The Trump administration is continuing to use the Big Lie tactic of propaganda. Hitler described this technique in Mein Kampf, arguing that people will believe a big lie more easily than a small one because they “would not believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”

RFK Jr. fires top NIH scientist after she files whistleblower complaint about his effort to undermine vaccines and politicization of research grants. l.smartnews.com/p-6jZAlSWQ/d...

This is protected land, we don't need another freaking golf course, stop trying to destroy Nova Scotia 🤬🤬 Golf course developer tees up another bid for West Mabou Crown land #NovaScotia Cabot Golf is eyeing West Mabou Beach Provincial Park for possible development www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Wired - Out-of-office messages of US Department of Education employees, after the government shutdown began, were altered to contain partisan language without their consent. www.wired.com/story/governmen...

Candidates in the upcoming Edmonton municipal election should be asked if they think it's an appropriate use of public money for the Edmonton Police Service to maintain a unit to monitor the social media of critics, including journalists. thetyee.ca/News/2024/08...

Israel's plans to exterminate the remaining population of Gaza City should be headline news everywhere. Governments must finally act to stop it or they will continue to be complicit. "UNRWA warned that statements by Israel officials ...suggest Israel may be planning large-scale massacres."

I would just remind folks that Elon Musk is neither a rocket scientist, nor an automotive engineer. Sam Altman is not a computer scientist. Elizabeth Holmes is not a doctor. David Shor is not a data scientist. And Ezra Klein is not a trained public policy analyst. So this absolutely tracks.

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:

In case you weren't already convinced that Thiel is a total nut job, his embrace of Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmit should seal the deal.

"...controlling the narrative is as crucial as controlling the territory itself. Colonising also means erasing the ruins, the dead, the survivors and those who tell their stories."

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

What?? Are they invading blue cities the “smart way??” DONT’T NORMALIZE THIS.

I'm not usually quick to shout "Boycott!" but...yeah, walk away and never look back.

Ironies abound.

"majorities across political party want Congress to extend the tax credits including nine in ten (92%) Democrats, eight in ten (82%) independents, and six in ten (59%) Republicans." www.kff.org/affordable-c...

Goddam @nytimes.com headline writers! It's not "politics" that threatens these projects. It's the naked abuse of the power of the purse by a small-minded, vindictive president. Stop the sanewashing while you still have a newspaper to publish in! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

WSJ: “.. behind the scenes, his team is increasingly .. worried that the GOP will take the blame for allowing healthcare subsidies to expire, raising costs for millions of Americans ahead of next year’s midterm elections ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

If there’s a chart that better illustrates this economy of “haves” and “have-nots”, I’ve yet to see it. [Ferrari vs. Dollar General:] @mikezaccardi.bsky.social $RACE $DG

“.. That debt — and how it is getting structured — is ‘almost an acknowledgement that this is getting out of hand.’” @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..” @marketwatch.com www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

So much for state's rights.

“Stagflationary ..” Prices move up. New orders move down. 🇺🇸

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

America, the laughing stock of the world. Great again #USA

They dismembered a journalist. I think Chapelle thinks free speech means people have to laugh at unfunny jokes.

America is NOT Safe for Tourists. Canadian or otherwise!

“In light of this long history, it makes no sense to suggest that a tolerant right was forced by an intolerant left into adopting cancel culture. Book-banning groups like Moms for Liberty did not need liberals to teach them anything…” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

“What Trump, Hegseth, and MAGA are hoping to build is a military that instead reflects the violent, racist nationalism they espouse.” www.liberalcurrents.com/war-fighters...

Blue states should stop paying federal taxes and see how quickly the tune changes when the federal budget disappears overnight

"The 'left’s agenda' is being 'cancelled,' Vought tweeted with drunk-on-power rapture. Gosh, how exciting! Once again, the invincible President Trump is totally owning his enemies!"

Russell Vought's sadistic threat to kill projects in blue states will blow back on GOP. One getting defunded is reportedly a huge hydrogen project in the northwest that would also serve Montana. Its GOP governor has hailed it as a big job creator. Oops. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2012...

Call it Own-The-Libs sadism. Trump and Russell Vought are placing it at the core of everything. They know MAGA will thrill to the open, explicit nature of this corrupt, punitive targeting of Blue America. But it's already blowing back on Republicans, too. newrepublic.com/article/2012...

Great Chris Murphy quote from our interview: "I would be a sucker to agree to a budget that literally funds an operation to hunt me and my allies down—to imprison us, harass us, intimidate us. If you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness." Tons more like that all throughout:

You can listen to the full interview with Chris Murphy in this link: newrepublic.com/article/2013...

This is critical. I asked Chris Murphy if Dems risk sending the message that they're okay w/Trump's lawbreaking provided they extend ACA subsidies. His answer was striking: On the full year budget, Dems cannot give a bipartisan imprimatur to Trump's lawlessness. 7/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Chris Murphy and I also discussed the need for more Democrats to say loudly and clearly, right now, that many Trump accomplices may be carrying out illegal orders, and if so they should prepare to face consequences later. Murphy offers a good way to do this here. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

I asked Chris Murphy if he privately talks to Dem colleagues about why they don't sound the alarm loudly. His answers were depressing. Dems tell him they don't want to be "alarmist" or that "democracy" didn't work in 2024, so they want to stick to health care. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Chris Murphy makes a detailed case that Trump is on the brink of meaningfully restricting the space in which the opposition can do politics, in the competitive authoritarian model of autocracies abroad. "If we are not already there, we are really, really close." 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Senator Murphy also lays out a clear set of codified demands that Dems can stand for. Among them: *no more using budget to punish enemies *no more using FCC to censor critics *restrictions on ICE lawlessness in interior *clear ban on troops in cities 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Today's must-read thread:

We're gonna need a better class of senator.

case in point. these people are too stupid, stunned, and/or chickenshit to understand what is happening. they keep looking for an escape hatch that doesn't exist bsky.app/profile/greg...

“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military." The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

Clarence Thomas announced that he doesn't care about precedent and is making it up as he goes along. He didn't say it *like that* of course, because then people would have noticed. But I noticed, through the jargon, and explain it here in @thenation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Canada--do better!

A death directly attributable to not having vaccines mandates/not enforcing them.

First Nations asked the Doug Ford gov't for oversight measures over special economic zones (law-free areas for trusted proponents & designated projects). They asked for a public registry, an appeals process on cabinet decisions and time limits. The government said no thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...

“.. We will find you. We will apprehend you. We will put you in a detention facility, and we will deport you. So know that that is a very real situation under this administration, which is completely contrary to what how it used to be,” he said. @thehill.com $AAPL $CMCSA thehill.com/homenews/adm...