BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org filed a Hatch Act complaint against Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy He pitched DOT policy at a super PAC event in Michigan & tied it to a Senate endorsement You can't electioneer with your cabinet title. Congress settled that in 1939 Our complaint👇 -TN

The only way to neutralize Fetterman is by flipping five senate seats instead of four in the midterms. He can’t be impeached or recalled, and there aren’t enough republican votes to expel him. He’s there until 2028 unless he resigns.

Musk is already underwater in polls and if Democrats lean in they can make him even more toxic. He's declared open war on you all and is pushing a toxic, destructive, racist agenda. Maybe it's time to push back? I don't know, I'm just spitballing here.

Futurism@futurism.com · 2d ago

"The bully is mad."

Media: WhAt AbOUt HasAN PiKeR?! Meanwhile, the White House has an actual Nazi in a leadership position. The absolute lack of perspective and the media’s complicity in mainstreaming Nazi views is a huge reason why we live in an increasingly fascist state.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Also note that Miller never mentions "legal" or "illegal." A very seamless transition from opposing undocumented immigration to opposing ALL immigration.

Refs gave Michigan a nice win.

A very good letter in the @chronicle.com by @lsiraganian.bsky.social & other JHU AAAUP members debunking the fake crisis of declining public trust in higher education and highlighting a real one: university administrators willing to collaborate with authoritarians. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

This monstrosity near Arlington National Cemetery is a disgrace and a litmus test for me in 2028 primary. Maybe for others too. If no pledge to tear it down, then cross off list for consideration.

I love the state fair. Some more ICE-out artwork.

I have a piece in the Atlantic about SCOTUS’s ballroom order - and how the Court has a very wrongheaded and destructive account of the separation of powers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Man, the USSC's standing law varies a lot, case to case.

UNITARY EXECUTIVE THEORY IS COMPLETE MADE UP BULLSHIT AND THE PRESIDENT IS OBLIGATED TO FOLLOW LAWS ENACTED BY CONGRESS INCLUDING THOSE THAT LIMIT HIS POWER

Meredith Rose@mrose.ink · 2y ago

LAWSKY, GIMME YOUR ALL-CAPS LEGAL HOT TAKE I'LL START: WARHOL WAS NOT BAD, ACTUALLY, BECAUSE IT MORE CLOSELY ALIGNED FAIR USE ANALYSIS WITH ENTIRELY REASONABLE POPULAR BELIEFS ABOUT COPYRIGHT LAW

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

Can you imagine being someone who's been all over social media defending Hegseth for free? And then learning that you could have been getting paid for it the whole time? I'd feel foolish and betrayed.

Kash Patel would not have made it through the first stage (of many) of FBI screening. He knows it, and it makes him mad. Remember that authoritarians hire mediocre doofuses previsely because it ensures their loyalty: there is no other universe where these guys would ever have their jobs

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2w ago

“We are losing too many qualified candidates to the rigors of the requirements from yesteryear,” said kash patel in a quote that sounds made-up but i swear is not

Just expel him, Canada.

Charles Rusnell@charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 2w ago

The U.S. ambassador to Canada reposted this

I think a lot about how we learned that Trump had repeatedly lied about giving money to children's and veterans' groups . . . and then nothing happened. It didn't hurt him at all. Anyway, Dolly was known to give large sums of money to schools around the country without telling anyone about it.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's disgusting that this unpopular clown is using Dolly Parton's death to ride on her legacy of generosity and popularity. He has to use AI because Dolly Parton was never photographed with Donald Trump in real life. Because he is everything she disliked: selfish, dishonest, mean, and rude.

This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: DHS legal opinion justifying ICE entering homes without a judicial warrant is nothing more than an email written by ICE Deputy Principal Legal Advisor Adam Loiacono, and DHS refuses to release it. www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: DHS Refuses to Release Email Justifying Warrantless Entry by ICE

I sued to obtain the General Counsel Memo justifying ICE entering homes without judicial warrants. Turns out it’s not a memo at all - it’s an email - and they’ve wrongly redacted it.

muellershewrote.com

You gotta appreciate @ag.state.mn.us and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty for being the only state-level lawyers to criminally prosecute federal immigration agents who are terrorizing our streets

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE agent, Christian Castro, shot a MN resident, fled the state, & was caught in TX. @ag.state.mn.us sued Gov. Abbott for ignoring his extradition demand. He joins me on the case & updates us on the investigations into the murders of Alex Pretti & Renée Nicole Good. youtu.be/Asvit5TMFhU?...

I blow up Michael Cohen's dumb and dirty deal with Trump. www.againstallenemies.net/p/michael-co...

Michael Cohen’s Dumb and Dirty Deal

Trump is still going to screw him over.

againstallenemies.net

MAGA Influencers Announce Fear of ‘Natalie’ Questions “We think it’s weird too,” they did not say but effectively communicated. “And were hoping no one noticed.”

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3w ago

The pearls are being clutched so hard they're turning into dust.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An attorney says his client suffered a brain bleed and traumatic brain injury after a violent ICE apprehension, then woke up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. His family didn't know where he was for days. Now his lawyer is demanding answers.

Lawyer Says ICE Detainee Suffered Brain Bleed After Violent Apprehension, Was Guarded by Agents Instead of Given Private Medical Care

MeidasTouch has obtained a detailed narrative from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, describing a violent apprehension by immigration

meidasnews.com

The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?

The incredible reaction to Jon Ossoff saying just one word about our emperor's new clothes -- "Natalie" -- shows what Democrats can do if they just speak the truth about what all of us can see with our own eyes

As you read this account of state terror & maltreatment of a woman snatched arbitrarily from her husband’s side, consider that hers is one of the better briefer such ICE atrocities daily documented & that her husband wished & enabled this hell on countless others. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...

He Was a MAGA Patriot. ICE Took His Wife Away.

The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.

nytimes.com

George Washington rejected the idea of a massive presidential palace. The White House was deliberately scaled back because the president of the United States should not live like a king. 234 years later, Trump is posting Versailles fan fiction starring himself.

and played nice in private, that’s cool and all, but not really something that changes my perception of her professional reputation or character. It speaks to her, at best, wanting to make sure she can stay a part of the “cool kids club” when this is all over.

Mike Luckovich cartoonist: