I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security. Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. Now he's in charge of IRS.

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

This is one of those emblematic moments that reveal how broken political coverage is. You don't have to just report what he says! You have five senses!

“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Michael Hauser Tov's new Reuters Institute report offers practical techniques that could transform Trump coverage. But media organizations seem more interested in maintaining broken norms than fixing them. www.readtpa.com/p/we-already...

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

I don't know who needs to hear this again, but here we go. The Congress makes the laws. The president's job is to faithfully execute them. Budgets are laws. Appropriations are laws. The president doesn't have the right or the authority to refuse to spend funds appropriated by the Congress.

First they shut down the government. Then they tampered with federal workers’ emails to shift the blame. This is corruption in broad daylight.

Sen. Andy Kim: "What Donald Trump is clearly showing is that we do not have three functioning branches of government — we have one branch trying to dominate the other two, and we see congressional Republicans acting as if they are cabinet members in Trump's administration."

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... It's one thing to succumb to the stick, but Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Penn, USC, MIT, UT, Arizona, Brown, and UVA absolutely must refuse to go chasing after promises of carrots.

In Matt 25 Jesus says that individuals & nations will be judged by how they care for the poor & sick. Govt is shutdown bc GOP wants to throw 12-20 million low-income/disabled Americans off Medicaid. Bc the GOP uses Jesus as a prop, while despising His actual commandments.

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

The Republicans want the shutdown so they can fire everyone. I think this goes to confirm that. Sad times.

Another way of looking at it

We’re here! But guess what? … All the doors are locked as the GOP cancelled votes and is pushing us towards a government shutdown.

LOL "I spoke to the governor, she was very nice. But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place... www.kgw.com/article/news...

Why Portland? This is why.

1/This is Transatlantic leadership! In historic move, German Chancellor Merz calls out US: “democracy is under pressure, freedom of expression is being questioned, and the independence of the judiciary is being repressed“. www.reuters.com/technology/g...

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Six hrs after advising Border Patrol chief to comply with a court order requiring "reasonable suspicion" for stops, acting US Atty in Sacramento is fired & escorted from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

IOWA: “ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa’s largest public school district…” 🤔 www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders. we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

🚨HEY NASHVILLE — THERE’S A SPECIAL ELECTION GOING ON — WHY ARE Y’ALL NOT VOTING? All schools in Davidson County will be closed on October 7th and Dec 2nd for an election… no one is showing up to? (H/T @LisaQuigleyTN)

Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.

I guess she missed the UN's statement that the escalator stopped due to the actions of a *trump related videographer running to the top of the escalator and tripping a device.

This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing. Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Repubs control the House, Senate, and White House and are now *demanding* help from DEMS to approve more health care cuts. These people have lost their mind! They are saying they will shut the government down if they don’t get help. WELL, NO DEAL! THEIR SHUT DOWN! NO MORE CUTS!

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.

A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.

Jon asks why the GOP's "one is too many" logic applies only to immigrants and not mass shootings

Governor Newsom @governor.ca.gov, Governor Kotek, and I launched a new West Coast Health Alliance today to ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics. The Trump Administration has undermined the independence of the CDC and dismantled its vaccine panel.

Tomorrow 930 am Washington DC survivors speak. That is who we should all be listening to.

reason.com/2025/08/27/i... it’s a fun read: “powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and 2 in Vladimir Putin's circle”

"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others." --Abraham Lincoln, 1838 www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...

"The enemies of a free society—the enemies of limited government and the rule of law, the opponents of political liberty and human equality—don’t sugarcoat what they’re doing. There’s surely no reason we should sugarcoat what we’re seeing."

Katrina inspired a $3B wetlands rebuilding project. Louisiana just killed it.

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump extends control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak.

Destruction of evidence creates a presumption that the lost information is maximally incriminating, approximating outright admission of guilt

Some call us shortsighted if we focus on retaking Congress in the midterms rather than on what comes next. No! That’s like calling shortsighted those on the Titanic who focused on avoiding the iceberg rather than on the rest of the voyage. There’s no “rest of the voyage” if we hit the damn iceberg!

“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:

Former PM of Australia 🇦🇺: “I’ve been with Trump and Putin. Trump is in awe of Putin… it’s like the 12 Year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero’.”

Oak Flat is a sacred site to nine Indigenous tribes including the San Carlos and Mescalero Apache Nations. The Trump Admin wants to hand it over to a major foreign-owned mining company that would destroy it forever. Stand with our Indigenous nations and say NO. #SaveOakFlat

STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of “emergency.” There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs. There was NO “INVASION” to justify this migrant crackdown. And there is NO “EMERGENCY” that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.