Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities. Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2018...

The conservative legal “unitary exec” theory makes kings. There is no unitary king in America: not 250 years ago and not now. And it’s not just the conserv Supreme Court majority that believes in unitary king theory. They have some lower court judges too, like Ryan Nelson on the 9th Circuit.

Did anyone expect something different? Anyone? Bueller?

TLDR Asha suggests they’re using a covert action in Venezuela, not because they’re trying to do anything covertly, but because they want legal cover as they work around the restrictions of the War Powers Resolution. (Really is worth a read though.)

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑨𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒔.

Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown Federal agencies are told to blame Democrats for a shutdown : NPR share.google/ARboA5tLGayb...

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond. Pay attention and act!

If you wanna know the true character of Kash Patel this clip says it all unqualified heartless and cruel.

If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you! Please shoot me a message,

🚨 RFK Jr hired anti-vaccine activist Mark Blaxill as a senior advisor at CDC. Not a doctor or scientist, Blaxill has spent decades pushing the debunked myth that vaccines cause autism. ⚠️ Bottom line: a man who believes “every child is injured by vaccines” is now advising the CDC.

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.) Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear. But… no “kids”!

If your holiday heroes are colonizers and creeps, maybe take a lap. Frances Fisher roasted Trump’s Columbus Day outrage by tying him to both Epstein and Columbus. The shoe fits.

"Some 22 million Americans are set to lose health insurance subsidies by the end of the year." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Now updated: The 'Presumption of Regularity' study. 1. Noncompliance with judicial orders: 20 cases 2. Courts’ distrust of DOJ information: 43+ cases 3. Courts’ findings of “arbitrary and capricious” conduct: 58 cases www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

Again, Trump had the power to unilaterally deploy the DC National Guard on January 6th - he did not need permission from anyone. He didn’t do so. For example, he did deploy the DC Guard as part of his fake emergency in the city this year. For more debunking: www.justsecurity.org/93316/anatom...

Speaker Johnson is delaying my swearing in to avoid releasing the Epstein files. Join us in demanding Speaker Johnson: End the Shutdown. Swear me In. Release the Files. SIGN OUR PETITION 🔗adelita.us/sign

"The administration’s decision to remove almost all personnel for the special education office is not just a betrayal of students with disabilities. It also is the final nail in the coffin for Republican support of the idea that people with disabilities can and should access public education."

This administration keeps torching the Hatch Act—propaganda videos in airports, partisan emails on federal servers, even mass firings. It’s corruption with a flag pin. See something? Say something. Expose it through the whistleblower tip line. 1 202-924-2065

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

@weratedogs.com Heckin’ hero.

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

This is good and I'm glad it's happening. If the press won't stand up for the 1st amendment, who will? Kudos to them all. But I'm still wondering what it's going to take to get over the insane double standard between how the media treated Biden, and how they treat Trump.

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

NHANES runs mobile clinics that travel the country measuring height, weight, & blood pressure while collecting blood and urine samples. These samples are our only national source for tracking everything from blood sugar to hormones, heavy metals, and more. The entire operation has been eliminated.

WATCH: A new Politico report reveals young GOP leaders across several states trading racist, antisemitic, and hateful messages in leaked private chats. “People who are running the Republican Party at the ground level are immersed in this cesspit of bigotry,” says Chris Hayes.

If we write off all news media, we’re playing into Trump’s hands. Some outlets are doing well while others stink. In this installment of my free Stop the Presses newsletter, I give letter grades to major media outlets. See if you agree.

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

The vice president of the United States is a clownish dipshit, Exhibit 64,532

Reshma Ramachandran “said the sequence of events is the antithesis of how the FDA is supposed to function. “What we’re seeing here is, ‘We believe this and we’re going to find the evidence to support that’ …That’s just inherently wrong in terms of how a scientific agency like the FDA operates.”

veterans set up encampment in memphis to protest national guard deployment to their city www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxQ...

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

There are hard questions we need to ask ourselves right now. But no matter what this administration is planning, we know who we are—we love democracy & plan to fight (peacefully) for it. In a moment where knowledge is power, here is what you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

We're collecting resources for furloughed CDC workers (and other feds!) on our new Shutdown Survival Guide page. Check it out (and let us know if we've missed something!) www.cdcresourceportal.org/resources/sh...

If you want to help those fired from CDC over the weekend, the CDC Mutual Aid Network is helping folks with emergency rent, groceries, etc. altCDC gets no funds from donations, but we can verify they are legit and funds go directly to those impacted.

He said “ass-symmetry” 😜 Works on many levels.

“This is absolutely a violation of federal law.” For @motherjones.com, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"They're saying this because they want to say that you are Antifa, that you are a terrorist. That they are allowed to come after you. Don't let them get away with this." Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social is a chilling must-read: www.thebulwark.com/p/are-you-an...

This weekend, Trump said “the Biden FBI” placed 274 agents in the January 6 insurrectionist mob. He wrote “If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies.” But it ISN’T so: TRUMP was still POTUS until January 20. It was the TRUMP FBI. Oops. Never mind. 👑 😳😵‍💫😎😟

This is true, and… It also reflects the assymetry in media. RW media trumpet every GOP/Trump achievement as a glorious success, because that is their job. Actual journalists see puffing up those in power as the opposite of their job.

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself." -FDR (definitely antifa)

Reading poetry in the morning does give me a more purposeful day.

Republicans shut down the government instead of working with Democrats to stop enormous spikes in health insurance premiums. This will put essential care out of reach for thousands of Austinites. Many worried Central Texans are contacting me about how Republican health care cuts are impacting them.