Was your tax cut worth this? Mine wasn't.

1) Trump says "I couldn't care less" about right-wing political violence. 2) Daily Caller posts a pro-political violence piece. 3) GOP official calls for execution of Dem member. Shame on anyone excusing this. If you have a GOP rep, shame them until they speak out. newrepublic.com/post/201016/...

Wind and solar are the cheapest energy we have. EVs under $10k and battery storage make renewables practical right now. Yet Trump urges more oil and gas as US costs. Affordability is clean energy, from @deanbaker13.bsky.social ; http://bit.ly/4q18JCq

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.”

Yes I'm cranky. I'm all for healthy, productive, informative debate. It's why I'm here. But people who go out of their way to purposely misinterpret and misconstrue what I'm saying have another agenda entirely, and it's not one that aligns with mine.

Love it when people put words in my mouth, respond to things I never said and assume general critiques are about them specifically. Real Rorchach tests. I've spent half my life involved in politics. I'm entitled to my opinions like everyone else. I do not owe you a 90 minute defense of them.

All you're doing is showing yourself to be a completely unreliable voting block, to be ignored in future elections.

If you're willing to throw the entire country under the bus over a single issue that's your right -- but don't expect to be praised for it. And if you're willing to do it over completely unrealistic demands expect to be endlessly admonished for it.

Some journalist should ask Zeldin or Wright why exactly they think China is doing this.

Someone meme'd the meme.

This is the left's current dilemma and reason behind a lot of the hesitancy we see. The costs of losing are high right now, but the price for winning may be higher. There's only so much Dems can bend on without selling their souls. What the voters want may be something Dems just can't deliver.

Starting to think Monday at 2am isn't the best time to be on social media.

Most people don't want their entire lives left up to the whims and moods of, as Fukuyama calls it, runaway capitalism. Social safety nets begin where the benefits of capitalism end. A lot of politics is the negotiation and administration of that safety net. With MAGA it's defending its existence.

It's a symbiotic relationship between red states and blue states but only one side's contributions are recognized.

🙏Please stop demanding candidates tank their careers on unpopular ideas and center their entire campaigns around petty grievances. Please stop expecting things that are economically, legally and politically infeasible. And please stop treating every political calculation as a personal betrayal. /🙏

ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen just for filming—knocking her unconscious. "Agents took her to a side alley, beat her up, then called an ambulance," witness said. "Then they kidnapped her from the hospital—without a formal discharge—and took her to Downtown LA Detention Center."

Hakeem Jeffries net favorability rating has dropped 18 points since January 2025 civiqs.com/results/favo...

Oh nothing, just 15 examples of Stephen Miller calling the left fascists.

Something for the left to keep in mind. I remember reading an article that said many people prefer Decisiveness from the leaders over Competence. If voters are looking for change then obstruction and inertia are a minority party's best friend.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

From Newsom's Twitter account with a shoutout to Grok"

Huh.

Republicans are twice as likely as Democrats (31% vs 15%) to trust news from podcasts more than other sources. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

Reminder: American farmers lost the China market to Brazil (which Trump has pushed closer to China bc of his tantrum about Bolsonaro) and Argentina (which Scott Bessent is bailing out with $20B of taxpayer $$). Americans are literally paying Javier Milei to poach American soybean markets.

While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.

Not my area of expertise but when your own party is more annoyed with your statement than the opposing party you might want to rethink your strategy.

For example:

“Mental health” differences disappear when you ask about “mood” bc conservatives don’t want to use the words “mental health.”

WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals." 1/3

Republican priorities.

Roughly 125,000 trans people live in Texas.

It's ironic that when Dems have complete power their goal is to help as many people as they can, and when MAGA has complete power their goal is to basically destroy America as we know it. It's depressing that given the obvious choice the voters chose the latter.

Summary: FEMA administrator wasn't accessible, despite large expenditures requiring his approval. Noem more focused on DOGEing FEMA than letting experts run it efficiently. Delays, optics and squabbles prioritized over competence. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

Cannot believe how quickly Twitter turned into nothing more than a global megaphone for lies. Has anyone revealed themselves to be a bigger douchebag in a shorter amount of time than Elon Musk?

It's called downsizing and companies do it all the time. I like Rob but does he really they should pay roughly $62 million in salaries for employees they don't currently need? Is that his idea of how successful companies should function?

MAGA on Twitter is currently convincing themselves (based on the administration's narrative) that the ACA subsidies and Medicare protections Dems are demanding to avoid a shutdown *entirely* benefit illegal aliens. Surely *some* of them must know it's bullshit.

You run for office with the electorate you have, not the electorate you want. 60 yo consultants whose last win was Clinton or Obama probably aren't going to cut it anymore. (Obama utilized the online sphere well but it's not 2008 anymore and the right has more than caught up since then.)

Oil and gas execs: "We love that you're destroying renewables but the ease in which you're doing it makes us worry about the next President's ability to do it to us. Could you do it in a way that the same authority you're using won't be available to a Democratic President?"

Vibes-based economic policy.

Thomas also gave public remarks on Thursday, suggesting that the precedent purge isn’t ending anytime soon www.courthousenews.com/thomas-signa...

The story btw azmirror.com/2025/09/25/j...

Trump says "hate-filled rhetoric" fuels violence and must end. Maybe he should talk to the guy who calls his political opponents "sick, sinister, and evil people" who are "trying to destroy our country" because they are "communists," "Marxists," "lunatics," "vermin," and "the enemy from within."

“De Gregorio told CBS News that Chris Russell, a Republican consultant in the state, had asked him to see what he could find on Sherrill.” www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...

If this is how they're treating people supposed to be here...

Comptroller Lander’s 2nd post says “Seconds earlier, her husband had been abducted by masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves, did not present a warrant, did not give any lawful grounds for his detention” The federal government is openly disappearing people, then attacking their families

I'm increasingly leaning towards the latter. Otherwise this cycle will never end.

Oh no. Wait. Don’t go. www.koco.com/article/ryan...

Numerous (5 or 6 now) Free Palestine activists in NYC have interrupted an event at which former VP Kamala Harris is speaking, leading her to sit and wait for them stop screaming or be removed. Notably, the current President was in NYC all day yesterday, without such interruptions.