Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

Yes and also feel free to group message me at swin24.68

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Or to put it more sharply, the tough-talking law-and-order candidate at the top of Milei's legislative ticket in the largest province dropped out when shown to have accepted major funds and favors from an accused drug trafficker.

Illinois law authorizes @govpritzker.illinois.gov to reactivate the Illinois State Guard. Normally they’re just a kind of extra reserve, but state defense forces are outside the National Guard system, they can’t be federalized. He should do so. As he accurately put it, his state is being invaded.

The “enemy from within” is Trump. The “violent extremists” are Trump lackeys who have turned ICE into fascistic shock troops. In response to Trump’s brutal, racist, and unconstitutional campaign of terror the country must mobilize collectively. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Dude, the mandate has been revoked. People fucking hate you. Your guy is more unpopular than Biden when he got out of the race last year. They’ve rejected every part of your agenda. You’ve been losing elections all across the country this year. You’ve lost your mind. Stand down.

Not entertaining things with no evidence is one thing but dismissing very obvious connections with evidence out of hand is another.

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms. Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

War for Ukraine day 1,319 update has posted.

NEW: Gavin Newsom says that Trump has ordered 300 previously federalized CA National Guard troops into Oregon to end-run Judge Immergut's ruling blocking the federalization of the Oregon National Guard. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/05/g...

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...

@marisakabas.bsky.social you see this?

5 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish boy, Hijman Poons, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- A video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

The Israeli Minister in charge of prisons has called for the starvation of civilians in Gaza yet he's the one calling the flotilla participants — including American vets — trying to feed starving civilians in Gaza “terrorists.” Outrageous and unacceptable.

From Hopium: - Ugly new CBS News poll for Trump, 58% disapproval - Dems must become more aggressive in challenging Trump's escalating authoritarianism - Wonderful new interview with James Talarico This, more 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hop...

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Know what would be great counterprotesting on Thursday when Kash wants a perp walk? Adelita Grijalva and some Epstein survivors talking about the lengths Trump is going to cover up the Epstein files.

The reason people take Wikipedia seriously, even though it's written by tens of thousands of anonymous volunteers, is because it cites its sources and they don't trace back to the Epoch Times or Breitbart.

A publication has every right to decide which sources they will accept as credible. It's not censorship, it's editorial judgement. Conservapedia exists and allows these subpar sources and nobody cites it because garbage in, garbage out.

It’s not clear if he can do something that the federal law says he cannot do. “It’s not clear that Joe can murder Bob. A 1967 New York law enshrined a tradition that people can be murdered.”

Why the fuck do you numbskulls say it's not clear, and there's also a law on the books saying it's clear? That makes you a liar. You lie for money. You're a professional liar.

Attorney Debra Katz is very, very good. This is a case worth keeping your eye on. The Trumpers do things with impunity, but their attorneys are never as good; Katz is. RFK Jr. fires whistleblower for being insufficiently supportive of viral infections www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/rfk-...

"America’s long national nightmare of “not enough children dying of preventable diseases” is over. Thanks Bill Cassidy!" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/rfk-...

Actually, contrary to what Eric writes, it is legally perfectly clear that Trump's profile cannot figure on US coinage because current legislation explicitly forbids this. That legislation would have to be overturned first.

It’s not UNCLEAR, you worthless MAGA shill. IT’S OBJECTIVELY ILLEGAL. And you just turned your journalistic reputation to sh8t.

There’s no rule of journalistic neutrality that requires you to say something is “unclear” when that is objectively untrue. It would be illegal. There’s absolutely zero ambiguity about that fact. Saying it’s unclear is making a false statement in your reporting.

An understatement:

According to polling, it’s already backfiring, at least politically. The GOP isn’t going to stop them from doing what they’re doing, but they’re certainly going to pay for it come voting time. Unless we’re going to go on a nationwide strike, voting is really our only reasonable way out of this.

I will again praise @404media.co for its consistently great reporting. I recommend a subscription for anyone interested in real news about the uses and abuses of tech in 2025.

This is the obvious absurdity of pulling ICEBlock. It is obviously legal, protected speech for anyone to say, in any forum, “I just witnessed some police activity at location X”. Indeed, people have been doing this regularly on social media since its inception.

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

Corey Lewandowski is considering a GOP primary challenge to Kelly Ayotte for #NHGov because she won’t redistrict her state on Trump’s behalf. Democrats currently have no major contenders for this office, and they need one NOW in case this primary actually happens. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I wrote abt 4 ways to reverse fascism in this: 1) 3.5% in the streets 2) Win 2026 and 2028 (least likely to succeed). 3) Peel off 4 Senators or 8 Congresspeople 4) Clean up after inevitable catastrophe (a la 2008 or 2020) youtu.be/GH7kzWO2c1s

Hoping they’re cutting corners on construction so it’ll be easier to demolish when trump is gone

Stephen Miller has no authority to tell anyone they’re unleashed or anything else. The only people he has any tasking authority over are the more junior political appointees that work for him. Any order or instruction he gives is invalid to anyone other than his immediate staff. 1/

It's kind of wild that crypto scammers became *the single biggest source of political donations* in the last US election and barely anyone even noticed. These dipshits basically own both parties now and are getting whatever they want and there's been zero (0) public deliberation or debate about it.

In all the chaos, I would urge folks to remember that a lot of folks now don’t know when their next check will come. The vast majority are good people who love this nation deeply, and many of them are still working despite not knowing when they’ll be paid Have compassion.

ER wait times are going to be much longer when 13.7 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage over the next decade due to this administration’s billionaire tax cuts, not to mention the higher premiums from expiring ACA subsidies, the thousands of jobs being lost every month, & massive inflation

This morning, I wrote that that shutdown would make Russ Vought visible in a way he was not, to normies, and might become a villain like Elon Musk was w/DOGE. Since then, he has stepped on his dick several times. www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/01/a...

I'm sorry, he's not "worth" lukewarm dogsh*t. how much money he's got, that's a separate issue.

Here's a question (perhaps rhetorical)--how long will it take the next non-Trump administration to tear the god-damn thing down and restore the lawn? (possibly this effort could be financed by clawbacks from the Trump family's illegally gotten gains?)

Like a Mad King, Trump shut down the government because we refused to give him a blank check for his lawlessness. Tune in as we fight to end the Trump Shutdown, hold him accountable, stand with federal workers and protect health care for millions:

Republicans shut down the government to raise your health care costs and hide the Epstein files.

Nato must step up its response to Russia’s hybrid war, which is “only the beginning” and is aimed at dividing Europe, the Danish prime minister has warned. Frederiksen: we need to discuss how to respond to Moscow’s hostile acts, ranging from airspace violations to sabotage.

IL you got a real one