This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

"The Trump regime’s desire for cruelty, corruption, and criminality appears bottomless, but just because they want to doesn’t mean they can. Lacking capacity, they’re trying to bluster and meme their way into consolidated authoritarianism" It's serious, but don't help them by falling for the trick.

Here's a list from @bbkogan.bsky.social on what shuts down immediately this week, if the govt does shut down. Note some of this was already targeted by DOGE. www.americanprogress.org/article/what...

Its Monday morning and the President of the United States has committed another impeachable offense by threating to withhold funds from a major city in order to persuade voters not to vote for a certain candidate.

This would be a good time to buy Laetrile stock.

There are good reasons not to do this. There are however bad reasons to do this, which brings us to Hegseth. He says the greatest danger to the US is not China or Russia but internal factors. He could be right, if what he has in mind is himself. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

One fascinating wrinkle in this story is that the guy who taught Orban to go after Soros was Arthur Finkelstein, a gay Jewish political advisor who also worked for Netanyahu. He was a key GOP strategist from Goldwater through Reagan. truestoryaward.org/story/230

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

⚡️NATO confirms Russian incursion into Estonian airspace, calls it "reckless." "NATO responded immediately and intercepted the Russian aircraft. This is yet another example of reckless Russian behaviour and NATO’s ability to respond," NATO Spokesperson Allison Hart said.

Correct. As @phillipspobrien.bsky.social has said many times, Trump is only pretending to be tough with his words. But he’s actions are explicitly clear: he has done nothing for Ukraine, and made enormous efforts to help Russia. Those still believing he will change, are crazy.

Important point. Charlie Kirk now receives a lot of praise for engaging in debates, but the reality is he did so in bad faith. He was a demagogue chasing the next viral clip. That is not "debate", and it is telling about the state of democracy that so many people can't see the difference.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

The world according to Todd Blanche: Conspiring to overturn the results of a presidential election = not RICO Yelling in the vicinity of the president while he dines at Joe’s Stone Crab = RICO Ok, got it! 👌

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

The amazing thing about Trump is that he says right into the camera on the White House lawn while stone cold sober the sort of stuff Nixon would only scream in solitude at the White House fireplace after a bottle and a half of whiskey.

I do feel like part of the hatred extended toward Bluesky is a function of preferring to think that the alarm about the state of the country that’s common here is misguided or exaggerated. Dismissing the site as liberal doomers allows you to dismiss those concerns, too.

Declaring that a private business refusing to print a vigil poster for the President's friend is a civil rights violation is an interesting legal argument. Brings to mind Colorado cases Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis.

The Right is going increasingly masks-off and it's going to get uglier yet.

Shame on NFL owners for participating in Saudi Arabia’s Bonesaw Bowl.

Somebody should alert John Roberts that our rights… oh hell, never mind.

Just so everyone can follow along: The MAGA beef against @karenattiah.bsky.social is that she said Kirk said this:

Karen was the last full-time Black opinion writer at the Washington Post. She was also one of the last courageous voices on an opinion page that has now been gutted of them. Supposed defenders of free speech are actively silencing anyone who disagrees with them.

7/ But the right has been looking for a pretext to destroy their opposition for a long time. Increasingly, the right views the left as an existential threat to a white, Christian majority nation and thus must be destroyed, as Michael Anton wrote, at any cost.

3/ Here is the latest post from Laura Loomer, who clearly has the ear of President Trump, calling on Trump to use dictatorial powers to destroy his political opposition. This kind of rhetoric is gaining traction in MAGA world, and Trump is now echoing it.

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

This is funny as shit 😂

The White House Bid to Turn the Charlie Kirk Murder into Their Anti-Trans Jihad www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/14/t...

I wrote for @msnbc.com about what the engravings on the shell casings of Kirk’s shooter represent and where the references originated. Given what we know so far, they suggest a young man who had his brain fried by the irony poisoned, anti-social nature of certain aspects of online culture. /1

Yes, Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden’s execution. But he called for it in the right way.

When it’s all said and done, and including his actions during the Covid pandemic, Trump will have been responsible for the deaths of more Americans than any other U.S. president.

Yes, a dishonest MAGA politician said this. Thank you for relaying it. But since you are a journalist, maybe you could also do some reporting and tell us whether it's true or not.

Some guy named Donald Trump, October 2024.

“these people” If you’re a young, white, single male living in southwestern Utah, watch out because Eric Trump is coming after you.

both sides amiright

Last September Charlie Kirk claimed that Haitian immigrants in Huntsville were "raping your women and hunting you down at night." He said that rural Alabamians faced a future in which Haitian immigrants "will become your masters." www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

In an almost laughable parody, Shellenberger is working on a project examining the left’s “dehumanization” of the right. The profound level of dishonesty and cynicism it requires to paint dehumanization of one’s political opponents as remotely a left-wing issue is staggering. Unserious man.

Wow, wait until @stephenm discovers this *left wing* organization advocating mass killing. Glad Stephen and Laura are calling for outlets like this to be defunded. Bring on the IRS investigation!!!

That msnbc guy got fired for saying these words

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

Nine arrests at the Far Right thug march in London. Police said there had been "significant aggression", with some officers being "attacked with projectiles". The thugs kept trying to breakthrough police lines to attack the anti-fascist counter protest.

"Robinson’s political views will probably become clearer with time. But in the hours after he was first identified, in the absence of evidence that he was quite the exemplar of the radical left that Trump had predicted, the president seemed more interested in changing the subject."

Absolutely psychopathic.

“It was not clear whether anything the F.B.I. did in the days after the shooting played a decisive role in shortening the search.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

Once again, the Theys are vexing the right.

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

The same editors would have printed quotes from unnamed local law enforcement that Emmett Till raped a white woman.

A post from an Oregon MAGA influencer. FWIW, Robinson was a 3rd year student in an electrical apprenticeship program at Dixie Technical College. Utah technical colleges are, of course, widely known to be hotbeds of woke indoctrination.

The lawsuit fired by senior FBI agents yesterday quote Patel saying that he had to do what the WH wanted (in that case, fire people for no good reason) to keep his job. The WH needs this murder to be blamed on…an enemy. You do the math.