“In Michigan, the oldest daughter of four reportedly scrapped plans to attend college in the fall so she could raise her three younger siblings after their widowed father was detained.”

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Jon Ossoff would be more compelling when talking about corruption if he didn't abandon his wife and newborn baby to come back to DC to legalize Trump's crypto corruption and other money laundering. Actions speak louder than words! Still better than any R running against him, but come on.

A reminder -- not that you need one -- of which party's electeds are routinely calling for political violence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“For as long as I’ve been alive, American presidents have defined ‘tyrants’ by their willingness to use military force against their own people in reprisal for political opposition… you could call this the ‘tyrant test,’ and Trump is already failing it.”

Democratic Governors should vow to prosecute any and all federal agents, military or otherwise, who break any state laws. Such as assault or kidnapping. And remind them that State convictions are not subject to presidential pardon

They are lying about our cities. They are lying about our immigrant neighbors. They are lying about our trans siblings.

Portland’s mayor: “The president will not find lawlessness or violence here unless he plans to perpetrate it." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

You might also remember when Ken Starr was forced to resign from Baylor University for failing to act on the reported sexual assaults of at least 6 students.

Any vote to fund the government is a vote to fund everything he is doing with it, every crime he is committing, every assault on the Constitution. The only relevant choice congressional Democrats face is if they want to be party to that or if Republicans have to go it alone and own the consequences.

"birth tourism"

When you disqualify yourself from being taken academically seriously… using partial information as a base for any intellectual argument or study… what a sorry school

Why enroll in college town that legally cannot provide a full education when the same tuition money buys a full education elsewhere? Not much in Lubbock outside of TTU.

In normal America, this is an outrageously illegal instance of union busting. In ‘they’re sending troops into cities to harass unhoused people’ America, this is Saturday.

The two Brookline locations and the nearby Cleveland Circle location are all unionized. This is an attack on unionized workers. I do not spend money at Starbucks. As an educator, I respectfully request families do not provide me with Starbucks gift cards. I can never in good faith support this.

Jennings: Biden in a in a politico story, was reported to have been fuming to anyone who would listen that Garland was not moving fast enough Mockler: He was publicly fuming privately?

the Starbucks locations in my county that are closing are all union stores

A few closed here in Seattle, the Starbucks reserve locations definitely took a big hit. They’re all union stores that were closed here too. Starbucks has their priorities messed up that’s for sure.

Some companies would rather self-annihilate by closing popular locations than just recognize their union. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/26/b...

Me, every time I walk across Longfellow Bridge: “Oh, that’s not an Eastern Orthodox church. That’s the State House.”

to be honest a bunch of the founders would have probably been less concerned by "mohammadans" than irish catholics like walsh

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Once again, we should have listened to the lady.

Now is the time for churches, synagogues, mosques, and Meeting houses to be out and visible at protests. In Portland and everywhere.

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

"The 79-year-old owner of a Los Angeles area car wash is seeking $50m in damages from the federal government after US immigration authorities allegedly slammed the US citizen to the ground and detained him for almost 12 hours." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Klein is wrong: Biden waived 26 federal laws so he could build Trump's shitty wall. It was one of the many terrible Trump policies he continued and was followed shortly by funding and abetting genocide. www.politico.com/news/2023/10...

Ezra Klein explains why he is against the “oppositional” approach of Dems. One example he gives is blatantly false: immigration. But more important: Klein shows how folks like him almost always casually throw vulnerable people under the bus in the name of “practicality.”

Extreme right-wing people don't think anyone ever reached a political conclusion by soberly considering alternatives. Because they didn't. Most "liberal college profs" are quite capable of articulating what an intelligent "conservative" position would be. And why they disagree with it, rationally.

"The contemplated investment fund, as well as Alex Witkoff’s fund-raising outreach to Gulf nations, represents another startling example of the Witkoff family apparently trying to profit off its patriarch’s proximity to the president." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

If we're finally going to crack down about lying to Congress under oath, I think there are several Cabinet members and a few Supreme Court justices whose testimonies might need revisiting.

A lot of free speech absolutist are being awfully quiet about this sort of thing.

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

A reporter should ask him if that means for him too.

It speaks to the interest in Epstein that a detail from Dems today has created a frenzy about Peter Thiel. But anyone already following knows there are many ties between Thiel and the pedophile. As my colleague @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social reported: Epstein invested w/ Thiel as recently as 2016.

Since Charlie Kirk did politics the "right way,"some sharp liberal lawyers should constantly be yelling "Debate me coward!" at the shadow docketeers.

So are you.

Fascists.

The US has gone from "walk softly and carry a big stick" to "react to every perceived slight like the most insecure guy in the room"

Soybeans are (were) Tennessee’s #1 cash crop 🧑‍🌾 😕 Trump is crushing our farmers. Why don’t @GovBillLee @RepChrisTodd @rustygrills @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepOgles @RepTimBurchett Sexton etc. care?

The only underlying principle to the six hacks on the Supreme Court is that Democratic presidents must be constrained as much asp possible but that Republican presidents get to be kings. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Excellent show. Wish I could recommend it, but tonight was the last. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/05/a...

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

I keep saying the Supreme Court majority is stealing judicial power from the lower federal courts. The second paragraph of Kagan's dissent today illustrates precisely what I mean.

More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites

Should just make this a pinned post, as it'll be correct indefinitely: "#BREAKING: Over the dissents of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, #SCOTUS grants (yet another) stay to President Trump"