BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Step 1: Start a dumbass trade war with China (and Brazil). Step 2: Lose Chinese soybean market to Brazil. Step 3: Bail out your nutty right wing buddy Javier Milei. Step 4: Lose soybean market to Milei, too. Steph 5: Make taxpayers pay for your stupidity.

This regime is awful. But it's also weak and stupid, and the backlash is a bitch. We can beat him.

Ugh. We JUST got Apple+ this summer after canceling Prime and stuff! FFS. *takes out crochet gear* Guess it's back to the salt mines. (I'd go practice cello but I just did that for over an hour and it's killing my tennis elbow. On second thought crochet might not be great right now...)

No, cuz Trump plans to...

Congrats again to the elites who told us this guy was a credible Treasury Secretary because he went to the right schools & cocktail parties (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) We have treaty obligations with our allies. Resign. Or start acting like an adult who swore an oath to country & Constitution.

Not good, internationally speaking...

Wut?

A reminder that we should all hold our 'hot takes' on days like this till we have full information on motives, politics, etc. Politicizing every shooting or terror act from the get-go is reckless and dumb. nypost.com/2025/09/24/u...

People like this will turn the entire apparatus of government into a kleptocratic shakedown machine if they are allowed. Government by the mob, and the Mob. (PS I am not super-interested in responses telling me this has already happened or expressing an astute lack of surprise or whatever.)

Of course, the premise of this conspiracy theory is that everyone knows Trump is so out of shape that walking up half a flight of stairs is a deep humiliation. He's so out of it that he has to freak out, even though it's just another reminder that his health is bad. www.salon.com/2025/09/24/u...

Damn, another front in the attacks on women's well-being. Thank you Senator.

Oh *attempted* censorship is bad now?! honestly, what’s next, serious political consequences for an attempted coup d’état!?

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The Republican credo is that everything everyone else does is politics, and everything they do is the American Default.

Fine not calling them Nazis if I can call them Klansmen and neo-Confederates. They like the Confederacy, right?

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Something that makes me feel insane is that it's still not the mainstream opinion of the mainstream Democratic Party that tech billionaires are their enemies. They want to collaborate with the MechaHitler guy who spent several months breaking the federal government

I have no idea who shot at the ICE facility or why, & hard to trust this FBI director. Murder is always inexcusable. Now, the idea that people are mad at ICE because of ‘Democrats’ rhetoric’ & not because of daily videos of masked ICE agents assaulting people, including citizens, is for the birds.

what i want to know is how many people canceled reservations at disney properties

a Reichstag fire, but one of them every week

Somehow all of these agencies were able to do their jobs before, unmasked. I wonder what's different now.

They've lost the 9yos

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

The maturity of shitposting 12 year old boys. 🙄

The dude who made the internet "law," Godwin, said it was OK in your case. Effing Nazi.

Good to see: @schiff.senate.gov and eight other Dem senators are pressing FCC chair Brendan Carr on what sort of corrupt pressure he's brought to bear on networks via private communications, in addition to public ones. Dems should get as loud as possible about this (see piece below).

Yes, its very bad to demonize people, says administration who has relentlessly demonized immigrants as gang members, drug dealing murders who eat your pets.

writing "self defense" on all my ammo just in case anyone ever asks me any questions that are already answered by the ammo

“CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …” www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p... #FamiliesBelongTogether

I see a possible identity of the ICE shooter has been found, and the guy seems to be very online, so I'd be careful about taking anything at face value, especially memes and in-jokes.

So is this how we're going to live now? Besides all the just normal violence of school-church-shop-event shootings, every couple of weeks, a new political sniper or shooting? How the hell does this all end? Or when?

there's a difference between conspiracy theories and "this is too fucking stupid to be real"

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

Short of emergency updates when a shooter is at large, we should just refuse to put law enforcement officials on air for the first 48+ hours after an event like this. In the BEST of times, it’s lots of noise that later gets walked back. And this admin is … not the best for trustworthiness.

But you can't weaponize a new horrific death event if you wait for FACTS...the only thing that matters to them is using every horrible act to further the goal of fascism and shutting down any amount of opposition. And damn reality to do it.

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NYT employs clairvoyants??

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

HOLD UP. This is some reckless bullsh*t. Immigrants were shot and killed. Immigrants. Not ICE officers.

That FBI press conference just now in Dallas about the shooting at an ICE facility stunk to high heaven

"It’s quite possible that different people around Trump have different goals, and that he babbles about drug strikes or deportations depending on whether he last talked to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or rabid ethnic cleansing proponent Stephen Miller." Last to bend the mad king's ear is ruler!

For those in #Sinclair and #Nexstar markets.... #Boycott the advertisers!! After all, Disney got the message that way! There may be some you can’t, but there are some you can!

Gross. But important to track this. There's got to be a way to address this.

We still really need to take down Sinclair and pressure Nextstar next, though.

Yep, of course; and the worst part is that by the time he made that post (9:03 AM), the fact that the people killed were not ICE officers was already known and reported. The VP *should* feel some a higher level of responsibility to wait for the facts to come in than me, a rando, but hey. 🤷‍♂️

You can't. Make. This. Shit. Up!

DOGE was a failure because its entire premise was flawed, and, on top of that, the people who ran and implemented it were both arrogant and ignorant.

To sum up: A bunch of mediocre losers who got power through affirmative action for young conservatives, want to use government power to ban people from talking about the fact that they're mediocre losers. #resist

Scott Bessent Links Bailout of Argentina to Trump's Election Interference, Even as Argentina Poaches US Soybean Markets www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/24/s...