Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23hOk this is terrible but also hilarious 2429933
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h“Illegally detaining and brutalizing a racial minority until they agree to flee the country” isn’t immigration enforcement, it’s ethnic cleansing. There’s no legal standard here - these people meet the standard! What differentiates them is not their legal status but their race and color. 5528126
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...variety.comDavid Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. MergerDavid Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed. 762363845
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.social𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026absolutely terrible, stupid framing. DOGE could have *only* been a "missed opportunity" if it had been conceived, planned, & implemented exactly opposite of how it was, by people who did not think like they did, for goals antithetical to their actual goals. 319647
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells 632193794
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Right after Justice Kennedy retired, #SCOTUS materially shifted its Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, moving away from a test tied to "evolving standards of decency," and toward a static assessment of what was cruel and unusual in 1791. That shift will matter a *lot* if there's a challenge in Hasan. 17521115
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Jon Ossoff is going for 2 up 60 30101252
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I can’t help but notice that ICE keeps claiming that people it shoots were trying to ram the agents with a car, and then video keeps proving that’s a lie. 221873446
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I’m literally at a loss for words 1761259138
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them. 571082196
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Umm, *I was the “somebody”! www.c-span.org/clip/house-c... 342570420
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The administration’s resort to increasingly horrific forms of state violence as Trump loses his grip on power doesn’t make me feel super great, I have to say 251402237
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/10/2026this is on the one hand a totally insane thing to say, but it's interesting to see it as kind of a legacy kludge from fusionists past, where the "communists want to remake the social world" was part of what kept the cons in coalition with the hawks and the libertarians 2752880
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 08/10/2026If they expect 100% of the parking spots to fill up early in the day at the $45/day price they’re charging, they should be charging even more and using the revenue to fund extra transit service. 725921
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/10/2026it does feel of a piece with the general move towards seeing the property tax system not as a collective contribution towards "we have a society," but as a regressive transfer of resources towards "the right kind of" homeowners 417117
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Pay to play, baby... 26794191
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you are arguing that there is no innocent [person of any nationality whatsoever] then you are making the case for genocide 161580196
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialMatthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A reasonable benchmark for Dem senate candidates — how are they doing compared to state partisanship in 2024 + the swing in national congressional generic ballot? www.slowboring.com/p/an-honest-... 6223
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Meanwhile, over on X, the Secretary of Homeland Security is posting about "vandalizing the demographics of America," a phrase which is either a chilling suggestion of white nationalism from Mullin or just straight pablum which means nothing but sounds just fash enough to excite the faithful. 951232365
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There's a particular thread context to this but it also works by itself as a summary of one of the most important facts about the last two decades of global history. 410323
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It’s important to understand that the modern GOP’s vision for the economy, as implemented by the party’s leader, is about allocating resources through a combination of patrimonialism, influence peddling and outright theft rather than open market transactions. 112915
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.nytimes.comAn Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms. 12517109
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026 296126102661
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic” 19370321100
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialKevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hey hey -- it's publication day! Couldn't be more excited for this to be out in the world. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... 21586154
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026this is all a joke to them because far-right conservatives think that rape is good, and that high status men should be entitled to rape any women around them who are not also already attached to other high-status men. this is their actual ideology 301275262
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialThe Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The algorithm doesn't want you calm, informed, or connected. It wants you angry, addicted, and isolated. Because that's what lines the pockets of folks like Musk and Zuckerberg. 10725171
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 06/10/2026I introduce the concept of “Emotional Administrative Burden” to describe the additional labor required by having to look at that guy’s face every time I need to conduct some piece of official business. In this essay I w 522437
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Health care went from 8% of jobs in the 1990s to nearly 16% today. That's a sign we got richer. Once you've got a house, a car, a dishwasher, the next dollar doesn't go to a second oven. It goes to more years of life. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/… 3224646
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Trump ran $10M+ in TV ads promoting himself, paid for w/ your tax dollars Facing backlash, he now says his super PAC will cover it Small problem: presidents can't direct super PAC spending either I'll get into it w/ @ms.now at 11AM ET👇 -TNnytimes.comFacing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded AdsThe president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money. 1131735689
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby. 885010665
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026incredible this will get little to no coverage 555102022370
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797633045
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The irony of course is that Originalism’s big selling point was supposed to be constraining the discretion or judges to impose their own political preferences as law. In practice the effect has been very much the reverse: Liberating justices from the constraints of stare decisis. 1129468
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026New: Some Democrats don’t expect to fill a Supreme Court vacancy under Trump BLUMENTHAL: "I think it is slim to none that we would support a nominee from this administration." GALLEGO: "No, we’ve got to do exactly what McConnell did to us." Big 2026 court stakes: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...nbcnews.comSome Democrats don’t expect to fill a Supreme Court vacancy under TrumpDemocrats need a net gain of four seats to capture the Senate. If so, they’d control what happens in a vacancy, as Justice Samuel Alito admits he’s thought about retirement. 71847171
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them. 14794180
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 04/10/2026This is the animating principle of my YIMBYism. 644248
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Of note, one of this year's ballot measures is purportedly to fund necessary medical research, but a close examination reveals that it's basically a $4 billion taxpayer payout to a single sketchy nonprofit. That's why it's important to read the fine print. 415053
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialDr Len Blue @llblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026International Political Cartoon, 3 October 2026 by Steve Jones (Great Britain🇬🇧) 8961112017
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A while ago I got pushback from some other urbanists on here for arguing that the Manhattan Institute’s main function is to mainstream racism. But the idea that their work on fairly technical urban policy matters is as politically significant as what Rufo is doing just doesn’t pass the smell test. 832545
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 02/10/2026@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social and Wendy Wagner explain how Suncor v. Boulder County—a case over whether federal law preempts local and state-law tort claims brought against fossil fuel companies—illustrates how powerful corporate entities benefit from an imperial presidency.lawfaremedia.orgThe Next Anti-democratic Threat From the Supreme CourtIndustry-backed preemption arguments in the climate deception case threaten the federalism safeguards that check an imperial presidency. 23515
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Trump 45 administration was arranged around protecting Trump's ability to do crimes. The Trump 47 administration is much more aggressively committed to delegitimizing the whole *ideas* of crime and corruption for politicians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukTrump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating WatergateA burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon 28632
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026in an insane world only the insane are sane 631841
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialMark Igra @markigra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The conclusion that drones et. al. lead to stagnant conflicts and more attacks on "Factories. Infrastructure. 'Morale.' Individual human lives." is a gut punch that's hard to deny. From @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com at www.liberalcurrents.com/the-return-o... 0225
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Bigoted and stupid. The idea that the United States is at risk of falling under sharia rule is ludicrous on its face. There’s a much greater risk of Christian nationalists changing this nation for the worse. And they’re the ones using the phantom sharia threat to justify their own extreme agenda. 1019454
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firingstime.comRead TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview TranscriptThe U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections. 66166282561
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wild that he gets this coverage after he packed the Utah Supreme Court in order to try to prevent it from enforcing a referendum-passed gerrymandering ban to steal a congressional seat for the GOP (and disenfranchise his state's largest city) 37744158
Reposted by @bioinfobrett.bsky.socialGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETaxamericasvoicecnn.substack.comCHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive. 770033342