This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19h ago

#BREAKING: In non-Missouri emergency docket news, #SCOTUS *grants* the Trump administration's request for a stay in the SAVE case, allowing DHS to have access to certain Social Security information. The three Democratic appointees dissent.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

As someone who teaches a lot of calculus-based math, I think the public does not have a good understanding of most rates of change. In their heads they compare prices now with what they remember, from five or ten years ago, against the explicit promise prices would go down. 1/2

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.

This is insane. Inflation is under 4%. We’ve genuinely created a monster here: a public that hallucinates intolerable inflation no matter what the actual figures are. It is a bullet to the head of the entire progressive project *and progressives can’t even be made to care.*

Just saw a really specific 30-second YouTube ad for Springer math journal "Nonlinear Dynamics," asking me to publish with them. I gotta be more anonymous on the internet.

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NYPD Commissioner Tisch Declined To Punish Cops Who Used Force So Other Cops Could Park Illegally - Streetsblog New York City

The top cop's decision came even though the NYPD's patrol guide prohibits both excessive force and bars officers from parking on the sidewalk.

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It costs $1,000,000 to eliminate your $1,000,000,000 tax bill. It costs $1,000,000 to eliminate your $1,000 tax bill. Yay equality!

Weird choice in WaPo. Why is the word "but" there, when it should be "and"?

The kids are saying this is now year zero A.K. Months will now be denoted Janucharlie, Februcharlie, Charch, etc. Don't blame me, I'm just the messenger.

As a mathematician, this seems a bit disingenuous. Tao spent the past year as a paid advocate for using AI in mathematics, while thinking he could remain one of the arbiters of what's "good" and "interesting." Now the AI slop he pushed threatens to make him obsolete. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172373...

Donald Trump was in both World Trade Center buildings at the same time on September 11, jumping from one as it started to fall to the other, and then jumping from that one and falling until he forgot about the ground and accidentally started flying, and if you don't believe this you hate America.

I've taken pretty much the same dialect quiz multiple times, and every other one successfully identifies my dialect as Philadelphian (due mainly to Mary/marry/merry). This one says I'm from somewhere around northern Delaware or maybe southern New Jersey. Dumb.

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

Mark Crail@markcrail.bsky.social · 3w ago

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you need a Brick Crossing ... youtube.com/shorts/8kP6R...

How to make streets safer with just a brick

YouTube video by About Here

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I grew up watching idiot huckster Christians spending hours shouting warnings about the Antichrist. And now literally all of them blindly follow the literal Antichrist.

The reason nobody in the US takes any leftist position seriously is that it has been impossible to imagine any left-winger using any amount of force in even the slightest way for fifty years. Every left-wing protest is pathetically impotent because it will all be over tomorrow with no disruption.

The first rule of deNazification was that Nazis had to be excluded from the democratic government. That will also be the first rule of deTrumpification. Republicans must never again be allowed to exist as a political party. Some Nazis rebelled against Hitler. No Republican ever fought Trump.

Every single person who voted for Trump is a genuinely bad person, with whom no decent person should ever associate.

My favorite thing about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library was that it was just open. You didn't need to provide proof of income or anything, just sign up to request the books and receive them. One of the most hassle-free things I ever did on behalf of my kid.

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Facing Ouster, Brooklyn Democratic Chair Tries to Rewrite Rules

Brooklyn Democratic Party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn wants to expand who votes for party leader, and a reform group is threatening to sue.

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diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...

I signed up for a Republican mailing list as "Prince Rebus" as a joke once 15 years ago and decided to check my spam folder today.

If 50% of the people are good and practice nonviolence, while the other 50% are evil and practice violence, your society is 100% evil.

We don't often get a chance to vote directly on the punishment for a decades-long pedophilia conspiracy, but voting for Todd Blanche who got Ghislaine Maxwell into Club Fed in exchange for her silence is pretty close. Every Senate Republican (including Collins and Murkowski) endorsed pedophilia.

Kevin Hassett voice: "If you make all those red bars blue and shift them up a bunch, Trump is actually a really successful jobs president!"

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

from Heather Long: Bleak July jobs report: -23,000 jobs lost in July -264,000 people leave labor force -Wage growth falls to 3.2% = lowest in 5 years (and totally wiped out by inflation right now) ***Lowest labor force participation rate since February 2021*** @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Early Modern Lovers song: Pablo Picasso was a creepy artist Who was never called an asshole Not like you Late Modern Lovers song: I like the idea of art But only if I'm looking at it With my G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 2mo ago

Early Pink Floyd song: This bloke steals Ladys underpants Peculiar innit? Late Pink Floyd song: Life is a slow decay Every day you're One day closer to death.

Christianity morphed into the Cult of the Antichrist in the US over the past 10 years and hardly any "Christians" even noticed.

No matter what you search for on Bluesky, you end up with cartoon porn. Trying to figure out what the "blue bunny" story is with Max Miller and, well, I don't recommend this method.

How stupid does Matt Gaetz feel? There is literally nobody in America too stupid, too incompetent, too corrupt, or too pro-child rape to be confirmed to Trump's Cabinet by the corrupt Republican toadies in the Senate. So why didn't he stick it out?