"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..." Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Over 136,000 sq. km of Ukrainian territory remain contaminated with mines and explosives, with Kharkiv Oblast suffering the most, said Emergency Service Since the start of Russia’s war in 2022, 380 people, including 21 children, have been killed by explosive devices 📸 DSNS

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

After everything, Senate Democrats still haven’t figured out that surrendering to Trump Republicans will end badly? Unbelievable.

The senate dems are about to embarrass themselves and us AGAIN! I hope these reports are not true.

Happy Berlin Wall fall day! Good riddance to the Wall and the regimes that had built it. Celebrate the freedom that followed and don't fall for revisionism. The hard next decade was the pain of extrication from a failed political and economic project. This is my high school class on that day.

This right here.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Precisely this. #TrumpShutdown

Incredibly destructive.

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists. They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver. apnews.com/article/trum...

@popovaprof.bsky.social on how to handle Russian propaganda & lying:

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

Angelina Jolie visited #Kherson, a #Ukrainian city which is constantly shelled by Russian war criminals who hunt people from drones and engage in human safaris. A great person.

Mamdani last night: "if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves." Be brave!

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

putin strives for friendship with all the nations of the world… I want to remind the world what Ukrainian cities look like after Russia came to “make friends.” They call it “friendship.”

Not to be corny but i am deeply moved watching a bunch of people from all over the world, who speak different languages and live different lives, do a thing together

Wow: Beyond institutionalizing actual violence by ICE & the murders on the high seas, in terms of vibes we’ve gone beyond embracing the Nazi aesthetic & the hate speech and now we’ve moved onto school, kids celebrating Auschwitz itself!?!?! Had to look it up because I couldn’t believe it was true:

Serial liars claiming the power to kill anyone they say is “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist” groups are asserting that they have a right to kill anyone they feel like, since they have repeatedly been caught lying about exactly that (such as false accusations against Kilmar Abrego Garcia).

Lmao literally having a "we're rich" party while they cut SNAP is like cartoon level evil it's like the villain in a Dr. Seuss book

One way to think about the tariffs is as a means for Trump (and his family) to establish leverage over other countries, which he can use to enrich himself and establish a separate base of power from Congress.

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience." www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

Just inconceivable grift. Before the pardon, CZ had pleaded guilty to failing to maintain anti-money laundering checks as CEO of Binance (world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange). Binance itself had pled guilty & agreed to pay +$4bil for apparent violations of multiple anti-corruption laws.

More corruption, incompetence & national security threats! Guy with very close Kremlin family ties, no govt. experience, who donated $1M to Trump campaign (guess were that came from) was to head an agency dealing with sensitive info and billions in financing for US exports: wapo.st/4nzNvZV

A new song, "Winnipeg," from my side project, the Lost Wax Process. Check it & more of our music out at lostwaxprocess.bandcamp.com/music. Behind every seemingly blue sky I just can’t hide all the clues Another departure, another memory 
Another flight away from you

Ta-Nehisi Coates continues to inspire. Don't be a coward. Live your life doing the right thing.

The authoritarianism is all around us

New analysis from Americans for Tax Fairness: US Billionaires added $5.1 trillion to their fortunes since 2017. To put that in perspective, if that money went to the American people instead, every household would get $37,800.

New with @natashabernal.bsky.social: ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok have all been founding citing Russian sources—including Russian media sanctioned by the EU—in response to queries about the war in Ukraine

they’ve made it easier to build concentration camps.

Autocrats, at times, use the military to shut down their parliaments and rule by executive orders. That Johnson chooses to shut down Congress so willingly is just a breathtaking abdication of responsibility to represent the body politic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Exactly what I was thinking. And obviously the technology and potential for spying has only been ramped up since then, and especially when you look at the donor list and who’s involved in this construction project

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

"The bodies have fueled a mystery that is gripping parts of Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean nation that is within sight of Venezuela’s coast: Who were they? Did a U.S. strike kill them? Will more bodies appear on Trinidad’s beaches?"

Beyond the lawless destruction of the East Wing, I have no confidence that the Trump admin has taken national security precautions seriously in rebuilding the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. But, Russia & China meanwhile are surely paying close attention www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

This WH meeting today with advisors is some Russian/North Korea level sycophancy, but a large ornate room with columns would make the Dear Leader motif really pop:

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

surely just a coincidence.

The huge amount of money (> $40B) with no accountability, the incentives to hire anyone quickly, and need to find people with no qualms about morality/legality of actions will lead to hiring the worst of the worst

There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas. There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings. There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency. There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.

Senator Merkley is on hour 20 of reading How Democracies Die, mixed w commentary, on u.s. senate floor

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress 28 days ago with 70% of the vote yet Mike Johnson refuses to swear in. This is a continuation of the GOP's Jan 6 attack and their rejection of democracy.