Yesterday California groups proposed a state ballot measure that would create the nation’s first tax on the ultra-wealthy– a one-time tax on 200 billionaires, to give California Medicaid $100 billion. From Harold Meyerson: trib.al/wVIOMAI

The need for sobriety about prospects for Trump’s Everlasting Peace Plan What Israel has firmly, officially, publicly committed itself to is actually very limited. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-need-f... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

🔴 Trump lässt sich seinen absurden Baalsaal beim Weißen Haus teils von Großkonzernen finanzieren. Unter ihnen Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir und T-Mobile. Die rechte Trump-Clique samt der Großkonzerne sind nicht mehr als eine Korruptionsmaschine. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/t...

Hegseth doesn't dispute the existence of a memo planning for the establishment of a "National Guard response force that's gonna be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by April 2026."

This must be one of those left-wing threats of violence I've heard tell of.

We love to see it. We're up next, Philly!

Democrats can just run this clip as an ad

The US froze aid to Colombia Much of which is used to fight drug cartels Because the president of Colombia said the US killed Colombian fishermen In what is supposed to be a US military campaign to stop drug cartels

This is not good! This college was my undergraduate alma mater. In the 1960s in segregated Mississippi, Millsaps integrated its studen body before they were forced to do so. To the Trumpistas of that - they were George Wallace fans then - decided that made Millsaps a ”radical“ school.

JD Vance hat ein Knesset-Votum zu einer illegalen Annexion des Westjordanlands verurteilt. UN-Generalsekretär mahnt Israel zur Einhaltung des Völkerrechts. Das Liveblog

No shit, Sherlock!

I understand why Democratic consultant brain (the worst kind of brain!) says you should pick "health care" over "democracy." But a skilled politicians can do both -- make it clear that the destruction of the White House and the destruction of Obamacare are really the same thing!

I’m shocked to hear this. Shocked, I tell you, *shocked*! www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

How is Netanyahu doing on ending the Everlasting Peace Plan? Benjamin Netanyahu seems to be less than totally committed to Peace President Trump’s October 10 Everlasting Peace Plan. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/how-is-net... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...

I am sorry but Milei looks like the aging frontman of an indie sleaze band back for one last cash grab ... which isn't a bad metaphor, to be honest.

Why do the Democrats even allow this guy to stay in the Dem Caucus. He's dead weight on any positive narrative the Dems might try to develop. Fetterman makes never-fight-for-your-own-side Schumer look like Joe Hill taking on the railroad barons.

Peace President Trump earlier this month was saying of his famous 20-point peace plan, ““I think it’s going to be a lasting peace, hopefully an everlasting peace.” Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/how-is-the... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...

When a Microsoft data center opened next to the small Mexican town of La Esperanza, locals say electricity outages and water shortages grew severe. The local doctor rushed patients a half hour to the nearest hospital when blackouts cut off his oxygen concentrator. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

Einschusslöcher in einer Schultür. Rechtsextreme Sticker daneben. Austauschschüler aus Madagaskar im Gebäude. Das ist die Realität in Deutschland 2025. Das ist, kein „dummer Jungen-Streich“, das ist rechtsextremer Alltagsterror. Hier wächst eine neue Generation Baseballschlägerjahre heran.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy enters a prison in Paris on the first day of a five-year sentence https://cnn.it/4hvGEiD

except 50/50 chance the dems, retaking the senate, will restore it

The Encyclopedia Britannica ranked Earth Day 1970 as a bigger protest. (I have always thought of Earth Day as sort of a consciousness-raising event rather than a protest as such.) www.britannica.com/topic/List-o...

Trump’s Argentine gamble benefits almost no one on.ft.com/46ZrFtI | opinion

Really good overview from @imillhiser.bsky.social of the paths to accountability for ICE in court—and how the Supreme Court has blocked off some (but not all) of them. I may be slightly more optimistic than Ian that the Federal Tort Claims Act remains a viable option. www.vox.com/politics/464...

These people are, not to put too fine a point on it, nuts.

If Peace President Trump keeps posting things like this, one day it will prompt some other country to do something that would be very undesirable for US interests.

On the 18th day of October in the Year of Our Lord 2025, the President of the Unted States, successor to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and nominee for the Nobel Prize, posted a video of himself dumping a load of shit on his fellow Americans. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

🧑‍🌾 FARMER: "MAGA now means Make Argentina Great Again — as China buys soybeans from Argentina, the same country Trump sent ($40 BILLION)… A bailout is like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. We don't want a bailout. We want markets for our crops."

NEW: The FTC is removing blog posts, authored by Lina Khan, including some that articulate the potential risks that commercial AI tools pose to consumers.

Vorschieben, Frauen & Mädchen schützen zu wollen, als würde sexualisierte Gewalt vor allem von Migranten ausgehen, ist so hanebüchen wie perfide. Es ist rassistisch und misogyn zugleich - und eine klassische Erzählung von Rechtsextremen, die im Übrigen nicht auf "Schutz", sondern Besitzanspruch fußt

Good! www.politico.eu/article/aws-...

“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.

Trump keeps trying to tell us the ceasefire is working. Israel claims it is enforcing the ceasefire by killing. www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...

I’m actually really moved by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social speech from yesterday youtu.be/Ej_zEMjfRqE?...

Encyclopedia Britannica just updated its list of the most-attended protests in US history. It counts Earth Day 1970 as the biggest and October 18 as the 2nd-biggest.

The nationwide and international No Kings protests yesterday were impressivc, bringing literally millions of people out to protest against the Trump 2.0 regime’s creeping fascism. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-americ... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to find a story about No Kings on the NYT homepage (Only a photo essay in “Most Shared,” since people really want to know about it despite what the editors think)

For Gestapo Barbie, only the best! www.aol.com/news/homelan...

New: In a backsliding democracy, ‘public mobilization is the guardrail’ open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...

Also here is the bankrupcy of naive realpolitik. Who cares what Israel does in Gaza. Who cares how many rights Netanyahu must trample to stay in power. They're "better allies" than Germany/Japan because they're willing to help us bomb Iran or something (as *if* they could do that without US aid)

Columbia definitely showed up

Yikes!!!

Abschieben, sanktionieren, bestrafen: Viele scheinen sich nach Brutalität zu sehnen. Warum? Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social, Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social und Gilda Sahebi @gildasahebi.bsky.social über Zerstörungslust - und Zusammenhalt. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...

A fraction of the people in DC, about an hour before a massive #NoKings protest here kicks off on the National Mall. "Tell me what democracy looks like?" "This is what democracy looks like!"

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

Happening now. Hundreds are gathered outside the US Embassy in London. #NoKings

But the same people are also welcome to become ”woke“ after they decide they preferred to be asleep during the election campaign.

“You can’t shoot ‘em in the head (with pepper balls),” the judge said. “You can’t deploy tear gas. You can’t use flash-bang grenades. You can’t drive a car through a crowd.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/u...

“Given that there is no armed conflict, there is no basis to hold these survivors as law of war detainees,” @bcfinucane.bsky.social, a former State Department lawyer who is a specialist in counterterrorism issues and the laws of war, told @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/10/17/c...