I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...

We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...

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No notes. 🤦🏼‍♀️🚀🌚

Nothing to worry about, just a US attorney investigating people for deportation when suggested by rando X accounts

The Senate has confirmed nearly 60 Trump-nominated election deniers to the judiciary. The attorneys who prosecuted the Jan. 6, 2021 rioters want them to stop. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Jan. 6 prosecutors urge Senate to stop confirming Trump's election-denier nominees

“The institutional denial of truth — especially by potential federal judges — is dangerous, yet it’s become all too clear that President Trump expects his nominees to provide evasive answers about bot...

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Trump claimed his Qatari gifted flying palace was going to his presidential library, but now he's saying maybe not. He wants a different older Air Force 1 to go there instead. Obviously he wants to keep it as his personal plane, but isn't sure how to do it legally. www.rawstory.com/trump-luxury...

Trump caves on promise to gift 'flying palace' to his presidential library: report

President Donald Trump's plan to display the Qatari-gifted Air Force One at his future presidential library has apparently been scrapped, according to his son.Eric Trump, who is involved in developing...

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This is nearly impossible to fight on the same grounds as, say, prison warehouses. The only real way to grind this scheme to a halt would be through an administration and congress diametrically opposed to its execution.

This is the tactic going forward: buy these “turnkey” facilities from GEO Group, CoreCivic, LaSalle, etc., and then turn around and contract them out for operations. The prison contractors make a pretty penny off the sale and ops contracts. ICE gets to run supremacy laps around state laws.

So that’ll be nearly $1 billion between sale and operations for 1600 beds.

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 8h ago

Breaking: CoreCivic has announced they've sold the 1,600 bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minn., to the U.S. through the Department of Homeland Security for $495.6 million. CoreCivic will still manage the facility, which is expected to start receiving ICE detainees this fall.

People that have lost SNAP benefits are mostly the elderly and the children, Approximately 5.8 million people, about 13.5%. Trump's Agriculture Secretary thinks it's a big win! #ProudBlue #GTS #Blues www.commondreams.org/news/brooke-...

Trump USDA Chief Calls Kicking 5 Million People Off Food Aid 'A Pretty Big Win' | Common Dreams

"The immense hardship these families are now facing is not, in fact, 'a pretty big win,'" said one policy expert.

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I wrote about how weird and bad it is to have a future AG going around claiming he'll make Dobbs "permanent in every single state"—unless he understands Dobbs to be a national abortion ban, and thinks his job is to force states to comply

Todd Blanche Is Claiming That He Can Ban Abortion In Any State

As he fights to be confirmed as attorney general, Blanche is trying to appease Christian-right groups with wild legal theories about restricting abortion.

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If you have transitioned later in life, please know how deeply you are needed here. Your story is the exact proof someone else needs to finally take their first step.

NEW: Looking to lend a hand? Each week, we round up ways to get involved around D.C. Here's this week's list:

12 ways to volunteer around D.C. this week

Fighting back against one year of occupation and more ways to show up for your neighbors.

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JUST IN: Trump is scrambling to stop the BBC from digging into the finances of his business empire after a judge ordered him to hand over records in his $10B defamation lawsuit against the network.

Ben Shapiro has recreated Judeo-Bolshevism from first principles, just replacing "Jew" with "Muslim."

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 8h ago

Ben Shapiro probably does not know enough history to even know this, but the way he is talking about Muslims as a nation within the nation who can never be integrated is almost verbatim what European nationalists said about Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

I detailed much much more of the call here (hmu for a copy)

Todd Blanche Is Claiming That He Can Ban Abortion In Any State

As he fights to be confirmed as attorney general, Blanche is trying to appease Christian-right groups with wild legal theories about restricting abortion.

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Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 6h ago

Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.

Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers

The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”

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Think how many families with kids could get their Republican-eliminated SNAP benefits (née food stamps) restored with the $2.8 billion the Trump regime is paying energy companies to stop installing offshore wind turbines and instead build health-harming, climate-wrecking, dirty energy projects.

"So, you see, Ms. Cunningham, I will admit that I don’t understand what you’re aiming at here with your public concerns about trans youth in sports. I don’t get it."

What Do I Think About Sophie Cunningham?

I'll tell you.

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Alabama and Mississippi rank the two worst states in the country to have a baby. In baby friendliness, Alabama ranked #51. ❓ Apparently a territory outranked it. I thought these were right-to-life states. Do better, Bama. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2...

Why Alabama scores nearly last in US for having a baby in the state

Having a baby in Alabama can cost less than elsewhere, so why did the state rank near the bottom in a new national study?

montgomeryadvertiser.com

Wrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone

Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.

theatlantic.com

6th Cir.: attorneys fee request "almost shocks the conscience," orders the fee award drastically reduced where local counsel claimed to spend 4,800 hours litigating case even after Pacific Legal Foundation took over appellate briefing and argument pro bono. www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

The U.S. government is insolvent. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025.

The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it

The Government Accountability Office can't even verify the books. Here's what Congress must do.

finance.yahoo.com

New in PN: Jeanine Pirro crashes into the limit of Trump's lies "Did Pirro genuinely believe the scales would fall from Trump’s eyes if she showed him some pictures from the Park Service proving his contractor was at fault for the wrecked pool? This is Donald Trump we’re talking about!"

Jeanine Pirro crashes into the limit of Trump's lies

It's one thing to bullshit on Fox. It's another to lie in court.

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on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

The details are a little fuzzy, but I think what happened is even funnier: The call was *hosted* by the White House Faith Office and *posted* by a religious activist group, which once again affirms that the people in charge of the government right now are some of the stupidest motherfuckers alive

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

there are no trans players in the wnba. the highest estimate is that maybe 0.9% of the us population is transgender. this is just people crushing the most vulnerable humans in america and if you don’t stand up against this you are a fucking piece of shit. what are we doing here.

Thrilled that @theguardian.com has run this fantastic profile of @gilduran.com and his intrepid reporting on the hard right turn coming out of Silicon Valley-- his forthcoming THE NERD REICH is as gripping and urgent as they come, a staggering piece of writing that puts the bigger picture together

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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Today, The Steady State published an article titled, "The 51 Were Warning. Trump Calls It a Lie." Here, Executive Director of The Steady State, Steven Cash talks about why this article is so important. Read the full essay below: zurl.co/wZmiz