I spoke in Warren County, Indiana tonight. The organizer of the event said they usually have around 30 folks who come to their holiday supper. Tonight there were 150 people there. Things are changing. Especially in red states.

Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data. It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1

Just thinking about the 2024 economy for no reason.

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

Today marks 160 years since the ratification of the 13th amendment, which abolished legal slavery in the United States. We honor those who fought for freedom and rededicate ourselves to advancing justice, equality, and civil rights for all.

Somali American U.S. citizen grabbed & detained by Trump’s ICE goons for 24 hours, “sexually assaulted her and said what could you be hiding under your hijab?”

Yup 😡 “Now, the Trump administration is busy killing drug smugglers on boats to “protect” Americans — but letting a convicted kingpin like Hernandez walk free.” By @justinglawe.bsky.social in PN; open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

This is murder. Hegseth needs to be removed and prosecuted, along with Bradley.

Tweaking TF out

There are well upwards of a BILLION dollars (of OUR money) this year funneled to projects designed specifically to make Trump feel Good about himself: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Trumps private and public furious response to the onrush of media coverage about his mind, health, age, sleep…

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Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks. They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.

Since we can’t ever expect Mike Johnson to do the right thing, we’re forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. And we only need four more members to sign the petition to make it happen. Help us move the needle!

Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT

This article is always worth reading in the context of any vaccine safety discussion. Nothing is 100% safe, and if several hundred million people do almost anything then there will be deaths - but vaccines are much *safer* than the infections they work against. theconversation.com/andrew-bridg...

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was sentenced to 45 years for aiding drug trafficking. Trump also stood by recent strikes the US carried out on alleged drug traffickers. Read more at @atrupar’s Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-boat...

Everyone responsible for this crime against humanity must be prosecuted.

Israel’s prime minister has always insisted that he is capable of running the country while standing trial. So why has he chosen this moment to seek a presidential pardon?

Again, if this is a legitimate reason to kill someone (it isn’t), then there was nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And we know that can’t be right, because the USMCJ cites the killing of shipwrecked people **as its prototypical example** of an unlawful order.

So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

Evelyn Griffin is presenting on the alleged danger of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines, so I’m gonna drop this paper right here and let it do the heavy lifting because it summarizes the body of knowledge. There’s a reason that RFK Jr. demanded that this paper be retracted (the journal refused).

GUTFELD: “I love that the peace price went to Trump and not Greta Thunberg.” TURNER: “Because it was created it for him.” GUTFELD: “So?” TURNER: “There were no other candidates.”

Two shirtless guys in deep ocean, trying to stay “in the fight” against the U.S. military with its missiles? What a claim!

fascism is so mundane as it's unfolding and that's part of what makes it so dangerous

Among other awful things about this, it reveals that for MAGA they don't want people to immigrate using normal, legal channels. They don't want nonwhite immigrants, period. MAGA is a fundamentally racist movement.

Pro-life my ass. This is beyond inhumane. It is their Nazi playbook. "Her breast milk also dried up after going for almost two days with little sustenance or access to a breast pump during her arrest."

PS here is the news story link www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Survivors clinging to debris. No radios. No means of locomotion. The Administration knows they did something wrong. This issue isn’t going away.

Tategate: How a Human Trafficking Suspect Was Protected by Trump’s Whitehouse. #SpookyConnections #3E #EndImpunity

Occam’s razor prevails, says the news org that settled with Dominion Voting System for $787M

🚨 NEW: A majority of Americans now support Medicare for All even if it ends private insurance and raises taxes. The tipping point is here because the ACA is failing to keep health care affordable. New polling shows a 50-point shift in just six years.

If only Bill Cassidy knew someone in the federal legislature who could do something about it

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

some shots of Trump from today's FIFA event (in 2 of them you can see that the back of his right hand is still bandaged up) all photos via Getty

The cruelty is the point.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children. Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

70 years ago, the AFL-CIO was formed with a bold vision—the dignity of a day's work must be matched by the dignity of a worker's life. This merger formed a promise: America would be stronger when working people stand together. Thanks for 70 years of solidarity, strength, and service to our families.

"In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative." -The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 242

The Golden Age.

I want to thank you for making me aware of that awesome tool! Here's a link for the original asker. archive.is/rvOOA

This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close nymag.com/intelligence...