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Happy Livestreaming Election Law Cases season to all who celebrate! I'm hopeful @akivamcohen.bsky.social and @questauthority.bsky.social will provide color commentary again this year (nudge nudge).

More in the piece, which I hope you read. But a key thing to remember is that while Trump is expanding automation in ways that align with the interests of the rich, he is making automation harder for safety net programs like Medicaid. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/automating...

Trump Accounts would allow corporations or their owners to make donations by zip code. So, for example, a company trying to set up a data center could give money to families in that region. This is the logic of the bribe state which Trump has enabled and supports. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Somalian. He's Somalian. www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Article is useful in that it shows that a) Trump is directly involved in these decisions, b) sees them in purely personalist terms - he wants to politicize research grants so he can destroy Harvard for daring to defy him

“Tired of being a bird?” (September 14, 2026, Argyle Street, Chicago)

Closing in on 10k now. I won't be able to keep boosting this over rosh Hashana, so if you could help this spread before that, that would be fantastic

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

while milo gets to chit chat on TV with clear access to safety and basic needs, the US is flying untold numbers of immigrants to unsafe countries of origin or other countries where they don't speak the language or know anyone.

Somedays it’s hard to distinguish NR headlines from @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

b) you can no more prompt an LLM not to hallucinate than you can prompt it not to use electricity; it’s a fundamental part of its architecture

a magnificent thread (don't let bluesky's terrible threading design make you miss half of it) mcm tableware and trans issues:

This is extraordinarily dark: government agents surveilling peaceful protestors and trying to entrap them into breaking the law. It’s a classic measure of an authoritarian state.

this is cartoon villain level shit but the first time an ICE agent reaches down to scratch his balls and tases himself is going to be incredible content

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

8 years ago.

They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased. Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina

This editorial is indeed blunt, in your face, sweary, and absolutely 100% correct. I'm happy Science published it. It needs to be spread far and wide, because it strips away all the usual mealy-mouthed crap when it comes to discussing Trump and makes it clear who he is and what he's doing.

On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

American rural landscapes dotted with data centers and concentration camps

Sounds like gender-affirming care to me.

Please avoid all salads, including word.

To date, immigration officials have shot and killed 11 people, including two Minnesotans. Across the country, they operate with no respect for human life, the law, or consequences. There's no reforming this agency. Rip it apart.

Cartoonist Ruben Bolling has been absolutely killing it, and here's another one

On one hand, it seems astounding that RFK Jr.’s anti-vax organization didn’t vet her before including her in a lawsuit against AAP, in which she claimed that vaccines killed her twins. On the other, it shows the endless capacity of anti-vaxxers to take the word of a random person over facts.

This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)

"This is a theme among even the most strident of anti-authoritarian dissidents with the benefit of hindsight: a wish that they had tempered their all-or-nothing posture and had been less rigid in message and strategy."

Oh, look. A proper reflecting pond.

Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan

Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

Secretary of State Marco Rubio today justified attacking a regime that shoots its own citizens. What about a regime that investigates co-workers bore witness to the killings?

a “what does tucker carlson believe” story should be one sentence long and the sentence is “he will say literally anything for money, we saw him admit it in the texts released in the dominion lawsuit”

I know we get inured to stuff, but it is hard to fathom the cruelty here. At a time of tax cuts for the most powerful, they are trying to remove basic supports for the most vulnerable. The Trump administration's war on people with disabilities continues.

Trump is not just making SNAP more burdensome, he is also preventing willing states from shifting some of that burden away from clients by limiting the use of existing tools like automatic renewals. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...

Before anyone takes this seriously, recall that Larry Johnson is the guy who claimed, before the 2008 election, that there was a tape of Michelle Obama “railing against Whitey.”

Hey, I think we found the judicial activism.

There’s no excuse why Democrats haven’t flooded the airwaves about the plethora of sex offenders and pedophiles Donald Trump has personally put back into our neighborhoods.

Between Hungary and Iran, JD Vance is having a great week

I'm so glad @donmoyn.bsky.social is drawing attention to this Direct File issue. It was proof (again) that government can do good things to make people's lives better/easier but the Trump admin with help from Elon Musk & for profit tax prep companies killed it. Democrats should resurrect it.

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government. Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

For those of us who already know the death of free file story (thanks @justinelliott.bsky.social ) Don makes an even more important here: government *can* make things easier for citizens, if we let them

We shouldn’t expect Trump to moderate in the face of mounting losses - whether they be political (midterms), military (Iran), or policy-driven (courts) losses. A lesson of January 6th is that when faced with a loss, Trump becomes more extreme, not less - just like other aspiring autocrats.

Trump's war on Iran has reminded me of Putin's war on Ukraine in so many ways, not least of which is this one: a cadre of advisors being too scared to tell the President what they really think, only to be horrified when he unleashes what they should've stopped him from doing in the first place.

Golly, I wonder who could have leaked this top-secret meeting info to the NYT? 🤞 he doesn't get arrested.

The people upset over our opposition to this stupid war in Iran are claiming we "don't support the troops" and yet, they're completely silent about ICE agents being parked outside Marine Corps graduation ceremonies ready to detain the undocumented family members of new Marines.