ICE caught & detained a 5-year-old girl—to lure her father out of house. "She's special, she has autism... give me my daughter back," her mother cries. "They grabbed my girl." Agents then taunt her parents, "Is that your daughter? Come here and show us her ID." Leominster, Massachusetts

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

Happy Rapture Day! This one goes out to those who celebrate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCd...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin boasted about how the agency is taking action to “ensure Americans have the cleanest air, land, and water.” At the same time, the agency terminated over $15 million in grants for “forever chemicals” research. (Published July)

Yikes -- John Thune looked like he was about to lose his shit here

No evidence. No science. No solutions.   Just Trump peddling another dangerous lie — this time about Tylenol and autism — that sows chaos, scares parents, and puts our health at risk.

‘Challenging situation’: Fed Chair says Trump labor market weakness is a problem www.alternet.org/challenging-...

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

ty @vulture.com

Pritzker seems to be the only one warning about this regularly

NEW: Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, has been accused by family members of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren. Elon has repeatedly had to intervene, a secret that’s spanned generations. Our months-long investigation www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

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MELVIN: The president repeatedly did say though that he would end the war on day 1, and we are some 250 days into the administration MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, but that's not up to us to end the war MELVIN: Repeatedly on the campaign trail he said he would end it on day 1

How it started // How it’s going

after getting out the epstein files out

Trump refuses to meet with Senate Democrats working to avoid a government shutdown claiming they want to “create Transgender operations for everybody”

I'm fascinated with this sort of feckless, pseudo-journalism, that has all the rough edges (and essential context) sanded off. It's like a Ken doll with a smooth hump where genitals should be.

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

26-year-old @katmabu.bsky.social made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress. “I just couldn’t watch it anymore. I thought, fuck it, I’m going to run.” From our politics issue:

SENATOR @MarshaBlackburn: “We need the National guard in MEMPHIS because boxcar/train burglaries are up 5000%.” MEMPHIS POLICE: “Those crimes are actually down.” 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🚂 (h/t @NoApologies901)

Trump to the UN: "In just eight months since I took office, we have secured commitments and money paid for $17 trillion. Think of it." (The entire US GDP is $30 trillion, so I'm thinking of it and the math ain't mathing.)

TRUMP: Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into the US, you're going to jail or you're going back to where you came from or perhaps even further than that. You know what that means. UN: *uncomfortable murmuring*

Welp, time to win the shutdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tx5...

Attending the event organized by the First Lady of Ukraine Zelenska and First Lady of Lithuania Nausediene “LEARNING TO STAY STRONG: EDUCATION AS UKRAINE’S BACKBONE OF RESILIENCE” at the UNHQ

#NEW | There's a new entrant into Kentucky's U.S. Senate 2026 Democratic primary to replace Republican Mitch McConnell in January 2027. Logan Forsythe is an attorney & former U.S. Secret Service agent. Forsythe joins 3 other Democrats who have declared for next year's #kysen race.

First-time candidate Logan Forsythe, a Democrat, told Kentucky Public Radio he is getting into the U.S. Senate race to fight for the social programs he relied on growing up. From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org

HHS motorcade

IRS Publication 17: "If you receive a bribe, include it in your income." What do we think the venn diagram overlap is between people who take bribes and people who scrupulously pay every penny to the IRS (h/t @jeskeets.bsky.social)

Questions for lawyers out there related to the Homan cash bag story. Do you get to keep the money from a sting operation if they never charge you? If Homan did keep it (Leavitt says he didn't), do you think he declared $50k on his taxes? Section 61 says income is income from whatever source derived

I think this is great actually. A lot of Sinclair scam over the years has been slipping semi under the radar

Heritage’s Roger Severino says 50% of school shootings are by trans individuals. Severino is a Leonard Leo operative, aligned w Opus Dei.

Kamala Harris was held to a higher standard than any vice president in history—an impossible one. She was locked into Biden’s playbook, yet the media still expected her to be everywhere, doing everything, for everyone. “Where is Kamala?” Busy being the VP to President Joe Biden, as was her job.

NEW: SCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like it. A 90-year-old precedent meant nothing to the majority allowing Trump to fire an FTC commissioner during litigation. This is no way to run a court, let alone a country. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Lemme guess. Kenvue (the company that makes Tylenol) refused to give him campaign money?

The FOIA demand on the Tom Homan $40K bribery event is going to be fun. Especially when we retake the House in the 2026 midterms. RESIST the #MadKing! open.substack.com/pub/glennkir...

🚨 BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS allows Trump to dismiss the last Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, signaling a potential overturn of a 90-year-old ruling protecting independent agencies from executive control.

Goebbles or Miller?

Why Holocaust survivors compare Trump to Hitler Trump is an actual fascist who is using Hitler's fascist propaganda tactics to turn normal Americans into bloodthirsty MAGA Nazis.

The populist right wants to remake the UK in the image of Dubai. We should all be careful what they wish for | Jonathan Liew

It's genuinely exciting that Sinclair has decided to make themselves visible.

Now that everyone has had a chance to "grieve" hoping the undocumented Polish workers who built Trump's Tower and some historians of slavery send Stephen Miller some lessons about who built the things he claims to love.

In an ideal world, all the people writing, "Prosecutors are under pressure to charge Trump's enemies" would mention John Durham and Hunter Biden. Treating those as normal prosecutions was part of what got us here.

UPDATE: Another judge, the Reagan-appointed Sarah Evans Barker, ruled today that the administration's use of the "automatic stay" — to keep locked up a man who had been ordered released by an immigration judge on $7,500 bond — was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There is only one way to resolve this. RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!

It’s all about control. From your local Starbucks to the corporate highrises. Support @sbworkersunited.org — and all the working and non-working poor, chained by the coffee giant or any other oligarchical institution.

Coming from the guy that lives in Southern California’s and flies the corporate jet to the office in Seattle. That’s rich 🙄

Bad news: The U.S. government is looking to weaponize space. Worse news: They're gonna rely on Elon Musk to help get it done.

A lot of federal judges I know will be very glad to hear this. GSA cutbacks had resulted in chaotic and opaque decisions that negatively impacted the courts, the judges said. via @jheckmanWFED federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

For the first time in decades, America is openly working on the weaponization of space, and Musk’s companies are uniquely well-positioned to snatch up billions of dollars in government contracts for these projects. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Between SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk has a stranglehold on space access. He can turn off the internet on a whim. Add on a fleet of space-based weapons and the doom clock jumps to midnight.