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On a variety of issue, Mr. Trump has blown past norms and traditions, often moving so quickly that it can be too late for courts, Congress or the public to catch up.

Just wondering if there is another way of describing the actions of a leader in a constitutional democracy who disregards the courts, Congress, and the public?

Upon further evaluation, the White House determined it was cheaper and more structurally sound to demolish the East Wing than to build an addition, one of the administration official said.

Skepticism is in order here, given Trump’s long record of lying, the fact that he only announced this after the destruction was a fact accompli, and the fact that he has sought to project autocratic power ever since his return to the White House. What is the evidence of “further evaluation”?

Trump Is Wasting No Time in Tearing Down the East Wing

It is shocking that Trump is quickly tearing down a portion of the White House. But isn’t the bigger story that this action is of a piece with his autocratic presumption that he can unilaterally destroy public goods without any public consultation or explanation?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

HELL YEAH

chanda is back with a beautiful offering:

I'm Aabria's glasses, fragile, but resting on the soft comfort of a story well told.

A four panel text conversation. Panel 1: Demi says "Let me just check on the hot people. Ya'll good?" Panel 2: The hot people respond: "Yes, thanks so much for asking." Panel 3: Demi turns to Raph and says "Moneybags?" Panel 4: Raph responds "I'm also hot."

when he's a hot mr. mcmoneybags

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie Kristi Noem's threat to do a Jan. 6 to California and the arrest of Senator Alex Padilla

it's like what the image says. they think they're kings — they think they rule us — and they want us to obey youtu.be/ULdUsHB-7VE

Sourcing the dispute to Padilla even when the video proves Padilla is right is an explicit endorsement of the White House's credibility by a news organization

as ever, if you ask people if they think art should exist for their enjoyment they will say yes, and then if you ask them if the people making the art should get paid for it they'll tell you "no that's a fake job"

There are drag queens in the library and methodology queens in my phone. Happy Pride 💜👑

now they are denying it was even an immigration action and acting like they didn't come with three massive armored vehicles and enough zip ties to make mass arrests.

get out there and make their job miserable. love to my minneapolis people who brought megaphones and stood out there in the rain.

Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to take the rare step of renaming a ship, one that bears the name of a gay rights icon, documents and sources show.

Another dumb gross irony here is Harvey Milk served in the Navy and Donald Trump's Navy secretary didn't www.military.com/daily-news/2...

It says a lot about where we’re at in this country that a beloved voice actor was murdered by his homophobic neighbor and every headline is still running passive defense for his killer, doing everything not to call this hate crime what it was. These are scary times. RIP to Jonathan Joss.

but do your cats wake you at 5am ??? for food even though there may still be food left on their plate?? lol

reminder, bsky has a clever way to display pronouns that's built in!

but you only see them if you yourself opt in, so please feel free to here by subscribing and then choosing which applies!!

@pronouns.diy

The chest x-ray use pioneered by Alan Hart continues to be extremely important in screening for tuberculosis. Although no one accomplishes anything in isolation, I'd argue that Hart has helped saved MILLIONS of lives because chest x-rays have been so essential in driving down rates of TB globally.

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

The agent who handcuffed a congressional aide is William Krejci of Keasbey, New Jersey, DHS Area Commander. His social media is locked down pretty tight but a Yelp account tied to the same email address he used for LinkedIn shows a face and forearm tattoo that matches the video.

The teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ has been released.

Coming to Netflix this November.

Help Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights Cases Have you recently filed a civil rights complaint or do you have a pending case? We need your help to get a full picture of how the dismantling of the Office for Civil Rights is affecting students,…

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Here's how to reach out.

A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing…

The Department of Education was deep into an investigation of a school district where students allegedly played whipping sounds from their phones during a lesson about slavery.

Then in March, Trump fired all of the employees working on the case.

Impact: Senators Call on DOJ to Investigate Potential DOGE Conflicts of Interest After ProPublica Report Citing ProPublica’s reporting on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Democratic senators argued that the potential conflicts “underscore what appears to be a pervasive problem with Elon Musk and...

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Jack Reed cited our reporting on how one DOGE aide assigned to the CFPB helped oversee the mass layoffs of the agency’s staff while holding as much as $715K in stocks that bureau employees are prohibited from owning.

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics.

This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.

Please read, this is important. Sorry it’s long.

Trump’s move to have Elon Musk step aside wasn’t a retreat. It was a distraction. With Musk’s name out of the headlines, many assumed the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had quietly ended. It hasn’t. It’s just changed hands.

Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway.

This article is chilling, but it provides more details that support what @altnps.bsky.social is sharing. newrepublic.com/post/195904/...

@taylordotbiz.bsky.social
re: interview with jordon and clarinets vs horns as a common/breakthrough instrument, bass and contrabass clarinets are fun in that way. highly recommend the album "tooth and claw" by Edmund welles

BREAKING: Columbia University expels Grant Miner, president of the Student Workers of Columbia (SWC), a union for instructors, teaching assistants, and researchers at the university.

H/t Meghnad Bose