Trump’s endless hate for Canada has zero domestic constituency. There’s a reason he didn’t campaign on it in 2024! Numerous presidents have succeeded at whipping up Americans to hate a foreign country, but no one hates Canada!

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h ago

People are missing something big about Trump's insane new trade war with Canada: Its impact will hit right in the heart of the Midwest, where many midterm races will be decided. I talked to Dems in the region. They're already using this against Rs. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2146...

The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.

There are good reasons for the doctrine of standing and justiciability; but when it comes to blatant violations of human rights, the courts ought to recognize any intervenor as having standing on behalf of humanity. The people ought to be able to stop these abuses w/o waiting for the next election.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 14h ago

I’ve lost track of the number of times an immigrant has told me they had to sit on a prison bus in the back of an airport for six, 10, 20 hours with no food or water and being told to urinate in a corner or onto themselves.

I suspect a lot of you outside of the state of Ohio (and possibly some of you inside of the state of Ohio) are not aware of the current billion dollar bid Black Rock is making to buy up our electric utilities  Yes, -that- Black Rock I feel like this should be much, much bigger news 🚨

Data center investors want to buy Ohio’s public utilities

Consumer advocates warn a $10 billion deal that would give BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, control over AES Ohio could create conflicts of interest that end up raising electricity rates ...

cleveland.com

"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."

ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine

Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices

theguardian.com

Dems should absolutely kill corn ethanol and divert the spending to solar subsidies.

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · yesterday

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

I appreciate J. Jackson writing her dissent in a way that laypeople can read and understand, not just the other justices. She not only cuts right through pedantic weeds that the majority tries to lose us in, she exposes the rot at the entire heart of the case. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

26A124, 26A139 Order

documentcloud.org

If SCOTUS starts to mess with a major avenue people use to vote within 70 days of an election it is the clearest signal that they are all in the authoritarian project. And the members of the court backing it should be treated as such.

NPR@npr.org · 20h ago

The Supreme Court paused a lower court's ruling that blocked key parts of Trump's order to limit voting by mail for the midterms. But U.S. Postal Service work on the order remains blocked nationwide. n.pr/4ismEzO

Like I said with the ballroom, I think the point is that the Court will punt until the damage is done and make a ruling saying, "Whoopsie daisy, it's pretty late now, so our ruling is kinda moot." Essentially, let Trump get too far down the road and use that as an excuse to not undo what's in motion

Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 20h ago

Supreme Court, 6-3, hands a provisional win to Trump over his effort to exert control over mail-in ballots, but lots of questions remain about whether the underlying proposal is lawful, as majority concedes. Plus a nationwide injunction in a different case remains in effect, for now,.

i do think a lot of mainstreamers have missed the ball on how musk has moved past "rich guy with funny opinions on race science" and into "literally just a nazi"

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · yesterday

the coming european reconquista

When blocking laws that make it easier for people to vote, the Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized that courts can't interfere with voting rules close to elections. Weirdly, now that Trump is trying to take over mail-in voting 10 weeks before the midterms, the Court has forgotten all about it.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 20h ago

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Dem. appointees, #SCOTUS has *granted* the Trump administration’s request to freeze a district court injunction that had blocked the mail-in ballots executive order. But Trump’s EO remains blocked by a different injunction in a different case—at least for now:

So many things in healthcare and policy are like this chicken coop: surely it can't matter if the siding ends an inch too high? Yet the details matter in the long run, and that missing inch of siding costs an entire coop years later.

Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 5mo ago

Ten years ago, I made this cute little chicken coop, by far the hardest carpentry project I’d attempted. I made a lot of mistakes, but I made one (1) especially foolish mistake, which I didn’t realized doomed this coop to an early death. Today, I broke ground on its replacement.

One huge advantage to human athletes: They don't need to be sprayed with fire extinguishers when they get hurt on the field

Chris Paxton@cpaxton.bsky.social · 2d ago

Incredible stuff

Hard to believe this isn't performance art

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 2d ago

Amazing

sometimes it's good to be reminded that yes, people really ARE that misinformed

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 2d ago

Amazing

1/2 His son is serving America aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. His father..19 years in the U.S., a work permit, no criminal record was arrested by ICE while waiting for him to come home. THIS is Trump’s America. #USDemocracy #RisingBlue apnews.com/article/uss-...

He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him.

The father of a man serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln has been arrested by immigration authorities.

apnews.com

What an embarrassment this guy has turned out to be.

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 2d ago

Chicago • Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom was escorted out of Wintrust Arena on Sunday evening after Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud confronted him at his courtside baseline seat.

i wrote this last year but there is literally no publicly available evidence that donald trump knows what a tariff actually is

Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · 2d ago

In his speech yesterday, Canada PM Mark Carney seemed to try to explain to the President what a “trade deficit” is. You’re not just giving another country 100s of millions of dollars… You’re buying things from them! That you want!

these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d ago

not only that, they are demanding that they not be called racist when they are observed to be signing up to support the racist

Congress, not the executive branch, has the power of taxation under the Constitution. Nothing this administration does is lawful or legitimate.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d ago

White House is planning to announce “a large new tax on international students who stay to work in the US after graduation”.

“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”

Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

notus.org

Republicans in Utah are perplexed why normal people won't engage with the party. Scenes like today are the reason. This has been completely bonkers.

I mean, this is just a straight up constitutional crisis. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

Postal Service Publishes Finalized Plan to Restrict Mail Ballots

The plan, which complies with President Trump’s executive order to curtail mail voting, will only go into effect if the Supreme Court rules in the order’s favor.

nytimes.com

I place a lot of value on viewpoint diversity (the real one) and on free speech (the real one). It sucks how both concepts have been hijacked to mean “everyone is under a moral obligation to elevate and disseminate discredited claims if today’s political right is into them.”

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don’t think a good definition of “viewpoint diversity” is “you must lower your standards specifically for anti-science, anti-truth, bigots, and fascists — a healthy intellectual community needs those voices and they can’t clear the bar otherwise.”

There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 4d ago

The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.

At any point in the last decade a journalist could have followed up with a "what the fuck do you mean by that" And they don't, not a single "what the fuck are you talking about" followup in over a goddamn decade of this.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.

“This war has involved one cover-up, after cover-up, after cover-up by Team Trump. Within the first 72 hours of the conflict, the administration was…trying to cover-up the true nature of U.S. troop casualties – a suppression of information…that persists to this day. And… zeteo.com/p/scoop-trum...

Chase Madar@madar.bsky.social · 4d ago

Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

It's the racism. There is no rational financial or social policy reason to do this.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d ago

White House is planning to announce “a large new tax on international students who stay to work in the US after graduation”.