Jamieson Taylor

File state charges. This is a crime.

If you think I'm not alarmed, read this.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Thanks.
FTR, the very first time I had to call NCIS (I was working for the Navy) and then the FBI because of threats from Trumpers was almost ten years ago. I also had to fight being fired; I told my family, including my young daughter, that I might be unemployed soon.
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Absolutely! Enjoy it :)

*stares in 97° fall drought plus existential threats to our democracy*

How nice… 😒

❤️

The lex talionis was trying to stop inequitable retaliation—you steal my sheep, I kill your brother, and so forth—to make any punishment or retaliation or compensation meaningfully equal to the harm caused.

We are talking online in a way that is not even that just. We are talking into a trap.

Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant. “I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

*Insert joke about your Atlantic article clicks*

(Too soon?)

This is it, it’s time to wait and trust.

We watch for the awakening now, and see what work there is to do when it comes.

I do think keeping some channel of real information flowing in front of the maga people you love is important. But it’s not up to us who will have eyes/ears to hear.

Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"

“I have a Republican representative, what can I do?”

This. Call every office they have, every day. Be polite, be persistent, but push

This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge The story of one scientist, a career in public health, and the crisis at the CDC.

"Every one of these people is taking with them skills and knowledge that will be difficult to replace. But there may be no single individual whose departure better captures what is being lost and destroyed than Demetre Daskalakis."

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

I can

I can

This makes me question the president’s health more than the size of his ankles

This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day

Pastor Doug Pagitt realized Vote Common Good would need a robust mass-alert system because of ICE’s new, aggressive tactics of showing up unexpectedly at places that were previously off-limits.

Like churches. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...

It is back-to-school season for Texas students, and our newsroom needs your help to check off a school supply list for all of Texas. 🧵

omg 🤣🤣🤣

This is the way (my favorite are that “chicken” and “deal” and randomly in quotes 🤣)

Right? I mean, it’s always been fun.

Not appointment viewing for me, but I’ve let it auto play and chuckled at those two knuckleheads many times.

Kylie’s podcast is hilarious too.

That’s a family of very fun people.

He’s going to take over DC to avoid talking about Epstein.

Also, forgive me, I’m a bit of Lewis completionist, have done all the side quests, even failed attempts at reading his academic work.

He really understood what makes humans rot internally, what distorts us, turns us into tyrants.

The Last Battle, my least favorite Narnia book, is shockingly relevant for the last 10 years of us politics. It horrifies me to remember how much. I want to reread it but I haven’t got the heart.

Napoleon in an opulent mansion that can’t keep out the rain, stewing in his malice and grievances, blaming everyone else for eternity…

The most believable portrait of hell ever written.