We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing. Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

Speaker of the Empty House

Why Saturday's No Kings Protest Could Actually Matter This Time open.substack.com/pub/thefeed1...

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market. Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army. Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Whose house is this?! What gives him the right?

This is why it is so important that we elect Jay Jones as our next Attorney General!! open.substack.com/pub/grassroo...

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

What Should We Do NOW? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Not an expert but pretty sure this isn’t how ceasefires are supposed to work.

They Thought They Could Control Him: open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

DLMayfield: "Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism: They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror. The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

Take action and share! Comment period closes Oct 20. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

He has got to go! RFK Jr.: “Vaccines Don’t Save Lives” open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...

Trump’s War on America Is Expanding newrepublic.com/article/2013... via @newrepublic.com

Don't believe what you saw with your own eyes! 🤬 www.salon.com/2025/10/02/h...

Censoring words, suppressing research, and silencing scientists doesn't change reality. Climate change will affect everything from intensifying weather patterns to disrupting our global supply chains. Treating it as "That-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named" will only make us woefully unprepared.

Which Families Will Grieve Tomorrow? open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

From Hitler to Hegseth open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

The National Archives released the military records of Mikkie Sherrill, then admitted they shouldn't have. The documents appear to contain personal information like her SSN number, per ABC: abc7ny.com/post/calls-i...

This Is Not Conservatism open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

ICE Detained Lawful US Resident Based on His 'Perceived' Ethnicity: Class Action Lawsuit www.commondreams.org/news/ice-rac...

Researchers, medical residents, other highly skilled technical workers. This is just plain stupid!

The techniques that drove the development of much of modern molecular biology & medicine - restriction enzymes, PCR, CRISPR - relied on fundamental discoveries from basic research. This kind of work just will not get done without government support.

Yes, Kirk was a talented communicator and activist whose far right organizing infrastructure affected American politics. He also espoused Christian nationalism, platforming racist attitudes, attacks on free speech, and support for political violence. trib.al/LuVqO3J

Three Democrats break from Clean Virginia and take Dominion money open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

The Dangers of the Charlie Kirk Aftermath www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

This administration is responsible for the most blatant attacks on the free press in American history. What will be left of the First Amendment when he’s done?

The U.S. military is carrying out extrajudicial killings of civilians, and Vance is out there cracking jokes about it.

Remember - early voting in Virginia starts TOMORROW, Sept 19! Time to restore sanity to our Commonwealth and send those enabling the current fascist regime packing! www.cbsnews.com/news/abigail...

Not clear what possible legal justification there is for the extrajudicial execution of alleged drug traffickers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

US stocks vs. rest of the world: worst underperformance since 2009. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social @dailychartbook.bsky.social

Trump's surge of federal law enforcement into Washington, D.C., is exposing the FBI's fleet of unmarked cars, potentially risking its ability to do its most sensitive national security and surveillance work, nine current and former employees of the bureau warned.

A current guide to fall vaccines for respiratory viruses, from a highly trusted source. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

The people in Washington who can actually stop Trump are not Democrats. They are Republicans. And we should be asking them every day when they will start. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/02/r...

"Trump is showing, with this insane rant, that he fully intends to maximally abuse presidential powers in every way possible to try to rig and swing the midterms. It’s not an accident that this is all happening while he’s militarizing cities." trib.al/ufHfbdA

August 29, 2025 This regime continues to drive out career public servants who have been trying to do their jobs protecting the public interest. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

This has happened more than once now. A GOP Senator bows to the WH on a key issue — for Ernst, the Hegseth nomination — for fear of being primaried out of their job, and then quits anyway. I honestly don’t get it.

Even those eligible under the new guidelines can't get vaccines. This is outrageous! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

apnews.com/article/trum...  This is NOT normal!!

This is the essence of it to me. If the price of groceries is a kitchen table issue, then being too afraid of masked men -- who demand to see your identification while showing none of their own -- kidnapping you or your neighbors on the grocery store surely is a kitchen table issue too