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.”

A bottom-feeding trash site called @bluedelaware.bsky.social was stealing our work all year. We noticed it today and called them on it. They hastily deleted lots of posts, but @archive.org saved some. Sample stolen post: web.archive.org/web/20250627... Ours: www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

Judge Lamberth, a Reagan employee, slams the govt's "disrespect" for his orders. He says contempt proceedings would be warranted, but he doesn't order them because nobody asked for them.

Lawyers... start your engines!

The last Planned Parenthood clinics in Louisiana will close as of Wednesday. Read more in the @autonomynews.co weekly roundup: www.autonomynews.co/abortion-cli...

Jesus fucking christ. Just put on the red hat and get on with it.

we may or may not have exposed your data, here is a dollar

“I’m so happy for him … I think it’s great,” said Queen Gloria Estefan. “I think we need Latino representation in this particular moment.” deadline.com/2025/09/glor...

Related, today :/ ->

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

Trump and his allies promote the idea of pervasive left-wing violence using bad reporting and bad data. (Includes Fox Portland footage that may have triggered Trump's threat to the city.) www.pbump.net/o/how-trumpw...

#ScienceUnderSiege subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

No wonder Netanyahu is so happy about Larry Ellison’s pending acquisition of TikTok. It seems the two men are close. Article below from 2021. 1/ www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-on...

No, this simply cannot possibly be. I was told that large-scale, non-universal redistribution was unaffordable, unfair, rampant with moral hazard, immoral, & un-American 🤔

This happened to me a few months ago. I approached several property management associations (and lenders) who demanded to have my employer login creds. I told them all to eat dust.

The entire chain of command responsible for killing these people, from the leadership at the Pentagon to the pilots attacking the boats to the "lawyers" justifying it, needs to be court-martialed and imprisoned. They knew what they were doing was illegal, and did it anyways.

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Ohio voters & the state's constitution speak clearly: it is every Ohioan’s right to make her own reproductive decisions—and the state shall not interfere or burden that right. These proposed laws are a slap in the face to a clear mandate from the people of Ohio. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/09...

Once upon a time, MAGA would scream about “unelected bureaucrats” who have too much control over the federal government Now that Stephen Miller has become the true president-behind figurehead Donald Trump-they’ve been awfully quiet

The administration twisted science last week to claim that Tylenol is unsafe in pregnancy—and news also broke that the FDA is conducting a "review" of the abortion pill mifepristone. These moves are related in more ways than one and women and pregnant people will pay the price. Me in @msnbc.com:

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

“Journalists have a constitutionally-protected right to cover stories as afforded by the First Amendment. No federal or state agency should interfere with that right either by threats or action taken against working journalists.”

I fucking told you...

According to this article…arrests based on how you/they look.. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Get thee to a cinema and see this. Just do it. www.onebattleafteranothermovie.com/home/

BEAUTIFUL!!!

What would the reaction be if Democratic politicians went on TV every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was, or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is, or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and “God, can you imagine being from there?”

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

The Haters won. But the Table of Success is forever. tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com

This is looking more and more like the demand for loyalty from Comey but for the entire military leadership. What if he starts rambling about sending the troops into Dem-run cities and expects them to applaud? What if Hegseth demands North Korea-style performances of adulation like the Cabinet?

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

2024: Trump beat Kamala 77m-75m 2020: Biden beat Trump 81m-74m

This is depressingly common now. A lot of people have in absentia removal orders they don't know about. And now that the benefits office is becoming an arm of the mass deportation machine, so people are getting picked up in this situation -- and grace to give time to file a motion to reopen is gone.

I'll say this once more: @kairyssdal.bsky.social, of public radio (APM vs NPR), giving daily lessons on putting things clearly and honestly. Enough of this "falsely" and "without evidence" and "departure from norms" wiggle talk. The man lies. Is deluded. Steals. And constantly breaks the law

In just two days the Trump administration has rhetorically expanded their bogeyman term from ‘antifa’ to ‘antifa-aligned.’ They are not hiding their goal of equating protest with terrorism.

Just because... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCwN...

A shameful fact which tells its own story.

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Good evening zelensky called assad a douchebag

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

I’d like to say I’m surprised, but DHS isn’t exactly recruiting from MENSA...

C'mon all you cable news and Sunday political show hosts: ask the slew of Republican guests you’re sure to have on over the next few days what their reaction would have been to Biden issuing an EO designating MAGA as a "domestic terrorist organization”. Same goes for all you reporters on the hill.

Mr. Ramirez, who was working LEGALLY at the factory, has U.S. citizen children and a wife here. He repeatedly asked to call his lawyer. DHS refused him at every turn, and threw him on a plane to Guatemala within 72 hours. DHS claims he waived a right to a hearing. He says that they're lying. 3/3

This is fucking horrifying.

"If you so much as touch one of our federal officers, you will go to jail." Their words mean nothing. Zero. They lost any credibility and authority to speak about law & order and political terrorism on January 6th. Especially Bondi.

If Trump shuts down the government next Tuesday I think the National Hurricane Center should just post a picture of a Sharpie with the message “Good Luck everyone!"

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

President Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm election by pressuring states to create more Republican congressional seats will face a major test in a federal courtroom in El Paso, Texas starting Wednesday, as a panel of judges considers whether to block the state’s new gerrymandered map.