Democrats should be unafraid in saying that Roberts on the Court is comparable to Mike Johnson in the House and John Thune in the Senate. They're all in thrall to Trump.
Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 11h agoeveryone needs to care about how the Roberts Court is actively, but quietly, helping Trump enact his agenda. We are in a separation of powers fight, a fight for constitutional meaning, and a fight with the conservative politicians on the corrupt Court.
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 · 10h agoThe 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.
Speaking out against censorship is as American as it gets. If Secretary Hegseth is threatened by that, he should find a new job and let the press do theirs.
Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after editor, reporter oppose military interference
The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter.
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I wish Ken Paxton would protect puppies the way he protects pedophiles.
Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · yesterdayUnearthed documents just revealed Ken Paxton, as Attorney General, protected a research lab that tortured 400 puppies. Paxton was also one of the only Texas lawmakers to vote against a bill to hold animal abusers accountable.
In a blow to press freedoms within the US military, the Pentagon has forced out several top staffers at Stars & Stripes, the military publication with a long record of editorial independence. Full story: www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/m...
Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders amid Hegseth pressure campaign | CNN Business
In a blow to press freedoms within the US military, the Pentagon has forced out several top staffers at Stars & Stripes, the military publication with a long record of editorial independence.
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What makes this even more grotesque is that Doris Miller was denied the medal of honor when he was alive just because he was black. bsky.app/profile/carl...
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
That hero's name is Waco-born Doris Miller, who, in 1939, came to Dallas to enlist in the Navy. web.archive.org/web/20170505...
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
Please repost the piece I actually reported and wrote, not the AI copy. slate.com/news-and-pol...
If You Want to Know How Trump 2.0 Is Really Going, I Suggest a Visit to the Dying Trump “Superstore”
Recently, the retailer gained notoriety for a new sign.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d agoICYMI — “A large store in Tennessee that exclusively sells Trump merchandise is closing due to a lack of shoppers… The store is located along I-40 near Knoxville…” Shop employee: “We’re not busy anymore.” 🤷🏼 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Gov. Greg Abbott responded to Minnesota’s lawsuit seeking to force him to extradite an ICE agent, saying he doesn’t trust Gov. Tim Walz and won’t respond to the request “at all” until Minnesota addresses fraud involving government programs. bit.ly/4xQdvps
“My first day on the job, I fucked up.” That’s the lede to this CJR account of my 4 months in Utah, where I worked as a junior editor. I wanted to see what’s changed since i left local journalism a few decades ago. A lot of things are different. But not everything. www.cjr.org/first_person...
The 69-year-old rookie.
I was a fifty-year newspaper veteran and a journalism professor. Then I joined the Salt Lake Tribune as a junior editor.
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My latest, on how the British/global media hounded Jason Arday to death. “Given the history of white media’s key role in terror against Black people, at what point do we call such actions of journalism outlets digital terror campaigns? “ karenattiah.substack.com/p/jason-arda...
Jason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial Terror
What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.
karenattiah.substack.com
Gajdusek didn't "raise" dozens of boys, nor did he just "live" with them, as your teaser and headline suggest. Under cover of NIH research, he adopted, exploited and sexually abused 36 vulnerable children, including this man whose picture you're using to illustrate this story.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 5d agoThe scientist D. Carleton Gajdusek raised dozens of boys from the Pacific Islands in the U.S., from the 60s to the 90s. Rachel Aviv reports on the complicated afterlives of his adoptees. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wJggJG
“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.
With Fear and Favor
Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.
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Lubbock’s move to electric competition brought more choices but major costs and little rate relief, offering lessons for Greg Abbott’s CPS Energy plan.
Can electric competition deliver the savings Abbott promises? Lubbock knows..
Lubbock’s move to electric competition brought more choices but major costs and little rate relief, offering lessons for Greg Abbott’s CPS Energy plan.
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Welker: It says the damage was done by faulty installation and not vandalism... Todd Blanche: There was potential vandalism. Welker: What's potential Vandalism?!! 🤪
What’s wild about this is that there are 270 black professors in the UK (HESA data, 2024-25) and even if they all worked at Cambridge, that STILL wouldn’t be 30%.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6d agoPresenter: [The argument was put that DEI advanced people not on merit] Woolley: "There are 975 Professors at Cambridge. How many do you think are black? Paddy O'Connell: "Its a fair question you're asking me. So I am going to say 30%" Woolley: "I tell you: less than half a per cent"
See those uniformed police officers applauding Trump while he lusts over young girls? Never ask a rape survivor why they didn’t report the assault to the police.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last wk.Trump: "These young, beautiful girls. These young, beautiful girls. These young, beautiful girls in the White House. You know, they come in. Now, I'm not supposed to say beautiful, but what the hell? These young, these gorgeous, beautiful girls, they want to be safe."
No, this article isn't about the WWII-era steam catapults that Trump has ordered duct-taped to new carriers. It's about how Trump wants the control tower to be in the middle of the ship because that's how he remembers carriers from when he was a kid after WWII.
Dan Nexon@dhnexon.net · 7d agoMore mad-emperor bullshit.
Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?
A new proposal would force AI data centers to pay for the wires that connect them to the grid. But who carries the cost of upgrading the grid itself?
Who Pays for the High-Powered Grid that Data Centers Need?
Texas would make large AI hyperscalers pay for the wires that connect them. Whether they must also pay directly for the broader grid work needed to serve them is still an open question.
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Andrew Tate’s lawyer has let me know he found this story to be perfectly fair so please read it with that in mind lol
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · last wk.Sometimes people who are swimming in scandal and horrors hire a lawyer that gives off a different vibe. The Tates have doubled down. By @annamerlan.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
welcome to the field of dreams, an homage to a movie revolving around men banned for life from baseball for gambling. brought to you by fanduel
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · last wk.only now realizing the field of dreams game happened and this is all so unbelievably stupid
DOJ: We want a clean clear order... JUDGE: I've already done that! Do you want me to issue another order saying "I really mean it this time"? 28/
MAGA 1 was crazy! To secure any meaningful position in Republican politics required pretending that Donald Trump was an ethical person who never sexually assaulted anyone or did anything racist, that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, and that the Jan. 6 insurrection was righteous.
I talked to this person years ago about a job writing about the ultra wealthy and he told me I was a bad fit because I was obviously going to make jokes about them. I remember this, to be honest, because the hat was present then too www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/b...
Forbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6 Million Payment (Gift Article)
Randall Lane, the magazine’s chief content officer, received the money from the founder of Shook Research, which has worked with Forbes on content about wealth advisers.
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul A/P WNBA spox says of trans women after its anti-hate task force meets “There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others.” apnews.com/article/wnba...
WNBA denounces 'bad-faith' transgender debate and says league has no eligibility issues
The WNBA is criticizing those trying to create a narrative about transgender women playing in the league.
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Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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I just got an email the chief of community prosecution sent to Bluffview residents confirming that the grading and tree removal were done without permits. But rather than "opening a case to escalate enforcement," the city had the proper owner submit new permits. So my questions below still stand.
Robert Wilonsky@robertwilonsky.bsky.social · last wk.Why does Dallas have a city attorney's office? Why do we have a tree preservation ordinance? Why do we have a plan commission? Why do we have code compliance? Why do we have a city spokesperson? How do we have a city? Things I contemplated while writing this. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
