From the Miami Herald's lede story: The labor-force loss "is estimated at up to $4 billion to the state’s gross domestic product. "Employers would incur close to $1 billion in turnover costs nationally for recruiting and training replacements for TPS workers" www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

TPS ends for 350,000 Haitians: Federal judge lifts stay after Supreme Court ruling

Dread over the impending end of TPS has been hanging over the Haitian community in South Florida, where many fear Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids are imminent.

miamiherald.com

Representative Shirley Chisholm, 1972: "[W]e have looked in vain to the Nixon administration for the courage, the spirit, the character, and the words to lift us, to bring out the best in us, to rekindle in each of us our faith in the American dream."

Shirley Chisholm: Declares Presidential Bid, January 25, 1972

YouTube video by NYC Department of Records and Information Services

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Been a while since I reread the Federalist Papers but I’d swear that’s not how this was supposed to work.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

He says this as the president rages about the DOJ refusing to prosecute a man they know is innocent, rather than admit the he hired a shitty pool guy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"

Really important to understand that Truman and Ike set up & institutionalized a whole process so that presidents would be briefed on (among other things) what was true and what wasn't and it served all the presidents since then well and Trump deliberately garbaged it and has no idea what's going on.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Very cool we have an 80 year old president who proudly displays his ability to discern reality from the Oval Office, a condition worsened by a bubble of sycophants and his struggles with AI

A vote for Blanche is a vote for giving Trump & his family IRS immunity as they’ve engaged in shocking corruption. Also a vote for the Epstein cover-up, allowing tax dollars for the ballroom & Trump selling inside info to Wall St. And Blanche can still give $ to J6ers or Trump.

The May 19 immunity order is *NOT* a "settlement" or (in Blanche's words) a "mutual release of claims." It is, instead, a *unilateral* grant of immunity to the President and his family from all investigations and liability. It's lawless, and the next AG should rescind it on 01/20/29.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago

🚨NEW: Todd Blanche’s new order rescinds the May 18 Anti-Weaponization Fund—but quietly leaves the May 19 IRS immunity settlement intact. Instead of rescinding it, the accompanying memo reaffirms DOJ’s interpretation, arguing the immunity applies only retroactively and only to the parties involved.1/

The nomination of Todd Blanche seems to be back on as Republican holdouts pretend that any deal Blanche offers them will be honored by Trump. Here is why Blanche as AG is bad for American democracy. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democracie...

Democracies and mutual tolerance

Republicans should reject Todd Blanche out of self-interest

donmoynihan.substack.com

Really been amazing throughout the process how “should the attorney general be a former personal attorney to the president who has overseen a bunch of failed political prosecutions” just does not matter at all to the entire GOP caucus.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 2d ago

You’d have to be a fool and/or desperate to get to yes to accept this, so it’ll probably be enough to get him confirmed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Gillian Metzger, Eloise Pasachoff, & I finished the 2026 supplement to the Gellhorn & Byse Administrative Law casebook. It is comprehensive, with excerpts from many cases, administrative documents, & scholarship. Email me if you want a copy. We hope it is useful to practitioners as well as teachers.

Reflecting Pool lessons: 1. Trump administration lying is routine and pervasive. Nothing they say or do should have a "presumption of regularity." 2. They spend our money to prosecute innocent people. Congress should cut and restrict funds and hold liars accountable. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Charges Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool

A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.

nytimes.com

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

The White House broke the law.

"UNPOPULAR OPINION: NAPOLEON WOULD HAVE WON THIS WAR IF NOT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF WINTER AND DISTANCE" x.com/nikicaga/sta...

The latest CNN poll shows that only 2% of Americans say economic conditions in the US are "very good," while 77% say they're somewhat or very poor.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Bessent: "President Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton could not have imagined the economy that we would have created. It is the envy of the world."

Senate Republicans are all in for Trump's $1.8 bn Treasury embezzlement plan after all. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Finance Republicans kill bid to stop Trump IRS audit-immunity deal

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a vocal critic of the immunity plan, sided against a Democratic amendment to block it outright.

politico.com

The easiest possible layup for a President at war with another country would be to explain that they are attacking us. Trump won't do that because he views Minnesota as a bigger enemy than Iran.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

Via @pressherald.com (gift link) Elon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid Collins "had friendly meetings with Musk in the past while also saying last year she was “very concerned” about some of DOGE’s moves" www.pressherald.com?p=7697086&uu...

Elon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid

Musk's America PAC reportedly intends to spend $100 million to $120 million to help Republicans in Senate races in Maine and several other states.

pressherald.com

I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing Power

What does a power-shifting agenda look like?

donmoynihan.substack.com

USA Asset Mgmt: 🇺🇸 > @scottlincicome.bsky.social

Nancy Reagan warned us about the dangers of hallucinogenic drugs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Rep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.

Monty Python: Black Knight Draw

ALT: Monty Python: Black Knight Draw

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James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"

If you have type-O positive blood and you can manage it, please consider donating blood *as soon as possible* - this is a very bad situation.

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · last wk.

yikes

Another Trump appointment without the statutory qualifications for the job; yet again the Senate GOP ignores that fact. "Better than Pulte" is not the bar. [50 USC 3023: "Any individual nominated for appointment as DNI shall have extensive national security expertise."]

Politico@politico.com · last wk.

GOP confirms Jay Clayton as spy chief

The Washington University Law Review is pleased to publish The Crisis of Appropriations Law by Samuel R. Bagenstos in the symposium issue, Volume 103, Issue 6. The Article examines the foundations of appropriations law. Read: wustllawreview.org/2026/07/26/t...

Trump admin has quietly drafted new rules governing the census expected to recategorize millions of immigrants (both unauthorized and legal) as not actually living here in the United States This would allow the GOP to steal congressional seats & redirect hundreds of billions of federal dollars

Inside Trump’s Stealth Trick to Rig the Census—and Congress

The administration’s latest power grab is disguised as boring technical guidance.

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The logistical brilliance of Pete Hegseth: firing $4 mn missiles to take down a $10k drone. “In late April, The New York Times reported that the Pentagon had used more than 1,200 Patriot interceptor missiles in the war, at more than $4 million apiece.”

Trump Holds Off on Major War Escalation Against Iran as Advisers Raise Concerns

Among the worries is that expanded hostilities could dangerously drain the diminished stockpile of air defense munitions in the Middle East.

nytimes.com

@philiprocco.bsky.social did a deep dive on the rules and enforcement powers on govt propaganda. The underlying take away is that while the US says it opposes such actions, it simply has not enforced the rules. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-federa...

Sobering reminder that the trillionaire who owns Twitter is an angry, impotent white supremacist.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"