I sat in on a couple of the single stair working group meetings. Here's a short thread about how the firefighters are trying to sandbag single stair rules in California. In short: they're structuring their analysis to make single stair look dangerous while ignoring dangers of the status quo.

The California Environmental Quality Act in theory: forcing polluters to analyze, disclose, and mitigate environmental impacts. The California Environmental Quality Act in practice: blocking thousands of homes that voters have approved TWICE because they’d block millionaires’ water views.

"Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity towards Putin, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump." My column. www.ft.com/content/7deb...

it pales in comparison to his government’s murders and abductions but it’s not his fucking house

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

New AAA study finds that pedestrian detection systems are only 60% effective at night (which is when most pedestrians are struck). Lesson: Car tech will not "solve" the crisis in US pedestrian safety. Addressing car bloat, deadly street design, etc is also necessary.

The “Reverse Emails” - a complex move in which the Paper Of Record systematically erases the most important news about 🇺🇸’s descent into corrupt & criminal authoritarianism from the front pages - has been going on since 2016 & receives a 9.85 from the East German judge. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Of these four pairs of shoes, which two pairs do you think are the lowest in quality? Make a choice before opening this thread. Then I'll tell you something about shoe quality. 🧵

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Imagine being the largest newspaper in Washington, DC with the motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness" and thinking to publish this today. You might think WaPo editors would look out the window and realize something more important is happening. But perhaps democracy already died over there.

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Never mind! From the Prime Minister’s office: Prime Minister Netanyahu has ordered the Rafah crossing to remain closed until further notice. Its reopening will be reviewed based on Hamas’s compliance with returning the hostages’ bodies and carrying out the terms of the agreed framework.

this is simply unreasonable it cannot be reasoned with

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Good for her! Why should her life be put on pause? nypost.com/2025/10/17/u...

Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35. Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

Who’s eating the tariffs? You, mostly. @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.” Meanwhile, the reality of #KavanaughStop

This is a huge scandal, one of the worst in modern law enforcement and something that is astoundingly unconstitutional and illegal.

Zohran Mamdani uses his appearance on Fox News to "speak directly to the president," since "he might be watching right now." Mamdani looks straight into the Fox camera as he says this >>>

BRILLIANT article by Mohammed R. Mhawish: “Survival is the most meagre inheritance. To call us resilient is to praise the caged bird while ignoring the cage’s latch. Surviving destruction is not the same as defeating it. There’s cruelty in this praise.” www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Q: Who is Mike Johnson being threatened by? I mean, if he's not bringing the House back, releasing the Epstein files ... he seems scared MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think so ... Do I think he's really up to the task? No.

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

Please share widely.

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar apnews.com/article/myan...

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post: God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

So let's play this out: Dems hold the line on the actual big picture constitutional lawlessness issues, which Trump/GOP would never concede and any deal with them would be worthless anyway. What good are concessions in legislation and appropriations from a guy who breaks those with impunity? 1/

Though she doesn't generally do social media, Emily asked me to post this. bsky.app/profile/anna...

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

In his foreign policy, Trump launches illegal attacks, murders people, and starts pointless and destructive trade wars. Is that what Douthat wants at home? Because he’s already getting it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

I support legitimate law enforcement. I do not support masked thugs terrorizing immigrants, tear-gassing protesters and assaulting reporters. Trump is undermining respect for law enforcement and making us all less safe.

Metaverse, you say?

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago. She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

I have a couple of comments about Paul Ingrassia's lawyer, who sounds like a lawyer who would be hired by Paul Ingrassia. First, vagueness in legal threats is the hallmark of legal thuggery. Notice the letter does not identify a single allegedly false statement of fact in the Politico story. /1

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

You should read @joanwalsh.bsky.social on the utter vindictiveness of the Tish James indictment www.thenation.com/article/poli...

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus. It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions. Thank you, Governor!

yes, it's simply false that international students crowd out US-born students

GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "This whole thing about the Nobel Peace Prize I think is silly. Do the right thing. Try to create peace. Lobbying for an award -- to me it looks unseemly."

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law. Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.