A metaphor for what Trump and his Admin have been doing to the US

Both of them have the potential to destroy the look of a couch

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports. “Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

@jcsalterego.bsky.social, first you make the news, then you make the weather

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

NEW: A 20-year federal prosecutor, fired abruptly this week even as he lead case against Abbey Gate bomber, warns his colleagues: the Trump administration is sacrificing national security to purge Trump's perceived adversaries. w/ @dnlbrns www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump's spiritual advisor Robert Morris being taken to prison for child sex abuse.

Stephen King continues to show that he must have been doing something right all these years 👏 @stephenking.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

A must-read, somber analysis of how our rights are under attack by the gov & the public. "no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy" Author @tressiemcphd.bsky.social cited @marisakabas.bsky.social (Gift) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Hard to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when you're in charge of all 3 branches of government, plus the Supreme Court.

We have loss a giant in the work of preserving and defending the natural world and all that occupy it. Rest easy, Dr. Jane Goodall 💚

Speech today by Hegseth/Trump: 1) A call-to-arms against the American people & all within US influence 2) A brutal admission that Hegseth wants the military to "kill people and break things" Who among the military will uphold their oaths to the Constitution? (Gift) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Imagine wanting to serve your country & defend the Constitution; rising up the ranks; officer training; promotions for dedication, knowledge, & professionalism; handling intel; overseeing movements; & handling conflict deterrence only to be told you are being liberated to kill people & break things

I think it's that they (often correctly) assume their base will not care who they were

This article is a comprehensive stitch of the lowlights from the inane rambling of the U.S. President in front of the UN yesterday. It's a list of grievances, blatant lies, & conspiracy theories. It is disturbing. I think it will be referred to in future textbooks & documentaries on our times.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Essayli sics Secret Service on Newsom for 'threat assessment for writing: "Kristi Noem is going to have a bad day today” just before signing bills protecting California’s immigrant population that ban face covering and require officers to ID themselves.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

On the issue of Board of Immigration Appeals purges, here is the current composition of the Board by what administration appointed them, counting temporary members: - Bush: 2 - Obama: 2 - Trump: 13

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Disgusting endorsement of murdering people. Waiting on all the Christians at Fox News and among its viewers to protest this 🦗 🦗 Matthew 25:45 "Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me."

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

JUST IN: Three people are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to St. Anthony’s Hospital. https://cnn.it/46fImzg

Last night in Poland we saw the most serious European airspace violation by Russia since the war began, and indications suggest it was intentional, not accidental. I am in contact with NATO Secretary General Rutte and Poland FM Sikorski. The EU stands in full solidarity with Poland. (1/2)

DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt admitted that the government will "redact every republican" and "leave all the liberal, democratic people” on the Epstein client list. He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."

Absolutely chilling tool primed for human rights abuses www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Murder rates for 2024 per 100,000 ppl 1. Birmingham, AL: 58.8 2. St. Louis, MO: 54.0 3. Memphis, TN: 40.6 4. Baltimore, MD: 34.7 5. Detroit, MI: 31.1 6. Cleveland, OH: 30.0 7. Dayton, OH: 29.6 8. Kansas City: 27.5 10. DC: 25.4 22. Chicago: 17.4 88. L.A.: 6.9 127: NY: 3.9

Tom Clancy's Moby Dick In which 'Moby' becomes an archaic, eldritch adjective

NYT: school shooting in Minneapolis, MN Mayor Frey: "Children are dead. There are families that have a deceased child. You cannot put into words the gravity, tragedy, or absolute pain of the situation. Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now; these kids were literally praying"

The NY Giants cut Tommy Cutlets We are now Tommy Cutless

We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸

Welcome FEMA to the letter resistance!! The Katrina Declaration was released today out of concern that we are going back to a time when our response was its own man-made disaster. Say Never Again and sign in support!!! @rebelfema.altgov.info act.standupforscience.net/forms/sign-o...

JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say the Trump administration is trying to coerce him to plead guilty to the charges he is facing by promising to deport him to Costa Rica — and threatening to deport him to Uganda if he doesn’t. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A recognized pattern: beneath a post about a femicide, a string of dudes chiming in to make jokes.

They are requesting the PII and PHI of children.

It's been a few years since I last lived there, so I had forgotten that DC expels all "elderly white hippies" from the population once they reach a certain age, like in The Giver

"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."

Bela means 'white' in Russian. Maybe Trump asked Putin how to say 'white power' in Russian and forgot the second part, and he is hoping Putin will now chime in with it, like in a game of Marco Polo in the pool.