I do think more PA Dems would put up w Fetterman if he was just casting heterodox votes. You don't see people raging that Angus King voted for the CR. The issue is Fetterman constantly going to Fox News cameras to trash Dems and create unhelpful stories. There was never an indication he'd do that.

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

Fox propaganda is obvious and only works on the uninformed

Four in ten who buy their own coverage say they would go without coverage if ACA premiums doubled. They will increase 114% if enhanced tax credits are not extended: on.kff.org/4nACyIk

ICEBlock is no different from Waze, Google Maps, or Apple’s own “speed check” feature in Maps. Thus, Apple could’ve stood on principle and resisted this on First Amendment grounds. Instead, the company caved. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

No carveouts. You suffer like the rest of us.

Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.

Suspect arrested for endangering the president’s health.

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you That is not, in fact, what ICE does He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

> @deanbaker13.bsky.social

I reported this months ago. In the 1st term, Trump could hand out $$ to farmers by tapping the Commodity Credit Corporation fund, a New Deal-era program that had a lot of cash in it. But it's down to under $4 billion now, meaning he'll need Congress for the rest. Another point of leverage.

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I LOVE my beautiful weird city and all of its beautiful weird people.

They're lying about your health care? Why? Why do they want you to blame immigrants? Because they're stealing health care for millions of Americans and making it more expensive and painful for everyone else lucky enough to still be insured.

He's lying. If Bessent actually HAD asked this question, the Chinese answer would have been "Huh?? Are you crazy?? We bought half the US harvest last year - under Biden!" See: www.forbes.com/sites/kenrob...

I would hope the interviewer noted that China bought boatloads of soy beans from us last year and then suspended purchases as a direct response to Trump’s tariffs but I’m not confident.

They’re loving it. Your health care is not on their minds.

New: Abu Dhabi fund MGX told me it picked USD1—a Trump family–linked stablecoin from World Liberty Financial—to put $2B into Binance, citing its “compliance history.” USD1 had just launched. me, for @forbes.com 🪙🍼🤷 1/

Hadn't seen this yesterday but it's wild to see a Pope actually attuned to the hypocrisy of the American Catholic Church's extreme right. Get their ass Bob.

There’s just no way to call the U.S. a free country anymore. When people are too scared to make a new TV show or movie making fun of the president, you’re no longer a free country.

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Straight up: I’m not onboard with farmers getting another bailout when so many voted for Trump two and three times. But what Trump is doing to them is brutal. I want to believe they’ve learned their lesson this time, but I don’t. Watch all the way through.

The cost to real people’s lives is going to be high, but at this point the electorate needs to actually appreciate how destructive this regime is. If Thune wants to let Vought go wild, so be it. Then the GOP will have to own responsibility for the harm they cause.

You can’t make deals with cheaters. That’s the story.

ICYMI at @americasvoice.bsky.social: Your wallet has been taking a hit this year. You can blame the mass deportation policies of Trump and Stephen Miller, which have ensnared and scared off the skilled workers who feed us and are the backbone of the agricultural industry:

If you complain about being beaten we will beat you harder

At some point, treating blue states like defeated vassals that need to pay tribute to the new emperor was going to lead to this. Every Democratic governor should be actively thinking about how to legally stop the flow of revenue to the federal government.

A PR person for ABC asked me to stop asking about Pete Hegseth's speech during this episode about the death of Vanessa Guillén. They emailed me today and asked I not include the interruption in the final show. I will not. So tune in to listen to a lecture from a PR person about Guillén's legacy.

wonder who they blame for this as well -- Report shows hiring at lowest since 2009 - www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/r...

BINGO! What's the point of doing a bipartisan budget if Trump and Russ Vought will just slash spending and lay off employees?Also, Republicans can just pass a party-line rescissions bill without any input from Democrats.

Also: it makes zero sense to do a "deal" on any spending when Trump has already proven he will impound appropriated money at any time for any reason and SCOTUS has said repeatedly that him doing so is fine

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

In another era, a group of Republican Senators like Tillis, Cassidy, Collins and Murkowski would join with a handful of Democrats to iron out a deal to extend ACA subsidies and end the shutdown. But in a Trumpified GOP, there is little incentive to do that. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

If you saw "Trump Rx" and immediately thought "Trump Steaks" and other grifts, well, you're right. You will not even be able to buy anything on Trump Rx; it's just a funnel to existing corporate patient assistance sites that don't touch the structural factors that keep drug prices high. From me:

The next time Mike Johnson lies that he hasn’t seen the latest Trump screwup that the rest of the nation is discussing, the TV anchor should just quietly say “that’s ok, not everyone follows politics.”

Or, in other words, they need to bail out farmers and manufacturers because of the tariffs Trump implemented.

"So far in 2025 companies have announced 946,426 job cuts, the highest YTD since the pandemic year of 2020... Not a good sign... Add in the huge reversal in both ADP numbers yesterday and some are starting to smell recession... Not us, not here, but we can see it in the yield curve." - NatAlliance

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

So the only people who get government welfare because they lost money from Trump tariffs are people who sold soybeans to the Chinese because they overwhelmingly voted for Trump, but no other businesses or people get any relief. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Good one. "Kavanaugh Stops" for when DHS officers grab US citizens on the street and detain them for anywhere from 20 minutes to a couple days, and "Kavanaugh Raids" for when DHS officers raid a worksite or apartment building and detain US citizens for hours/days while they check everyone there.

PLAYBOOK: “.. Fine dining on the first night of a government shutdown? Those Democratic attack lines almost write themselves.” @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This is the message.

Trump sent 20 billion to Argentina for a bailout. China brokered a deal to quit buying American soybeans and buy beans from Argentina. Trump bailed out the country that swept the knees of American farmers. The Art of the Deal…

In case you understandably refused to read the whole way down, this is manufactured. The entire point of this is a grift to get names and emails for her post-Politico plans — and the post makes abundantly clear what sort of plans those will be.

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective… You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.