The Trump ruling "looms over cases that are likely to come before the Court in coming months." Their outcomes, along with other recent Court actions, "carry the seeds of American tragedy." Roberts, an "institutionalist," has enabled "the most hostile anti-institutionalist ever elected president."

Nice to see someone bringing an appropriate level of energy and outrage to the moment.

Jesus H. Fuck. When Baghdad Bob said, "there is no presence of American infidels in Baghdad," one could laugh (and did), because the majority of the world could collectively agree that it was all BS. Now Baghdad Bob is in charge, with ostensible control of the military and the nuclear football.

New: The WGAE, which represents some parts of CBS News including its social team, sent a note to members today advising its members not to respond to Weiss’ request for an email by next week. The union also said it asked CBS for more information about Weiss’ request.

Trump is off by more than a factor of ten, but we know he has had trouble with numbers since the dementia set in www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago...

"Badenoch acknowledged on Tuesday that younger Tories were hard to come by... At a fringe event in Manchester one member sought to bring some hope, boasting that Keele University Conservative Society now had its biggest membership in a decade. 'We now have 11 members,' he said."

Nagham Zbeedat in Ha’aretz For Palestinians, the Relief of the Gaza Cease-fire Belongs to Others - Haaretz Today www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Right? They always do exactly what then condemn.

From the Dep't of Irony: "Among the subcontractors is Disaster Management Group, owned by big-time [GOP] donor Nathan Albers. Albers’ previous company, TentLogix, had pleaded guilty in 2019 to hiring undocumented workers and then using a shell company to hide the fact from immigration authorities."

Drew Pearson, on a 1944 Illinois GOP rebellion: "Many Republicans can't stomach GOP Rep.-at-large Stephen Day, the Congressman who sent a telegram of congratulations to Hitler after he came into power in 1933." Day was beaten by Dem. Emily Taft Douglas, with support from both sides of the aisle.

And as always, one can only wonder about the fascinating brain activity map of the two sad, stonefaced goons sitting to either side of Trump. Is there that faint nibble of conscience, rising up from the deep recesses? "Great-aunt Effie. What would great-aunt Effie have thought about me right now?"

Trump promised a health care plan TEN YEARS AGO and has never come up with one. Unless you consider it a "health care plan" when you cut health care and use the savings to give rich people a tax cut.

"It’s hard to imagine a more effective way to strangle red state economies over the long term. It’s not far off from what a vindictive liberal intent on imposing a Carthaginian peace on red states as retribution for voting in an insurrectionist traitor would do." And Trump told them, over and over.

This is getting wild. The states of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and 14 others have just asked for permission to file THEIR amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

NEW: RFK transferred 70 public health officers to work for four months at far-flung Indian Health Service sites. Though the help is desperately needed, the deployment threatens to disrupt vital disease tracking and harm reduction work. www.politico.com/news/2025/10... w/ @mayakaufman.bsky.social

This is remarkable. The world added more solar and wind capacity in 2024 than we added demand. 100% of demand growth PLUS 9% to retire dirtier sources. Cheap energy keeps winning. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

David Medina, texting to a friend from DC on 12/12/2020. “The proud boys are currently beating the fuck out of BLM right now in DC so that kinda gives me hope.” Medina was charged by the DOJ for his actions in DC on January 6.

"DHS has reinstated the... 287(g) 'task force' agreements, a model that empowers any police officer to detain and arrest people on the street for being potentially deportable immigrants. [It] has long served as a tool...of the most nativist sheriffs, those most prone to [blatant] racial profiling."

Despite the noise, renewables keep rising now generating more electricity than coal. @iea.org halved its US outlook, but raised India’s by 10%, putting it on track as the No. 2 growth market after China. MENA up 23%, driven by Saudi wind and solar.

7 October – Putin’s 73rd birthday. I won’t wish him many happy returns, but let’s just spend a moment pondering the dilemmas that will likely face him in the coming year 1/

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social wrote in her Substack about the seismic shift of the Overton Window as it relates to America's increasing acceptance of Trump's authoritarian power grabs as "normal," and the escalating threat of Trump's potential use of the Insurrection Act to cement his hold on power:

"Sixty-four percent of Israelis think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should take responsibility for the October 7 attack and resign, either immediately (45%) or after the war (19%)." www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Reminds me very much of the pogroms organized by white conservatives in the early-mid 20th century, which were just as much opportunities to loot & plunder radicalized & esp Black communities as they were opportunities to wield repressive & exploitative violence.

Deported for journalism. A denial of due process and violation of First Amendment rights. What happened to Mario Guevara sets a chilling precedent that any member of the press, who wasn’t born in the US, could be detained and removed by the Trump administration.

US DOT is putting another transit project on hold—the Red Line Extension in Chicago—because the transit authority pursued Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goals as part of the project, which the DOT claims are discriminatory. The thing is, US DOT & Congress put DBE in place.

"[FAA] has imposed unprecendented restrictions on unmanned drones across much of the Chicago area as federal law enforcement steps up its immigration arrests in & around the city. An FAA alert on the restriction says the restrictions are for 'special security reasons' without further explanation."

To forever be associated with legalizing a blatant, un-American quashing of civil rights. Must feel pretty good.

The ongoing creep of preventable illness. The baby was too young for vaccines, but adherence to recommended jabs on the part of older kids & adults in the baby's milieu could've made all the difference. Mississippi saw 49 pertussis cases in all of 2024, but has seen 115 from Jan-Sep of this year.

This is where credulous, "unbiased" reporting gets you.

Absolutely insane

"The change comes after several months of anti-LGBTQ actions by the Trump administration — including ... attempting to ensure the federal government only recognizes two sexes."

"Trump has made Project 2025’s call to 'dismantle the administrative state' a central tenet of his second term... Paul Dans, director and co-editor of Project 2025, told us in a phone interview that Trump’s efforts so far have 'exceeded my expectations. My wildest dreams, if you will.'"

“Jared Taylor, founder of American Renaissance, is to be star speaker on Saturday at the Patriotic Alternative conference being held at a so-far undisclosed East Midlands location.” searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/noto...

"What... if social media’s data-gathering & profiling engine is turned not to selling merch or promoting political rhetoric, but to profiling enemies? The U.S. gov't cannot currently target you for watching the wrong programs or laughing at the wrong jokes. But it sure seems that it would like to."

"Some 21 of the country's 38 large refineries - where crude oil is converted into useable fuel like petrol and diesel - have been hit since January... Ordinary Russians appear to be feeling the impact of the strikes, with verified videos showing long queues at petrol stations."

More than 1.2 million women included in this study. Versus something RFK heard in an elevator.

"What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

"Despite sharing the same name, the green jays and blue jays are only distantly related and not classified within the same genus... The most recent common ancestor between the two is estimated to have lived at least 7 million years ago."

In tonight’s New Jersey Lt. Gov debate, Jack Ciattarelli’s running mate Jim Gannon said - out loud - that new taxes are on the table for NJ residents…EXCEPT FOR MILLIONAIRES!!! Clip via @umichvoter.bsky.social on X.

"Arrest all the undocumented construction workers you can find and you'll open up plenty of jobs for native-born labor" doesn't seem to be working out as planned.

Since when does Johnson care about WIC? A fifth of the households in Johnson’s home district receive SNAP benefits, and changes to SNAP eligibility in the "Big Beautiful Bill" that Johnson helped ram through Congress have significant knock-on effects that make qualifying for WIC harder as well.

A MN state Republican senator had the gall to look grieving Annunciation parents in the eye and tell them he couldn't support a ban on assault rifles or high capacity magazines because shooting guns with a 30-round magazine is "fun." (@minnesotareformer.com) minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/27/w...

'Rural hospitals have been struggling for years and then we blasted a giant hole in the government insurance program that's been keeping them open' ok, yea, no, this sounds better go with this

This is the company that now runs the majority of community newspapers in B.C. (and whose management has repeatedly ignored my requests for an interview about their business plan)

He's literally just seeing 2020 B-roll footage on Fox News, isn't he?

"A recent multinational journalistic investigation revealed that Israel has become a world center for the export of election fraud, fake news, hacking of private e-mails, and disinformation... [The project]... discovered an Israel-based 'global private market in disinformation aimed at elections.'"

"Madrid's... 35-mile (56 kilometer) program of expansion between 1995 and 1999 cost around $2.8 billion (in 2024 prices). New York’s 1.5-mile extension of the 7 subway to Hudson Yard cost about the same (adjusted for inflation). London’s Jubilee Line Extension...cost nearly ten times more per mile."

"'Idaho needs to repeal all Medicaid programs,' the submission said. 'Socialized medicine will not make us healthier. People who want Medicaid should move to another state.' There are more than 350,000 Idahoans enrolled across all Medicaid programs... a little over 17% of the state’s population."

Replacing the poem on the Statue of Liberty to just say "give me your wealthy"