The kids are not all right, because the grownups are not all right. Who, after all, are their role models? So, this is a reminder that ideas have consequences, but so does a decade of feculent bigotry and crudity that comes straight from the very top. charliesykes.substack.com/p/how-the-yo...

Written five years ago, posting because of new (or maybe ongoing) relevance. www.westword.com/news/marty-c...

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

I don't believe this is what most Americans wish to see in their community.

I'm glad to see almost all media organizations refusing to agree with Hegseth's stupid demand (OAN being the exception of course). When you capitulate to illegal and unconstitutional demands, it doesn't end there. It only invites more demands. Enough. Say no to this lawlessness.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

Freedom of the press is essential to a free country. The Founders understood this. They made it the very first freedom in the Bill of Rights. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Speaker Mike Johnson is now signaling he expects this shutdown might be the longest in history, further reinforcing what I suspected. This could go on until December, when Republicans hope to fill another seat in Congress, effectively offsetting the vote of Grijalva to release the Epstein files.

Breaking news: The Washington Post joined the New York Times, CNN and the Atlantic in refusing to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

The entirety of our executive branch departments are being run by childish internet trolls who live in a world of their own fantasies.

The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

Far from surprising. I've expected this the last two weeks. Moving on. www.tennesseetitans.com/news/titans-...

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

Add to this the Court’s usurpation of trial judges’ fact-finding function, often getting facts way wrong, in ways that get the Court to desired outcomes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

Being from Nashville, I had to watch this show 911 Nashville. Ugh. Might get cancelled immediately. Despite a decent cast and an all-star team of executive producers, this is awful. The writing, the acting, the implausible plot lines are a bad mix of community access TV and daytime soap opera.

In which Vance calls @propublica.org -- recipient of the Pulitzer for Public Service two years running -- a "left wing blog" and then admits on national TV that he hasn't read the very story he's dismissing. Here's the story, btw: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

someone should tell Trump they don't give the Peace Prize to people who blow up boats and murder those on high seas nor to those who deploy military against their own people. NEVER.

So, questions for Ms. Bondi: Why are anti-fascists (antifa) such a threat to this administration? Is antifa a membership based group? How much are annual dues? Do you get a membership card? Where is this organization headquartered? Who makes up the leadership of antifa? We need answers.

Tennessee's 7th Congressional district held a special election primary to fill the vacant seat. Progressive @aftynbehn.bsky.social won the Democrat primary and will face Republican Matt Van Epps, who promises to be a rubber stamp for Trump. tennesseelookout.com/2025/10/07/r...

Millions of older adults lose their savings to scams every year. There are ways to reduce the risk

Jack Smith didn't "tap" anyone's phone. He got phone records of potential insurrection suspects via lawful grand jury subpoenas. Just so happens some of those suspected of participating in January 6th were republican members of congress. If you don't want you phone records subpoenaed...

How would you like to pay out big money to a consulting firm only to find out the work product you got was AI slop? Deloitte will take a reputational hit for this. abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

In 2017 I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Fortunately I responded well to treatment and made a full recovery. Today I'm as healthy as ever.

NEW: A federal judge rules that the DOJ’s criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia may be a form of punishment against him for legally challenging his removal to El Salvador, and said he is entitled to discovery against the administration.

The Trump administration decided to destroy 94 million pounds of food destined for food banks. Total worth estimated at $500 million. A total waste. Because of one man's ideological animosity. This is an outage. You should be outraged. projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

First Trump blackmailed universities into suppressing free speech. Now he’s bribing them with taxpayer dollars to enforce his agenda. Corruption and authoritarianism, plain and simple. No university should cave to this blatantly unconstitutional coercion.

The Trump Admin is using government websites and the emails of civil servants to promote blatantly partisan propaganda about the government shutdown. This is an intolerable abuse of power and a form of bureaucratic identity theft from federal workers.

We are sadly at a point where we need a law mandating "neutral use" of taxpayer funds. Because Trump sees no problem using my tax dollars to bludgeon universities and municipalities into promoting his personal partisan agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Stay Gold, Nashville SC

The shutdown is here. It's built on a giant lie.

A central reason we're in this mess is that the final GOP budget is going to be full of ugly, deeply unpopular stuff - exploding deficits, destructive tariffs, cuts to health care/clear energy/food, supersizing ICE, tax cuts for billionaires - that Rs simply don't want to take responsibility for. 1/

The government might shut down tonight. I want to see Democrats hold firm. Not give an inch. Dig in and defend America from budgetary terrorism. Republicans have become accustomed to always getting their way. Republicans control the White House, House, and Senate. They will shoulder the blame.

Some basic principles: Don’t politicize the military. Don’t encourage them to act lawlessly. Don’t deploy them in America to attack American citizens. Act honorably. We should hope our well-trained military leaders listened to Hegseth & Trump and decided they’ll dutifully serve the Constitution.

It is undeniable that this moment is being shaped by people who marinated for years in an informational environment where reality was not only demoted but actively disdained. It took a while for that bubble to become impermeable but it did and now we have a chunk of people who know nothing but.

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

Trump says "dangerous cities", by which he means largely Democrat populated areas, should be military training grounds. How much more of this pretextual nonsense are we supposed to tolerate? There is no need to send the military into American cities. This is purely a power play by an autocrat.

Trump threatens to cut off federal funding from New York City if Mamdani is elected mayor. How is this not blatant election interference? Have we become so numb to outrageous abuses of power and subversion of the law?

maga has tried a new rhetorical trick: claiming that even using the word “fascist” is itself a call to violence. In their telling, to call someone a fascist is to paint a target on them. They insist that the label is so dangerous that it must not be uttered... open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Just got my flu shot at the office as I've done for many years. In the past I've also gotten a COVID booster. This year, "It's no longer available." How is this supposedly going to #MAHA?