Isaac-Davy Aronson

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

The president of the United States is considering changing American naval policy based on an NBC WWII doc series, scored by Richard Rodgers, that aired when he was 6 years old.

Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’ U.S. Border Patrol agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of inti...

“Obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said to the reporter, a tall, middle-aged man of Anglo descent..."

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Trump/MAGA are trying to gaslight us into believing that anti-Jimmy Kimmel America is vast and deep, that MAGA's grip on the culture is unshakable, that mobilization is futile.

But this episode has demonstrated the opposite. Let's not forget it.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2008...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression

Breaking character: Ken White has a fantastic post about how "free speech culture" undermines free speech. It's something I've thought about a lot before, but Ken knows way more about it than I do and explains it really well.

www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

Coming up next hour!

The rapidity with which the GOP went from “the government shouldn’t pick winners and losers” to “the President should decide who hosts late night shows” should probably shape how future historians write about the pre-Trump GOP.

CDC advisers make their first childhood vaccine edit They voted 8-3 to recommend delaying the use of a measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox vaccine that about 15 percent of children receive.

When your anti-vax Health Secretary stacks the vaccine committee: "Some members seemed confused about the data they were being presented. After their vote on the program that provides free vaccines for children, some members asked what they just voted on." wapo.st/3K9OBNV

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Stone, 45, said he lost his government contracting job abruptly in July and had been hoping to find another position in the Washington, D.C. area. But so far, he has not been able to do so. "I pressed ahead with the campaign, expecting it to be a short-term issue," Stone said in an email to the Prince William Times. "But now that our family budget is tight due to no income, I have to do what's best for my family and take the job I'm offered."

The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away.

That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

"Schmitt, like Vance before him, presents this vision of the United States as a novel rebuke to liberal ideology. But truth be told, theirs is the stale orthodoxy of those blinkered devotees of human aristocracy, who reject the faith of the founders — and the work of those who made it real..."

Video here:

Truly one of the oddest things I’ve ever read.

Man, it's like gifting the President with a flying bribery palace can't even buy a country sovereignty anymore.

Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law – what comes next?

Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers Close relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status on two homes in two different states, public records show.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...

After the AUMF and drones, the movie’s concerns seemed quaint. After Trump, the movie will be nearly incomprehensible. (3/3)

The entire plot hinges on Harrison Ford trying to expose the secret war, and the fear among the president and his allies that if it becomes public, they will be forced out of office and maybe even go to prison. (2/3)

One of my favorite movies is Clear and Present Danger, in which a president launches a secret war on the drug cartels. It’s a *secret* war because it’s *illegal*. (1/3)

Déjà News: When an Epstein-like scandal toppled a government The Epstein scandal isn’t the first time a country has been consumed by a saga of wealth, criminality and political connections.

For the history buffs, a Déjà News addition from @idaronson.bsky.social :
The Epstein scandal isn’t the first time a country has been consumed by a saga of wealth, criminality and political connections.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

83% of people say violent crime is a big problem in the country today.

67% of people say crime is not a problem in their neighborhood.

Crime is happening somewhere! I scrolled by a carjacking snuff film that looked eerily like Russian dashcam footage but was labeled as "Deep Baltimore."

But where I am? Lol no. No crime happening here. Anyway we must stop the crime that is constantly, vaguely happening in any and all elsewheres.

Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.

Brandy's reporting on HHS/the CDC has been so consistently good, and I just want people to recognize what is implicit in her doing so well on this story, which is that her expertise is "misinformation, extremism and the internet" and this is the black hole eating our public health infrastructure.

This is great news!!

Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?

“…their strangest quality is how they almost completely excise ordinary social interactions.”

The weirdest thing about AI promotion is trying to sell us on offloading BEING HUMAN.

The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.

heads up -- this is very well done.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Tonight!

Fresh from announcing his run for the North Carolina Senate seat being vacated by Thom Tillis...

Former Governor Roy Cooper will be Rachel Maddow's guest.

9pmET on MSNBC