Julie Westfall

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

The president can't be prosecuted but he can get paid for past prosecutions. Okey dokey.

I can feel myself turning to dust just reading this. Not only do I STILL remember a bunch of phone numbers from my childhood, I remember that my Dad would use the *letter* variation for the first two digits, rather than numbers. Our home number started with "AR1" rather than 271.

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

A few police officers are worried about someone becoming mayor is quite the story!

Listen, you can have a lot of questions about this leadership choice. I know I do.

But Bari Weiss is hardly the first executive to operate chaotically and with high demands. Many executives manage this way, and yet, I've noticed when a woman becomes a leader, it's the first thing that's flagged.

The sigh I expel when you undermine the whole “without fear or favor” part by using Trump and Hegseth’s make-believe name for the Defense Department.

Dallas Morning News shareholders vote to deny the hedge fund Alden Global Capital Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer.

"Dallas Morning News shareholders vote to deny the hedge fund Alden Global Capital."

The hedge fund offered more money.

Did you hear what I said?

"Alden Global Capital is well known as the worst possible newspaper owner for anyone who cares about journalism." www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dall...

I think journalists would be better off if they thought about AI like this — as the latest in a long series of technological changes that have affected human communication and information exchange, not as some unique demonic threat to all that is good and true.

And an H.W. Bush appointee threw this right out, ordering it be rewritten like an actual legal document within 28 days to continue:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Oh well, since you put it bluntly, it must be illegal

She Decides Who’s Famous Enough for Free U.S. Open Tickets

If you're looking for a reason to feel icky today, here you go.

This is, among many other reasons, why the US Open has become basically unaffordable for normals.

I'm lucky that I can actually afford to pay twice as much as two years ago. But most can't, and soon I won't be able to either.

In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight.

In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well.

Here are from two of the resignations:

When the king called on Mussolini to form a government in October 1922, very few people in the world had any idea of what was meant by a totalitarian form of government. Mussolini himself probably did not know what he was going to do—except stay in power. A parliamentary majority backed the fascist government at the beginning, and most of the people thought fascism was a temporary interlude. They thought Italy could later return to freedom, and in the meantime fascism could take care of the crisis. When Mussolini stepped into power, fascism had none of the superior-race, blood-and-soil trappings that came to Germany with Hitlerism. All the other elements of fascism were there, however: belief in violence, disbelief in legal processes, rabid nationalism, and so on. But the regime was not totalitarian in its first three years. Opposition parties were still legal, a strong opposition press operated under difficulties, and Mussolini kept talking about a return to normalcy

"Mussolini himself probably did not know what he was going to do—except stay in power. A parliamentary majority backed the fascist govt at the beginning, & most of the people thought fascism was a temporary interlude... thought Italy could later return to freedom"
www.historians.org/resource/the...

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Yes. Once you start seeing this (Institution X probably wanted do this conservative thing anyway but now can blame it on Trump), it's everywhere. It's not capitulation, it's agreement. "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2014-2020 because of woke/progressive/anti-racist pressure."

Does businesses, big law, science... generate any costs for this bullying? If not, more to come from the right and, perhaps, later from the left.

It's almost like there's a throughline, and this doesn't even include the DC takeover

a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! '' ALT: a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''

Astonishing, and also not

People who already have the stunning privilege of being at a Wimbledon match (not to mention a finals match) feel further entitled to open a bottle whenever they want even if it's in the direction of one of the best players of all time getting ready to serve.

The champagne corks at @wimbledonltc.bsky.social are funny, but it's also also a huge data paint about our society.

"Many arguing"

It really is amazing how far down the list this is on the outrage scale for Trump when any other president saying something like this would have been a massive scandal, complete with Senate hearings over accusations of quid pro quo and cronyism.

www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

He’s wrong but this is an incredibly common elite pathology: the belief that your voice should be held strategically in reserve, to strike at the right moment and change everything.

Then they do and it’s washed away by the firehose of noise. I call it Jim Mattis Syndrome.

Here's a local news org stating what its values are. More of this please. There's a reason any given journalist or org reports on what it does, the way it does. Tell your readers what that reason is, and keep telling them. 👏 @crosstownla.bsky.social