Providing free Wi-Fi to rural schools is leaving those communities behind. Ending free Wi-Fi for rural schools, now that's how you show those communities you care, they matter, and haven't been forgotten.

Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans are blocking the swearing-in of Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. If it wasn’t for them, she’d be the final signature needed on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

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?...

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war.. is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health" www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Trump is continuing to fund his most hated policies while choking off the popular stuff and this makes him a political genius because it's the Iron Law of Politico that everything Trump does is a stroke of political genius.

Advocacy groups sued to block the Trump administration from creating a centralized database of Americans’ personal information for purging voter rolls, arguing doing so exceeds their legal authority and violates the Constitution’s separation of powers.

conservative constitutional jurisprudence: "the Special Boy legal school of thought. It holds that Donald Trump is America’s most Special Boy, and nothing whatsoever can be allowed to interfere with any of the Special Boy’s goals or cause him a moment’s discomfort." h/t @fleerultra.bsky.social

Yes, Russia threatens that if anyone acts to counter Russian aggression then Russia will get aggressive and it'll be your fault. Heard that before. At this point, how does anyone buy that Russia hasn't been really trying against Ukraine and Europe? That they could win but are holding back instead?

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

A new report from Bright Line Watch finds experts now rate the U.S. as a "mixed" or "illiberal" democracy. The rating is dragged down by Trump's attacks on institutions, a weak legislature, political violence, and partisan gerrymandering www.gelliottmorris.com/p/experts-no...

When Trump threatens to nix funding to NYC if Zohran Mamdani wins, it only helps Zohran. It inflates the Trump threat, positions Zohran as a fighter for NYC against Trump, and pushes Cuomo into the role of Trump stooge. There's a lesson here for Dems. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Everyone’s heard of Right to Life. Almost nobody’s heard of the Personhood Alliance. They’re behind today’s fight in South Carolina, and their plan goes far beyond abortion law.

This is a thundering ruling by Judge William Young (a Reagan appointee). He says that it's "perhaps the most important case" in his district and writes more than a dozen pages on "JUSTICE IN THE TRUMP ERA," focused on Trump's "bullying" and "retribution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment. His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

Imagine that you are literally in the chain of command that is potentially responsible for ending human civilization as we know it by prosecuting multilateral nuclear war and suddenly a dude from TV is your boss and he thinks you could stand to lose a few pounds.

Want to see another neat trick? Impressive how one bloc of voters, rural and small town conservatives, Republicans, particularly from the central and southern states, can undermine democracy, the US Constitution, the rule of law, but not bear responsibility for any damage they've done to the USA.

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

"CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss" is the exact same deal as "Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth"

one of the fun features of old twitter was when anyone would criticize Bari Weiss, a bunch of old white current and former Timesers would assemble into a Voltron Bari Defending Machine

Jeanine Pirro is again found to have engaged in improper conduct before grand juries.

Having the U.S. military in our cities is not normal in America. The president cannot just make up facts and mobilize troops when they’re not needed. That’s why we filed our lawsuit immediately—and why we’ll continue to stand for Oregon’s laws. #nationalguard #portland #oregon #orpol

Under Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL totally reverses its historical mission. It is now engaged in the persecution of Jews who criticize Netanyahu and is a major advocate of secret police and concentration camps.

You won't read a better summation of the Hesgeth/Trump show than this one... (From my subscription for you) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Bin-go

Reagan can be best understood as white voters rejecting the New Deal if they had to share it with Black people

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that Trump loyalist Sigal Chattah has been unlawfully serving as Nevada’s U.S. Attorney since July. Chattah and her office are now barred from prosecuting cases — the second Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney disqualified within 2 months after Alina Habba in NJ.

When you visit the HUD website, you get this, paid for with your tax dollars.

Democratic Governors Can Arrest ICE Agents. What Are They Waiting For? open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

AOC: And when Republicans use a legislative mechanism to gut the American health care system, we have to use a legislative mechanism in order to restore it and to fight for it.

BREAKING: A second Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has been disqualified after a federal judge ruled her appointment invalid. Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Duty to refuse illegal orders! That's my advice to these Troops. There is a legal hotline you can use if you feel threatened by your commanding officer or fellow soldiers. girightshotline.org 1-877-447-4487. Good luck, Troops!

AOC: Donald Trump is trying to play this bluffing game of, well, maybe what we're going to do is hold the entire all the federal workforce hostage and fire everybody. Donald Trump has been firing everybody.

That he already did this once is why he's so weak! The base hates him, rightly. Not just normal middling popularity of a Senate leader, he's actively despised. And that's no small part of why he can't wield any real discipline. He's a paper tiger to his own senators as much as he is to Republicans.

But again, that's a choice! They have chosen to keep Schumer in place even though he can't credibly speak for the caucus or negotiate with their votes as a solid bloc. That's on them to have the worst joke of a leader in modern times, nobody's forcing them to do that.

It is pathetically weak caucus discipline that Schumer already lost not just Fetterman but also Cortez Masto and King right out of the gate. And that's a big part of why any better plan starts with replacing Schumer with somebody who can actually do the basic job of whipping their own party's votes.

“My mother was raised in Germany during the war,” said a rally attendee. “All the things that are happening to take away power from the people and the polarity of wealth and power is frightening to me. If we don’t pay attention, we are going to slide into something even more dangerous.” #YesOnProp50

Two senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal. The Democratic alternative CR had language that would address this, but the White House came out strongly against.

Imho, people who hate AI sometimes end up in this weird self-contradictory position because our culture lacks a common sense way of talking about deskilling (but these folks have the intuition that AI is undermining something important while not offering an adequate replacement) Maybe this helps

Was struck when I visited the grave of Eisenhower, the archetypal 20th c. warrior, he chose the inscription above his tomb, ”Every gun made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed“

wait so the critical military brass meeting hegseth called was just for him to just strut around talking about how important he was ?

Fresh & piping hot theintercept.com/2025/09/30/t...

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Nonbinary people are nonbinary and they're trans if they say they are. Stop with the oppression Olympics and gatekeeping. I love ALL the members of our trans community, including enbies.

I need journalists to be able to identify a push poll when they see one.

Again, the GOP has complete power to fund the government on its own terms, the only question is whether they have the will to exercise that power and own the consequences

This is the main reason the ADL originally existed, and now they’re giving it up entirely because it made some right-wingers upset. They are no longer pretending to be anything other than a pro-Israel advocacy group. And they are prioritizing Israelis above American Jews.

Considering the YouTube news from less than 24 hours ago perhaps the news about Google reportedly blocking AI search results re Trump and dementia is not random? Just asking ...

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

Not so much madman theory as madman reality now.