If you have sick days or vacation days plan accordingly and quickly. This blackout is 7 days. Shop ahead. Don’t buy anything that isn’t local and small business. People will be stopping labor if they can (vacation/sick days). And stopping shopping. An economic blackout for one week.

So I read that this attack on Venezuela and the murders of people in small boats is about cocaine now (because they aren't trafficking fentanyl, duh.) How many cocaine deaths were there in the U.S. last year? It's important since they're using a fatuous "self-defense" rationale for doing this.

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing. And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power. When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Kristi Noem has approved the purchase by the Coast Guard of two Gulfstream G700 jets for $172 million for her use. Democrats said reflects her over-the-top spending to ensure her comfort. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Indianapolis WAS INSANE people!!

Thank you to everyone who protested today- so many great people. You inspired me and made me feel proud to be among you . I love you ♥️🇺🇸

Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.) Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...

brazen antifa supersoldiers play music and dance through New York streets. disgusting

👇🏼 #NoKings

#NoKings in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

I heard a lot of horns a few blocks away. I was worried it was an ICE raid. But it’s five people doing their own No Kings rally on a busy corner in Evanston, IL. A few can’t walk far so they did this instead, & will probably be seen by more people than if they’d gone to an official rally.

You know what’s one of the great things about the No Kings protests today? No one is going to storm the U.S. Capitol.

1. Washington DC #NoKings 👑

Same energy

Proudly Antifa Just like may father and his band of brothers #NoKingsDay

"Debate"🙄

the idea of antifa paying protesters is so funny. if i wanted to get paid to destroy the government i’d run for congress

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I ship anywhere (including the US - tariff stuff now sorted & included in shipping price in my shop). A RT of my post above about my calendars/etsy shop would help so much if you have a moment. Still trying to get back on my feet after being very unwell earlier in the year. Many thanks x🌿🪶🐚🗝️

Not the point but these small town courthouses are the GOAT.

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s: "I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Look at all those beautiful Stars and Stripes in the so called “Hate America” rally. #NoKings 🇺🇸

Trump and his cronies have spread desperate lies about No Kings Day — calling peaceful participants "terrorists" and "criminals." You know why? Because they want us to shut up and go away. That's how kings and dictators win. But we won't let them. See you tomorrow. NO KINGS.

Happy 87th birthday to John Dean, who is living history. 52 years ago, he stood up to an out of control POTUS whose behavior seems quaint to what we are dealing with now. He admitted his own mistakes and did the right thing. Ever since he has spoken out loudly about authoritarianism & so much more.

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Somebody tell Trump there's an Argentinian banker in one of these houses.

The US Constitution has no innate defense against lying by public officials and complete shamelessness.

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law. Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

“This is exactly the moment for people to stand up. And do I see enough people doing it? No, I don’t. It shouldn’t be that there are Democrats that are afraid, because you know what? We’re the targets. We need to be strong, we need to fight back.” Thank you, @govpritzker.illinois.gov!

Once again, The Onion nails it

The aid boat Conscience is currently being raided by the IDF in international waters. A helicopter was audible before the audio cut out. The boat is full of medical staff and journalists trying to bring aid into Gaza.

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

You can feel the bloodlust in every cinematic scene. The full-metal gear. The racing cars. The roar of the Black Hawks. The drawn guns aimed at their targets. Doors blasted open. The residents zip-tied and put into vans. The performative humiliation. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

In the American system of government, a legislature of the people’s elected representatives decide how to allocate the people’s money, then an unelected appointee in the executive branch called “OMB Director” decides if he feels like distributing the people’s money that way or if he’d rather not.

"As a Church we must console and peacefully stand in solidarity with the undocumented men and women whose lives are being upended by the government's campaign of fear and terror. . . .

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

We are not, and we must not become, a nation that imprisons and deports people because we are afraid of what they have to tell us."

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani in 1970: "You don't exactly mean 'peace talks; you mean capitulation, surrendering."

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

It’s funny because it isn’t 😕 🇺🇸

My dearest Martha, I send you all my love from this war-torn ravaged place, where our hardships surpass comprehension. Yesterday, a barista gave me a whole milk latte when I specifically ordered skim. Later, a young woman with strangely colored hair glanced at me disapprovingly.

and just to remind folks, after the assassin killed the state rep, her husband and dog, he shot another state rep and his wife. He had a list of 90 people. But Trump didn't care, and Utah Senator Mike Lee made jokes.

Says guy who aggressively supports dropping bombs on Palestinian children. All violence is wrong. Shapiro is a huge hypocrite.

... when in fact he said this: ca.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-c...