Harvard professor Theda Skocpol argues that the dramatic expansion of ICE could serve as Trump’s hidden strategy to bypass federalist constraints & carry out a full autocratic consolidation of power in the United States.
Via @joshtpm.bsky.social
In full: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
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Kayfabe
Federal agent “I will fucking shoot you” to a man in a car as another agent, wearing an FBI vest and mask covering his face, grabs a woman. According to eyewitness, no warrant was shown or probable cause given.
Yup. And part of the freakout is that — unlike Cuomo — Mamdani is not Netanyahu’s lawyer. Moreover, Mamdani may actually hold Netanyahu to the standards of international law and treat him as a war criminal, which is how he should be treated.
Donald Trump Eric Trump opens door to political dynasty ‘If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it’s the Trump family,’ president’s son says in an interview
WTF FT? This is your lead story? What the hell are you doing?
Lol. Yeah… he also engages with people in his comments. Seems a little thirsty.
radiohead - creep
still in regular rotation
It is a huge, huge problem globally that the "culture warriors" have decided fact-checking is censorship and pushed that narrative everywhere they can. Glad to see some pushback: www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...
I am very, very happy to be wrong. I'm glad especially to see independents split on this.
I was pretty sure the protests would create a more even split, but Trump being down 15 points on this one issue tells me I was too worried.
Was consumed all day at work by the fact that trump tweeted "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" at Iran, which from any normal president would be hugely consequential and it wasn't even a story because the media has just sort of deformed itself into nihilistic acceptance of the fact that he's insane
Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts?
Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”
This is journalism now
Little pissant chickenhawks talking about peace through strength really highlights the orwellian nature of this administration.
So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president.
And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict.
This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.
I bet it'd be easier for Americans to see ICE agents as just regular folks if they weren't, you know, wearing black masks and hiding their names and identities from the public out of shame.
Nonfiction - sandworm
Chris Murphy asks Linda McMahon what statute gives the federal government the authority to demand that Harvard hire and admit more conservatives
McMahon says Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
(Title VI outlaws discrimination based on race, color, or national origin)
yes this is famously how free societies treat their universities
In any case: No one is immune to the effects of social media. I believe I can say: things are getting worse. We need to make radical changes to our behavior. One place to start would be with this book, written by @roberttalisse.bsky.social, the thesis of which, again, I initially treated like poison
website views of PhD programmes up in Netherlands. canada, sweden etc
website views from outside the US down massively in the US, up elsewhere
America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain
economist.com/science-and-...
The House Rules Committee -- which changes bills however the House speaker tells it to before they hit the House floor -- is meeting Weds at 1am to bring up the GOP's massive tax plan, which strips health insurance from 13.7M people to give tax breaks to rich people.
Definitely nothing to see here!
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s what’s buried inside:
Breaking news: The US has been stripped of its top-notch triple-a credit rating by Moody’s on concerns about rising levels of government debt www.ft.com/content/e456...
Do I have to tap some sign?
Would it be funny if it were a Tesla?
SURE.
Has it been definitively reported as a Tesla? ("Sources")
NO.
So effectively, you CAN make this shit up.
Don't spread mis/disinformation.
Shit's already bad enough out there on that front.
