For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill. Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

Vought said he was gonna do this sorta stuff during his confirmation. Susan Collins said some of what he was pledging to do was illegal but it'd be settled in court. Then she voted to confirm him anyway! Does she think there's no record of this stuff? It was only several months ago. #MEpolitics

Listen up people 💙That lying witch Pam Bondi , can keep denying anything involved Trump and Epstein!! Michael Wolff has receipts 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #DemsUnited

Wild stuff. Of course, Susan Collins voted against 85 Biden nominees -- virtually all of them highly qualified. Needless to say, none of them was a self-avowed Christian nationalist; vowed to break the law in office; or denied the outcome of the 2020 election. #MEpolitics

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Listening to Josh Hawley whine today about how his phones were tapped (they were not), it's clear that so many of these Republican shitheels think they have the right not to be investigated. There's no such right. If a legal question arises, we are all a subpeona away from records being reviewed.

We spoke to @dunlapforcongress.bsky.social about Jared Golden, the rule of law and bunch of other things in the lead-up to his announcement. A couple interesting and telling anecdotes in there. Our interview at the link below. #MEpolitics

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.

Seven years ago today Susan Collins voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, breaking her pledge to block any Sup Ct nominees who posted a danger to Roe. The rest is history. Never forget. #MEpolitics

Otherwise inoffensive deep dive on Graham Platner kicks off with the foolish/unsound insinuation that some folks votes are more important than others. This is basically sublimated Trumpism. Flipping a Collins backer in York is just as valuable as one in Aroostook. tinyurl.com/vcvyw5ct #MEpolitics

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

The only interesting question is if new Paramount owner David Ellison is consciously lying to advance an oligarchic agenda or believes his own bullshit because he's in one of those rich person right-wing / reactionary centrist information bubbles where they "know" what "everyone" thinks.

It's now clear that Tom Cibrowski -- CBS News' president and a broadcast-news veteran who has covered wars, earthquakes and plane crashes-- will now have his judgment frequently overridden or second-guessed by Bari Weiss, who has never done any of those things. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

It's funny, when you have a cognitively challenged Dem president, his advisors manipulate him into forgiving student loans & expanding domestic cleantech manufacturing. When you have a cognitively challenged GOP president, his advisors manipulate him into fascism. Kinda revealing.

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

This This This

The headline belongs in the journalism hall of fame.

abovethelaw.com/2025/10/just... This headline deserves a Pulitzer.

This is illegal, plain and simple, with penalties including removal from federal service, debarment from federal employment for five years, and a fine of $1000. 5 U.S.C. § 7326. A country which valued the rule of law would enforce its laws.

Over the years Susan Collins has made it crystal clear that she does not care how many people lose access to healthcare, and this week she shut down the government instead of voting to let Mainers get the care they need. It’s despicable.

This is the thing elected dems seem unable to swallow. There is no realistic modus vivendi where somehow remain a functioning liberal democracy after 3 years of Trump. He is removed or we become Azerbaijan. Removal is ultimately the only goal that matters.

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

Rufo only knows how to destroy, not to build or run anything.

"no more superficial individual expression"

Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

He's telling us what he's doing. Using the military to suppress protest. At some point the opposition needs to listen to him and adjust strategy.

i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long

Trump just called us "the enemy within" Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

Says the guy who brings his wife to all his meetings because he’s too drunk and incompetent to function without her.

Have you ever had to go see a buddy perform at an open mic night? That’s how this is playing right now.

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

This passage nearly broke me.

These 6 should be arrested and tried for treason.

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

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. 🔥☕️

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Oof! Nailed it

John Buss

Republicans have argued that Democrats should stop calling ICE agents thugs Perhaps instead, they should start telling ICE agents TO STOP ACTING LIKE THUGS

When the president tells the Attorney General to prosecute a political enemy-declaring his guilt before there’s even an indictment But his US Attorney says there’s no case-so he appoints a flunky to prosecute instead American democracy is dead We now live in an autocracy With a fascist leader