“.. it was crickets on the Bari Weiss-controlled former home of Walter Cronkite.” @deadline.com $PSKY deadline.com/2025/10/cbs-...

NEW: Eric Adams will pack the Rent Guidelines Board with at least 6 new members in an attempt to block Zohran Mamdani's plan to pause rent increases for regulated apartments, the New York Post reports.

Guess who Hegseth's Pentagon awards its biggest drone contract to....? Naturally one in which Don Trump Jr has a stake and sits on its board. Every goddam conflict of interest law is being vandalised daily by Trump's administration. www.ft.com/content/4ced...

This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.

From slavery to Jim Crow, the most dangerous & repressive regimes in US history linked immigration, naturalization, & citizenship to whiteness. That is what is a stake.

Drummer for iconic rock band announces he’s leaving the group #10cc- pennlive.com share.google/H2yhhqTIeb1n...

Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat Adelita Grijalva is bigger than just Epstein files. He’s laying groundwork to attempt to prevent winning Dems from taking office if House majority up for grabs in Nov 2026, as I told @briantylercohen.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSRY...

The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...

Autocrats want you to feel like pushing back is hopeless. It’s not! Trump is a paper tiger. Most Americans don’t want this authoritarian takeover.

Financial Assistance Options for Federal Employees During the Government Shutdown www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/b...

Two years after a record-setting heatwave, scientists have confirmed that two iconic corals that have flourished across Florida’s 560-kilometre-long reef for more than 10,000 years are now ‘functionally extinct’ go.nature.com/4ozyesU

Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay. n.pr/4ngKyx3

When you're making biscuits but you're still kind of mad about something

"Infectious diseases don't stop with the people who say they are willing to bear the risk," said Meagan Fitzpatrick, a U Maryland vaccinologist. “…with an infectious disease, vaccination is never an individual choice." Especially for the innocent kids who don’t get to choose-their parents do.

He'll name it Trump D.C.

A not insignificant number of people knew the demolition was coming, including people at the White House Historical Association, and did nothing to stop it.

Source: BBC search.app/7vB7A

thank you, Chris !⚖️

There is no journalistic task more imperative than getting eyes inside this process. The kind of thing historians wait for archives of dictatorships to open, when figuring out how the REAL nightmare begin. newrepublic.com/post/202199/...

Two #Florida coral species declared functionally extinct. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim... via @nbcnews.com

Over the past few days, cattle ranchers and agricultural groups have been sounding the alarm that a plan to import more foreign beef would hurt struggling ranchers. n.pr/3Wor7aG

Let people see Jack Smith for who he is and not the characters depicted by Trump and others.

BREAKING on MSNBC: The federal prosecutor in charge of investigating whether Sen. Adam Schiff should be charged with mortgage fraud has told her bosses in Washington she did not think the case was strong enough to move forward — via @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social @carolleonnig.bsky.social

Not going to seek congressional authorization for using military force. Just going to engage in premeditated killing outside of armed conflict. There's a word for that.

Breaking news: The East Wing of the White House is gone. Wrecking crews completely removed the decades-old annex by midday Thursday, just three days after they started, to make way for a pet project of President Trump: a 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

Illinois' Secretary of State has a tipline to report license plate tampering/swapping by federal immigration officers: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Senate blocks bills to pay federal workers during shutdown www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

ok who did this? ☹️

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were. The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

NY AG James launched a portal for federal immigration enforcement review - where New Yorkers can submit information t.co/jTixVi4yE6

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New study on the impact of cellphone bans from Figlio & @uozek.bsky.social - evidence backs MCPS policy. Featured in @chalkbeat.org www.chalkbeat.org/2025/10/20/n... Paper in @nber.org www.nber.org/system/files... cc @julieyangmoco.bsky.social

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Before last year’s election, my wife and I took our grandsons on a tour of the nation’s capital, realizing it might become quite different if Trump won. I kept thinking the symbols of democracy might turn into symbols of tyranny. We toured the White House’s East Wing. It’s being demolished now.

The major takeaway of the hearing seems to be this: Judge Perry's temporary restraining order against National Guard deployment in Illinois now has a shelf life that continues until the case is fully decided in her courtroom. EXCEPT, the Supreme Court could still intervene. At any moment.

Most reporting on Epstein continues to bury the lede--despite having no financial background, he was doing *something* for a handful of elites that they desperately needed him to keep doing. Here he bullies Leon Black to the tune of $40 million by threatening to stop "working for you."

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

If you want to pursue something, don't be discouraged by how long it may take. The time is going to go by anyway. You can either be moving toward something you want to see happen, or not.

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So Trump bulldozed a third of the White House complex. And they’re trying to keep the photos off limits.

This is among the most corrupt things a president has ever suggested, and I hope the press treats it that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Mick Fleetwood, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, & More Join Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Lineup - American Songwriter share.google/BFlDwNlHLW8s...

Now 5 days closer to November’s Election Day and this is somehow even more valid.

Lankford was in the Senate when the Intelligence Committee wrote its giant report concluding that Russiagate was not a hoax, and it's criminal negligence by CNN to let him say this on air with no pushback.

POTENTIAL?! He’s LITERALLY stealing from us.

This week, as the GOP's voluntary shutdown of the federal government continues, the House GOP majority refuses to seat a new Democratic member while the GOP president demolishes and entire wing of the White House.