The bees have discovered Brutalism

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

Most generously considered, what is happening with your Ezra Kleins and even your David Frenches of the world is to attempt to broker a compromise between racists and anti-racists, bigots and anti-bigots that might leave things stable for those who prioritize stability over racism or anti-racism.

For our October issue I wrote about the Roberts Court for its 20th anniversary, how it helped lead us to the current crisis, and what should be done about it:

A master class from the Washington Post in how to normalize the bonkers.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

hey so this is insane

We are trapped in such a stupid moment

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

"Ezra Klein laundering Charlie Kirk’s reputation is just one example of standard media practice for a decade or more, so widespread that it partially laundered an anti-democracy movement, helping bring it into the mainstream and keeping enough people complacent that it took over"

BREAKING:

A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

The oligarchs are consolidating all of the legacy media. This would leave David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, in control of CBS News and CNN. On top of that, 2 major studios in Paramount and Warner Bros. This is a hostile takeover of the information space.
www.wsj.com/business/med...

At least 3 students are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen HS in Colorado.

This is the 47th shooting that took place at a school in the US so far this year: 24 on college campuses, 23 on K-12 school grounds. This happened less than an hour after Charlie Kirk shooting in Utah.

"I have seen people stand frozen in the middle of what used to be a busy intersection, staring at nothing"
"Conversations about loss have grown shorter.We talk about bombings like we talk about the weather: today here, yesterday there. The details are lost in the sheer volume of absence"

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Sotomayor on the impact: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."

Thankfully the US press is keep up the fight

If anything, you can't fault them for not being completely transparent and honest about what their project is

Victor Frankestein has some comments on his work

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

With this administration, that only means they’d be even more proud about this lawless murder