Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

A new biography breaks through the mythology that John Roberts has constructed around himself and argues he'll go down as the worst chief justice in American history.

This is an extraordinary finding. Municipalization can work.

Rising costs are causing a lot of Americans to think twice before booking a trip. And many who do travel are scaling back their ambitions and staying closer to home.

Two people were killed outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. It disgusts me that so many continue to pretend that antisemitic rhetoric isn't resulting in antisemitic hate crimes. This keeps happening. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

“.. weakest September for job creation since 2011 ..” > @weisenthal.bsky.social

“The surprise job loss in September is the latest sign that the labor market is weakening. Job growth has slowed to a trickle this year…” www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

‼️WAKE UP‼️ Trump and Republicans want their Big Ugly Bill (providing billionaire tax breaks) while Democrats favor protecting 15 million Americans against healthcare premium increases. #TrumpsShutdown

I swear nobody wants to talk about the fact that food prices are still rising faster than prices in general. A year ago all we heard about was the price of eggs. Food prices are still rising yet the media gives us…crickets…

Just two friends having a great time. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

NEW: THREAD: Just a small collection of propaganda emails sent by the regime to federal employees who have sent them to me on the condition of anonymity. First, we all saw the HUD banner from Tuesday morning. 1/

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Dean: The president is unhinged Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn’t see it. Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

I should be working right now.

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

"So far in 2025 companies have announced 946,426 job cuts, the highest YTD since the pandemic year of 2020... Not a good sign... Add in the huge reversal in both ADP numbers yesterday and some are starting to smell recession... Not us, not here, but we can see it in the yield curve." - NatAlliance

PLAYBOOK: “.. Fine dining on the first night of a government shutdown? Those Democratic attack lines almost write themselves.” @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

If you live in Illinois, we need your help. This will take less than five minutes and will truly pressure your local elected officials to stand with the people rather than ICE.

Jane Goodall made the world a better place. She helped shape how we view the world around us, fought vehemently for the environment, and her love of chimpanzees was infectious. She will be greatly missed. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Yom Kippur is a day of reflection, of forgiveness, of restoration. This year, may we all pray for a better, kinder, more peaceful future. Wishing all who observe across the five boroughs and the world a meaningful, easy fast. G’mar chatimah tovah.

Take the good news seriously too

Vought always looks like the Onion version of a soulless bureaucrat.

For over 60 years, Jane Goodall was a force for research about our precious planet—and climate change action to protect it—while breaking glass ceilings along the way. I'll so miss her courage and commitment to help expand what we know about our world and preserve it for the generations to come.

Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: https://www.nokings.org

Swear her in.

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

Lutnick on Epstein: Devine: So how come these other people could hang around him and not see it? Lutnick: They participated. That's what his M.O. was, "Get a massage" And what happened in that massage room, I assume is on video. This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That's how he had money.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

“.. Bailouts of banks, hedge funds, and foreign governments have long been despised by the U.S. public, especially when households face cuts to health care and other critical services. .. Why would the United States bail out Argentina?” @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

If government workers need to be fired during the shutdown here are six candidates

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for refusing to comply with our FOIA request for information about the agency's plans for expanding immigration detention in the D.C. region. We have a right to know how our taxpayer dollars are being used to fund ICE's abusive detention machine.

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Are we great yet?

Quick reminder: they can still release the Epstein files during a government shutdown.

Boeing paid its CEO $18 million for 4 months of work while taking away health care benefits from 3200 machinists in St. Louis who have been on strike for 2 months & were making as little as $18 an hour. I say to the CEO of Boeing: End your greed. Sign a fair union contract NOW.

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No lie detected.

How it started.... How it's going .... 💪⚖️🗳️👻

A real pleasure to sit down for an extended conversation on The View today. My thanks to the studio audience for the very warm welcome.

Like Scandinavian...but brown.

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

Priorities.

Worst ADP print since March 2023.