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Much easier to blame foreign actors than identify and address the domestic conditions that resulted in this level of violence.

This is a masterpiece. By analyzing past events in meticulous detail, it foreshadows dark times ahead, exposing a plot most people are completely blind to. It’s only because Seth has kept such meticulous receipts that he’s able to map out exactly how this may play out.

How can we NOT help these people?

I wrote ab July 4 three years ago when a judge made up a quote & attributed it to me — said I said we’d done our work to “get around the 1st Amendment”. I couldn’t respond then bc AFL had just sued us in front of that judge. This year he’s just dismissed our case. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

My CEO basically said a few days ago that I need to see more patients because we aren’t making enough money and it’s only going to get worse because our government has to pay for this war.

This is Alex Pretti.

He’s saying an arrest warrant by a judge and an “administrative warrant” by an immigration official are the same. That's like saying the hall monitor instead of the principal can expel you from school.

Prasad presents himself as a reformer challenging “groupthink,” but his reforms dismantle the very systems that preserve transparency. What he calls skepticism is strategic erosion, a slow bleed of scientific integrity from within.

I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.

Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP. If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them. Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?” @aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

Why do the videos on Bluesky inconveniently stop playing with 20 secs left- any fixes for this?

The CIA’s deputy director has “abruptly demoted” the CIA’s acting general counsel & installed himself in that role, thus taking “control of making legal judgments for the agency while continuing to help lead it…” (This follows Hegseth’s termination of top military legal officials in Feb.) 10/6/25 1/

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened? Oopsie, Stephen.

The vast majority of undocumented migrants are undocumented bc we make it too hard to be documented, for no gd reason. They’re net payers at all levels. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. As a group, they aren’t freeloading, or violent, or wutevs; just people, and they make America/ns richer.

This is history textbook stuff right here.

So exhausting..

Enjoying this so far from @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

Just going to leave this here.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” -Wilhoit

The line Trump referenced today from Apocalypse Now, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," is about the absurdity of war and the profound psychological damage it inflicts on everyone involved. Seems like Trump was, unintentionally, right on target. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

This is a deeply reported, heart-pounding read Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Clearly all the fuss and opposition to universal healthcare was never about death panels

I still think about this piece: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-m...

18. But there’s resentment based on bigotry and prejudice, and there’s resentment based on actual material harms done to you and your family by a president who breaks the terms of the American dream, with impunity, all while falsely claiming that the dream is coming true.

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Part status anxiety, part desire for dominance. www.pbump.net/o/too_many_p...

The only thing that gives me hope about how evil this administration is their incompetence. Some of them are just dumb and unqualified. Some don’t think for themselves or compromise themselves as sycophants. But other’s incompetence comes in the form of hubris that blinds them to the consequences

Tomorrow, the President is going to order the national guard to militarize the nation's capital (despite crime being at a 30 year low) after sending Congress home to prevent them from investigating evidence he committed sex crimes against children. The Congressional GOP is unified behind him. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

heads up -- this is very well done. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Reinhold Niebuhr was also (and imo, rightly) pessimistic that education could cure political dysfunction. To his eyes, communities vote selfishly based on what seizes power for their side, and then reverse-engineer the moral arguments thusly. Can't "educate" that away.

I wrote about this in "Our Own Worst Enemy," and used a study of an Italian town in the 1950s as an example of how we're repeating that cycle.

Sigh. Here we go again. So once more, to add to the "myths that do not die," the older voters who are the mainstay of Trump's support were educated during the supposed golden age of public education. People my age, who went to good public schools and cheap colleges. /1