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President Trump temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the EPA. Read more: nyti.ms/4il3336

Expert @molly.wiki researched and mapped the Trump family’s web of cryptocurrency ventures, connections and in my opinion, a few grifts. Her project made it to John Oliver's show. We talked about these issues and so much more. Watch here👇 open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

Must watch: @molly.wiki and @joeplenzler.bsky.social sat down on the @meidastouch.com defense podcast to talk about crypto fraud, national security, and data centers. Molly has spent years tracking this space and spills the tea. (starts at the 3:35 mark) open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages. Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.

Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

Win or lose, James Talarico's campaign is a major threat to the GOP, especially in the long term. Many evangelicals don't even know "liberal Christian" is a possibility. He is showing that it is. And the Christian right is *freaking out*. www.salon.com/2026/09/21/j...

Venezuela oil is sold and more than $13 billion has moved through accounts the U.S. government controls. Nobody in Washington will show you the balance. My thoughts… open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

Mike Johnson Sent Congress Home for Seven Weeks. Try That at Your Job. An impeachment vote, an AI crisis, a misconduct reform, and 700 of his own bills left sitting on the desk. Any other employee in America would be fired by lunch. open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

🇺🇸 🇸🇪 Declining US democracy having global 'spillover effects', thinktank warns “The erosion of the rule of law in the US is having spillover effects” around the world, says Kevin Casas-Zamora, chief of the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).

House Oversight Committee Democrats are launching a probe after reports that a Russian oligarch bankrolled wedding of Donald Trump Jr They've demanded all "communications between the White House & Donald Trump, Jr., concerning Umar Kremlev, including any warnings or briefings"

This isn’t normal, and it shouldn’t be ignored. @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social did the research and laid out why this pattern of bad conduct matters. See "Trump Regime Keeps Stealing Kids Entertainment for ICE Ad Campaign. Companies are Clapping Back." www.thequeenzone.com/trump-regime...

I absolutely agree with Rebecca. Three books is the new minimum. Three books and 100 pushups and perhaps - si cela vous plait - a new translation of Celan's Todesfuge.

🇬🇧 London pub unveils 'Beer Tapestry' to celebrate Bayeux exhibition An eight-metre embroidered "Beer Tapestry" tracing the history of brewing through the ages adorns The Museum Tavern pub opposite the British Museum, as London welcomes visitors to the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition.

The Toledo Blade, one of the oldest newspapers in the country, will publish its final edition on Dec. 31. if it can’t find a buyer “Founded in 1835, the newspaper is Toledo’s oldest continually operating business”

Gene Roddenberry’s classic sci-fi TV series ‘Star Trek’ (aka ‘Star Trek: The Original Series’) premiered on NBC on this day sixty years ago (September 8, 1966) 📺 🪐 🖖 #OTD

god bless dragoncon

Oh, by the way www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

not sure how to express this without sounding like a chair-turned-around youth pastor, but there's something so radical about having your most well-known lyric be "i will always love you" and then sincerely embodying it whenever possible

I already didn't go to Starbucks (not drinking coffee at all helps with that) but I'm happy to support this. If you do drink coffee, find a nice local coffee shop to give your business to.

@scalzi.com Your cat's theme song? youtube.com/shorts/mxhoS...

"Our allies might for the time being similarly ignore Trump’s tantrums, but they have power and agency of their own, and even now are likely planning for a world in which the Americans are no longer men and women of principle who stand by their word and by their friends."

$1.7 billion in restitution, fines, and forfeitures erased by Trump’s clemencies since January 2025. Restitution erased: $1,097,902,363 Forfeitures erased: $350,716,404 Fines erased: $204,812,218 Total: $1,653,430,985 Here’s what you need to know…👇 open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

Stop for a second and do something uncomfortable with me. Take every election fraud claim The Heritage Foundation has put on the record and accept it. All of it. No pushback, no fact-check, no caveats. Treat it as true. Here is what it all means.

I mean, you can see it on the DoD side with Infantry Dort. It's pervasive intellectual collapse where the people involved are pretending that the Dunning Kruger graph is a half-pipe and that they are Tony Hawk.

#Booksky Catherine Lundoff is @armarshwriter.bsky.social’s guest on the 2nd ever Fantasy Free Me Podcast! m.youtube.com/watch?si=6Xi...

The status of the four federal book ban bills and how to flex your literary advocacy skills right now: bookriot.com/flex-your-li...

Since Royce White is currently making news outside of Minnesota because he's pretending he "identifies as a woman" and wants to be considered for the WNBA, let me just give a rundown on why he is a horrific piece of shit to all the non-locals who might not be familiar with his bullshit.

Minutes ago the FCC scrapped the rule that stops one company from owning your local news station and 264 others. Check the networks. Almost nothing. Full breakdown in this morning's post, "You Are Not Confused. You Are Being Managed" mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/you-are-no...

I’ve been thinking a lot about this storey, combined with the news that Elon Musk helped cut funding for wildfire prevention, combined with the news that the Trump administration only sends emergency aid to Republican states.

Elon Musk's company xAI is suing Minnesota over the state's first-in-the-nation law that bans "nudification" technology on websites and apps.

Amen. If you go into the archives looking to confirm a hunch, you'll likely find some random bit of evidence that fits. This is why "originalism" is considered a joke by actual historians. Finding one quote from one member of the founding generation who agrees with your hot take is pretty easy!

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This year we are celebrating 200 years since Ann Radcliffe's posthumous works with a conference focusing on women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic. 22nd and 23rd August. All online. Open to all! Writing workshops! Panels! Keynotes! Poetry reading! Tickets from £10!!

Bloody hell this is good.

After getting tariff relief. Happening right in front of us.

If you’re feeling conflicted about the weekend’s festivities, we understand. But this isn’t the Trump 250th. This is America’s 250th — and that means a celebration of and recommitment to a founding ethos that we’ll never bow down to a king or accept tyranny against our neighbors.

For all those complaining about the upcoming wedding of Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce, remember they are hardworking individuals. They have the freedom to plan their wedding as they see fit. Importantly, they have donated $26 million to New York charities this week. Here’s a list of those charities:

When people whine that people are "obsessed with the algae," it's not the fucking algae. It's the increasingly hysterical overreaction from busybodies wasting resources to gratify a corrupt, degenerate loser who lives in a complete fantasy world.

Why is it always the fault of feminism and never men being live-action trash can fires?

Um, of course? My #parrot Her Nibs calls her dad “Daddy Bird” and my friend “Ken Bird,” referring to each of them specifically. She uses my other pets’ names, e.g. “Frida LOUD. Frida stop!” when she wanted my conure to shut up. She knows her own name and riffs on it to give herself new nicknames.

It’s out! My first graphic novel as publisher! Salvation’s Child is a mind-blowing SF saga by @aptshadow.bsky.social a prologue to his Final Architecture series. In association with @comixology.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Final-Archit... 1/3

Axios: Mpls Council floats end of Office of Community Safety as “failed experiment.” I supported overarching public safety dept concept (beyond just MPD, to boost other public safety efforts) but Frey made it a $330,000 flak-catcher & responsibility-dodger for him. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

$1.2 trillion is roughly the same size as the combined cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in the Big Beautiful Bill