@patinahoops.bsky.social
reflecting in the abyss with a permanent expression of wonder masking constant shock.
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This flew by my radar this week, but massively important: the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that the NLRB’s structure unconstitutional.
It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”
It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”
Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions
The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially damage workers’ rights.
newrepublic.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This flew by my radar this week, but massively important: the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that the NLRB’s structure unconstitutional.
It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”
It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”
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After DOGE outed Halimi, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison.
They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.
They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.
DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...
www.propublica.org
August 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
After DOGE outed Halimi, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison.
They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.
They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.
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Are these guys dense? Newsom is not trying to “mimic” Trump. He’s making fun of him.
JD Vance: "This idea that Gavin Newsom is somehow gonna mimic Donald Trump's style -- I think that ignores the fundamental genius of President Trump's political success, which is that he's authentic."
August 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Are these guys dense? Newsom is not trying to “mimic” Trump. He’s making fun of him.
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Lord knows it ain't gonna be the Post, as they actively kiss the ring:
August 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Lord knows it ain't gonna be the Post, as they actively kiss the ring:
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Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge.
*Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump.
*When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired.
www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
*Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump.
*When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired.
www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
Politics may have spurred August purge of 5 veteran FBI agents
Details are emerging about the possible motivation behind the firing of five senior FBI agents.
www.cbsnews.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge.
*Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump.
*When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired.
www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
*Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump.
*When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired.
www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
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There is a name for when the government owns or controls the means of production. I can’t quite remember what it is, but I feel like the right likes to use the term against the left. In this case, however, I don’t think it will be for the greater good.
August 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There is a name for when the government owns or controls the means of production. I can’t quite remember what it is, but I feel like the right likes to use the term against the left. In this case, however, I don’t think it will be for the greater good.
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But you sure can lose by throwing trans people under the bus
August 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
But you sure can lose by throwing trans people under the bus
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🚨BREAKING: California Democrats voted Thursday to approve a package of bills that together set up a November special election in which voters will be asked to greenlight a new congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
California Democrats Pass Redistricting Bill to Counter Trump's Texas Gerrymander
Read more.
www.democracydocket.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
🚨BREAKING: California Democrats voted Thursday to approve a package of bills that together set up a November special election in which voters will be asked to greenlight a new congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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FYI: the fundraising ALL goes to the redistricting effort - not to a Newsom POTUS run. I checked.
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Some people may not like how @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is talking. You may not find his posts funny. It is absolutely working. His fundraising #’s just came out. $6.2 million THIS WEEK. 200,000 donors… Dems feel like ‘finally someone is fighting for us’.”
August 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
FYI: the fundraising ALL goes to the redistricting effort - not to a Newsom POTUS run. I checked.
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Art of the deal.
August 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Art of the deal.
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A helpful explainer from @stevevladeck.bsky.social ⤵️
Steve finds some positives here bc Barrett signaled that plaintiffs might win in the Court of Federal Claims (CFC).
But you can't just pause research for so many months & restart it after you win in the CFC. The research is effectively gone.
Steve finds some positives here bc Barrett signaled that plaintiffs might win in the Court of Federal Claims (CFC).
But you can't just pause research for so many months & restart it after you win in the CFC. The research is effectively gone.
Just posted a video to TikTok about what #SCOTUS did in the NIH funding case.
It’s too long to embed on Bluesky, but here’s a link:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHG57sTnM...
It’s too long to embed on Bluesky, but here’s a link:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHG57sTnM...
TikTok - Make Your Day
www.tiktok.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A helpful explainer from @stevevladeck.bsky.social ⤵️
Steve finds some positives here bc Barrett signaled that plaintiffs might win in the Court of Federal Claims (CFC).
But you can't just pause research for so many months & restart it after you win in the CFC. The research is effectively gone.
Steve finds some positives here bc Barrett signaled that plaintiffs might win in the Court of Federal Claims (CFC).
But you can't just pause research for so many months & restart it after you win in the CFC. The research is effectively gone.
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Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
August 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
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TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful.
That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.
That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.
Splitting 5-4 (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three Democratic appointees in dissent), #SCOTUS grants *partial* stay to Trump administration in NIH funding case; holds that challenges to grant terminations (but *not* the underlying guidance) need to be filed in the Court of Federal Claims:
www.supremecourt.gov
August 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful.
That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.
That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.
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You can’t make this up. War criminal Lavrov arrives to Alaska wearing a USSR sweater
The Russians aren’t even bothering to hide their bloody imperialist ambitions on US soil
The Russians aren’t even bothering to hide their bloody imperialist ambitions on US soil
August 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
You can’t make this up. War criminal Lavrov arrives to Alaska wearing a USSR sweater
The Russians aren’t even bothering to hide their bloody imperialist ambitions on US soil
The Russians aren’t even bothering to hide their bloody imperialist ambitions on US soil
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Fox Business: The spike in the producer price level of inflation is "troubling"
August 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Fox Business: The spike in the producer price level of inflation is "troubling"
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this is seriously fucked up tbh
August 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
this is seriously fucked up tbh
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Jeffries gets somewhat heated with Sorkin: "The Trump administration has attacked the free enterprise system in here in the USA. The Trump administration has unleashed the largest pay to play scheme in modern American history, and everybody in corporate America knows it."
August 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Jeffries gets somewhat heated with Sorkin: "The Trump administration has attacked the free enterprise system in here in the USA. The Trump administration has unleashed the largest pay to play scheme in modern American history, and everybody in corporate America knows it."
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it was always obvious DOGE was decorative "innovative efficiency" cover for the brutal dismantling of corporate oversight and the social safety net, but the press spent first six months of the year propping it up as a good-faith effort
“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .”
- Vital Knowledge
@politico.com 🇺🇸
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
- Vital Knowledge
@politico.com 🇺🇸
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
it was always obvious DOGE was decorative "innovative efficiency" cover for the brutal dismantling of corporate oversight and the social safety net, but the press spent first six months of the year propping it up as a good-faith effort
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Sure seems like this administration just hates trans people. This is just cruel.
Several trans airmen with 15-18 years of service got approved for early retirement under an exception opened up in May. Then this month the Air Force said sike, denied the approvals, and undid already okayed retirements. Now they face separation without full benefits.
Air Force backtracks on approved retirement for some trans troops, sparking ‘confusion’ and ‘betrayal’ trib.al/4hl2TeI
August 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sure seems like this administration just hates trans people. This is just cruel.
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This post explains how that batshit letter from John Sauer we've been laughing at might actually work to doom the best chance for SCOTUS to rein in Trump's illegal power grabs.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/13/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/13/t...
Trump Confesses He Will Bankrupt the Country Unless SCOTUS Lets Him Break the Law - emptywheel
Scott Bessent confessed to Larry Kudlow how the Trump Administration is trying to sustain their illegal tariffs: by collecting enough revenue from them (and lying about how much they're really collect...
www.emptywheel.net
August 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This post explains how that batshit letter from John Sauer we've been laughing at might actually work to doom the best chance for SCOTUS to rein in Trump's illegal power grabs.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/13/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/13/t...
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This is masculinity too
I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity.
It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.
It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.
August 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is masculinity too
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It’s the only correct way to frame it. Trump is a wartime president—but few in media understand the war is being waged domestically.
“President Donald Trump has expanded his military campaign against the United States…” is the only way we knew how to start this piece.
NEW: L.A. and D.C. are only the beginning, as Trump's team has been drawing up plans to unleash federal forces in other Democratic strongholds.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
August 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It’s the only correct way to frame it. Trump is a wartime president—but few in media understand the war is being waged domestically.
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In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.
New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal
Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.
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Since I looked it up: The Bismarck was laid down by the Nazi government in 1936, christened by Hitler himself on Valentine’s Day 1939, and damaged so badly in battle by the Royal Navy in 1941 that the Nazis scuttled her. The ship never saw any other government of Germany.
This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.
And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.
And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.
August 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Since I looked it up: The Bismarck was laid down by the Nazi government in 1936, christened by Hitler himself on Valentine’s Day 1939, and damaged so badly in battle by the Royal Navy in 1941 that the Nazis scuttled her. The ship never saw any other government of Germany.
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“Without meaningful access to documentation about how the system works, there’s no one weird trick for decoding a chatbot’s programming from the outside.”
Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets
LLMs make things up — including about themselves.
www.theverge.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“Without meaningful access to documentation about how the system works, there’s no one weird trick for decoding a chatbot’s programming from the outside.”