A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

"The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act" by the incomparable @natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/10/07/t...

From Rwanda’s Paul Kagame to the Emirati monarchy, some of the world’s most brutal regimes have chosen to use soccer as a promotional tool.

www.reddit.com/r/law/s/pyDQ... The thing conservatives thought Obama was going to do has finally happened but its their guy doing it. @theintercept.com is capturing the moment

He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.

There is no left wing terrorism organization or machine in America. They just want to kill Americans.

They don’t want to govern; they want to rule.

Oh look, another White House Signal scandal. This time it was an aide to Stephen Miller who was using Signal so openly in a public space that a bystander captured images of the chat. Oh and the messages were about sending the *82nd Airborne* into Portland. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea... #Memphis is about to be wild

This is great shoe-leather reporting by Jared Olson. But it isn't easy. How do you find out if U.S. Army factory-made ammunition is fueling drug violence in Mexico? You go and examine the shell casings after a cartel gunfight. Don't sleep on this one!

I wonder what Ezra klein would say now.

open.spotify.com/episode/6Sap... #magamartyrdom #douchecanoes

There is no world in which masked and armed agents of the state running down delivery drivers makes us safer. That our information environment and political leaders have convinced people otherwise is a massive failure.

We're by far the greatest team, the world has ever seeeeeeen #coyg

Absurd behavior

More ICE arrests. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e... @nickturse.bsky.social

There is no longer any way through this that does not pass through that moment. The question now is simply a matter of what it will cost. We should not allow ourselves to be rattled by the escalatory steps that will lead to it because we need to be prepared to meet that moment when it arrives.

@bradleyonishi.bsky.social we'd be interested in your thoughts in the myth building after the kirk assassination. We just finished your book and would love to learn if you have thoughts on the myth building coming out of the entire horrific event+

open.spotify.com/episode/4Q5v... MAGA goes woke Patel is clueless Subscribe and share✌️

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Kavanaugh's argument: Christians would be relegated “to bottom-of-the-barrel status in society - below socialists & Nazis and Klan members & panhandlers & ideological & political advocacy groups of all stripes.” In other words, without a right to impose prayer on everyone, Christians are inferior.

@bradleyonishi.bsky.social If you're interested, we'd love to chat about the shape of christian nationalism after the kork memorial. If you'd be interested, let us know we just finished your book and would love to chat!

www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT... Kirk was a mainstream republican. And that should worry all of us Shout out to the @senecaproject.us

The Administration acknowledged that it will stop the survey that measures food insecurity, just as tariffs push up food prices and the deep cuts to food assistance enacted in July start to take effect. Congress must intervene to save these vital data. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

apnews.com/video/despai... This has to end

Fascism dog is barking loud!

Under current law, the president has too much power to use the military for law enforcement at home. Our report details the loopholes and ambiguities in the Posse Comitatus Act and provides a bipartisan path to strengthening the law. bit.ly/3NaSobU

freegovinfo.info/node/14905/ ⬆️ If youre interested in the report that the DOJ pulled down this week, showing that it is indeed rhe right in the United states that is the party of violence.

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A great listen as always @straightwhitejc.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6IRZ... Always intelligent and thought provoking

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Excellent reporting @natashalennard.bsky.social. summarizing what I imagine most people who paid attention to Charlies rhetoric knew about the man and for those who don't know, an exemplar in what he was about. We also did an episode on him open.spotify.com/episode/0DLj... so check that out too

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Two things can exist at the same time. Kirk shouldn't have been shot for political speech but we cant sanitize.

After embarrassing himself at the last budget fight, Chuck Schumer appeared ready to do it again in the current one. But he has lost a lot of credibility with the caucus, and it appears that the other Senate Democrats are gearing up for a real fight. From Robert Kuttner:

Thoughts and prayers

I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country.

www.reddit.com/r/NoShitSher... #cdc #hhs #fuckrfkjr

Is this part of Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize application?

open.spotify.com/episode/3k8n... Fuck #ICE #NOKINGS #SCOTUS #RELEASETHEEPSTEINFILES

The words of a former Navy JAG who used to work CT issues.

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events

Adding cronyism to our ick list.