Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

The most chilling lines from Trump's disgraceful speech. He's declaring a dirty war on Democrats.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

It’s hilarious how much BTC is owning Mick Mulvaney

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

Trump has so transformed and degraded the machinery of American government that it isn't enough to just beat him or his successor. Someone has to rebuild the liberal democratic state.

The California Democrat hit back at President Donald Trump’s bizarre AI-generated videos with a few of his own.

Q: When he tried to hand you that Trump 2028 hat, what was your reaction? JEFFRIES: They just randomly appeared in the middle of the meeting on the desk. It was the strangest thing ever. I just looked at the hat, looked at JD Vance & said, 'Don't you got a problem with this?' He said, 'No comment.'

Gotta wash those young brains

Hegseth basically forced more than 800 top military commanders to sit for a MAGA pep rally.

A First Amendment group and watchdog organization pressed a federal appeals court on Tuesday to compel the release of a DOJ special counsel’s report on the criminal investigation into President Trump’s handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. https://to.pbs.org/4mE7yWr

After Donald Trump's address to military leaders today, "senior U.S. officers have to wonder who will shield them from the impulses of the person they just saw onstage," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

Whoa, White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social reports from Chicago: "Nothing about this city feels like a war zone—to use this city and others like it as a "training ground" is dangerously deranged."

Why would any legislator vote for a budget the executive will ignore? In that situation, a yes vote conveys one thing and nothing else: validation for the White House’s blatantly unconstitutional actions.

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... 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"

The commander-in-chief is not ok. read @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Read this post. Then read it again.

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

Farmers contributed to trade associations to develop soybean export markets over the past couple of decades and then they voted in November to liquidate those markets. It’s really that simple.

It would be unforgivable if they didn't wonder that, FFS...

The GOP senator suffered the slip-up while railing against Democrats’ crime policies at a Senate hearing Tuesday.

Soon we’ll learn whether our military stand by the principles that define their duty to our country and the Constitution—or whether they break them to serve the depraved, degraded & lawless desires of a wannabe dictator and his sycophantic “War Secretary.” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-i...

“You kill people and break things for a living. You are not politically correct,” boasted the ambitious sociopath.

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 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.

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.

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID? It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

Thanks to Republican legislators, a 55-year-old couple making $85,000 annually could see their health insurance cost more than triple, to $24,535 a year. Obviously that’s unaffordable, which is why so many will drop coverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

The coal industry has been shrinking for a reason: Coal is no longer cost-competitive. There are more students enrolled at say Penn State than there are workers left in the coal industry (about 40k).

Trump admitted in the Oval Office he is shutting the government down. Democrats are ready to stop your health insurance costs from doubling.

AOC: When everyone says makes an exception here or makes an exception there, and then before you know it, you have masked agents roaming the streets of this country that do not feel entitled to identify themselves

Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.

This should be a bigger deal.

Rep. Dan Goldman: "I, frankly, am very upset to see Sen. Cortez Masto and Sen. King already caving...Republicans need to come to the table to negotiate a bipartisan deal that can get bipartisan votes that can both open the government and fix this healthcare crisis."

Mike Johnson is never going to “call out” anything Trump does, no matter how disgraceful, illegal, immoral, or unethical it is. He could commit crimes on video and Mike would say it’s AI. Johnson is a fake Christian who worships power and Trump.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

In a scorching opinion, Judge Young, the Reagan appointee who once seemed deeply skeptical of this lawsuit, filed a broadside against the Trump administration’s threats against all the pro-Palestinian demonstrators targeted for deportation, which he said flew in the face of the First Amendment.

Idiocracy is #6 on Netflix today.

WATCH: "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," says AOC as the shutdown looms.

Today, voters and pro-voting groups in Michigan, Minnesota and New Hampshire moved to intervene in DOJ lawsuits seeking full, unredacted voter lists. They’re stepping up to defend democracy. Follow Democracy Docket for the latest updates on these critical cases and the fight to safeguard voters.

WATCH: "For a Reagan-appointed judge to be out and out talking about secret police in United States of America in the year 2025 tells us everything about what's going on," says AOC.

“They want us to blink first, and we have too much to save. Protecting people is too important a task for us to give up before anything even starts,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Chris Hayes as the government heads toward a shutdown.

We have to strategize on how to protect ourselves from the fucking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Let that sink in! This is our country. We own it. We pay for all of it! They work for us.

Trump says Gaza will be governed 'under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee' which will be 'chaired by Donald J. Trump.' Trump has said he wants Gaza to be the "The Riviera of the Middle East."

Nailed it

NEW: In my OUR LAND newsletter, I look at the chilling effect that's hitting FBI agents and all federal investigators. Any crook or grifter with a Trump connection is now protected. link.motherjones.com/public/41773... You can sign up for a FREE trial subscription to OUR LAND at davidcorn.com.

Nov. 1 marks the start of open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — but Republicans in Congress are blocking measures to make it more affordable. Jeff Nesbit reports on the price hikes ahead.