Dr. Jason Cottrell

This can impact the image folks have of a person. They should sue.

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NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

Nexstar and Sinclair, which own a combined 20% of local ABC affiliates, will still not broadcast Jimmy Kimmel.

Sinclair is a conservative company that donates to and supports right-wing causes.

Trump’s push for more admissions data collides with a hollowed-out Education Department Gutted research offices raise doubts about the agency’s future data integrity, several former ED staffers say.

The irony of this story posting yesterday.

SN: ED has posted about 25 jobs in the last week looking for folks to replace those who were RIFd on August 1. NAEP, FSA, and OIG

The man is losing it.

MAGA now celebrates cancel culture, promotes safe spaces for conservatives, believes free speech should be curtailed, and thinks words encourage violence.

Exact opposite of all their positions.

Its almost as if they're bad faith hypocrites who want power by any means necessary.

HAPPY GOLDEN GIRLS DAY

Over 40% of arrests in Trump's DC law enforcement surge relate to immigration, AP analysis finds Data from President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement operation in Washington shows that more than 40% of the arrests made in its first 30 days were immigration related.

More than 40% of arrests in Trump's D.C. law enforcement surge are immigration-related, AP analysis finds.

Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.

"Loomer falsely suggested that Paul Pelosi and his assailant were lovers, calling the brutal assault on the octogenarian a “booty call gone wrong.” Speaking to a television audience a few days after the attack, a grinning Kirk called for the intruder to be sprung from jail."

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

This whole scene is creepy.

HE FUCKING TURNED HIMSELF IN.

Remember when Bill Clinton was with Loretta Lynch for like 5 minutes on the tarmac of an airport and the right lost their shit?!

And, what happens when they have a suspect? They use the President’s words at trial.

💔 Fred Guttenberg whose daughter died in the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

I have serious doubts as to whether, after all of its politically-motivated firings, the FBI has the capacity and expertise to actually investigate Kirk’s murder. The lawsuit filed today against Patel and the Bureau describes a complete clown show that leaves all of us less safe

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

The narrative is that shooting at Trump and Kirk is political violence while January 6 and Gaza don't exist and ICE abuses are the normal course of business

BREAKING

A suspect in the shooting of Charlie Kirk is NOT in custody, per the University to multiple outlets.

So the shooter, who reportedly shot Kirk from 200 yards away, is at large.

U.S. Department of Education Ends Funding to Racially Discriminatory Discretionary Grant Programs at Minority-Serving Institutions Today, the Department announced that it will end discretionary funding to several Minority-Serving Institutions grant programs that discriminate by conferring government benefits exclusively to instit...

Eliminating these programs is going to harm all students at these institutions. These programs are designed to support institutions with high populations of needy students and low core expenses per student. Taking this money away is going to eliminate tutoring, advising, library funds, endowment…

"What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones? Here we go!"

it took the president more than 12 hours to come up with this

Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Apologia Is Bad and Embarrassing One possible reason the conservative justices usually don’t explain their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions: Their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions might read like this.

Yeah, @jaywillis.net nails it: "One possible reason the conservative justices usually don’t explain their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions: Their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions might read like this."

USCA Case #25-5285 Document #2134183 Filed: 09/10/2025 United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Page 1 of 26 No. 25-5285 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-01659-TJK Filed On: September 10, 2025 Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, Appellant V. Todd Blanche, in his capacity as the person claiming to be acting Librarian of Congress, et al., Appellees BEFORE: Walker*, Childs, and Pan, Circuit Judges

ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for injunction pending appeal, the opposition thereto, the reply, and the letter regarding case status, it is ORDERED that the motion for injunction be granted to the extent that appellees Todd Blanche, Paul Perkins, Sergio Gor, Trent Morse, and the Executive Office of the President, and their subordinates and agents, are hereby enjoined from interfering with appellant's service as Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office pending further order of the court. To that extent, appellant has satisfied the stringent requirements for an injunction pending appeal. See Winter v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc., 555 U.S. 7, 20 (2008); D.C. Circuit Handbook of Practice and Internal Procedures 33 (2025); see also Severino v. Biden, 71 F.4th 1038, 1042 (D.C. Cir. 2023) (explaining that a "court generally may not 'enjoin the President in the performance of his official duties' (quoting Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 788, 802-03 (1992) (plurality opinion))). A concurring statement of Circuit Judge Pan, joined by Circuit Judge Childs, and a dissenting statement of Circuit Judge Walker are attached. Per Curiam FOR THE COURT: Clifton B. Cislak, Clerk BY: /s/ Lynda M. Flippin Deputy Clerk * Circuit Judge Walker would deny the motion for injunction pending appeal.

NEW: On a 2-1 vote, the D.C. Circuit motions panel this morning ordered that the Trump administration stop trying to execute Trump's firing of Shira Perlmutter as Register of Copyrights and head of the U.S. Copyright Office for now as her case proceeds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NBC News results: Walkinshaw projected winner with 74.9% of the vote

The VA-11 special election will be at ~150,000+ votes when all are counted, solid turnout — and James Walkinshaw will win by 50 points in a district Harris won by 34.

Dems have now overperformed 2024 results by 15+ points in all three House special elections this year

Trump Press Sec Seethes as Epstein Spin Falls Apart in Briefing Fiasco As Karoline Leavitt’s responses to the latest Jeffrey Epstein revelations go awry, a media observer explains why the MAGA disinformation machine’s treatment of this scandal is more unnerving than usua...

MAGA disinfo machine is as bad as I've ever seen it:

*jobs numbers are fake
*falling crime stats are bogus
*tariff fiasco is actually wild success
*Trump signature on Epstein letter forged

On the pod, @stevebenen.com is great on big picture behind WH's Epstein spin:
newrepublic.com/article/2002...

No, no, obviously the guy who forged his signature built a sound-stage in o *resemble* that area of Mar-a-Lago in order to incriminate Trump in case Epstein ever became infamous for his crimes and Trump ever ran for office.

The Epstein Scandal Got Much Worse for Trump and Republicans

The release of the Epstein Birthday Book reveals that Donald Trump is lying about his relationship with Epstein and is currently engaged in one of the most perverse cover-ups in modern history.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...