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.

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Dean: The president is unhinged Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn’t see it. Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

Easily, his most elaborate and destructive distraction from #TheEPSEIN_Files... yet.

The awesome video team at the New York Times helped me make this video about the shutdown and Obamacare premiums.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.

“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” the president of the United States said. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

This morning, President Trump and Secretary Hegseth spoke to 800 high-ranking generals and admirals who had been called away from their stations around the world. At the meeting, Trump said he’d told Hegseth he should use American cities as “training grounds” for the military. 1/6

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NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Breaking WaPo: Military leaders have raised serious concerns with the Trump admin's new defense strategy — exposing a divide between the Pentagon's political and uniformed leadership. 
The critiques from multiple top officers, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

Here's Nigel Max Edge and Thomas Jacob Sanford. Both committed mass shootings within 24 hours of one another. Two more cases of White on White crime. Is it the fatherlessness in the White community? Are they Inherently violent because of their race? Or, is it the guns? Sip it slowly. 🔥☕️

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

I am one of those small business owners. An insurance advisor has already told me to prepare for premiums to *at minimum* double for 2026. I'm not sure we will be able to do that.

Brutal.

NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor apparently ignoring the bombshell in her own interview with Trump! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Heartbroken by news of yet another senseless act of violence this morning at a house of worship. No American should ever fear for their safety - least of all when gathering peacefully to pray - and yet tragedies like this have become frequent.

Oregon AG Rayfield: I know for a fact, from talking to cities across Oregon, that if you pick up the phone and ask, “What could be helpful?” the answer would not be the United States military.

Democracy is not just voting in elections; it's not just institutions and laws. Democracy is a spiritual practice. It requires a deep love for our neighbors — especially our neighbors with whom we disagree the most.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

Ian Andre Roberts, a Guyana national and superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, was arrested in an operation, ICE announced in a news release. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Good time to release the Epstein files

Jeffries: "Here's what DHS has done. DHS put out a hit list directed at Democratic members of Congress, Dem governors, and Dem officials. It's a hit list saying to crazies all across the country 'target these people.' So no, we're not gonna be lectured by DHS. Take your hit list down."

Things are starting to get more interesting. The Epstein estate has turned over another batch of materials to the House Oversight Committee more than 8,000 documents in total, including unredacted calendars, call logs, and cash ledgers.

Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

BREAKING: Sinclair FOLDS and ends its preemption of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The show will return tonight on Sinclair's ABC affiliates.

Kennedy is so far over his head and any deaths going forward of children dying from conditions we had eradicated should lay at his feet 🤬

No veteran should have their social security number leaked, let alone passed to a political opponent by the government.

Jasmine Crockett is Correct ! The Recent Study That Pam Bondage Threw in The Trash bin,showed by Far,Most Political Violence and Shootings Are From Right Wingers FACTS........

May the force be with you on my birthday!!! Lol Happy birthday to @markhamillofficial.bsky.social also and thank you @muellershewrote.com

Swalwell: It's an awful day for what's supposed to be a free country. This is a mad king picking off each of his political enemies.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

It’s so depressing watching the dumbest people in America drive this country into a ditch …. Again

The majority around the world thinks MAGA is a weird, dangerous cult in service to a depraved, vulgar, corrupt man. MAGA doesn't realize this because it's stuck in its own right-wing echo chamber. You know, like a weird cult.

CNN: The ratings are in for the first day. 6.26 million viewers on ABC. That was four times Jimmy Kimmel's average. And that's despite the show not even being available in a quarter of all American homes.