"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

It's great to see congressional Dems fighting to protect Congress's power of the purse right now. But congressional Rs also know that Trump and Vought are seizing their core constitutional power. These Rs furrow their brows but won't join the fight. Pathetic. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

1/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Last week @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social and I put out a provocation & set of suggestions on how influence has changed and why institutions (& funders) need to change their thinking on shaping public opinion and connecting w/audiences. The old way no longer works. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

As America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”   For @zeit.de, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.   Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):

It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse. new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...

PATEL: The estate of Epstein has a voluminous amount of information that they have not released LIEU: Wouldn't it be great if the FBI subpoenaed the estate? P: The estate is under no obligation to provide that information L: That's just false. You're the frickin' FBI! You can subpoena information

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

I somehow missed this incredible story last month. Apparently the cops who killed Tyre Nichols will get a new federal trial. Why? Because someone shot a clerk for the judge who presided over the original trial, and the judge believes the shooter is in a gang that's connected to one of the cops.

climate change??

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

If Trump wasn't in the Epstein files, Kash Patel would be happy to say so plainly. His evasiveness says plenty.

People don’t like it when I say it, but the main place you’ll be pressured to participate in fascism is work. Especially if you work in a battleground space like government or academia. None of your weekend organizing can ever make up for active participation in the fascist project at your day job.

If you feel like there’s nothing you can do to stop all of this, start by refusing to participate in fascist demands. And don’t ever justify the behaviors of people who capitulate. They can’t do any of this without cooperation. The main thing most people need to do is just refuse that cooperation.

“Roughly 20% of FBI agents — 2,840 out of around 13,800 — have been diverted to work on immigration enforcement, according to data obtained by the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute. That represents a significantly larger shift in FBI priorities than what happened after the 9/11 terrorism attacks”

Wow, @sludge.bsky.social gets results. Just a day after Sludge reported that SKDK was working on a bot initiative for the government of Israel, SKDK now says it has dropped Israel as a client. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

ICE just happened to arrest one of the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against Home Depot and several Chicago cops.

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Nancy, what happened to your original motive for the shooting bsky.app/profile/meth...

I think it's time to admit that our entire planet is at active war with fascism. And that the war is existential, not just for minorities, for everyone.

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

Good. Fuck them. fortune.com/2025/09/09/t...

Scientists Link Major Fossil Fuel Companies to Worsening Heat Waves. The world’s largest fossil fuel companies play a significant role in the worsening climate crisis and it's extreme weather events, including worsening heat waves, according to a new study. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie." THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.

Sometimes you have to treat yourself to a little conspiracy theorizing. Mine: if they don’t find the shooter then I’m going to wonder if it’s an inside job - did the right wing target Kirk themselves to escalate things and distract from Epstein etc? Why not 🤷‍♂️? Alternative: it was Taylor Swift.

I ignored the murder of Melissa Hortman. Here’s why I’ll be talking about the murder of Charlie Kirk all day today. by most liberal pundits

The day before we found out from the President himself that actually political violence is unacceptable the Supreme Court said it’s legal for masked men to bust your car window and snatch you away from your family for having the wrong skin color.

This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight. nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need.

Another professor in Texas is fired, this time after a selectively edited video of a talk he gave was posted on X, with the bogus claim that he was inciting violence www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

Just looked up out of curiosity and turns out I was on Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist. Am I supposed to mourn the person who spent the last six years trying to end my academic career? He wouldn’t mourn my death: he tried to accelerate my death! www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/st...

Ezra Klein, please tell me again how Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way. You are so close to getting me clucking like a chicken and self administering a straitjacket.

he really did not seem to post a single statement anywhere. Jesus

Republican lawmakers were outraged that they had to see Charlie Kirk's brutal shooting on social media, and appealed to Elon Musk to remove the video.

Speaking of violence and murder... U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon. theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

This is a very dangerous moment for America. The media's turning a blind eye to escalating right-wing calls for violence is journalistic malpractice. bsky.app/profile/whst...

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Here's a chilling clip, in which he advocates for televised executions as required viewing for kids. His colleagues appear to possibly be trolling, but he seems to keep bringing it back to earnestness, insisting that the executions be a "holy" experience for children. www.reddit.com/r/ToiletPape...

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender