@joesageman.bsky.social
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · 6d agoThe polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
#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:
supremecourt.gov
I wrote this because most journalists facing this pressure can’t. The paper we count on to check authoritarianism spiked an investigation into the Democratic Party because the party’s lawyers threatened to sue. Holding authoritarians accountable starts with holding your own side accountable.
With Fear and Favor
Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.
data4democracy.substack.com
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
Another day, another impeachable offense: The White House ordered federal agencies to block resources to Colorado because it had punished an election denier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
There could not be a more blatant violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits any executive branch employee from "Using his or her official title while participating in political activity." Unlikely to be prosecuted, however. Will any news org even mention this? www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/7...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoNewly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman
hahaha how is this real life, this is clearly an snl skit of a disaster presidency
He actually outdid himself today. This is obscene.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"
If my child or parent was among the 18 dead, I would lose my mind over this
More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.
Is it insider trading for the president of the United States to sell access to market-moving information for money?
Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: Trump Media to sell "faster access" to President Trump's Truth Social posts, which will let traders and investors pay for real-time feed of Truth Social posts.
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
reuters.com
BREAKING: ICE orders officers to stop pursuing people in vehicles after fatal shootings in Maine and Texas, according to a current senior DHS official and two former senior DHS officials.
ICE told to stop pursuing people in cars as pressure to arrest blamed for fatal shootings
The administration’s stepped up pressure to increase arrests has put officers under “too much stress,” sources told NBC News after two men who weren’t initial ICE targets were killed in less than a week.
nbcnews.to
Elon Musk keeps telling us that his defunding of foreign aid had nothing to do with racial bias while also posting stuff like this
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappening right in front of us. The world's richest man.
Fifth paragraph. A little lower than I would have liked (was right after the first ad), but higher than it would have been in the past. The narrative still feels like it is shifting. Slower than I’d like, maybe, but shifting nonetheless. ICE is losing the presumption of honesty. As it should.
Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 2mo agoGift link. It’s as bad as we can imagine. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...
this is the closest ICE has ever come to saying "yeah we just murdered a guy"
David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 2mo agoWHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?
Another ICE shooting, from all appearances. Waiting for more details to find out what happened.
Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 2mo agoShooting reported in Biddeford Maine, potentially involving federal agents - ICE to be specific Local coverage via @pressherald.com (gift link) www.pressherald.com?p=7684961&uu...
what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2mo agoReminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.
Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...
Birthright citizenship is going to be the new Roe v Wade in the sense that Democrats need to win more elections than they lose in perpetuity to protect it, because Republicans are not making the mistake of appointing another Justice who will uphold it, ever
really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*
Left: Justice Alito's description of the record in the TPS case Right: Former Secretary Noem
Turns out the answer posed by this canonical political science paper--"why is there so little money in US politics?"--was pretty uncomplicated. It's that pre-Trump, politicians by and large were constrained by norms against corruption and graft. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Why is There so Little Money in U.S. Politics?
(Winter 2003)
aeaweb.org
Amanda Carpenter@amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 3mo agoWSJ What Ellisons gave: -$45M to a Trump-aligned '24 campaign group -Millions to pro-Trump groups after elex -Bought the Free Press and installed Bari Weiss -$ to be corporate sponsor of Freedom 250 What Ellisons got: -$500B Stargate Project -TikTok -Paramount merger www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Gawker, bless it, tried to warn us. www.gawkerarchives.com/gawker-was-m...
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt seems somewhat bad that the richest man in the world can use his money to bankrupt individuals or organizations -- including officials who are tasked with holding him accountable -- that accurately point out that his actions plausibly facilitated the deaths of millions.
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
