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BREAKING: Holiday weekend legal showdown over an aggressive Trump admin immigration move. In 4 AM order Sunday, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in DC halts mass deportation of 600 unaccompanied children to Guatemala. Hearing this afternoon. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

It's about time people realize @VAXMYASS8814 who has a ton of Twitter followers is more trustworthy than some fancy college boys.

I'm going to be on with @velshi.com at 11 to talk about my article on the small acts of noncompliance that we can take against our dispicable government. I guess Summer is over. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

What a difference 10 years makes!

52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.

ABC is still traumatized by the lawsuit they stupidly settled.

BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Our news media are so broken. There's a way to challenge someone in an interview without looking like you're the press secretary for the other side. ABC's Martha Raddatz badly misses the mark. "Why fight with the president?" she asks.

The geniuses that cooked up GHF - a food distribution system that’s led to starvation & over 1000 deaths at chaotic sites, have a plan for postwar Gaza. GREAT (Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust). You can’t make this up. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Replacing reason with superstition is a feature of religion and totalitarianism. Thank you for coming to my TED talk on the madness of RFK, Jr. and MAHA.

When MAGA gets done banishing trans people to the ends of the Earth, the right wing will definitely retain its newly formed, super-sincere interest in the purity of girls' sports, right? Right?

The great @mikeallen remembers the same: "After a Bush speech, the newspaper reporters would be struggling with their leads when suddenly the gym (or wherever we were filing) was engulfed with the voice of Knoller ... with an efficient, insightful take." www.axios.com/newsletters/...

"Surfaces are very important to me..."

When they got nothing they attack the powerless to puff up their manliness like all bullies do

Attorney Norm Eisen, who is helping represent Federal Reserve Board chair Lisa Cook, tells MSNBC they'll be filing an additional legal argument on behalf of Cook in court on Tuesday

Also known as ethnic cleansing

Must-read @hcrichardson.bsky.social on Trump's "determination to kill off wind and solar power initiatives and to force the US to depend on fossil fuels." Result: America loses, over and over. He gets to set us back a century or two, kill jobs and raise...1/2 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

You may be surprised to learn that New York City is different than Virginia

Reporting on dark money is good

This site is very cool

In addition to being morally abhorrent, this plan relies on trendy magical technology. It’s one step away from relocating Gazans to the blockchain. Gift link: wapo.st/4g2eATo

Mark's voice was so commanding in the filing center, you couldn't help hearing him record his radio reports while you were struggling to write a lead. And his crisp summaries invariably crystallized exactly what the day's news was all about and helped me figure out what to write.

I'm getting the impression ChatGPT is recommending people who have mental health issues and believe they're part of, or have uncovered, dark conspiracy reach out to Bellingcat for assistance.

Today’s podcast guest is Petter Törnberg, who with Justus Uitermark is one of the authors of a new book, titled Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity, that sets out to address the “entanglement of epistemology, technology, and politics in digital modernity."

I declare I now have editorial control over the NYT, even though I have no explicit authority. I expect the NYT to pay me the same deference as the states have given to Trump’s unconstitutional election executive orders

AI art promoting AI cities in Gaza for after everyone's forcibly displaced www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The irony of all this is that if he manages to take down the Sullivan precedent, one of the very first victims will be the right wing social media influencers who are basically his last group of political support these days. They will get buried in lawsuits.

This is an unconstitutional and authoritarian power grab. The constitution grants power over federal elections to the states and Congress - not the president.

The doodle went out on his own through his doggy door. So we had to towel him dry. 🐾💧

Wordle 1,534 2/6 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Evil. *This* is end-stage capitalism: Genocide for profit.

Hot take: Dem governors should spend less time trolling Donald Trump and more time turning their states into models of successful liberal governance that voters across the country would be likely to choose over Trumpism...

Personally, I prefer tan suits to brownshirts.

It's Maria Montessori's birthday so do whatever you want, there are no gods, no kings, no rules, you are imprisoned only by your lack of imagination.

It's not Trump who normalizes autocracy. It's the rest of American news media. The Guardian can and should stand apart as the one outlet unafraid to declare autocracy is here. Stop asking. Declare. Has Trump succeeded in normalising American autocracy? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's not Trump who normalizes autocracy. It is the rest of American news media. The Guardian can and should stand apart as the one outlet unafraid to declare that autocracy is here. As is fascism. Has Trump succeeded in normalising American autocracy? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So much for a morning dog walk. ☔️

Today is the 12th day that Reginfo.gov — the federal government website for informing the public about what survey data & other information agencies collect — has displayed a notice saying it's "currently undergoing revisions" with no further explanation. The site was temporarily offline on Aug 30.

Good morning, Detroit

Article I of the U.S. Constitution: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.”

“I have faith in people outside of government. The professional organizations, doctors, nurses, and other providers—and also the parents…So I’m hopeful in that sense. I’m just not necessarily hopeful that the federal government is going to be the answer anymore…” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Here’s my latest episode talking to Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social m.soundcloud.com/profciara/de... #history #beans #blacksky #booksky

Journalists should see it, too. Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...

Yikes👇🏾 😳 Also we need that decision on the Posse Comitatus Act now.⚖️

“An unsettling Mad Max vibe coursed through the city. Pickup trucks with armed men of unclear authority cruised around .. “.. I headed back to Union Street. That body could not possibly still be there. This was the United States. We collect our dead. “Still there.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/i...

♥️ “With the sharply structured documentary “Ask E. Jean,” director Ivy Meeropol accomplishes the near-impossible, telling the story of Carroll in a manner as consistently enthralling and unapologetic as its subject.” variety.com/2025/film/re...

Last year, Colorado signed a first-of-its-kind AI measure into law, but the state recently held a special session where lawmakers held frenzied negotiations over whether to expand or dilute its protections. @viacristiano.bsky.social spoke to two Colorado Sun reporters closely tracking the talks.

Fact check from a constitutional law professor 🧑🏿‍🏫. Josh👇🏾 is correct. ✅

MAGA/MAHA Nihilism burning its way through the government.

New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW

(Heaven begins construction on border wall)

APOLLO: “.. Will We See a Repeat of 2021 and the 1970s? .. There is upside pressure on inflation and inflation expectations .. The risks are rising that we could see another ‘inflation mountain’ emerge over the coming months.”

With @rickhasen.bsky.social for Slate Plus subscribers on the Voting Rights Act, the redistricting wars, and Trump's war on voting machines. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

With the @brennancenter.org's terrific @lizagoitein.bsky.social on the statutory and constitutional framework around the National Guard, and how it touches on state sovereignty, legal loopholes and "beautification" projects.

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

Long thread on how to fight for democracy. Read all the way through. It’s worth it.

Quick someone think of a national security angle to the Taylor Swift engagement so that I can convince my editor to let me write about it

You’re never gonna guess what this is in response to

CAL FOOTBALL UPDATE: Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele, a player I had definitely heard of before this morning, has instantly turned me into a full Yelling “He’s Got Him” At The TV Guy every time he throws it deep

This is phenomenal messaging. Hello Democrats? Knock knock, anybody home?

The more you see Some Like it Hot—probably in my Lettrbox 4–the more you realize how subversive in so many levels it was.

Trump said tonight he is going to issue an executive order purporting to require enforcement of voter ID rules: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... The president has no such authority to order how elections are conducted.

This guy does a great job nailing the fact that RFK Covid rules means we have to weigh endangering someone who is immune compromised or not seeing them. It is obscene www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GBXgxK/

Have people seen the movie Manifesto, where Cate Blanchett recites manifestos about art for 90 minutes? An odd one but parts of it are visually stunning, and (old news I know, but I just watched her for that long) but her screen presence is so captivating.

Getting so tired of these royal degrees that have absolutely no legal effect.

Getting so tired of these royal degrees that have absolutely no legal effect.

Ok I checked the AQ app and it’s says the air is good and nothing notable but…if you are having allergy symptoms today in SF and know why…

Just finished the Spike Lee documentary released 20 years after Hurricane Katrina. Make time if you can.

Which Russian leader died when state tv showed Swan Lake?

A judge dismissed the case, finding no probable cause after Florida police arrested a man as part of Ron DeSantis’ crackdown over rainbow chalk ark memorializing the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

@marcelias.bsky.social and his team provide consistently strong coverage of the details in the battle for our democracy and are independent of any capitulating corporate bosses. Support them and sign up.

This Labor Day weekend, if you’re feeling unsure about the path forward against the authoritarian assault we’re under, we offer four key lessons from the history of labor movements. Highly recommend this read from @raders.bsky.social www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/to-fight-a...

“The Court should not enjoin a democratically enacted law on which so many students depend without careful deliberation informed by arguments on both sides of the issues,” Public Justice argued to a federal judge. The judge blocked the law on Friday without even considering the group’s arguments.

“The WH wants you to see its kitschy displays of the president and its militarization of the nation’s capital and conclude that the game is over and that they have already won. But as much as the situation might feel that way, it isn’t true.” @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

Biden might have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

The perks of an early flight. There is beauty everywhere. ❤️

🧵Republicans are getting hammered in town halls. Susan Collins: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GhsKtD/

"Safe Haven" in vhs 2, by FAR the best segment of the whole franchise

IMHO, these are all inextricably intertwined: 1) authoritarianism 2) eugenics & racism & sexism 3) vandalism of public goods, property, and services 4) pseudo-science & anti-science They feed into one another and they never travel alone. Find one, and you'll find elements of all the others.

One of my favorite lines in my book Corporatocracy is “There is nothing more dangerous than millionaire who believes in conspiracy theories.” That was a reference to Henry Ford in the chapter covered here: m.soundcloud.com/profciara/de... 📖✍🏾

It's uncomforably explicable as eugenics. They appear more than comfortable rolling back medical protections in ways that tend toward mass death for the fragile.

I’m waiting for my son to be taller than my husband. Almost.

So much respect for @briantylercohen.bsky.social who has used his own platform and know-how to help so many talented young creators

I trust Kenny @2rawtooreal.bsky.social

After how brutally inept the passing game was last year, it has been so delightful to watch this kid.

Not to belabor the point but: I am not the weird one for being this mad at the Democratic Party and its leaders. Look at polls of your average rank and file Dem voters and how they feel about the party now. It is YOU who are out of touch if you’re asking why people are being mean to Dem politicians

Ford is in my book Corporatocracy 📖✍🏾

Have you seen the Democratic Party

Have you seen the Democratic Party

Just now noticing his feet in that photo from this morning

Newsom social team strikes again www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GryypN/

NEW: Federal judge signs off on DOJ and Oklahoma's sham anti-immigrant lawsuit. Judge Ronald White did not even consider a brief arguing the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter before issuing an order striking down a decades-old Oklahoma law. Tonight, at Law Dork:

That feeling when the Union score the first goal in their biggest match of the year on my laptop, about 10 seconds before the Phillies come from behind down to their last strike in the 10th inning to beat the Braves on the phone in my hand

That feeling when the Union score the first goal in their biggest match of the year on my laptop, about 10 seconds before the Phillies come from behind down to their last strike in the 10th inning to beat the Braves on the phone in my hand

That feeling when the Union score the first goal in their biggest match of the year on my laptop, about 10 seconds before the Phillies come from behind down to their last strike in the 10th inning to beat the Braves on the phone in my hand

That feeling when the Union score the first goal in their biggest match of the year on my laptop, about 10 seconds before the Phillies come from behind down to their last strike in the 10th inning to beat the Braves on the phone in my hand

This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.

Learn more about the history of big business bailing out the Nazis. soundcloud.com/profciara/de... #law #history #fascism

"There is a very strong organizing community in this city and in this region, and I hope that you see from our legislative leaders a desire to not live in a tyrannical state." On Chicago. boltsmag.org/chicago-publ...