This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit. This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2016...

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

"For Democrats, this particular moment of cartoonish graft presents a huge opportunity to unify around an anti-corruption platform.…Their agenda must meet the moment and include game-changing initiatives that let voters know they recognize corruption is pervasive." www.thebulwark.com/p/anti-corru...

Illinois just joined the legal fight to keep Trump from sending red states National Guards into blue states. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10... Once you start looking for evidence that soft secession might happen you see it everywhere: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Republicans control the House, Senate and White House - and so the government has been shut down because they chose to shut it down rather than pass a budget that protects our health care and keeps costs from rising. Tell Congress to cancel the GOP healthcare cuts here: https://bit.ly/3IDECjz

The abuse of ICE AGENTS All over our Country It is out of control Please call your Congressional representatives 202 224-3121 I have sent this clip to mine email

This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.

Bad look for a Jesus guy.

Joe and Sharon Ely fight dementia to produce music with the help of AI @joeely_official

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

If you’re worried about losing your health care, apparently Trump has a message for you:

Please everyone in #WarRavagedPortland post your best photographs of the devastation there so that you will not suffer alone!!

Tuesday.

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

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I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/

Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic Festival. bit.ly/46a5DUE

It is OK to call fascists fascists.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Here’s a brief story, with receipts about Trump administration corruption and crypto industry collusion that WILL be investigated once the majority of the House is filled with people who take ethics and the Constitution seriously:

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

🧵 The United States stands at the brink of one of the most productive eras in cancer research. Decades of steady federal investment have driven survival rates up from 49% in the 1970s to nearly 70% today. Breakthrough vaccines, targeted therapies, and less toxic treatments are finally within reach.

Now he is very openly promising to crush civil liberties in order to "save civilization." This is naked fascist talk

This is the first time we estimate he has a negative approval rating among Texas voters: www.economist.com/interactive/...

Enough already. The White House via Stephen Miller says Democrats are an "domestic extremist organization" & JD Vance says he wants to crush the Dems. Trump says Dems are radical leftists and it was radical leftists who killed Kirk. How can you have bipartisan negotiations with people like that

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

We don’t want thunder; we want rum

Donald Trump is unfurling banners of his own face on government buildings across D.C. He has spent at least $56,000 so far. trib.al/Nl0t0CO

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Empires decline all the time, for all kinds of reasons, but our present moment will be remembered in history books for the sheer volume of *voluntary & pointless self-imposed damage*. We're systematically dismantling what made us great, for no reason! Genuinely, with no rationale! It's wild.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

The left has to tone down their violent rhetoric. 👇

"Let's put [Liz Cheney] with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, October 31, 2024

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

Elon Musk is in the middle of approvals for a new $1 TRILLION pay deal from Tesla, one condition of which is him involving himself in politics less. Yesterday he called for the overthrow of the UK government at a far-right rally, just days before that government hosts a Trump state visit.

Someone should send Harvard one of these.

So you don't have to execute them? Huh.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

I just got back from X and it's as MAGA-infested as ever. All the Kirk takes blaming us libs are not aging like fine wine but there seems little interest in retraction. It's almost as if they don't care about actual reality.

The Trump administration proposes ending a program that requires power plants, fossil fuel refineries and oil industry to report their yearly climate pollution. Read more: https://cnn.it/46zOFz9