This is straight from the fascist playbook. It will ceate fear and mistrust among Democratic groups in Texas and it is ultimately designed to suppress votes.

You can just be normal and tell the truth. Look, he's doing it and he's going to be mayor of New York

New: Records obtained by the @aclum.bsky.social show police across the state are conducting dragnet surveillance of motorists and sharing their location information with cops in states that have banned abortion and gender affirming care, and those that work w/ICE data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...

All solidarity with the people and government of Chicago, Illinois, one of the nation’s great cities. May Chicago’s resistance and defense of democracy inspire the nation and usher in the collapse of the disgraced Trump regime.

🚨🚨Attn 4 Non Blondes heads 🚨🚨

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

The cops absolutely were considering charging her with a crime. They lied after the fact to do damage control. Big surprise.

This is a really good discussion featuring a former two star general. Recommend. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

I think it plausible given how disconnected Trump is from reality that Stephen Miller is whispering all sorts of insane lies to him about how Chicago has fallen to antifa warriors, and Trump believes the stories because they make him feel important and victimized, his two favorite feelings.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Oh my god

Massachusetts Health Connector? That's what we call the Affordable Care Act. MassHealth? That's Medicaid and CHIP. Trump and Republicans are attacking the millions of Massachusetts residents who rely on these programs to survive.

I was sort of curious to see how ChatGPT would manage this task. So here's my prompt, and the robot's intro email:

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

According to the Authors Guild, the settlement stipulates Anthropic must certify that the books included in the class are not used in commercial LLMs but…I’m extremely skeptical about that claim. We’ve been repeatedly told there’s no untangling the training data from the model.

Sometimes I lay down the barbell for a while in favor of kettlebells and dumbbells. Then when I pick it up again it feels like a revelation

Many people have heard that you should never talk to federal agents without your lawyer present. But do you know why, specifically? Civil liberties attorney Harvey Silverglate breaks it down: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgDs...

“The Fort Bragg Cartel” by Seth Harp makes a devastating case that the US military created a safe haven for heroin production in Afghanistan that the CIA exploited in order to fund black ops in places like Syria and the Horn of Africa. Like the 1980s all over again but this time Obama was in charge.

Haha yes - sickos.boston

What’s the food that looks the worst but tastes the best? My money’s on split pea soup

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

What an absolute banger

Yes. Impeachment is the demand. The targets are Republican legislators. They fear Trump. They should fear their voters.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Dogs on a hill

There’s lots of folks in Massachusetts who think they’re too smart to fall for propaganda. And unfortunately I must say that if you’re not seeing this issue of Christian nationalists pushing Israeli government propaganda as something they’re falling for right now.

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

I'm not a political strategist, but considering we are on a societal worst-case trajectory already, I suspect the play now is to build enough messaging infrastructure that people correctly assign blame.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Think tank analyst @davidjbier.bsky.social posted statements of *fact*, noting and documenting false claims by the US Administration. An act of peaceful dissent. Now the government outrageously & dangerously accuses him of causing violence. A naked attempt at targeted, authoritarian repression.

Really good update — there aren’t even any negotiations going on right now. And neither Thune nor Johnson feels empowered to cut a deal. It’s basically a staring contest.

And yes these means nuking the filibuster. 10 min in: 💣 filibuster 12 in: expand Court 15 in: confirm slate of Justices w/o hearings 20 in: expand House, John Lewis Act 22 in: DC statehood 25 in: strip Trump hires of civil service protections. 30 in: break up DHS

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 3: Earl Manigault When he stepped onto the court, the world watched. No one dunked harder or jumped higher. But the GOAT never made it pro. There are countless NYC stories like his. Brilliant talents lost to drugs or crime. It doesn’t have to be this way.

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources." Oracle is about to own TikTok.

DHS gestapo seized the phone of an immigration attorney at Logan airport. Stay woke everyone www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/03/m...

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

Anyone in the corporate media going to mention the fact that the president of the United States has no idea what his deputy Stephen Miller is doing? Anyone care that Miller is really running the show? Seems like something people should talk about more.

Was anyone really expecting TSA to show up and not get paid?

SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

worth remembering that hoover's administration was defined by 4 years of economic chaos, suffering, dislocation, and fear. People genuinely believed the country itself was on the verge of irreversible collapse. He still got 40% of the vote.

Trump: we will do project 2025 Harris: he will do project 2025 Public: oh that’s bad Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it Harris: he’s still gonna do it Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios

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.

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…

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