If I cringe any harder at the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp's stand-up comedy routine, I may fold in on myself, collapsing into a PSR-J0952–0607-style neutron star of vicarious embarrassment. ~AA

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data. We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district. Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon.... And why it was finally time to leave. Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

Waddaya know... a convicted sex trafficker is a step too far even for Corrupt SCOTUS🤔 www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.

There it is

In an interview on BBC TV Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch said her party would create a "Removals Force" - i.e. a copy of ICE in the USA to police immigration ICE uses masked goons to round up people off city streets who look like illegal immigrants (i.e. brown people) Do we really want that in the UK?

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

Chicago police officers peppered sprayed by ice. When is enough enough

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Rep. Ryan Zinke: "Our economy right now is not great. The jobs report was not great."

Trump floats Insurrection Act use amid National Guard standoff with states https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/trump-insurrection-act-national-guard-deployment-states https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/trump-insurrection-act-national-guard-deployment-states

TIME MAG - “The 69-year-old judge had received death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire…” (Stephen miller in particular has been lashing out at judges) time.com/7323442/sout...

Bad Bunny rolling into the Super Bowl with a demonic sexual performance in Spanish.

98% of House Republican have NOT signed the Epstein files discharge petition. Why are 215 of them refusing?

They still haven’t found all the missing children from the floods. Why are they more worried about Illinois than about the children in Texas?

MAGA, why was convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell moved to a minimum security prison in Texas shortly after meeting with Trump's former personal defense attorney?

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Repubs won’t even acknowledge that Dems are trying to keep health insurance premiums from skyrocketing for 20+ million Americans? They are just going pretend that isn’t happening & keep repeating this “free healthcare for illegals” bs? What do the 20+ million think about that?

Congratulations to Dame Sarah Mullally DBE on her historic appointment as the Archbishop of Canterbury. As Bishop of London for the past seven years, she has shown remarkable leadership and dedication to our city - I know she’ll continue this vital work in her new role.

Signs of psychosis. No biggie

Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

“Mussolini didn’t begin with empire. He began with speeches about discipline and manliness, reshaping Italy’s institutions into props for his own cult of personality. And if that sounds distant, then look again because America is drowning in the same macho theater.” America is in trouble.

Stephen Miller tells law enforcement in MEMPHIS: “You are unleashed”

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

In the late 1980s Radio 1 was massively over-represented by Kershaws despite Kershaws making up just 0.05% of the broadcasting industry. 100% of them turned out to be very problematic indeed.

MEMPHIS—An unmarked law enforcement SUV caused a three-vehicle crash while chasing another vehicle through an intersection in Frayser. The unmarked vehicle had its blue lights on but did not have sirens on when it entered the intersection. wreg.com/news/local/u...

Smh

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives. Today, in response, we brought our own graphs. We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

We're officially in a new war according to Trump

Meiselas: You’re saying to Donald Trump, to Senator Thune, to JD Vance: show up at the Capitol. We’re going to do this in front of the press and address these issues before the American people, correct? Jeffries: That’s my position—and we’ll even let Mike Johnson into the meeting as well.

Now we're talking: Hakeem Jeffries just called JD Vance's bluff and challenged Trump and GOP leaders to meet TOMORROW in front of the press to discuss the shutdown. Allow the cameras in. Full transparency.

Trump said he won’t sanction Russia until Hungary stops buying Russian oil. His friend Viktor Orban responds. Set up a precondition that you know your friend won’t agree to, in order to help your friend in the Kremlin. That is US policy.

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

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...

Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved. Trump today:

Vought takes greater pleasure from this than any intimate relations he has ever had with another human. bsky.app/profile/atru...

All those 2024 media fact-checks that said, “Donald Trump and the Trump campaign deny any connection to Project 2025” look pretty ridiculous right now. A Trump denial is not a fact. You just used his lies to “debunk” a reality that was obvious to anyone paying attention.

It’s Donald Trump’s America. Nobody can afford a house. Or coffee.

Some of us were talking about both subjects before it was cool.

Desantis blames the Trump admin for FEMA claims not getting processed in FL.

Interesting that Trump doesn’t consider the agency (BLS) that puts out the jobs report as essential employees during the shutdown. Is there any chance if he thought the report was going to be good on Friday he would be furloughing these workers and refusing to put it out?

Trump’s former “spiritual advisor.”

Today in Politics, Bulletin 220. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...