Preposterous move. If Obama had done this, so many of the people defending it would have correctly condemned it as overreach and interference and “picking winners and losers.”

Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise to the U.S. effective immediately. France and Austria will follow on Monday. 4.nbcny.com/oBpnK1W

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. propublica.org/article/trump-…

So…what is anyone going to do about it? “That raises the question of whether Mr. Trump has legitimate authority to tell the military to summarily kill people it suspects are smuggling drugs Trump Claims Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/…

So hope that Gary prompts Keith tonight about this story. #LGM #Mets Oakland AIs? The Ballers will be first professional sports team managed by AI nytimes.com/athletic/65997…

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Read this tweet as a confession that Pulte is acting in conscious bad faith in his attack on Lisa Cook. It's about destroying the independence of the Federal Reserve, not punishing one officeholder for an infraction committed by much of Trump's cabinet and Pulte's own family.

Nearly every word of R.E.M.'s debut album remains perfect, despite the fact that I still am not quite sure what a single one of them means. Guess that's why they called it MURMUR. But nobody wrote songs like this even back then, much less now: youtube.com/watch?v=G0SU7f…

87,000 Indians died fighting in Allied armies against America’s enemies I. WW2, and 2-3 MILLION Indians starved as the British empire diverted food from Indian civilians to the war effort. So idk man maybe that sorta is why we won WW2

Very strange to agree with Rand Paul, but when he’s right, he’s right.

Palantir ICE software will “use artificial intelligence and data mining to identify, track, and deport suspected noncitizens. Stephen Miller, the Trump administration’s chief architect of immigration policy, holds a substantial financial stake in Palantir.”americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-immig…

JD took the blue pill

The boat turned around and was disabled before sunk. “Not legally justified”, “thoughtless and reckless”, “terrible precedent”, “we’ve crossed a line”, “an illegal order passed down the line”. So what’s the consequence other than hand wringing op-eds? nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/…

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Someone is trying to radicalize us. And yes they’re trying to radicalize both sides against each other. And it’s working. And there doesn’t seem to be any way to stop it other than turning off your phone and your tv (if you still have one), and going outside to hang out with real

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R): "I think we need more moral clarity right now. I hear all the time that words are violence. Words are not violence; violence is violence. And there is one person responsible for what happened here. And that person is now in custody."

Yes to all this, but also: Remember that the genius of America at its best is precisely that is the place where politics doesn't have to dominate every aspect of your life. Our national proposition is that we are free to live peacefully however we want, without permission or

Gets off the 7 and pays his respects to the G.O.A.T. #LGM The 7 Line nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/12/met…

“Since 1950, the long-term unemp rate has exceeded 25% in only a few other instances and always after a recession: for 1 month, June 1983; for an 8-year stretch following the Great Recession; and for about a year and half during the coronavirus pandemic.”washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…