TSA warns of longer wait times. Meanwhile, MAGA thinks it’s no big deal for TSA workers to show up w/out pay and just get back pay later. These aren’t high-paid employees. They’re covering childcare and transportation out of pocket while getting nothing. At some point, it’s cheaper to call in sick.

Vance’s is a white guy whose entire political career was handed to him by billionaires — a career also fueled by the grievance that U.S. institutions conspire against white guys.

This story shows Trump administration officials: - Continuing to use Signal casually for sensitive discussions - Discussing sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland - Suggesting that Hegseth was reluctant to do so without Trump top cover

I regret to tell you that the image above is not a parody. We are a nation run by Beavis-like juveniles. (With flamethrowers.) open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

The Arrogant Academic character certainly made his way to this platform. Dudes seem to think they can lord over the folks here from on high like they lord over students. Meanwhile, all I read in their screeds is "he is a professor of medieval literature. The one the students hope they don't get."

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon. There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified. This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

Not an alum of any of the schools. And I’m 200 percent sure that my two alma maters would be told openly and loudly by their state governors to sign the compact. We are in a very, great bad place. And getting worse.

Aside from Vance, who as veep is functionally unemployed, farming the approval of racist trolls for validation, this is their worldview: white people are true Americans and are entitled to be here, the rest of us are guests and must behave accordingly

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Rampant vandalism, and I know there's a regular claim this is different from the GOP before him, but the notion "nobody can do squat about POTUS breaking the law because Republicans are Kings" was a Scalia thing and is endorsed by every Republican on SCOTUS, including the 3 appointed pre-Trump.

Was anyone really expecting TSA to show up and not get paid?

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny defector.com/treasury-dep...

"'That fucking dumbass,' one of the senior Trump administration officials told Zeteo on Wednesday, after seeing a clip of Lutnick riffing on Epstein. 'I’ve worked with him ... He just talks and talks, and doesn’t care what unhelpful bullshit comes out.'"

The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...

The largest federal employees union filed a lawsuit accusing the Department of Education of violating the First Amendment by inserting partisan language into the out-of-office emails sent from accounts of furloughed workers during the government shutdown www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

I have a whole collection of challenge coins from various people, and this is hands down the dumbest fucking coin I’ve ever seen.

I get beside myself angry when I think about how a presidential candidate repeatedly fucking said he’d be a dictator and the press response was ha ha that rascal I’m sure he probably doesn’t mean it

It’s been two years since Matt Gaetz yeeted Kevin McCarthy after McCarthy passed a CR. In many ways, that move paved the way for the government shutdown today. Allow me to explain with a 🧵. 1/

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

"I think in a free country we should be able to post onto the internet, 'hey, there are masked agents on Broadway and Vine and not have the government or the tech oligarchs prevent us from doing that.' Shame on you, Tim Cook." @radiofreetom.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

Kristi Noem tells Bad Bunny that ICE will be at the Super Bowl and the event should only be for Americans who “love this country”

It’s all so depressing

They’ll plow right through this one. Their ultimate endgame in this category. is overturning Loving v Virginia. And you bet Clarence would vote for that with a straight face.

Justice Alito swears he isn’t trying to overturn marriage equality, while the Supreme Court just so happens to be looking at a case that could do exactly that. Kind of like how Trump totally had no clue about Project 2025, right? 🙄

Trump told NBC on Sunday that he saw some Portland riot footage on Fox and thought it reflected current events. It didn't. It was 5 years old, from the George Floyd aftermath. And we learned that due to the diligence of a local TV reporter, who got the transcript. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said." www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Noem introduced Border Patrol Chief G. Bovino who claimed the protesters nearby were “an unsafe crowd” and declared “a free arrests zone” to arrest them all after one warning. Bovino: “They’re getting it here as soon as we leave.”

"Contrarian" is killing me, the whole premise of the Free Press is telling rich elderly and middle-aged men that they're right about everything

CHALLENGE BROOCH!

I wish you’d been able to include a photo, because your description, while accurate, somehow fails to do justice to the reality.

Me, on Lindsey Halligan's debut as a not-legally-appointed prosecutor who told the court she had never seen a document she filed that had her signature on it: "If what happened to her had happened to me, I'd want to crawl under a rock and never be heard from again." www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch...

If I am talking about the thing I am currently thinking about instead of the thing you want me to be talking about, there are two alternatives: (1) you can complain in a snide or entitled way and I can block you, or (2) you can inquire by DM of my hourly rate and hire me to talk about your subject.

I wrote about Kash Patel's cringe, weird challenge coin. Perfect for him: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What if we did high school drama but in the largest bureaucracy in the world?

Still wondering how Democrats haven’t figured out that their messaging can easily stay with “We are not constantly trying to be assholes. Those guys’ core trait is that they are assholes. Don’t vote for assholes.”

NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants. KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Making america great again by declaring open warfare on its cities is certainly ... an approach.

Department of Education employees furloughed this week discovered their email accounts had been manipulated while they were out of office to include partisan talking points that blamed a government shutdown on Democrats. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

This is worth a few minutes of your time. youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A?...

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Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources." Oracle is about to own TikTok.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

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...

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor, pleads guilty to sexually abusing a child www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A political media apparatus either full of suckers or accomplices willing to gobble up absolute garbage about Trump “distancing himself from” Project 2025.