The Democrats are fighting to protect our health care. Sometimes you have to fight hard. (Free article)

Genocide. (Free link about the exodus)

It's about the healthcare, stupid.

These numbers were posted six hours ago and are almost certainly worse now.

We didn't think that AI data centers would be free, did we?

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

Just having a moment reflecting on what a ridiculous state we're in, where the president is making "deals" with private universities by personally meddling in federally allocated education and research funding and this is being treated as just ordinary politics.

The Republican shutdown is about to begin.

This is absolutely a lie. There is no reason shutdowns trigger layoffs. They never have before. Trump is simply using the shutdown as an excuse to take federal employees hostages and to further gut the government. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...

Donald Trump's militarization of our city streets isn't about fighting crime or public safety — it's about consolidating power in his hands. What he plans to do with that, now or during the 2026 elections, should worry all of us.

The military will use our cities as "training grounds"? That means making war on Americans. If this isn't the definition of fascism, I don't know what is.

Between this and what we've seen in Chicago recently, it's not hard to conclude that ICE is deliberately targeting journalists trying to document their abuses

"The generals understand that Trump sees their fellow Americans as his enemies. And they must now realize that at some point, they are likely to be forced to choose between Trump and their oaths to defend the Constitution." www.thebulwark.com/p/its-a-war-...

"The enemy within. That's Hitleresque," says retired Maj. Gen. Wiilliam Enyart.

WATCH: "For a Reagan-appointed judge to be out and out talking about secret police in United States of America in the year 2025 tells us everything about what's going on," says AOC.

Yup. Ezra Klein seems to be completely lacking in historical knowledge. Young, naive, pampered, he seems to miss the point every time. In contrast, Coates has a wisdom that comes from living in the real world.

Getting to the heart of it.

Some great points here, made by Eb&Flow about Ezra Klein's lack of a broader imagination.

"The remarkable ruling was a win for a coalition of organizations that had sued to block future deportations of students, arguing that the government has used the threat of “ideological deportation” to punish people for criticizing Israel’s government and its war in Gaza."

That’s true. But there is more to it than that. Ta-Nehisi is speaking as a person whose friends, family and community have been continually targeted with violence over the last 100 years. Ezra is speaking from a protected position. He feels he can afford to be abstract and intellectual about this.

He's telling us what he's doing. Using the military to suppress protest. At some point the opposition needs to listen to him and adjust strategy.

The 40% Americans are now opposed to Israel's actions. Will it make a difference if they don't speak out?

“The Antifa myth is a wedge that will be used to destroy free speech…. Democrats need to rally Americans with the argument that the threat to Antifa will one day be used against anyone who speaks out against Trump” - @jeetheer.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Clearly we do not have a functioning president. Stephen Miller is the power behind the crown.

"Civility is the mode of engagement that is often demanded in political discourse; it is the price of admission to important political conversation ... But civility — this idea that there is a perfect, polite way to communicate about sociopolitical differences — is a fantasy." - Roxane Gay

The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

NEW: Oregon says Trump/Hegseth’s deployment of 200 National Guard troops is an unconstitutional abuse of power. The case has been assigned to Judge Michael Simon, an Obama appointee (and nephew of Neil Simon!) www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Cannot be repeated enough: this was not a voluntary resignation program. Workers were told they were more valuable in the private sector, that they might be fired from their jobs, that they could expect no reasonable work accommodations, that they would work for leaders who were undermining services

Beautiful color!

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use. How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

About that brutal arrest in Hyattsville, MD this week:

Pelo menos 20 pessoas mortas pelos ataques israelenses ao hospital Nasser, no sul de Gaza, nesta segunda-feira, inclusive cinco jornalistas www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

The Art of John Wilson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a beautiful show and right on time!

At last the names of those detainees who were shot.

"Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal."

Netanyahu’s vows to ‘finish job’ in Gaza during UN speech as delegates walk out

Watch this and scream.

“He doesn’t care about anybody but himself & the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day…. "He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment & impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history."

On Thursday I visited the ICE facility in Portland with colleagues in the Oregon delegation.

Remember what's happening in Gaza? Our tax dollars at work.

Yesterday thousands of New Yorkers gathered at Foley Square to protest the outrageous actions of ICE. Everyone must speak up today and every day. Make your voice heard in any way you can!

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns. It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets. Via @heatmap.news

WTF??? Isn't there a common sense rule that you should never put all the top military brass in one room at the same time? Has Hegseth ever heard the phrase "fish in a barrel"?

Wired did a great job on the DOGE story. Support top quality investigative journalism wherever you find it.

Climate summit at the U.N. on Wednesday: China, Russia, Japan and Germany were there. Dozens of small island states were there. The world’s poorest countries, including Chad and the Central African Republic, were there. Venezuela, Syria, Iran — there, too. The United States was not. (Free article)