KCUR - The director of the Eisenhower presidential library and museum says he was suddenly told to resign or be fired for refusing to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection […]

If you wrote a piece of fiction where this many members of a political party were rapists, people would roll their eyes. #gop #uspol https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/texas-gateway-church-robert-morris-scandal-donations-b2773369.html

Welp. “WASHINGTON (AP) — #SCOTUS said Friday it will consider overturning a Hawaii law that imposes strict regulations on where people can carry guns.” […]

FACT CHECK: Donald Trump’s trade war is crushing soybean farmers. Full stop. Republicans like Bessent down to TN’s Rep. Rusty Grills sound delusional blaming Biden. That math ain’t mathin’! Soybean sales to China under Biden last year: $13B Soybean sales to China under Trump this year: $0

Taken from Newsom's Xitter account @ GovPressOffice. Donie Antoinette says building the ballroom is essential and will continue during the Republican shutdown.

SHUTDOWN STAKES: Democrats want to renew ACA Marketplace tax credits to keep health insurance costs from skyrocketing for 24 million Americans. Trump & Republicans refuse to negotiate because “iLlEgaL iMmigRaNts.” Who’s gonna tell them the truth? www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/g...

WaPo, NYT, CNN and all the broadcast newsrooms prostituted themselves to no purpose during the Biden administration. Dems and independents noticed the slanted coverage disapprovingly and Republicans didn't care. https://news.gallup.com/poll/695762/trust-media-new-low.aspx

Passengers not injured. But ... wow! Republican shutdown taking effect https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/us-news/nyc-delta-jets-collide-at-laguardia-airport/

Vichy bros, tech "titans", whatever. https://www.publicnotice.co/p/google-settlement-trump

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

WHISTLEBLOWER: “I was walked out of the building and fired… to silence me for speaking out about the truth. But I’m not going to let that happen.” Paul was fired from HUD’s office of Fair Housing for calling out the Trump regime ignoring/enabling civil rights violations.

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well. youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people. And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off. Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts. Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public […]

Good quote.

AOC: "I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…" #politics #aoc

The Spoon-billed Sandpiper 👇 This tiny shorebird is one of the rarest in the world, instantly recognizable by its unusual spatula-shaped bill. Breeding in the remote Arctic tundra and migrating thousands of kilometers to Asia, it now faces habitat loss and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"Ready For A Trump War!?!" Dozens of US military fighter jets, along with a large number of tanker planes, arrived at the largest American airbase in the Middle East in Qatar. #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Ukraine […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

"A former defense official told Jack Detsch and Leo Shane III of Politico the meeting was 'a waste of time for a lot of people who emphatically had better things they could and should be doing. It’s also an inexcusable strategic risk to concentrate so many leaders in the operational chain of […]

Trump signed an executive order wherein any armed attack on Qatar's territory, sovereignty, or critical infrastructure would be considered a threat to the peace and security of the United States. ✍️ —Jerusalem Post

“Private payrolls saw their biggest decline in 2½ years during Sept, a further sign of labor market weakening that compounds the data blackout accompanying govt shutdown. Companies shed a seasonally adjusted 32,000 jobs during the month, the biggest slide since March 2023” […]

FLASHBACK — TRUMP ON A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IN 2013: "Problems start from the top. The President's the leader. he’s got to get everybody in a room and lead.”🤔

Here’s 3 full minutes of @kaitlancollins trying to get @SpeakerJohnson to admit undocumented people can’t get federal health care, and Johnson repeating the lie over and over anyway. Republicans are kicking people off insurance then lying about who they’re doing it to.

WATCH — Senator @brianschatz : “People are going to lose their health care. This is not a joke.” They want you to think it’s about undocumented people because it’s actually about you. The Trump health care tax will impact millions.

NEW YORK… ICE puts a photographer in the hospital… Completely out of control

"ICE goes masked for a single reason - to terrorize Americans into quiescence." - from a decision issued today by a federal judge (appointed by Reagan)

In a 161-page ruling, Federal District Court Judge William Young finds that noncitizens in the US have the same First Amendment rights as citizens, and the State and DHS secretaries violated the law by arresting and deporting pro-Palestinian protesters […]

A Chinook salmon was recorded ascending the fish ladder at Keno Dam on the upper Klamath River this week (Sept. 24) — a powerful sign of recovery since the removal of four hydroelectric dams last year. Salmon have not been in this part of the Upper Klamath Basin for more than 100 years. It’s a […]

TRUMP TAKEOVER! Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Have Become Virtually Untraceable The Trump Regime's aggressive approach to overhauling the executive branch has obscured how federal dollars are actually being spent — even for the members of Congress. #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #gop […]

"For every day of his second term, Trump has refused to spend funds appropriated by Congress—a gross violation of the Constitution ... Unless Trump and the GOP agree to end Trump’s lawless conduct, there is no point in passing a new budget. Trump will simply ignore the 2026 budget, just as he […]

WALTER: “The base of the Democratic Party is so fired up, so insistent on party leaders facing off against Trump… as you see those low approval ratings for the Dems, a lot of that comes from members of the party who say, our leaders are feckless, not fighting hard enough.”

“There will be no federal takeover of Portland, Oregon.” 🔥 👀 Damn — @bynum.house.gov is. Not. Playing. Around.

Judge suspends Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of Voice of America jobs - AP https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-trump-kari-

SpaceX now controls enough spectrum to offer commercial-grade mobile services globally — and the company is positioning itself to replace every other mobile operator with a service that operates entirely beyond national jurisdiction, warns British MP Tom Tugendhat. https://wapo.st/3IlM56R

NASA is facing backlash after reportedly being ordered to destroy a fully operational satellite that plays a crucial role in monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere. Imagine a perfectly good, high-tech spacecraft gathering invaluable data on carbon dioxide – a key player in climate change – only to […]

ILLINOIS — BROADVIEW POLICE CHIEF ON ICE: “I was shocked. I’ve never been spoken to by a fellow law enforcement officer in such a way.” ICE is routinely gassing cops and negatively impacting the community as their detention facility faces protests.

"The FBI has cut staffing in an office focused on domestic terrorism and has scrapped a tool used to track such investigations, in a shift that could undermine law enforcement’s ability to counter white supremacists and anti-government extremists, according to sources familiar with the matter." […]

Instead of prosecuting actual criminals, Trump's got law enforcement out there committing crimes against people because they are brown. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29

England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun. Brazil football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona’s hand. Germany, an oompah band. America is a gun. Holland a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kangaroo. America is a gun.

As DrudgeReport summarized it: Trump puts 100% Tariff on Mel Gibson's "Christ" https://www.showbiz411.com/2025/09/29/trump-announces-100-tariff-on-all-movies-made-outside-the-united-states-presumably-including-mel-gibsons-new-christ-saga

"The political press is missing the point by obsessing over [who] will be 'blamed' for the shutdown... The real story is that Trump is violating the Constitution every day by refusing to spend funds appropriated by Congress—a course of conduct that makes any proposed budget meaningless. The […]

Why would Thomas care about precedent when he doesn't care about the Constitution? He's just so confused by all those extra words that have no meaning, like "well regulated militia" in the 2nd Amendment. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/clarance-thomas-precedence-supreme-court-docket

New @washingtonpost.com opinion editor tells Fox they’ll have a range of @postopinions.bsky.social — from praise of Trump… to criticism of Zohran. How all-encompassing! Nothing missing at all!🙃 www.foxnews.com/media/editor...

Of course — “Bessent’s announcement had massive economic benefits for billionaire hedge fund manager Rob Citrone, who placed large bets on the Argentine economy... a friend and former colleague of Bessent, who helped make Bessent very wealthy.” popular.info/p/trumps-arg...

Portland is not “war ravaged" and the city does not want or need National Guard troops! 😠 "Oregon sues to block Trump from sending National Guard to Portland" […] [Original post on disabled.social]

They locked this firefighter up for FOUR WEEKS without due process (finally released). He had proper paperwork and status to work in the US--visa being processed, he was contributing to helping fight fires in Washington. He was ONLY released because of legal action. "The attorneys argued […]

This headline reads like a possibly sexual haunting between people called Joann and Michael.

A US citizen & human rights defender identified as Rachel S. was abducted & beaten by ICE Trump regime forces in LA, then transported to the hospital and then a detention center, local rights defenders demand an investigation. She is heard screaming: "Let me go! I am an American! I was born here!"