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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.

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

The S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq all showing falls of 2.38%, 1.98% and 2.7% respectively

The trader guys woke up this morning in the same clothes as last night, covered in margarita stains and their own vomit.

Then the realisation hit. A 125% tariff on China and 10% tariff on 200 other countries isn’t a “pause on tariffs”.

A passage of text describing an incident where a victim was attacked by two men who punched and kicked them. The victim escaped into a restaurant, pursued by the attackers, but was protected by customers. The attackers reportedly used the phrase "Semper Fi" and referenced "Trump ending transgender acceptance in the military." Police arrived shortly after.

A group of men violently assaulted a transgender veteran in Seattle walking home from work. They cited Trump's trans military ban as they beat her.

One of the perpetrators was already wanted for domestic violence and was previously charged with a hate crime.

www.thestranger.com/news/2025/03...

Three years ago, three other reporters and I ID'd and called any school accused of having litter boxes for furries.

We found one (1) in the entire country: Columbine's school district.

Cat litter was for a "go bucket," in case kids were locked in during a shooting.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...

Most discourse on the federal funding freeze frames the states as "relying" on federal money. But this confuses entirely the origins of federal-state programs. The states are administrative and fiscal partners in carrying out national policy goals. Washington depends just as much on *them*.

You can tell he's honest because he always discloses who he worked for and how they did

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Defending a podcast is a bridge too far. It’s one thing to have a podcast but you’re supposed to understand it’s basically indefensible.

Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role as liaison and senior adviser inside the Pentagon Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office confirms that his younger brother is serving in a key position inside the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser.

"In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed Phil Hegseth’s job title and said this 'interagency mission is part of Mr. Hegseth’s preview,' presumably meaning 'purview.'" apnews.com/article/hegs...

they want worldwide jim crow

All entry points into Gaza are closed. At the border, food is rotting. Medicine is expiring. Vital medical equipment is stuck.

If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act to uphold them.

so is it the official view of the white house that race is a biological reality?

Clearly the work of Stephen Miller, whose bulbous but pinched cranium betrays an inborn structural derangement of the organs of thought and morality

It's told by Thomas More at the end of his History of Richard III (c.1525): a fable that the lion announces execution of all horned beasts, and another with a lump on its forehead flees the forest: "Why fleest thou? That's no horn on thy head" "Aye, but what if he call it a horn, where am I then?"

(h/t to @northerniion.bsky.social )

I emailed chuck's office last week asking for a donation to help me fight the administration.

This is something I am guessing every reader of @adamtooze.bsky.social Crashed has been worrying about since November.

It’s extremely difficult to accurately reckon with the ACA’s legacy because it was ultimately a piece of duct tape affixed to a broken system that didn’t structurally fix anything but without which the horrors genuinely would be far worse

anyway, if you were wondering why David Shor keeps arguing that Republicans will never pay an electoral penalty for racism under any circumstances, this is why

Note that an entire history of the international political economy of military output is embedded in this tweet which only exists at the corner of radical political economy and never gets any honest hearing in most academia, let alone think tanks

for the one millionth time, the dept of education just monitors access to education. civil rights, title ix, disabilities, making sure everybody gets a fair opportunity.

this is not about curriculum. states design those standards. this is an attack on the idea of fairness in education.

The United States of America is the liberal world-historical experiment of "decentralization" par excellence which is why it has 18,000 policing jurisdictions

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

says it all doesn't it? pardons for sacking our nation's capitol, the death penalty for attacking our king's precious cars. ruling us like conquered territory

Nothing prevents you from calling fascists fascists. If the threat is real, then you can either congratulate or ignore the people who figured it out before you did, but it’s time to stop scolding them.

One less obvious way that Gawker foreshadowed this moment was by showing how people and institutions crack when they're under malicious, pervasive, and unreasonable assault—you can see Columbia University following Nick down the path of trying to bargain and to rationalize having been made a target