it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: October 11 edition" — Charlie rides it, Donny hides it, and so much more... thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post: God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

newsletters.democracydocket.com/the-texas-re... Summary of Texas redistricting to gain 5 congressional seats for the GOP and disenfranchise black and brown voters.

Now that the GOP has decided to call the No Kings marches the "I Hate America and Support Hamas" terrorist insurrection paid for by George Soros, I registered immediately for my local event to make sure my name was included. Please, please do the same. www.nokings.org

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Fort Atkinson, WI” - sign up now to join me! #aftvotes www.mobilize.us/aft/event/84...

Many thanks @houstonchronicle.com for the opportunity to explain how autism genes operate in fetal neurodevelopment, known chemical exposures interacting with those genes, why focusing on vaccines, Tylenol, circumcision is misguided, and we actually should do www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

I thought this was funny and wanted to share it with you.

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

Happy Friday, Antifa warriors! 🥂🩵

Want to know who’ll be our next president? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 225. 10/9/25 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... Ron Filipkowski

I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings: Freedom To Speak” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Trump's plan to invoke the Insurrection Act open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

here's today's post: "Preznit Fuckwit’s gonna fight all the antifas, if he can manage to stay awake" — this is going to be the dumbest civil war ever. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

October 8, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Heather Cox Richardson

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

www.jsonline.com/story/news/e... Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Trump’s $83 Million Ego Check (Sad!) 🪦 open.substack.com/pub/therickw... E. Jean Carroll is delightful.

Here’s my cliff notes summary of Pete Hegseth’s big military address today

On Trump Deploying Troops to More Cities to Protect ICE from Antifa (Or Whatever)

www.gazettextra.com/news/local/w... Janesville, Wisconsin

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TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved): Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm! Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Oversight open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... from Joyce White Vance

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Flying to the end of the shutdown open.substack.com/pub/robertre... "As I said last week, the shutdown ends when air traffic controllers have had enough."

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/su...

This strikes me as pretty bad

Today in Politics, Bulletin 224. 10/7/25 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... from Ron Filipkowski

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California. I urge anyone in the state to vote yes. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

from Jay Kuo

Headline in Wall Street Jourrnal Toxic Fumes Are Leaking Into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers Doctors compare brain effects to concussions in NFL players. A Wall Street Journal investigation shows the problem is getting worse and not much is being done about it

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

Schiff: "You were asked whether you were firing career prosecutors just because they worked on January 6 investigations. You refused to answer that question."

has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?

Thanks, New Yorker

EXCLUSIVE Report from Ukraine: Wolves and Russians (Part II) open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal? BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

🚨 “I refuse to let Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and Gregory Bevino, continue on this march towards autocracy.” Posted 15 minutes ago. 1/2

Junior says he doesn’t watch Fox anymore because “it is so ridiculous” how biased they are against his dad, he complains they barely ever invite him on now, and “they’re just about clickbait.” (I did not speed this up).

ATTN: PA VOTERS 🚨IMPORTANT🚨 VOTE YES TO RETAIN 💥DEM MAJORITY 💥 PA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES Christine Donohue Kevin Dougherty David Wecht ‼️If using mail in ballots, the Supreme Court Justices are located on the flip side. ‼️In the voting booth, they will be located at the bottom of the screen.

BLUMENTHAL: The night before Comey's indictment, you had dinner with the president. A pretty intimate group BONDI: Actually there were a lot of people there that night BLUMENTHAL: Did you discuss James Comey? BONDI: I love that picture

If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no. Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.