HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.

We live in an episode of Veep

HUNT: The president is talking about a third term. How seriously do you take that? GALLEGO: I don't take it seriously because he will be in violation of the Constitution and he should be arrested if he attempts to do that

The day clownish Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files a ridiculous, performative lawsuit against Tylenol seems a good day to re-post this:

Explain this to me real slow.

Thugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads with $50K signing bonuses. ABC dropped Kimmel and came crawling back after backlash. Do it again. If you’re paying Spotify, you’re helping fund fascism. Boycott them. Hold the line. Hit them where it hurts.

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

But what was his supposed IQ score? I’m betting somewhere below 70. 🤣

If the current administration ever ends, many people in (and around) it will need to be prosecuted. From influence peddling to flat-out murder, their crimes seem to accumulate each and every day.

A clearly addled Donald Trump wandering off from the Prime Minister and then saluting the Japanese flag. He looks like he doesn't even know where he is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Bn...

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Dear CBS News personalities: The Canadians' ad did not portray Reagan's tariff policy fraudulently, and you do not have to repeat the president's false characterization of it. Or if your new boss insists that you do, you can at least point out that it's false. www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-b...

The squeaker of the house.

BARTIROMO: Is it even safe to fly right now? DUFFY: I need my controllers focused on the airspace, not about the finances at home. They'll tell me there is that seepage of, how are they gonna deal with those finances? (Not a yes!)

Rand Paul: "In the one instance you're killed on sight. On the other instance, if you're captured, we just say, 'Oh well, we're gonna send you back to your country.' It doesn't make any sense."

THIS IS GREAT 👍

He got the Speaker he wanted - a cuck who will sit in the corner and let him do whatever he pleases whenever he wants.

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

Russian propagandists: “There will be no life in Kharkiv, nor in Poltava, nor in Mykolaiv, nor in Odesa. Those cities will not exist - nor will Kyiv.” The indicator of the Kremlin’s panic and hysterics is not his usual self. He obviously realized there will be responsibility for crimes.

Furloughed federal workers file for jobless benefits, but aid isn’t easy to get.

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) behind thin cirrus clouds ☁️💫

"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."

I could not be prouder that my law firm is currently litigating 60 voting, election and redistricting cases in 30 states. Even as large law firms bow down, we continue to fight for democracy every single day.

Meiselas: We’re 24 days into the government shutdown, and Trump left the country — the first president in U.S. history to leave the country during a shutdown. This, while food lines are being seen throughout the United States. This is Trump’s America. Food lines like we saw in COVID are back.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Across the nation, federal workers are turning to food banks and taking on second jobs as missed paychecks continue.

They thought small towns would stay silent. Instead, they’re standing guard: phones up, doors open, hearts steady. From farm fields to church basements, Americans are blocking Trump’s raids and defending democracy itself. Read the revolt: www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/how-americ...

“.. it was crickets on the Bari Weiss-controlled former home of Walter Cronkite.” @deadline.com $PSKY deadline.com/2025/10/cbs-...

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

With over 850,000 Virginians relying on SNAP to feed themselves & their families the state of Virginia has had to declare a state of emergency to be able to use emergency funding to fund food assistance since USDA has announced there will be no SNAP benefits going out in November. #Pinks

People who make 40k a year are mad at people who make 15k a year but not the guy who makes billions a year.

So the current mayor is a crook. The former governor is a crook. The "beret dude" is a crook. But you cannot find the spine to endorse the only non-criminal in the race who BELONGS TO YOUR PARTY, because he's a Muslim? A Democratic Socialist? Or is it because he's making you look like a fool?

The name “President Donald J. Trump Ballroom” will only *stick* until the next Democratic president demolishes it and renames it grounds the “Jacqueline Kennedy Rose Garden 2.0.”

They were never pro life, just pro authority.