Klein is also obsessed with solving Democrats’ “condescension problem” but it’s not condescending to talk about how your political opponents are wrong! That’s kind of how it works.

Schumer: "As for these massive layoffs, guess what? They're doing it anyway! There's no shutdown, they're laying off all these people, the budget they've proposed says another 300,000 federal workers should be laid off ... "

WELKER: Do you trust, do you have faith in the judicial system? SCHUMER: I have no faith in Donald Trump's judicial system ... he has turned this DOJ into his own political watchdog. It's horrible. No president has done this. This is what autocrats do.

Its funny (but not in a haha way) how much the moving goalposts on both of these elections yet again reveals how deeply a lot of our news media is invested in the idea that Republicans are the "rightful" seat of power for this country & any time a Democrat wins its at best a temporary aberration.

Trump is building a personalist regime where every university must bend the knee or lose funding and every business must bend the knee or face tariffs, H-1B fees, and regulatory blackmail. You can't cover each domain in isolation; they are all the same story.

Bookmark this for the next time Republicans say the left is to blame for all political violence in this country. trib.al/rPBaof2

Former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad says Israel ‘did not learn anything’ from its experience of genocide by the Nazis.

Charlie Kirk delivered hard-line ideas while orchestrating viral moments, creating a template that other influencers adopted. Here’s a look at how he constructed his confrontations.

DOGE’s effects are even worse than we initially realized. Months after Elon Musk departed, Social Security is suffering extensive damage, with the cuts hitting local field offices the hardest. trib.al/6qZ5Zx0

"Rewarding political violence in Trump’s name sends an unambiguous signal to both police and right-wing paramilitary groups, inviting forceful suppression of opposing views." (from January) www.liberalcurrents.com/portland-is-...

Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 59 people across Gaza, health officials said Saturday, as international pressure grows for a ceasefire and hostage deal while Israel’s leader remained defiant about continuing the war.

The GOP was riding high, but is now being anchored down by a "political dud," according to a conservative outlet.

Inside a New York City federal immigration courthouse, ProPublica reporter @tilleckert.com watched an ICE agent slam a woman, Monica Moreta-Galarza, to the ground as she begged for her husband to not be taken away. Listen to Eckert tell what happened.

Trump and his movement have created an atmosphere of fear that the right-wing food chain is zealously enforcing. trib.al/izRNJtN

Review: “One Battle After Another” isn’t just an explosive revolutionary text but a story of fatherhood — the values we pass down to the next generation, and how we care for them.

Terrorism, Both Domestic and International, Protested in Downtown SF.

"What masked member of Antifa has gotten away with crimes comparable to those of the new president, convicted of thirty-four felonies, found liable for sexual abuse, so obviously guilty of attempting to overturn a federal election, yet shielded from consequence by loyalist courts?" (from January)

Lue Yang, a Hmong refugee and father of six, was detained by ICE due to a decades-old felony conviction. He could be sent to Laos, a communist nation he has never visited.

“We are out of the church — we are now homeless,” the Rev. Daramali Abudigin told RNS in a WhatsApp call Sept. 23. “We are now living in an open and empty space in the Abu Shouk area, with no house or any form of shelter. We have no place to go.” religionnews.com/2025/09/25/l...

Taoiseach Micheal Martin criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his lack of empathy to the suffering in Gaza, asking: "I don't know how such a person sleeps at night."

Declassified files show that my exposé of SAS tactics against the IRA frayed nerves in Whitehall. But it was an ally’s betrayal that really surprised me

More than a narcissist’s rant, Trump’s UN address marked a disturbing turn towards a new world order | Julianne Schultz

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “President Trump’s cuts to humanitarian assistance abroad have hurt all kinds of people. But from what I see on the ground, those suffering the most are women and girls — and that will leave all of us, including men and boys, worse off,” @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

The President of the United States claims to have authorized the military to use lethal force on US citizens, and there’s not a single Republican who has the balls to tell him that’s both illegal and morally wrong.

⚡️ Chancellor Merz: Germany no longer lives in peace

Family home hit in war-battered Gaza City, with children among the dead and wounded.

The FBI has fired as many as 20 agents, including a group associated with a 2020 incident in which agents were photographed kneeling with demonstrators at the height of protests over the police killing of George Floyd, two people briefed on the matter said. https://cnn.it/46KQzvX

Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke. What he’s uncovered in California is a nightmare. www.wired.com/story/the-la...

Former President Barack Obama criticized Israel's ongoing military action in Gaza, saying that "there's not a military rationale for continuing to pummel what is already rubble" and arguing for Palestinian statehood. https://cnn.it/4gKxm1Y

As Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, conducted delicate cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas this year, his son was quietly soliciting billions of dollars from some of the governments involved.

Pressure is growing on football’s governing bodies to take action against Israel’s national team over the war on Gaza.

Women and children were seen screaming and rushing for shelter after an Israeli attack landed close to an Al Jazeera crew as they interviewed a displaced Palestinian mother in the al-Shati refugee camp near Gaza City.

The Colombian leader was filmed joining thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters outside UN headquarters in New York.

Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after being detained by ICE for over 100 days. His crime? Livestreaming a “No Kings” protest. If you were outraged about Jimmy Kimmel, you should be more outraged about Guevara. It’s time to #FreeMario now!

Tangier Island in Virginia — one of the last inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay — is under threat from rising sea levels and climate change.

A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Nathan Gill, the former Welsh leader of Nigel Farage’s right-wing party Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes in exchange for making pro-Russia statements while a member of the European Parliament.

‘Don’t trust Trump’: how UK health experts are fighting back against a war on medicine

⚡️Investigation finds Russian surveillance, sabotage ship near European undersea cables, FT reports. Satellite data has uncovered a Russian surveillance and sabotage ship near crucial underwater cables in Europe's seas, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Sept. 26.

NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. With @theassemblync.bsky.social

⚡️Russia helping China prepare for war with Taiwan, leaked documents say. Moscow has allegedly agreed to train and equip a Chinese airborne battalion to prepare for an invasion of Taiwan, according to a Sept. 26 analysis of documents leaked by hacking group Black Moon.

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

Discovery is going to be fantastic, though. We all saw this abuse of power coming. Multiple prosecutors (even Trump appointed ones) tried to stop the administration from making this mistake because there’s no case.

Thoughts on this Comey statement? I’m pretty… ambivalent on Comey in general, but I think this is the right tone. Stay engaged. Don’t get complacent. Vote these idiots out of office.

If a full accounting of Epstein’s crimes - and his accomplices - is ever made public, people on the left and the right are going to feel really dumb that we’ve been arguing with each other while the elites of both parties pal around and do abhorrent shit.

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

Vermont’s MAGA border towns wanted an immigration crackdown. Now, it’s threatening their livelihoods.

House Democrats release latest Jeffrey Epstein documents with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions