Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Three reasons I have hope for America, even after a very dark week: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/why-i-have...

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

This doesn’t even include the ones who had pending case but he had their charges dropped.

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

This. And this again.

NPR's veteran defense reporter Tom Bowman: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon Pass www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Trump, an authoritarian to his core, repeatedly sought the investigation, prosecution, and imprisonment of his political foes throughout his first four years in the White House. www.mediamatters.org/washington-p...

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

We are not bending the knee. My response to AG Bondi and President Trump.

We love guns more than kids. I don't see how you can interpret this as anything other than a diseased country in the latter stages of destroying itself.

Good morning, Mariners fans. MLB has uploaded the entirety of the bottom of the 15th of last night's ALDS Game 5 on YouTube.

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

I’ll be vacationing on the Big Island but you can be sure I’ll attend the No Kings's event, “We Say NO DICTATORS (Waimea)” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

A reader recently emailed me a question I've been asked 100 times: How do we—the little guys—turn the tide. It got me thinking about a related but in some sense more challenging question: What would a national resistance that we could place our faith in look like? www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

LIVE: Winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is announced www.youtube.com/live/Q3bkzLZ...

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

The Administration - raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill - is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built - is raising prices on materials with tariffs - all while AI is spiking electricity demand They are stopping supply while demand goes up It’s a crisis

Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.

Huge, huge swathes of *Trump voters* will effectively have no health care available except for emergency ER. It is simultaneously a) the worst way to maintain public health and b) the most *expensive* way to do it. Idiocy from moral degenerates. That's our country now.

Drug crimes and sex crimes left unchecked while Trump admin terrorizes immigrants. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.

Auchincloss: Donald Trump famously can take a joke about himself, right? And Donald Trump has very thick skin and never gets upset… This is one of the most petulant, thin-skinned crybabies in American political history, trying to claim that everyone else should be able to take a joke.

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

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.

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Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

This is pretty unbelievable. Qatar giving Trump that jet is really paying off for them in a big way.

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Convincing colleagues to vote with them is the literal job of politicians - if they can’t do that, they can’t do their jobs. They own this shutdown and all of the consequences.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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

BREAKING: The White House claimed the FBI deep state targeted Homan in the $50K bag-o-cash bribe for government contracts, but it was actually a fellow ICE colleague that steered undercover agents to Homan. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

The cognitive dissonance here is truly incredible.

The $170 billion in funding going to Miller’s agenda could build more than 7,000 new elementary schools, pay for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or fund the Head Start program for nearly 14 years: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

Stupid: every country in the world, every scientific institution in the world, every serious scientist in the world. Smart: US conservatives. Plausible!

This is fucking horrifying.

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Pedocon theory remains undefeated