Mike Johnson has apparently had the Severance procedure, and his innie knows nothing of the world of the outies

Gallego: "How can I negotiate? The president is in Asia for 5 days. Johnson is basically keeping the House out until January to protect pedophiles. So who am I negotiating with right now?"

The NYTimes is a vile pro-authoritarian institution. Do not play their games. Convince your parents to unsubscribe.

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

I don't understand how anyone can make the case that we still have constitutional government at this point. The president is collecting revenue *AND* spending money without Congressional authorization, refusing to spend money that Congress appropriated, disobeying whatever laws he feels like.

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

Mayor Johnson is cooking

This should be seen as what it is: a huge step towards ending free and fair elections.

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it. They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The other 45% aren’t reading Trump’s own posts on social media telling his DOJ to prosecute his foes.

Joel Camas is a 16 yr-old NYC high-school junior in the Bronx. He loves soccer & pepperoni pizza. Yesterday morning, his lawyer and I accompanied him to an ICE check-in. He has Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) — it should have been fine. But it was not.💔 [thread]

When Bruce Harrell pulled a gun on a pregnant woman over a parking spot he was 37 years old, which is about the same age Katie Wilson was when she helped write and pass Seattle's Jumpstart tax, which brings in $300-400 million a year

Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.” Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”? Or do they just sorta do it?

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

I kid you not, this is currently what the White House's "Major Events Timeline" shows for the East Wing expansion. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

Q: Can the president tear down anything he wants without oversight? Could he demolish this building or the Jefferson Memorial? LEAVITT: Only for vertical construction will a submission be required. Q: So it sounds like the answer is yes

i just cannot believe he bulldozed like a third of the white house lmao. i just. i can't even get mad about it because i can't believe it. surely not. the white house white house? that one?

I have to wonder about the morality and values of a person who is paid to smash and grab people off the street, smash down doors to zip-tie children in the middle of the night, shoot ministers in the head and laugh; toss a congressional candidate viciously to the ground. These are terrible people.

“Other people are susceptible to propaganda and the manipulations of a social media algorithm, but not me! I’m built different.”

No, and what he's doing now isn't legal, either. It is, on the more important point of how it's being funded, insanely unconstitutional. But not everything is fixable by litigation, even constitutional violations. Some parts are up to Congress to enforce or else they simply aren't enforced at all.

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

Remember when we learned Harrell was holding open a bunch of shelter rooms @$4700 a month EACH while people are dying on the street because his team DOESN'T LIKE the leader of the org providing (world-renowned) care? Experience? Bah. Malfeasant, incompetence. www.propublica.org/article/seat...

Oh www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

DSM-5 Now Includes Mariners Fanhood as a Legitimate Form of Depression: tinyurl.com/5e8a65zt

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Last thought on No Kings coverage: If major papers wanted a stunning angle, how about the fact that 5-7 *million* Americans mobilized and I didn’t see 1 significant act of violence by protesters That is a *remarkable* achievement for a contemporary social movement in a highly polarized society

Free subscription to a dating service… what’s the point? They’re at work so often they clearly don’t have time to date anyone.

I don’t have words

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

in hindsight i think musk turning twitter into a right wing propaganda outlet all but guaranteed the democrats couldn't win in 2024. once musk went in on trump, the machine could be used fully as a reality shaper for the people who cover the campaign and the casual voter.

She was legally declared a victim of a crime in a court of law, she was not an "accuser," she was a VICTIM

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

Media boss new to her job asks media to find source of leaks to media

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak! But media elites find that boring.

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Everyone makes it about Trump and Epstein, but it’s about this whole ring of men. That’s what makes me upset, because we know they were there. We saw them. We know there were royalty, princes, very powerful people in academia and tech, and we saw them at parties.

So this is what's above the fold in today's NYT, while the protests get two photos below the fold and a piece on A23. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but damn.

How about, if you’re not in a declared war, don’t kill anyone?? The US does not enforce criminal justice by killing people without a jury trial (and shouldn’t at all). The US does not have jurisdiction to enforce criminal justice in international or Venezuelan waters.

More people marched today than at any time in the history of the United States. For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story. They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see. This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.