Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

ICE is expanding their military operations into the Chicago suburbs. They are disappearing CHILDREN.

This. Anyone with eyes can see it coming. This is not a "call to arms". It is simply an observation that Trump thinks that chaos on the streets works to his favor and he and his admin are doing everything they can to provoke it. Humans, being what we are, means someone will eventually take the bait.

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart. These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

The woman they’re dragging from her car is a US citizen, and they’re abusing her in plain sight. No one should ever be treated like this.

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

If you don’t know Zirinsky she was the inspiration for Holly Hunter’s character in Broadcast News

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

Good morning. Democrats have no obligation to vote for a budget that funds corruption and totalitarianism. Trump is willing to do whatever it takes to destroy our democracy and pad the pockets of billionaires. People don't want Democrats to wilt. They want us to fight.

Amazing that Orwell was talking about certain writers at the Times and The Atlantic way back in 1946.

Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean. Making at least five such US strikes. Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics. POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

I'm not afraid. Come and get me, Donald. I will stand up for the law and the Constitution. That’s what we do in the State of Illinois.

Everything is for sale.

over and over again I am encouraged by the way this guy reaches out to constituencies who aren’t naturally part of his coalition - not to pander for votes with changing views but to try to find common ground and work together on stuff he believes in he’ll need every bit of that attitude as mayor

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

So far this year the US has confirmed 1,563 measles cases, the highest level nationwide in more than 30 years: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump torpedoed this guy's bid to be Speaker because he was not MAGA enough. Where exactly is the moderate wing of the GOP now?

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California. California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

The Army exists to defend the Republic; the press exists to inform it. Together, they protect the same ideal—self-government built on public trust. Hegseth's Pentagon press restrictions would hurt the Army, the press, and us. New from @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-do...

Isn’t this the same deal Biden and Harris brokered before they left office?

"Trump is perversely helped by the fact that you can’t tell whether you should attribute a specific Trump claim to his melting brain or his melted soul." Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/is-he-lyin...

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Read my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

Good discussion with @gregsargent.bsky.social on No Kings and the right to protest: "They’re trying to turn it into something really evil. But that’s because they’re scared of it, and they know it turns public opinion... I think they should be worried, because nothing they’re doing is popular."

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

It's really simple Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

South Africa must broaden its trade relations and seek a better-balanced export footprint in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, said Deputy Trade Minister Zuko Godlimpi, citing opportunities in southeast Asia.

This is the way.

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.  Looking forward to No Kings Day.

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan? MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas. (So, no plan)

"Roughly three out of every four high-value, “emergency procurement” contracts the governor’s office has awarded are missing the legally required public documentation,"

underrated part of this is that stoller very clearly has no idea what "the passive voice" is

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor. “He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said. Read more at @windycitytimes.com

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

The situation in Venezuela is far more complex than the U.S. government will ever admit, but it also highlights why the people balk at any U.S. intervention.

Narrative matters in political warfare. We are winning this. MAGA are reduced to begging each other to be scared of the dancing frog.

Updated this piece to reflect that this guy now says he has $5 million from venture capital funds to start the “The Anti-Fraud Company” which will allow Shieh to scale up his model of AI-aided harassment and apply it to the federal government. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

A great moment from Oliver: “While I would love to keep splitting hairs on whether a country’s starving kids is better or worse if those kids are already sick, let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.”

A miracle they’re still alive. Elated for their families. Can’t help but think of all the hostages who would have also come home two years ago had Netanyahu chosen his own people over his thirst for war.