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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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nonamesplease.bsky.social @nonamesplease.bsky.social · 1h

Who would have standing to bring a law suit to stop it? Is that even possible (assuming someone is brave enough to try to not pay the troops)?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

So just how bad is this? I got a text from an appropriator friend saying "The Republic has fallen. Pack it in."

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nonamesplease.bsky.social @nonamesplease.bsky.social · 1h

God almighty—they are incapable of straight reporting.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1h

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.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

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.

www.huffpost.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

again, it’s an open secret in DC that basically all of the GOP staff class are unabashed (literal swastika flags in their cubicles!) Nazis

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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nonamesplease.bsky.social @nonamesplease.bsky.social · 1h

Great thread on ADA law and the Trump administration criminality around appropriations. The DOD paychecks are just one among many crimes the next democratic administration will have to investigate and prosecute.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 2h

The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than this…

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 19h

This isn’t business-as-usual military action – it’s murder. There was no public evidence, no due process, and no legal justification. Thoughtless action like this is how we wind up in endless wars and how our service members become targets. This is beyond shameful.

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nonamesplease.bsky.social @nonamesplease.bsky.social · 19h

This essay is really excellent. Thank you.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23h

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 20h

“we do need the core aspect of them that makes [Ezra] Klein so uncomfortable: [Bertrand] Russell’s expectation that those who relate to others as though they are not worthy of respect ought to be treated with the regard that orientation deserves”

we don't have to celebrate our failures or, worse still, confuse them with our successes. This is one valuable function of shame: it reminds us of who we want to be when we fall short, a goalpost that is necessarily anchored to the lofty height that our conduct fell beneath. We also encourage and defend these general social standards when we hold others to them, and not just ourselves.
It would certainly be ideal if we could do away with failure and falling short - if we could always be as good as our values. It would be ideal if Klein felt the burning commitment to justice that Russell felt, so much so that he similarly would not see the point in pretending to be " on the same side of a larger project" as the likes of Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro.
And it would be ideal if he understood what liberal and egalitarian values are and what they demand of him and catered to that, rather than to the personal expedience of reading lines from the script of a fascist movement eroding basic democratic freedoms and aiming to subordinate whichever large swaths of the country are not simply removed outright.
But if he can't manage that, he could still spare us the sanctimony. He certainly needn't advertise this particular shortcoming in the New York Times. He could, if nothing else, have the common decency to be ashamed.

The challenge for Klein and his fellow travelers is to specify what sort of ground rules could make life livable and social situations manageable for such a wide array of people whose values, commitments, and interests differ so sharply-that is, on terms other than various sorts of segregation or the most naked forms of domination and subjugation - if not precisely "social shame and cultural pressure," now contemptuously referred to as "political correctness" or "wokeness." We might more accurately call it exactly the "civility" that centrists like Klein otherwise pretend to champion, even while they seek to hollow out even this meager social protection of its efficacy. These codes of neighborliness or of common decency are, in other words, the bare minimum for us to exist peacefully as profoundly different people who nevertheless share the same time and place.
Common decency, then, stigmatizes people that do not participate in it-removes them from voluntary association, as Russell exemplified. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 21h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 20h

This is exactly the kind of truth telling required. 1500 arrests becomes 1000 arrests becomes 10 arrests. And criminal records? In almost every case it’s no. Trump’s goons are sweeping up moms of their way to the grocery store. #chicago

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 21h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 1d

Two activists affiliated with the Spanish climate emergency group Futuro Vegetal were arrested at the Museo Naval in Madrid on Sunday, October 12, after throwing biodegradable red paint over a historic painting depicting Christopher Columbus.

Two Arrested for Splashing Paint on Columbus Artwork in Spain

Activists at Madrid’s Museo Naval called for an end to the “glorification of colonization and genocides, both historical and current.”

hyperallergic.com

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Minor Leaguer @minorleaguer.ca · 1d

That's the same registration number as the plane featured in this piece, so I think we have Dimitri Neonakis to thank for this. skiesmag.com/news/halifax...

Halifax pilot earns unique reputation for flight path ‘sky art’ with Cirrus SR22 - Skies Mag

Pilot Dimitri Neonakis has been recognized for designing and orchestrating as many as 20 flight path tributes, also known as sky art, in just under two years.

skiesmag.com

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

So much wrong with it, but one of the problems with these attacks on boats in the Caribbean is that the announcement doesn’t come from a government agency, it comes from the social media app owned by the president.

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nonamesplease.bsky.social @nonamesplease.bsky.social · 1d

I know I’m being provocative here. This is terrible. This is un-American. This is murder. But the window for this activity began to open under Obama and Bush—different justifications, more direct, maybe sometimes justified…nevertheless. They gave the mouse an authority.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean.

Making at least five such US strikes.

Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics.

POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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