John Weeks

Joe Biden: “Fund The Police”

Dems, after confronted & largely elected in the wake of the biggest anti-police protests ever:

Israeli government official charged with soliciting 15-year-old girl in Las Vegas Police say Tom Artiom Alexandrovich brought condom and thought he was meeting teenager for ‘sexual contact’

It’s horrible how Trump is welcoming all these foreign child predators.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@prisonculture.bsky.social Had to stick this up near my desk

🚨 Microsoft workers launch #Palestine encampment at company's HQ in Redmond, WA

"I worked for three years on Azure, not knowing that my labor was being used to actively facilitate the murder of my people" - Hossam Nasr, No Azure for Apartheid, former tech worker fired by Microsoft @therealnews.com

People are so excited that we might be on the verge of civil war. I’m not. I’m a basic bitch who likes basic things like pumpkin spice lattes and not getting shot at in the grocery store.

Libertarians: We must be armed to prepare for Obama’s overreach

Libertarians: (Today) This is fine

Most everyone knows about the story of Anne Frank.

Not enough know about Harriet Jacobs.

She was an enslaved woman who hid in a crawlspace in her grandmother's attic for 7 YEARS to avoid further sexual abuse.

She didn't run bc she couldn't leave her children who she watched through a tiny hole.

‘We’re all going backwards’: dismay as Trump undoes Biden student-debt plan Borrowers say higher repayments under changed Save plan means placing life on hold and creating further anxiety

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nazis are bad

This remains my simple baseline: if you praise Nazis you're either a) bad faith or b) clueless

The worst part of social media is people who never ever ever organize talking about organizing. It's excruciating particularly in this moment.

To my 2015 self: Donald Trump has just been inaugurated for a second non-consecutive term (a thing that hasn't happened in 140 years), after a first term in which he botched the response to a once in a century pandemic, and has now deployed the army to abduct people off the streets of Washington DC

NEW:

“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.

COMING UP!
We'll hear from Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier after this commercial break!

This is full-on authoritarianism.

Free Nicole Collier. #txlege

The named Plaintiffs are thus typical of the overall class because they all allege the same claims and injuries: that Musk directed the shutdown of USAID in violation of the Appointments Clause, that Defendants have since acted to eliminate USAID as an independent agency in violation of the Separation of Powers, and that, as result of those actions, they have been or will be separated from their personnel roles at the agency. Accordingly, the efforts of any particular named Plaintiff to advance that individual's claims by proving that Musk did in fact direct the shutdown of USAID, or that Defendants have indeed effectively eliminated the agency's 19 Case 8:25-cv-00462-TDC Document 152 Filed 08/18/25 Page 20 of 25 independent operations, will "simultaneously tend to advance the interests of the absent class members." Deiter, 436 F.3d at 466. Because Plaintiffs' claims "fairly encompassil" those of the class members, typicality is satisfied. Broussard, 155 F.3d at 344.

Specifically, pursuant to Rule 23(c)(1)(B), the Court will certify the following issues to be decided on a classwide basis as to the Appointments Clause claim: 1. Whether Musk made the initial decision to dismantle USAID; 2. Whether the decision to dismantle USAID is an exercise of significant authority that only a duly appointed Officer of the United States can take under the Appointments Clause; 3. Whether Musk acted as the de facto Administrator of DOGE during the Class Period; and 4. If Musk acted as the de facto Administrator of DOGE, whether that position is a continuing one for the purposes of the Appointments Clause.

The Court will also certify the following issues to be decided on a classwide basis as to the Separation of Powers claim: 1. Whether Defendants' stated plan to "retire USAID's independent operation," Lewin Mem. at 3, along with its related actions including but not limited to the closure of USAID headquarters, the RIFs and terminations of USAID personnel and PSCs, and the 24 Case 8:25-cv-00462-TDC Document 152 Filed 08/18/25 Page 25 of 25 decommissioning of USAID assets, have collectively eliminated USAID as an independent agency; and 2. Whether such elimination of USAID as an independent agency violates the constitutional principle of the Separation of Powers under the framework set forth in Justice Robert Jackson's concurrence in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952).

BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has granted class certification in a case to resolve whether Elon Musk was the "de facto" head of DOGE, whether he made the decision to dismantle USAID, and whether the dismantling was unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana becomes sixth GOP-led state to authorize troop deployment to DC as part of Trump show of force.

I have slowly and semi-unwittingly just replaced all my socks with my husband’s far superior socks. Not sure what he’s going to do now but that’s not really my problem

I’m concerned that people won’t appreciate how big a line is being crossed here. Texas is suspending basic Constitutional freedoms for opposition lawmakers. This isn’t dipping your toe in the authoritarian waters, it’s diving head first into the deep end. This is big league authoritarianism.

I find it very interesting that JB Pritzker (with whom I disagree on many things) actually did way more substantive stuff to combat Trump and still gets less credit than Newsom because Newsom posted some tweets

DENVER (AP) — Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67 million in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims.

Immigration officers open fire during vehicle stop in San Bernardino

Conservatism distilled itself down to its purest form: social hierarchy at any cost

We are seeing entire swaths of the population fully abandon the good and worthy goal of working to make people's lives better in favor of vindictive tearing down of anyone opposed. Even if we fix the political system and stave off fascism I don't know how we come back from that.

The establishment of both major parties in the US love cops and fund them to arbitrarily high levels, but one party realizes and acts on the fact that cops love them back

Three decades+ of liberalism abandoning any concept of the political for economic technocracy, only to inevitably confront two insurgent populist left & right political movements that actually believe in something, expending all of its energy kneecapping the former, only to capitulate to the latter.

We are at a crucial tipping point where either we descend into authoritarianism or defeat it, and almost everyone who should be taking action is waiting for someone to take action.

A cursed morning!
The Israeli army has begun bringing in truckloads of tents from the Egyptian side, in order to build camps for the displaced near the Egyptian border, under Israeli administration, before displacing Palestinians to Sinai.

i rather think the purpose of it is largely to seize the label of “the left” because reactionary centrists who fancy themselves Very Liberal are mad at being called what they are now

2026: Pundits: Here's why Trump's new Military Tribunals are a breath of fresh air

You don’t win an award for being the most not-surprised, is the thing