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are these stories about reading trump administration officials phones in public just a consequence of iphones having amazing cameras now or are these guys just particularly incompetent with opsec

It's endlessly maddening that Dems would never dream of doing shit like this when they regain power and they are right not to. It's just a blatant asymmetry that flows from the information environment and the GOP knows they can get away with it without fear of retribution.

What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.

I'm only one guy in the cacophony of social media, but pleased to have done my part to make this a thing.

#KavanaughStop

The court draws the line when their own investments are potentially affected. And only then.

we are truly lost

New York Public Radio Launches "Station-to-Station Programming Project" to Offer Free Programming to Fellow Stations Amid the Federal Shutdown of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Freakonomics Radio, Science Friday, and Today, Explained–National Shows Distributed by New York Public Radio–Partner in Waiving Distribution Fees. September 24, 2025–New York, NY–In response to the unprecedented threats facing public broadcasting, New York Public Radio (NYPR)–home of WNYC and WQXR–today announced the Station-to-Station Programming Project. The initiative will make its roster of critically acclaimed, nationally syndicated programs–including Radiolab, On the Media, The New Yorker Radio Hour, and Terrestrials, as well as Freakonomics Radio, Science Friday and Today, Explained, which NYPR distributes–available to at-risk public radio stations at no cost.

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This is truly a solemn day

Because if it hadn’t become clear already, the Tylenol press conference should’ve crystallized this fact:

The world cannot trust the American government’s policies or pronouncements in matters regarding science or medicine

Which renders everything else we do compromised

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal.

The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.

Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

you look at all of this and it tells a very clear and unmistakable story no matter what the conservative justices say at conferences or in interviews or whatever they tell themselves

Indeed, the fundamental principle of stare decisis, that the passage of time and settled expectations regarding the law should not be lightly upended, has been overruled sub silentio. They are gleefully taking a wrecking ball to those settled expectations.

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I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech.

He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter.

The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.

Just since yesterday, the President has engaged in more extrajudicial killings, promised to use the federal government's power to repress the political opposition, threatened to prosecute a reporter for asking him a question, and filed a baseless lawsuit to try to intimidate a leading news outlet.

Nor was Rand Paul ever a libertarian. He was just for himself and his corporate sponsors’ ability to pollute and monopolize as much as they wanted without govt interference.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

‘I will not stay quiet’: LA man swept up in Trump Ice dragnet on why he’s suing Brian Gavidia, plaintiff in lawsuit alleging ‘blatant racial profiling’, says encounter with agent has left lasting scars

The Supreme Court “didn’t hear our pleas. They disregarded humanity. They disregarded the people,” said a US citizen Brian Gavidia. “We fought for these rights many years ago, and apparently we’re going back in time.”

“It is not OK. Racial profiling is not OK.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If ethnicity can be a factor in arresting someone, why can’t it also be factor in college admissions, DEI programs, and similar initiatives aimed at righting historical (and current) disparities? Make it make sense

The winderful.uk dashboard showing that wind is generating 10,948 MW. That's enough for 6,082,222 kettles!

Right now #wind is meeting 49% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk

Others have pointed out that Trump’s use of the phrase “Enigmas never age” was odd and uncharacteristic of Trump. Then U realize “enigmas” is an anagram for gamines - young women, often discarded or living on the streets (Google it). That really a coincidence? But NYT puts it on A16.

Looking again to see how Trump used the word “enigmas,” it is absolutely clear that it was an anagram for gamines — which Merriam Webster and Dictionary.com define as a young slender or small girl who is neglected or lives on the streets. From his birthday letter: “Enigmas never age….” Horrific.

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