DC folks, if you want to support furloughed/fired federal workers, consider: www.capitalareafoodbank.org

ACLU reporting that “several of the 6 women detained at South Louisiana ICE Center in Basile, LA, & Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA were pregnant & have miscarried while in custody.” 0 outrage from MAGAs about these fetuses. They were never about life. They are only about control of women.

Scott Bessent owns $25m of rent-seeking soybean property that he promised-- and failed-- to divest. I cannot imagine another farmer considering that actively being a "farmer." I'm fairly certain Jimmy Carter wouldn't.

I’m sure the downturn in the soybean market has really made a dent in Scott Bessent’s $521 million net worth. He should go tour the Midwest and commiserate with all the other farmers who are suffering like him.

Mike Johnson de facto dissolving Congress tells Democrats they were right to go into the shutdown. The White House was already ignoring Congress, usurping power of the purse, in one of the most egregious attacks on the Constitution in US history. All voting for a budget would do is validate that.

The founders were so wary of unilateral taxation the constitution requires all taxes originate in the people’s chamber. Does the constitution allow Congress to delegate to POTUS the power to unilaterally change income tax rates? If not, why tariffs? They were ~90% of revenue when it was written.

Prodding everyone to look up Scott Bessent’s wealth. 🤡 www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

"What I need you to understand is that nobody is letting them go quietly. The Feds' every movement is announced by a chorus of whistles, by a parade of cars honking in their wake, neighbors rushing outside to yell to film to witness these kidnappings that are unfolding in front of us."

But Trump gets a ballroom and Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout

Many of the “very serious people”—from the media, law firms, corporations—aren’t being frightened, cowed into submission: they want to do this; this is where they want to be. 5/

Meanwhile, it is inarguable that the GOP has gone “sharply right” in much more tangible ways. The “big beautiful bill” might be the most right-wing major piece of legislation in recent decades. Trump, Vance, Miller, Bannon are closely connected to the global far-right. Trump is an autocrat.

He posted an AI video of himself shitting on Americans six days ago

This man is not well. And very dangerous.

12% of Americans will lose access to food resources when SNAP benefits expire in 8 days

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Who today is influencing science a la Big Tobacco or Oil and Gas? In our new preprint we show how tech companies like Meta are capturing research on their product, using mechanisms that subtly (or not so subtly) shape what science gets produced

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

when all this is over we need to have a pretty serious conversation about the utter moral failure of the elite of this country

They will stop feeding hungry kids, both here and abroad, for this.

"One grantee was initially told they might survive the scrutiny because they did not focus as much on DEI in their work as other organizations. Later, they were told CZI attorneys reviewing their website found references to DEI, and that they would not receive future funding."

If only Murkowski was a member of an organization that could do something about Congress being "adrift," that would be amazing.

From a former Eric Adams deputy press secretary (2022–23):

AI claims to make health care more efficient, but it’s making denials faster and appeals harder. In #FiresideStacks🔥, @mirandayaver.bsky.social shows how ERISA ensures no one is held accountable when AI gets it wrong. www.firesidestacks.com/p/ai-p...

Straight up robbing the us of our tax dollars

i am not a harvard administrator but if i had to guess i would say these cuts were in the offing once the first grad student union contract was signed (cf. BU) but all these government shenanigans gave them cover to slash students without looking like mustache-twirling gilded age magnates

He is literally not paying for it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

doug emhoff's law firm cut a deal with trump to provide him 100 million in pro bono law services and eliminate all dei initiatives. seven partners resigned, doug emhoff did not 💙

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

love to see it. curious which unions will respond

Sharing an email from our intake director: As intake director, I don't typically write these emails, but I am writing today with urgency and clarity: PSAF must raise $50,000 immediately to stay open through the rest of the month into November. www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

🗣 Repost if you agree, America does not have any kings and we do not want any! #NoKings

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No Kings, San Diego

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

“Talk is cheap, but direct action makes it happen!”👏🏾👏👏🏿👏🏻 #Nokings

“Your honor it is among the cherished traditions of the LAPD to beat up the media”

#NoKings Miami!

Chicago - no kings

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference By Andy Newman At Civic Hall in Union Square, a man with a gun walked onto the stage at a Wikipedia conference. Richard Knipel, CUNY's Wikimedian-in-Residence, jumped the gunman and, with others' help, saved the day. Gift link

AP live feed of No Kings protests, just in case you can’t find anything on MSM:

#NOKINGS New York City, NY

You really need to read this letter from @jeremymberg.bsky.social to NIH Director, RFK Jr ally, & true MAGA/MAHA hero Dr Bhattacharya The appointment of a new NIEHS Director to the dear, dear friend of Vice President JD Vance without the standard rigorous due processes should be ringing alarm bells

There’s only one king in America: SHOHEI OHTANI.

Thanks to Congressional Republicans, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 a year will pay more than $22,000 EVERY YEAR to keep their health insurance. $22,000. Some families will decide between keeping health insurance or giving it up—and that could be a matter of life or death.

We're not looking for a show vote from Republicans. We're looking for meaningful help so that people can afford medical care.

This is an important political threshold for authoritarian regimes attempting to consolidate long-term rule. During the Suharto era in Indonesia (1966-1998), which I have researched for years, the regime cast *all* opposition as pro-communist, and therefore fundamentally illegitimate.