Paragraph from 9/1/2026 front page NYT article with the headline “Why Does Trump Want Fewer Bike Lanes? In His View, They Veer Left.” in which people who support bicycles are termed left-wing dingbats. Note that “left-wing dingbats” is not in quotes. Who is doing the name calling here?

More evidence that the authoritarianism we fear is already here. If you’re not actively resisting, you’re part of the problem. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...

U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)

The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.

nytimes.com

Implementing a universal, single-payer healthcare system would save the U.S. more than $1 trillion and some 114,000 lives every year, according to a recent Yale University preprint study

Scientists calculated how much money and lives 'Medicare for All' might save—it's a lot

The study has been touted by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders as proof of the benefits of a universal, single-payer healthcare system, but the research hasn't been peer-reviewed

scientificamerican.com

CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)

When Justice is blind, bad guys take the fifth. When justice is corrupt, good guys take the fifth. Feel free to share.

This is a pretty useful little tool. jasminedevv.github.io/AQI2cigarett...

Places like Fort Snelling in #Minnesota are increasingly adopting ‘mega master’ hearings, forcing 100+ people to appear before an immigration judge at the same time. Many people targeted are immigrants navigating the complex immigration system without legal representation.

Fort Snelling joins nationwide trend of holding ‘mega master’ immigration hearings, raising due process concerns

Advocates say the docket of 73 cases put into one 'mega master' hearing at Fort Snelling immigration court is unprecedented.

minnpost.com

“Comparing 1 acre of growing corn for ethanol, to 1 acre of solar panels to charge EVs”

obviously not the first person to make this observation but the "move along, citizen" shit for regular DC residents is especially galling in context of the pardons for the rioters who broke into the fucking capitol

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.

At this point, Trump has been played by pretty much every country in the Middle East, from Israel and Saudi to the UAE and Qatar, and now by Iran itself. He’s like a Baby Huey in a world of grownups. He makes Jimmy Carter look like a canny master of geopolitical maneuvering.

Minneapolis- any bozo can see it’s a hellscape

We have to get rid of all the loopholes.

I’m against the death penalty, but if there is anyone who deserves it, that person is Vance Boelter

WCCO@wcconews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Vance Boelter, the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses nearly a year ago, will not face the death penalty on federal charges.

What do you say to that? I usually start by talking about whether there's any economic basis for keeping the AI servers running. AI is - by far - the money-losingest venture in human history, and it's practically impossible to overstate just how *bad* the AI business is. 12/

See how gun violence has marked your corner of the country.

Gun Violence Map: How Many People Have Been Shot Near You?

Explore data on more than 447,000 shootings in the United States.

projects.thetrace.org

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no enforceable code of conduct. I support withholding funding from the Court until the justices adopt a binding code with real recusal review. Congress holds the power of the purse. We should use it. www.notus.org/us-news/samu...

Samuel Alito’s Son Has Been Quietly Working for Trump’s Treasury Department

Philip Alito has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department.

notus.org

“The minute anybody starts telling you what God thinks, or exactly why he does such and such, beware.” ~The Moon by Night

That the media and polite society are not treating that like a holocaust and Musk like Hitler just shows how warped things are

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 4mo ago

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life.

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life

Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story

rollingstone.com

FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the violence, protests, and arrests stemming from the federal immigration sweeps across the country. "Caught in the Crackdown" is now streaming on PBS and online.

#OtD 13 Apr 1906 Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Samuel Beckett, was born. During the Nazi occupation of France, Beckett joined the French Resistance as a courier. After the war, he was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance for his efforts

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

A cartoon by Ali Solomon.

"The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid." - Luke 23:55 #GoodFriday #JoyDivision #bleaktheology

“Jesus is the King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them. “Even though you make many prayers, God will not listen: your hands are full of blood.” — Pope Leo XIV

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

A really important observation. The comparison to the Civil War is helpful. By demanding unconditional surrender & to choose the Iranian Shia supreme leader, Trump made the war existential for the Iranian regime. But it’s not for us. That creates an imbalance in pain thresholds in Iran’s favor. 1/5

Kevin M. Levin@civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Of all the things that Trump SHOULD know about the Confederacy is that it didn’t have to destroy a much larger and better equipped United States Army. All they had to do was not lose and hope the loyal citizenry of the US tired of war.

Even the conservative Wall Street Journal understands the havoc wealth inequality is wreaking on our economy and society. It’s far past time to unrig the system. https://www.wsj.com/finance/billionaires-low-taxes-are-becoming-a-problem-for-the-economy-27a560ca