Just driving along. Throwing tear gas out the window of the car.

Thank goodness Trump is fixing higher education. Jesus loves podcasters. Also, it should cost $100,000 per year to be one, as God intended.

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

As the Supreme Court begins a new term, please do not let its props and stagecraft obscure the reality that it's passing off political power grabs as Just Doing Law. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Hatch Act was a good idea, actually.

Just a run of the mill Kavanaugh stop. Nothing to see here. "Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down [nearly every door in a 5 story building] overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked" and "US citizens were among those detained for hours."

As someone who desperately wants to see politicians stand up for the truth, I still cannot decide whether Democrats need to learn how to push a lie better.

"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

Hegseth knows the generals he called in think he's a jumped-up dipshit who isn't qualified to manage a Waffle House. And no matter how much expensive whiskey he guzzles or how many made-to-measure suits he buys, he can't escape the voice in his head that tells him they're right.

$100 says that's not the first woman he's hit.

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

You know those articles that are like "Dumb farmer voted for Trump and now is sad he lost all his workers and can't sell his crops"? This is the CEO equivalent, except it is: "Dumb CEO spent untold millions to elect Trump and now is sad because line go down after Trump did what Trump promised."

More people should take their clothes off in school board meetings. I mean, as long as I'm sitting at a safe distance, I'm almost always in favor of someone taking their clothes off and screaming nonsense during a meeting. It breaks up the monotony.

If you've ever seen a statue of a Confederate general, congratulations: you're familiar with this playbook. Step 1: Put up a statue glorifying white power where everybody has to look at it. Step 2: Gas light the hell out of anybody who asks about it. Step 3: Quietly or not so quietly gloat.

Easy, right? Just call it out.

This is a good thread. Age verification laws are bad because they require you to link your real identity to whatever you say and do online. Given our current government's efforts to restrict and punish speech, do we want this? Do we want even more corporate surveillance for, e.g., targeted pricing?

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

Big congrats to all the Democrats who voted for the bill forcing the sale of TikTok... to some of Trump's closest allies. Big brain stuff there, guys. Great move. 🙃 Anyway, remember how Twitter became a far-right cesspool after Musk bought it? That's what's going to happen to TikTok.

If an authoritarian party is governing in ways that suggest it doesn't care about how the next election will play out, perhaps we should more seriously consider that they don't expect there to be another election that could remove them from power.

Streeting making sympathetic noises at trans people—without admitting the wrongness of his party's policies—is worse than meaningless. Labour's strategy of adopting right wing policies attracted zero right-wing voters and alienated their left-wing base. Mealy-mouth apologies won't fix the damage.

Compare with the WWII Disney video on Hitler's propaganda speeches.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Disney's explanation of Hitler's propaganda is spot on on for how the GOP and MAGA are manipulating the masses right now. The only difference is that the agitators now own and control social media and other internet platforms which have supercharged their reach and ability to manipulate emotions.

The right has created a culture that shrugs off the mass killing of school children. They shrugged off the targeted murder of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers. But when a black columnist correctly notes that Kirk believed she is less than human, she is fired for insufficient sadness at his death.

The Nazi doth protest too much.

This article is worth reading as context for the GOP's reaction to Charlie Kirk. In particular, Goebbels had been looking for an appropriate Nazi "martyr" to exploit for propaganda purposes for years, made several other attempts to popularize "martyrs," and just happened to hit pay dirt with Wessel.

"Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that they fear could allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech."

Excellent timeline showing how the right pushed into the mainstream a completely baseless narrative that "transgender ideology" was responsible for Kirk's murder - before it collapsed upon the arrest of a cis, straight, white guy.

This nonsense from Buttigieg and other Dems where they start making noises about "maybe the right wing assholes have a point" is alienating *me* - a member of their otherwise loyal base. The answer is to show strength on progressive values, not to cozy up to the right. It impresses no one.

The governor of Utah is sad that the suspect they have in custody for the murder of Charlie Kirk won't let him start a race war.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

It is appalling to see the list of people who were fired for being insufficiently saddened by Kirk's death.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

It will be hard, if not impossible, to unring this bell. Even after Wilson is mayor. Next step for the clueless establishment centrists - who refuse to acknowledge that the good faith status quo has been shattered and is not coming back - is pushing facial recognition out through these cameras.

"[S]tate law did not discriminate based on transgender status because it did not exclude any individual from medical treatments on the basis of transgender status [but rather based on] gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, and gender incongruence.” I dare you to say this with a straight face.

‪ This kind of anger at institutions (here triggered by banning most social media) is simmering under the surface in a lot of places. The rot underpinning the 20th century social order has been supercharged, those in charge are exacerbating it, and a lot of people want to burn it all down.

First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him

RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism

This suggests to me that they won't be able to drive trans people from public life by passing laws against them. It's kind of in the water at this point.

Oh God, I had forgotten about Duterte. Carried out an extrajudicial mass killing campaign against drug traffickers (and/or whomever he decided to accuse of being a drug traffickers) in the Philippines. Trump's air strike in the Gulf is straight out of this playbook.

1. use trans ppl as the stalking horse to destroy the UK's commitment to pan-European human rights. 2. the UK becomes the first "European" state to have no safeguards against surveillance and disinformation. 3. destroy the EU and all its consumer and human rights safeguards, 1 state at a time.

These proposed demands to avoid a shutdown are all great ideas. A lot of them would be easy to sell to the public. Given that Schumer and Jeffries are in leadership, however, I suspect Democrats will roll over without getting anything in return.

This reads like a Chuck Norris joke. When Laura Loomer was born, she drove her mother home from the hospital. Laura Loomer has a bear rug in her home. The bear isn't dead - it's just scared like the rest of us. Laura Loomer wears a hat to protect the sun from her.

US Dems - for the love of God - take note! People who hate immigrants (or trans people, etc.) enough to influence their vote already have a party. They are not impressed by lefties getting a little more hateful when the right lives and breathes that hate.