Trump’s former “spiritual advisor.”

This is an important effort from the Oversight Committee. I've heard from a lot of people in the 6th District who are concerned about these messages. The Trump Administration is blatantly violating the law to deny blame for their government shutdown. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/o...

Democrats Pull Away From AIPAC, Reflecting a Broader Shift... AIPAC has broadly overplayed its hand, lost track of what binds Israel to US (DEMOCRACY) and become aligned with the rightwing govt not the people of Israel. Like ADL it has lost its way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

This is illegal

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

This didn’t generate a ton of front-page headlines, but Trump this week signed an executive order rewarding Qatar with a NATO-like security guarantee — without bothering to go through Congress. Is this the same country that gave him a fancy plane? Yes. Yes it is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

WHISTLEBLOWER: “I was walked out of the building and fired… to silence me for speaking out about the truth. But I’m not going to let that happen.” Paul was fired from HUD’s office of Fair Housing for calling out the Trump regime ignoring/enabling civil rights violations.

The NY T reposted this wonderful interview: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

this is an especially good thing to hammer because it wedges the WH away from congressional Republicans

As if we needed more awful news: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies. It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check. Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous. Or a boat full of fishermen.

New from 404 Media: Google just removed seven years of political advertising history from 27 countries. Google's Ad Transparency Center no longer shows political ads from any countries in the EU. Much harder for accountability now. www.404media.co/google-ad-tr...

Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."

Find us a cringier speech in American history than this Hegseth speech. We’ll save you the time - you can’t. It would be impossible. This is it. This is the one. 🏆

As he refuses to negotiate and his own administration is openly saying they want a shutdown — Trump is now using official government sites to say this: www.hud.gov

Today’s attempted firing of two whistleblowers at HUD is a “stunning act of illegal retaliation” — @fedworkersunited.bsky.social Osadebe and Heenan warned about HUD’s attempts to shutter the office of fair lending, tasked with fighting discrimination in housing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tariff!

The Department of Energy has added these terms to its growing “list of words to avoid” because words are dangerous: climate change green decarbonization emissions energy transition sustainability sustainable clean energy dirty energy carbon footprint CO₂ footprint tax breaks tax credits subsidies

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social & Sen. @ossoff.bsky.social : “Trump is less popular than he has ever been. He is underwater on virtually every issue... unprecedented, brazen personal corruption — passing one of the most unpopular agendas in 🇺🇸 history.”

"Perhaps the most ghastly piece printed during Hegseth’s reign as publisher was an assertion that Princeton’s characterization of sex with an unconscious person as nonconsensual was an effort to “indoctrinate” students." thebaffler.com/salvos/battl...

And the left needs to tone down the rhetoric?

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

A North Carolina GOP operative who tried to limit the state’s crucial early voting period has been named to a key post helping to run the state’s elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Incredible depravity.

These fragile weakass motherfuckers. Absolute weakass racist bullshit. Weak.

Oh for fucks sake

But the "rhetoric" has to stop?

Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello Slams Hegseth Over Wounded Knee Medals Morello: “What the f*ck is wrong with these people” meidasnews.com/news/rage-ag...

If you voted for him, you've done this.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Real post on another network:

“The Jews”

Hegseth has doubled down on honoring these “heroes,” who participated in the slaughter of over 100 women and children, plus unarmed men, the elderly, and infirm. Many were shot while fleeing and left for dead on the snow-covered prairie. I’ll spare you the graphic images of the mass grave.

Outrageous.

NEW: For decades, the DOJ relied on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to foil and forestall attempts to discriminate against minority voters. On Wednesday, the DOJ filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to devastate and vitiate much of what’s left of the landmark civil rights legislation.

Every damn day I’m gonna return to this.

I can’t believe how often I come back to this: bsky.app/profile/norm...

The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025

“Who do you think you are? Killing thousands and flattening neighborhoods, then wrapping yourself in Judaism like it’s some shield from criticism. You’re making life for Jews miserable.” Netanyahu makes a South Park appearance

This is the guy who just fired 900 people AND is closing hundreds of locations. Would you trust any Board that ran your company like this? indianexpress.com/article/worl...

MONDAY: US throws Argentina a financial life raft TUESDAY: Argentina doubles soybean sales to China, “further pricing out” American farmers. @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Anyone in my feed who isn’t following @juliadavisnews.bsky.social really should. The lastest from Russian TV is hilarious: bsky.app/profile/juli...

Meanwhile in Russia: host Andrey Norkin claimed Russia is fighting Ukraine with "non-military means" and otherwise could have defeated it "in 2 hours." Instead of supporting his narrative, one guest after another dropped truth bombs, infuriating the hosts. youtu.be/E54_rM8Sjko

Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. has now cut her entire division.

‘Although the museum’s holdings have nearly doubled in the decades since its opening (partly through purchases but mainly through gifts), few public collections are so imbued with the taste and personality of a single individual.’ Elizabeth Goldring at the Frick: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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