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Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:
September 25, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:
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Could we finish bumblefucking our way through the war in Iran before we start one with Cuba? Thanks
CBS: The Army is requesting military planning aimed for Cuba. Is the US preparing for military action?
STATE DEPT SPOX TOMMY PIGOTT: We're always going to guided by the national interest of the US. The president has a wide array of options
(Not a no!)
STATE DEPT SPOX TOMMY PIGOTT: We're always going to guided by the national interest of the US. The president has a wide array of options
(Not a no!)
September 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Could we finish bumblefucking our way through the war in Iran before we start one with Cuba? Thanks
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Grand scheme of things, stuff like this is small ball esp compared to all this gang’s other abuses and atrocities but: I’ll say it again, the broken windows theory of crime is wrong EXCEPT for political and business elites like these. Every failure to crack down hard on the little, hatch act…
Politico: Trump is airing a pro-Trump midterms ad on TV that
-includes “paid for by the U.S. government” disclaimer text
-features a song by an artist who says they didn’t approve it’s use and are now looking for a lawyer
-includes “paid for by the U.S. government” disclaimer text
-features a song by an artist who says they didn’t approve it’s use and are now looking for a lawyer
Trump administration launches pro-Trump TV ad ahead of midterms
The 30-second ad, apparently paid for by U.S. tax dollars, features photos and videos of Trump, the American flag and military aircraft.
www.politico.com
September 24, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Grand scheme of things, stuff like this is small ball esp compared to all this gang’s other abuses and atrocities but: I’ll say it again, the broken windows theory of crime is wrong EXCEPT for political and business elites like these. Every failure to crack down hard on the little, hatch act…
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Every. F*cking. Time. The. Same. Story.
Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Every. F*cking. Time. The. Same. Story.
Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda
I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient?
OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed
M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming
O: 😊
OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed
M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming
O: 😊
September 24, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda
I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Insanity — this is the “corporate socialism” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is talking about
September 24, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Insanity — this is the “corporate socialism” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is talking about
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One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income.
It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low
Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.
www.axios.com
September 24, 2026 at 4:21 PM
One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income.
It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
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Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
September 24, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
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This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective.
Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive.
Hard to describe how bad this is.
Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive.
Hard to describe how bad this is.
September 24, 2026 at 2:32 AM
This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective.
Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive.
Hard to describe how bad this is.
Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive.
Hard to describe how bad this is.
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Being the undisputed worst POTUS in history is pretty cool, but I think we can do better on this approval rating
September 23, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Being the undisputed worst POTUS in history is pretty cool, but I think we can do better on this approval rating
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Deep dives like this really put into perspective what Chief Justice Rehnquist was doing in 2000 when he resurrected the Court’s precedents of the 1870s and 1880s, writing that their authors “had intimate knowledge and familiarity with the events surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction.
From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
www.motherjones.com
September 24, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Deep dives like this really put into perspective what Chief Justice Rehnquist was doing in 2000 when he resurrected the Court’s precedents of the 1870s and 1880s, writing that their authors “had intimate knowledge and familiarity with the events surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
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Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply.
If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP.
www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP.
www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
www.texastribune.org
September 24, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply.
If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP.
www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP.
www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
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No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, this argument should be chilling.
Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.
Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.
September 23, 2026 at 1:52 PM
No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, this argument should be chilling.
Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.
Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.
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Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign.
The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.
Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.
Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign.
The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.
Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.
Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
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The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
September 21, 2026 at 6:18 PM
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
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Comparing him to 47 is highly insulting... to Jabba.
September 21, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Comparing him to 47 is highly insulting... to Jabba.
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This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it.
It was effectively banned as it never aired again.
I wonder why.
MEDIA-OPOLY
It was effectively banned as it never aired again.
I wonder why.
MEDIA-OPOLY
September 21, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
![Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreieocoa2jelvyioyspfyjhchhj6lqvjgxf6vm73l4mamvtls72tzmq)
September 21, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
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guy who’s been repeatedly hit in the head and completely lost his memory and higher cognition: How could Governor Newsom DO this???
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
www.wsj.com
September 21, 2026 at 7:23 PM
guy who’s been repeatedly hit in the head and completely lost his memory and higher cognition: How could Governor Newsom DO this???
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You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.
September 21, 2026 at 6:19 PM
You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.
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This is the way.
I know it’s a delicate balance between covering legitimate public interest stories and First Amendment concerns, but it’s about time the press showed some balls.
I know it’s a delicate balance between covering legitimate public interest stories and First Amendment concerns, but it’s about time the press showed some balls.
September 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
This is the way.
I know it’s a delicate balance between covering legitimate public interest stories and First Amendment concerns, but it’s about time the press showed some balls.
I know it’s a delicate balance between covering legitimate public interest stories and First Amendment concerns, but it’s about time the press showed some balls.
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i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them.
"The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
"The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
plenty of 20th century examples by my 19th century-pilled mind goes immediately to the railroads, which were HUGELY DISRUPTIVE and deeply enmeshed in politics in ways quite analogous to silicon valley and AI
September 21, 2026 at 4:12 PM
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them.
"The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
"The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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When you say Twitter is still working for you, you're announcing that you've managed to plug your ears to all the horrors going on there and are just living in denial to what's going on around you, sort of your own personal ZONE OF INTEREST experience.
September 21, 2026 at 4:23 PM
When you say Twitter is still working for you, you're announcing that you've managed to plug your ears to all the horrors going on there and are just living in denial to what's going on around you, sort of your own personal ZONE OF INTEREST experience.