Are they aware what city this race is in?

I absolutely hate how every US media outlet will do this every time a cop shoots someone. They'll make the headline vague to imply an officer was shot by a suspect, then abuse passive voice to absolve the officer of any wrongdoing. "the agent’s weapon discharged". BRO, HE SHOT HIS COLLEAGUE.

this is going to be a partisan take but i dont think the president should be allowed to give himself $230M in taxpayer money www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Look, "if Obama did this" is a boring counterfactual, but the shit that scanned as "defiling the office" under Obama would blow your mind.

Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers. It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror

it’s so obvious they never really cared too much about soros other than using him as some shadowy cabal because elon musk openly influences other countries politics with his unlimited money in ways soros has only dreamed of lol

I know you all know what deranged, vile, propaganda nonsense this is. But for the record: Leaders of the regime are declaring the opposition party and all forms of political dissent as illegitimate - and large swaths of the population to be dangerous terrorists. This is incredibly dangerous.

"In August, Duffy threatened to withhold funding from California, Washington state and New Mexico if they did not come up with 'corrective plans' that complied with federal law within 30 days. " It's not federal law, it's an exec order. They have no power over states. Stop accepting this nonsense.

Make America 17th Century England Again prospect.org/politics/202...

So, I have to say — as members of Congress go, Adam Smith is about as run of the mill as there is (used to be). He’s sensible, compromises, believes in bipartisan work, believes evidence, thoroughly studies material for his committee work. Seeing quotes like this from him is… deeply unnerving. /1

New, from me: I break down all that is happening with the shutdown. Shutdowns are bad. But only Trump and Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

This is Portland today. Show up on October 18th. Oh, and #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #MyCity #Portland #FuckTrump

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

BREAKING A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment. His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

do these people not get embarrassed

"I'm a very aesthetic person" The ugliest modern designs I have ever seen were owned by this man.

The first thing the next administration needs to do is ban anyone who worked for ICE from ever working in a government position again.

So far there have been zero trans women reported as having visited epsteins pedo island. But lots of people who want you to think trans women are threats to children seemed to have gone there at some point. Curious...

I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Article about how the world’s oceans are on the brink of collapse due to human activity: locked behind a paywall. Trump saying human climate disruption is a hoax: broadcasted everywhere for free. This is how we got here.

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

Broader lessons should be learned from the centrist establishment's mistaken belief they could maintain popular support for Israel by allying themselves with the right and wagging their fingers at the left.

Let’s spell this out. Trump fired a qualified U.S. attorney who refused to do his bidding and installed his own personal lawyer to punish a perceived opponent. Justice needs to follow the law, not politics. This is an attack on the rule of law. Full stop.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

One of the most interesting things about Jimmy Kimmel, and what I loved most about his conversation with Bill Burr a few months back, was that they’re both middle-aged white comedians who heard how culture has evolved, took notes, grew up, didn’t get defensive, and became *even more* successful.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Almost inevitably, a white liberal pundit who finds a way to “hear out” or “find commonalities” with white supremacists eventually starts saying depraved shit. I need to understand why that’s not the last strike for white people that it is for Black political observers.

I think the crazy thing about all the people saying how nice Charlie Kirk was is that they're all white and they're not thinking how that might affect anything. It's like the white reporter going to that whites only town and being like "oh wow, they're such nice people!" Mmmmm... are they?

this is some pitch perfect Minnesota Nice

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice I would like to file several complaints

Ezra Klein’s most recent column gives the game away: he talks about how horrified he was by Kirk’s assassination because he identifies with Kirk. Kirk, like Klein, talked for a living. So even if they had different policy positions, to some degree, Klein sees himself in Kirk. /1

Alright guys, last time we pivoted to the right and it went terribly. We should change strategies and try pivoting to the right.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

The way the media just goes along with this "both sides" nonsense just further cements the far right into daily life. There is no issue the left has that isn't 100x worse on the right.

And then they'll say democrats shifted too far to the left for mainstream America, while the modern Republican platform is so far to the right of even the 50's Republican platform you wouldn't believe they were the same party. Even todays democrats are to the right of those older Republicans.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Just because I opposed his murder doesn't mean my contempt went to the grave with Charlie Kirk. He was scum in life. And he's scum in death.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social I'm glad to know this is doing politics the right way! It's interesting to know you also think that saying Ketanji Brown Jackson and so many others "stole" their jobs from white people is acceptable. I thought that was kinda disgusting, but I guess I'm just a radical?

Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed. spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...

from Corey Robin on FB:

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...