“.. If victims disobeyed an order .., Taylor and Brannon punished the victims with public humiliation, .. sleep deprivation, physical assaults, and threats of divine judgment in the form of sickness .. and eternal damnation.” @craigtimes.bsky.social #Florida www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Mike Johnson really, really, really does not want to release the Epstein Files.

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

I'm still just baffled at the sheer stupidity here. “You got a vial of opium that was in your center console,” an officer told Raghu. “Go and take a seat.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Serious question: Does *anyone* in this family know how to make money by doing anything other than slapping their name or picture on something?

An interesting point raised elsewhere: these boats that the United States is striking don't appear to have the fuel capacity/storage capacity to even reach American shores.

This really must be an insane time to be a law professor trying to explain to students how the Supreme Court is supposed to work. Most of them have to be about a week from a full Frank Grimes breakdown. "Look at me! I'm John Roberts! I don't need hearings or reasoned opinions!"

What a steal. $5 a piece. One is not even open. All Creatures Great & Small

Disinformation thrives without data No jobs numbers = the economy isn't struggling! No food insecurity data = people are fed! No education research = defunding and threatening schools doesn't hurt kids! No public health studies = our policies aren't making people sick!

Our cities aren’t war zones, but the Trump administration through ICE is doing its best to turn them into war zones. The authoritarian project depends on creating an “enemy within.”

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you That is not, in fact, what ICE does He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news... Huh? More unemployment.

Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.

"The U.S. military buildup around Venezuela should no longer be seen through the lens of a purely counter-drug trafficking concern. The current deployment structure is just too big, too expensive, and too varied in capabilities for it to be designed for that mission alone".

its weird that the president brags about inflicting pain on american citizens and cities right?

youtube.com/shorts/R0A0G... As I feared . . ..

- Jay makes a light repost in response to local jokester Jerry Chen - Someone responds seriously to her light post changing to topic to trans concerns but ending with “or [WAFFLES]” and leaving her an out - Jay makes waffles later because of Jerry Chen Is there more to this story?

First, arithmetic. A weeklong shutdown will reduce *annualized* growth in Q4 by 0.2 %-points. So that's 0.05 %-points of actual quarterly growth. And GDP in a quarter is $30 trillion/4 = $7.5T. So the "cost" is 0.05% x $7.5 trillion = $3.75b NOT the $15 billion CEA claim

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

As long as they don’t call it “Gleichschaltung,” they should be able to slip this by the press.

In one of Gary Larson's books, he reportedly got in trouble with the Jane Goodall Society for this cartoon, but he heard that Jane Goodall personally loved it.

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY. RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Reuters reports the Trump Admin is "pursuing deals" (read: shaking down executives) in "up to 30 industries, involving dozens of companies". Carrots: - tariff relief - revenue guarantees - equity investment "the planned interventions...reverse decades of hands-off approach to private enterprise"

Pity he's not up until 2030, because you could run campaign ads that are just that clip looping over and over again.

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

NEW: Workers at the SBA got a template from HR suggesting they set out-of-office replies blaming Democrats for the shutdown, which would appear to be a blatant Hatch Act violation; at HUD, even internal systems have a weird pop-up blaming "the Radical Left." @telliotter.bsky.social has the details!

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

You know Joe Rogan is a big enough idiot to drool over Russian military propaganda like Ted Cruz. Hegseth installed a makeup studio at the Pentagon. Trump wears more makeup than a teenage girl. All Rogan chugs is identify politics and bullshit. He rehabilitated Alex Jones after all.

“The MAGA vision of the military class as amoral warriors dedicated to PT and demanding “respect” makes sense if MAGA views its principle strategic rivals not as foreign autocrats, but as American citizens who might try to displace MAGA from the seat of power.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-depart...

These people are weak and they are flailing. They just gave the entire world a live demonstration of the fact they have zero respect and zero admiration from the people they imagine they can manage. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

WHISTLEBLOWER: “I was walked out of the building and fired… to silence me for speaking out about the truth. But I’m not going to let that happen.” Paul was fired from HUD’s office of Fair Housing for calling out the Trump regime ignoring/enabling civil rights violations.

How Long Are We Gonna Be Stupid? youtu.be/iOf79ZGYl6g?...

The point of bringing up money and Hunter Biden for years wasn’t to show how MAGA were going to be better people. It was giving Trump, Kushner, family, administration, and friends the permission to abuse the hell out of government like no one before them. Hell, even Trump’s granddaughter.

The word that keeps running through my head about this administration (among others) is "adolescent." These are people with a little boy's idea of what sounds manly.

Yes seeing these crackers crusade against DEI in the name of meritocracy only to then witness USA’s highest ranking military officers get condescended to & told to violate their oaths by a draft dodger & the least qualified person to ever hold a position made me wonder if irony can be too poetic.

Stephen Miller has never worked a job outside of politics in his entire life.

Why would any legislator vote for a budget the executive will ignore? In that situation, a yes vote conveys one thing and nothing else: validation for the White House’s blatantly unconstitutional actions.

Yup, the financial payoff from Qatar to the Trump family must really be something! By the way, shouldn’t Congress have something to say about this? And I suspect there might be a coalition of Reaganite hawks and skeptical-of-force doves that could defeat it.

In her spirit: Be kind to other animals, y’all. We have a lot more in common with many of them than you realize, including emotions, intellect, sociality, and social norms.

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.

There we are.

4/ Some ICE officers on the scene reacted emotionally to the incident. One said: “What the fuck?” Another told me: “This is a real problem.“

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID? It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane