78% of the world has seen all-time maximum monthly temperature records set since the year 2000, with 38% set in past five years alone. In a new analysis over at The Climate Brink I take a look at where and when records were set

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump casually announces suspension of the First Amendment.

Obviously there is minority support for Trump here...but this is also shockingly low opposition for the idea that the President can turn the military on American cities on a whim. 70% of Republicans think the President should be able to send troops into a city even if the Governor objects!

The Trump regime is having trouble prosecuting James Comey on frivolous charges, and hasn’t been able to get charges against Letitia James. They couldn’t keep Kimmel off the air. Their desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Hurting people yes, but bluffing a lot too.

Way to call Trump’s bluff, Gov. Pritzker. The president threatening to have Chicago’s mayor and Illinois’ governor arrested is serious and bad, not least since it’s because they’re following the law instead of helping Trump break it. But his capacity is limited. He’s hoping the bluster is enough.

In a very real and practical sense, the elimination of USAID occurred because a) civil servants who followed the law were pushed out, b) unaccountable amoral people were given power, and c) SCOTUS let it all happen. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

A lotta folks have been warning for YEARS that govt subsidies encouraging US farmers to invest near-exclusively in two crops (soybeans and corn) could have catastrophic consequences. Most were thinking climate-change implications (making these crops ungrowable) but here’s a self-inflicted one!

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you. And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it. This is not about politics. It's about people. Let’s break it down:

any court that says otherwise has outlived its purpose

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

“.. the latest example of the Trump administration’s policy priorities overlapping with the business dealings of the president and his family.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

This isn’t the first time Miller has used the term “plenary authority” with respect to the Presidency. He did so already in March, but that time he was referring to the president’s authority in foreign policy. What’s new here is now to say this absolute power also applies domestically.

Always the best way to celebrate getting $20 billion from the Trump administration to screw US soybean farmers.

Dutch courts fighting to make Facebook and Instagram useable again.

My professional timeline right now is made up of four distinct silos wrt the principal global threat/challenge we face, in roughly this order: 1. AI 2. Russia 3. China 4. Climate I'd reverse the order and eliminate the silos. But most notably, Trump II has no plan for dealing with any of them.

it really baffles me how these fucking dipshits don't realize that a "martial ethos" is not what wins wars logistics is

Bigots are wasteful. They waste lives, dreams, and more ordinary resources. They act as though we will never be in danger of losing a war, eager for all the truly great soldiers we can find, wishing that we had never let ludicrous blowhards fire and insult some of our best soldiers.

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

It's actually kind of crazy to me how in the past two days people in my mentions have basically said we should accept being killed by the state as a consequence of fighting for democracy.

Why, contrary to many initial reactions, China will not necessarily be the beneficiary of Trump's tariffs. Depends on the product and the market, but there's no way the rest of the world, particularly Europe, can or will absorb the diversion of US demand.

FAFO etc

who could forget when TFP published a totally dishonest hatchet job on a youth gender clinic from a bilious transphobe that (again) turned out to be bullshit, and she refused to take that down too prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

Mother Jones reported have 3x Free Press’s subscriber count but I haven’t noticed an oligarch paying $600m and giving Clara Jeffrey control of one of the 3 broadcast networks. revealnews.org/press/merger....

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

So woke smh

Tomorrow, I, along with Senator Kaine will be forcing a vote to block President Trump’s use of our Armed Forces to conduct strikes against vessels in the Caribbean Sea. Congress has not authorized these strikes. They are illegal and risk dragging America into another war.

A reader expressed anger that laptop class doctors, who massively underestimated Covid in spring 2020, later said that frontline doctors killed patients via intubations, despite this being a data free internet rumor. Listen here and pay attention at 30 seconds or so. youtu.be/RLK2ZAvyrx8?...

I regret to inform you this was an actual branding decision made by a real company

Many thanks @pbsnews.org for the great opportunity this evening about our new book #ScienceUnderSiege @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=VZq7...

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case: As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

These requests echo those of Senator Shaheen from today's SASC confirmation hearing of the nominee for Army GC. In the past, Senators seeking the OLC legal justifications for lethal US military action have used the confirmation process as leverage to extract such memos. Just saying.

Given what Barrett is doing to our democracy, doesn’t hers, at least, trigger a Son of Sam law?

I started invoking Archbishop Romero early in this administration and I fear that may unfortunately prove prescient the way things are developing.

Trump's team "are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns.... [creating] the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely." -- Barbara Walter ("How Civil Wars Start") via @tombedsall.bsky.social

As shocks to the system go, you might group these with the argument from U.Va.'s Caleb Nelson, already making waves, that originalism properly understood does not entail a strong version of the unitary executive theory. /3, end reason.com/volokh/2025/...

In the second, Prakash notes that while many moderns disdain the "result-oriented," "it turns out that interpreters have long used consequences, particularly inconvenient consequences, to decode the law." Jefferson called argument from consequences one of the "great foundations of the law." /2

Two exceedingly interesting articles from Sai Prakash (U.Va. Law) on founding-era legal interpretation. In the first, he argues that "the Founders were not textualists," frequently elevating the "spirit" of the law above its letter in ways modern textualists resist. /1

FYI, for those who are concerned that the AI/ML systems that Bluesky uses to scan huge volumes of posts for harmful content might also be used to train Gen AI systems, here's what Bluesky has said about this in the past:

It's a good thing for Russell Vought that literally the only record of the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 was in that FAQ he deleted. <holds hand to ear> Wait, this just in: www.congress.gov/bill/116th-c...

Trump wants to see troops in American cities. To him, the factual and legal rationale behind those deployments is unimportant.

Window Screen xkcd.com/3151/

So the ~$135B in new tariff revenue has been used to defray $500B of tax cuts, a $20B+ farm bailout, a $200B+ taxpayer rebate, and now it's going to support WIC. Got it