Matt Gold

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Sketch notes featuring portraits of Lauren Davidson and Dana Johnson, Zach Davis and Matt Gold

The @manifoldscholar.bsky.social team is incredible! V9 Meetup today demo with new features and improved accessibility…and maintenance! Bravo, @castironcoding.bsky.social! @uminnpress.bsky.social @cunygcdi.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social @zmdavis.bsky.social

Because figuratively wasn’t clear enough?

MEANWHILE AT MAR-A-LAGO…

#IndivisiblePhiladelphia is pleased to share that Philadelphia’s Police Department reported ZERO incidents during today’s #NoKings Rally & March despite 25000+ in attendance. #GOBIRDS #IndivisblePA @indivisible.org @indivisiblepa.bsky.social

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

Huge congrats, Claudia! Excited for you!

Sam Altman says OpenAI isn't 'moral police of the world' after erotica ChatGPT post blows up OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said his company is "not the elected moral police of the world" after receiving backlash over his decision to allow erotica on ChatGPT.

Altman is weakening the already flimsy ethical guardrails on their unregulated bullshit machine to goose engagement

he lied, claimed it was really because they'd fixed ChatGPT's mental health issues, then when he gets pushback he's like "it's not my job to have morals and ethics"

Very excited about this forthcoming volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series! @uminnpress.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social

A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol “It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
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Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

Vive la résistance!!!!

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Trump Says a Deal With Harvard Is Close

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.”

Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.

That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

ABC has posted the first 28 minutes of @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social

WATCH:

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Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Harvard can't use someone's race to decide if they are going to be a student, but ICE can use a student's race to decide if they are going to detain/incarcerate them.

According to the Supreme Court, race can only be a factor if you want hurt, not help, someone.

This isn’t Moscow or Beijing. It’s Chicago. Masked federal agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE and threw them into an unmarked van.

“Who are you? Where are you taking them?” people shouted. “You are kidnapping them!”

What has America become?

Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters.

Another way of saying this is that the murderous strike was carried out without any legal authority.

Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels

Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out:

"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."

Congrats!!!!