This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

New in PN: @ninajankowicz.com on the golden age of disinformation “I’m not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless there’s serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information."

Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation

“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”

publicnotice.co

HAPPENING NOW: Citing Trump's commentary, a judge in D.C. seems inclined to bar DOJ from seeking new charges against David Hearn for reflecting pool damage. Hearing still ongoing but judge concerned about Trump's obvious pressure campaign to re-charge Hearn.

I would say they are borrowing this from Trump "but declare national emergency to do illegal shit" is the standard approach of most authoritarians historically.

Andrew Sparrow@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · yesterday

Reform UK says it would declare 'national emergency' on day one in power, not letting judges or officials 'get in our way' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

This is what actual, not imagined, indoctrination looks like.

Houston Chronicle@houstonchronicle.com · 2d ago

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents cut more than 200 courses from the core curriculum across 11 universities on Thursday, in response to a state law requiring all general education classes to be “foundational and fundamental.” bit.ly/4iQNt0K

There is no law or regulation preventing the Florida Bar from investigating appointed U.S. officers. They just don't want to. The FL Bar said the same about a complaint against Bondi. She is no longer a federal officer. Do you think they started an investigation into her complaint? They did not.

Florida Bar Rejects Bid to Review DHS Lawyer Over Judge Posts

The Florida Bar has declined to investigate a complaint by dozens of retired judges against the Department of Homeland Security’s top lawyer over a social media thread highlighting the “worst of the w...

news.bloomberglaw.com

Absolutely insane. This is what real journalism looks like.

Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

There is also plenty of research showing rich people a more likely to donate to causes that advance their own agency (think their Alma Mater), while non-rich are more likely to donate to causes that actually support other people (think food pantries).

Mark Crail@markcrail.bsky.social · 2d ago

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

The NYT farming this as accountability, when in reality it's exactly the reverse. Career prosecutors wanted to being much more serious charges, but DOJ's top brass prevented it, and turned it into a slap on the wrist. NYT is a sh*t newspaper.

Mike Walker@newnarrative.bsky.social · 2d ago

Federal Prosecutors Charge ICE Agent With Lying About Minnesota Shooting www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...

Shocked to learn that what every tax policy expert said was going to happen, happened.

Audit Revenue Has Plummeted Under Trump, Watchdog Finds

The I.R.S. lost roughly a quarter of its employees since President Trump took office, hampering the agency’s ability to conduct audits.

nytimes.com

What do we know so far: 1. They are going to make it very hard to vote by mail, forcing us to vote in person (USPS whistleblower). 2. They now threat to arrest people at polling places (this). People who tell me I should not worry about the integrity of the midterms are not paying attention.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday that ICE agents could enter polling places to make arrests this November, raising fresh concerns about the Trump administration contemplating actions that federal law has long prohibited. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

One day his kids and grandkids will see it and experience terrible shame.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

The American Airlines CEO asks for Trump's help with the weather

Thousands of sailors are going to Pattaya, Thailand after a 9-month deployment at sea (with poor logistics). What could possibly go wrong?

U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Docks in Thailand, Giving Weary Crew a Break

Thousands of sailors and Marines serve on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which came into the spotlight because of a tough deployment in the war in Iran.

nytimes.com

Welp.

'Serious Matter': 5th Circuit Weighs Reassignment After Judge Used AI to Draft Ruling | Law.com

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate issued the temporary restraining order "on the basis of names that didn't even exist and statements that didn't even exist," said Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith. "Ar...

law.com

Bibi's campaign is in panic mode, trading in insane conspiracies even for him. 1. He argued yesterday that Israel heads of security didn't report to him about Hamas 10/7 impeding attack on purpose because they were afraid he would escalate the situation by taking preemptive measures...

I mean, I know there are academics who make a whole career out of incrementalism in research, but this seems ridiculous.

Kirkdale Bookshop@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 3d ago

Commitment to the bit www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

It's a mystery

Why Casey Affleck Cast His Family in His Gothic New Film ‘Company’ (First Look)

The Oscar winner’s sons, parents and girlfriend appear in the Venice-bound drama, which was made for very little money and with a rotating crew: “I suddenly felt an enormous amount of pressure,” he sa...

hollywoodreporter.com

Note they are not naming the prosecutor. This is probably because they decided not to pursue criminal charges (in which case not naming him is the right decision). But the DOJ has no problem naming and shaming everyone else all day all the time.

Brad Heath@bradheath.bsky.social · 3d ago

The DOJ Inspector General found that a federal prosecutor "engaged in prostitution."

There is no cowardice like corporate cowardice.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Everyone considers it fucking nuts.” Inside Apple, I'm told "not a soul" supports Donald Trump's Lake Ontario rebrand to "Lake America," but the company is also resigned to making such concessions to avoid the White House's rage. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/apple-maps...

golden is retiring but i think the right approach for perez is just to freeze her out entirely. one thing to be ideologically “heterodox,” another thing entirely to be unpredictable and disloyal

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d ago

“The two centrists, Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.), are known to rarely attend party caucus meetings or heed leadership's instructions on how to vote.”

Yeah, man, it's really irresponsible of countries to get involved in wars that screw up oil-producing regions, I hope they had a good reason for that, we'd never do anything like that, no sir.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Bessent blames Ukraine for high gas prices: "Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refined products, so that is creating upward price pressure on a global basis"

Unusual joint statement from House Dem leadership on MGP & Golden breaking and voting for the GOP rule today. Jeffries and his team call it “a significant breach of trust” requiring “a serious response.” Golden is retiring; MGP is up for reelection in a red-leaning district.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 4d ago

👀 Near-miss here for House Republicans. FIVE GOP defections on the rule — Harris, Higgins, Norman, Roy, Sessions voted NO, threatening to sink it. But Democrats Marie G. Perez & Jared Golden broke with their party to cast decisive YES votes. It passed 210-208.

Here's the dramatic improvement of Republicans' opinion of Vladimir Putin in 2016. As with anti-Canada sentiment now, the unmistakable main cause of the change is Trump. I think of these examples when pundits claim politicians can't change public opinion so they must follow wherever it already is.

NEWS: After Yaakov Roth defended many of the worst actions of the Trump administration over the past year and a half at DOJ, Jones Day took Roth back as a partner when he wanted to cash in on the friends he made when working to undermine the rule of law in America.

Rep Malliotakis perfectly describes the current Trump kleptocracy.

Dems: We will give you healthcare. Reps: We'll let you die from easily preventable disease. WoPo: this bickering is unhelpful.

Miranda Yaver@mirandayaver.bsky.social · 4d ago

Really atrocious framing by WaPo.

The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...

Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say

A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.

springfieldnewssun.com

I am proud to report that we, at @glowlaw.org, have just experienced our first spear phishing attack attempt. We are humbled to have reached this level of relevance!

You should all read the USPS whistleblower complaint, because it makes clear Trump intends to use the USPS to prevent us all from voting. It is as simple as that. www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...