The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

Jenna Nicholls and I are gonna be in Manhattan at @cafewha.bsky.social on Sunday evening at 6, to add our tiny voices to the long weekend of celebrating the election of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social BECAUSE FUQ YEAH and also if you're disappointed about it, I'll buy you a drink because socialism.

Me & @petermulvey43.bsky.social & Sean are singing & playing our favorite baseball songs at Club Passim in Harvard Square next Thursday. Chris Anzalone brings the color commentary. Tickets at TinyURL.com/KnuckleballSuite

I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...

What keeps New Yorkers up at night are not the right-wing fever dreams of Andrew Cuomo. It's whether or not they can keep living in the city they love. I'm the only candidate on stage tonight with a vision for the future and a plan to bring down costs.

BREAKING: @nytimes.com Spelling Bee is clearly the girlfriend of one the founders of Antifa. Anyhow, let's heed her advice and get out to a No Kings demonstration. #NYTSpellingbee #NoKings

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Ahhh yes. Just come out and say it. "We're doing the studies to make the proof."

"Sir, YOU are the president of Puerto Rico."

In a democracy based on freedom and the rule of law, we don’t jail public officials—or anyone—because of policy disagreements. We need everyone to repudiate this nonsense because a president cannot act as a prosecutor, judge, jury and dictator.

Be sure to check out our special package, American Gulag.

As numbers balloon, so too does interest in replicating the hellish conditions inside Alligator Alcatraz, with red-state governors gleefully proposing detention centers like "Cornhusker Clink" (Nebraska) and “Speedway Slammer” (Indiana). @lauracmorel.bsky.social + @idgordon.bsky.social report:

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean. If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

Six days until the release of the Epstein files. He'll be using cruise missiles by Sunday.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Halloween is going to be weird now that there are scary masked people on the streets all year long.

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

Support and protect this man, Chicago. ICE is vindictive.

I have always supported stricter gun laws because I want to protect human lives. Including Charlie Kirk’s life. I did my best to protect him, because to me that is the only moral choice.

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.

This is heavy.

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files. But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

🚨✊ Memphis, it’s time to rise up. From the NG to ICE, from xAI to every system that profits from our pain—enough is enough. We refuse to let those who benefit from our oppression control our city. Join us on Saturday, October 4th at 2PM at “I AM A MAN” Plaza (Hernando St., Memphis, TN).

Well then, I guess we all better hope the two million people with assault rifles, tanks, drones, cruise missiles, artillery, and warplanes are fully prepared to disobey unlawful orders. On a personal note — thanks, Trump voters.

Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.

I understand that American whiteness creates incentives for Irish Americans to not understand this but every racist mythos also casts the Irish as a uniquely violent and stupid people.

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.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Democracy may be on the decline here in the US, but thankfully there are a bunch of countries stepping up and advancing democracy worldwide.

Holy shit I miss the old Republicans, who were at least prudish and buttoned-up so we didn’t have to hear creepy stuff like this!

War-ravaged Portland

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

One legal victory at a time people.

You know we’re gonna find out that Amelia Earhart’s plane crashed on Epstein’s island, right?

The rules have changed. Mike Johnson wants to wait until the official results come in October 14th to swear in Grijalva.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

ICE is abusing/torturing/disappearing/killing people using our tax dollars and in our name.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

So much of what I read from the center left amounts to "what if the powerful did nice things for us without us having to make them" and folks, that's simply not how it works

This really is a good read and makes a good case.

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

On the ICE shooting. 1. It's terrible. 2. Too many disturbed people have access to too many guns in this country. 3. Too many political figures use incendiary and dehumanizing rhetoric. By far the most significant of them is the president. The fish of political violence rots from the head down.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Prosecutors should bring charges against this man. This is assault.