Asinus Pervicax

This is union busters trying to sell their $250/hour union busting services to Griselda's Pastry Shoppe, but still very fun data!

Roughly:

The State of the Exception is when all pretense of law and rule falls away and politics are simply decided by who the armed agents of the state with weapons decide to follow.

Either:

All follow Trump, which is game over

or

They follow competing claims of authority, which is messy

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

3 OTTOBRE 2025 CGIL SCIOPERO GENERALE IN DIFESA DI FLOTILLA PER GAZA

Breaking: The Italian General Confederation of Labour, Italy's largest union with over 5 million members, is calling for a general strike in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Italian government vessels, along with Spanish ones, have abandoned the GSF

www.instagram.com/p/DPRv1o6iDq7/

If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory

Protests broke out in Pavia, Italy, denouncing Israel’s illegal interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Manif sauvage à Pavia en Italie pour dénoncer l’arrestation illégale de la flottille.

The damage done - Nature Medicine When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.

The Damage Done: @marianneguenot.bsky.social tells the story of clinical trials derailed by the administration's reckless science policy, across kidney disease, HIV, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. Years of work and money thrown away, at times just short of a cure.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them? A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

What a perfect formulation:

“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

that's a deep cut

The segment of Haitian republican revolutionaries who were basically fighting for "a slave state but without a racial caste system" were, in many ways, harbingers of the future, or at least a certain vision thereof that still has its supporters, even if they lost that particular battle.

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE:

They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.

DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

the right wing: you should be willing to put your issues aside and reach across the aisle to work with us

also the right wing:

fun stat: teams that didn’t gave a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk went undefeated. the math is clear, analytics say that winners don’t honor dead conservatives!

YouTube video by NPR Music Living Colour: Tiny Desk Concert

Reminding people that Living Colour did a Tiny Desk Concert this past June. (This is me, flailing around for good things to share because ugh, there's so much bad right now.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzAI...

lol this is what they fired him for saying

The more we learn about this, the more it seems like a disgusting echo of the "collateral murder" helicopter massacre in Iraq in the early years of the 2nd US war on that country. The difference is this one was done entirely for a spectacle, whereas the Iraq one was your everyday 🇺🇸 pilot bloodlust

Because the political right and fascist collaborators are connected across the globe through the financial backing of billionaire pedophiles.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

basically trump’s “If I Did It”

like so many products to come out of silicon valley in the last decade or so, AI is a legal innovation masquerading as a tech innovation. the legal theory seems to be that AI is entitled to everything but liable for nothing.

Confessions of an Ex-Anti-Vaxxer - Macleans.ca I spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in my home of Alberta, I’m trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids.

"The anti-vax movement isn’t simply a grassroots network of concerned parents. It’s an industry. It’s lucrative, selling supplements, e-books, courses and products." macleans.ca/longforms/co...

Supreme Court upholds 'roving patrols' for immigration arrests in Los Angeles The Supreme Court says immigration agents may stop and question people they suspect are here illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.

"Half the population” of greater Los Angeles "now meet the government’s criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling.

www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

The Roberts Court is overtly devoted, as a matter of judicial and political philosophy, to supporting the policy agenda of Donald Trump. These are DISCRETIONARY rulings - the Court is ruling, repeatedly and usually without explanation, that EQUITY requires that Trump’s agenda advance.

I'm laughing my nuts off at these guys rooting around for a "high salience" issue that's important to loads of people in the Dem base and coming up with some nerd shit about healthcare subsidies. Terminal pundit brain

If we are going to create a mass culture of non compliance with authoritarianism we are going to have to fight for each other when the system comes down on us to punish non compliance.

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Opinion | Old Betrayals and New as N.C. Dems Pass Anti-Trans Laws North Carolina Democrats had solid election results last year, amid promises to hold the line against the far-right. But two horrific anti-trans bills just became law thanks to Democratic support, wit...

In North Carolina, two horrific anti-trans bills became law — thanks to Democratic support.

It's part of an old pattern of betrayal. @davidforbes.bsky.social delves into this vital history, the South's importance to trans liberation and the need to fight back.

Edited by @ket.bsky.social

Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

Guests found papers with potentially sensitive details about the meetings between Trump and Putin left behind in an Alaska hotel's public printer