These are all horrible, but this is just disgusting.

Stipulating in advance that I probably agree with everyone’s critiques of Newson: This is the way. Make it clear in advance that compliance has a price too.

Three cheers for the Constitution's right to a jury: a federal jury in Los Angeles "took just over an hour to acquit [Brayan] Ramos-Brito of a misdemeanor assault count" in an ICE-scuffle case hinging heavily on the testimony of border sector chief Gregory Bovino, now doing raids in Chicago.

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

PAWHUSKA, Okla. (AP) — Former Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleads guilty to charges of sexually abusing a girl in the 1980s.

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

They’re baaack. 🤣 Repairs and all…

Dare I say guy that can tear down Reps is nerdy,white, Christian???? Holy crap!!! Texas State Rep James Talarico Listen to this guy,there is nothing they can do to stop him.He speaks the Bible,not in cheap,cringy,way we are used to.Speaks abt Jesus in way, they can't& ppl who hear him, know it

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...

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

I’m sharing this again, because it’s a good thing, as an example of the kind of thing artists can do when we work together. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

BESPOKE: “.. Stocks facing the mass consumer market are having a rough run. Down 11.5% since the end of Q2 in pretty much a straight line down.” $WMT $TGT $COST $DG

Has Congress authorized this "war"?. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.

Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/02/s...

Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

🇫🇷 By stopping the tankers of the "shadow fleet" for a few days or weeks, you can undermine the efficiency of Russian oil supplies. I propose that we work on this within the framework of the "Coalition of the Willing", in close cooperation with NATO, — Macron.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

A TIE FOR BEST COMMENT OF THE DAY

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

Proud of kid2, who graduated college in May, got her paralegal certificate, and just landed a paralegal job in a General Counsel’s office at a hospital, all navigated by herself. I didn’t make any calls or use any contacts. She’s very independent, which is good.

Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration. @politico.com had a big piece about it.

No one has a warrant to zip tie naked children

/5 This is not merely about indifference to the brutality against the least of us that is characteristic of our system; that happens under every administration. This is about brutality being the goal, because it makes evil people happy to see others brutalized.

My fav quote in here is from Sen. Gallego:

“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”

Seriously. Fuck these fascists. Join a No Kings protest on October 18 and stand up for our rights and our democracy.

From my colleague @foxmike90.bsky.social: The Framers saw citizen juries as a bulwark against tyranny, and D.C. juries could do much to curb Jeanine Pirro’s penchant for pressing doubtful charges in politically charged cases.

Yes, this is the payment of a bribe with a thin legal veil. Yes, the executives authorizing the payment may be prosecuted for public corruption crimes. Which is why Trump has dismantled the whole part of the DOJ that deals with public corruption.

So were the SS. Heinrich Himmler specifically targeted middle class failsons for recruitment because he knew they had the resentment of not getting what they felt they deserved and would forever be loyal to him and the Nazi party for making them into the "elite."

DOJ is such a fucking embarrassment. Apart from how substantively terrible the things they've done have been, purely from a professional point of view, it's an avert-your-eyes, cringe-inducing, vicarious embarrassment nightmare.

Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded. “CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”

/2 I mean we want plenty of stuff that is terrible for us and we'll pay for it so people supply it. Drug overdoses are killing around 100k people a year. What does Big Tobacco say about that? Or alcohol?

The US is under attack from drug traffickers in the same sense I am under attack from cookie dough.

At the risk of hyperbole these really may be the most horrible people to ever live.

Was Faith a 12-year-old?

Don't have full confirmation on this yet, but hearing that Guevara was sent to El Salvador this morning, which is just fucking shameful. He was here with legal permission and this was 100% punishment for his journalism about protests.

In the two years following Dobbs, @pregnancyjust.bsky.social recorded more than 400 cases of pregnancy criminalization. How to do we hold people's fear of being criminally punished for abortion alongside the data? My story:

GUARD IN MEMPHIS: The TN Supreme Court & a federal court have both ruled it is unconstitutional for TN’s governor to deploy the National Guard for law enforcement. In 2021, TN’s GOP Attorney General wrote an advisory saying the same. It was so damning, the new AG secretly erased it from record!

BREAKING: Jane Goodall, a scientist and global activist who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died at the age of 91, the institute she founded said reut.rs/3IPKG8E

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.