The government of the United States, which is controlled by Donald Trump in the presidency, Republicans in the Senate, and Republicans in the House, will shut down in a few hours. It is the first shutdown since the last time Trump was president and he shut down the government.

Trump and the Republicans are shutting down the government because they want to increase your health insurance premiums by 75%.

This is where we are. Say it plain. He's trying to become a dictator. Turning the military against Americans who oppose him is a pretty sure sign, folks.

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

A federal judge delivered an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Trump, ruling that the administration impermissibly chilled the protected political speech of university professors and students by targeting non-citizens on college campuses who have spoken out in support of Palestine.

Government shutdown, farmers needing to be bailed out, troops in the streets, country bitterly divided, revolving door of appointees, Putin getting coddled, constant chaos … must be another Trump term.

In @albert-breer.bsky.social’s Week 4 takeaways: 💥 Chiefs alive and well 💥 Rams and Jaguars impress 💥 Jaxson Dart wins 💥 Falcons rebound 💥 International Series 💥 More www.si.com/nfl/week-4-n...

🔥💯 Pete Buttigieg in London: I didn't come here to tell everybody that things are better than they look. Things will get worse. Yet, I'm optimistic because things have reached the point where we will have to fashion something new. & In order to hasten that day, we better paint that picture now.

Let’s spell this out. Trump fired a qualified U.S. attorney who refused to do his bidding and installed his own personal lawyer to punish a perceived opponent. Justice needs to follow the law, not politics. This is an attack on the rule of law. Full stop.

AI workslop is a great term lol

I’m a professor & was writing the same feedback on all the papers I received so I wrote a letter I now give students early in the semester with this feedback articulated. it’s made a huge difference so I’m sharing in case anyone wants to use or adapt it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Welp: Texas A&M President Mark Welch just stepped down after pressure from Republicans over a video of a professor who taught about transgender people in a children's literature class

"it's very important when there are discussions about strategic planning, for instance, to make sure that the input of the humanities, but also of the arts, the social sciences, all of those areas are also represented. And it's definitely something that we have to be proactive on." bit.ly/46wltbe

The South Korean government said it will look into whether human rights violations were committed against the 317 South Koreans who were detained by ICE agents in Georgia earlier this month.

These deaths are a real feather in the cap of Brian Kilmeade and Fox News.

Ever since Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election, I have warned that he would use every tool and level of government to target his political opponents. Now it is happening. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed an executive order which permits pharmacists and other medical personnel to administer vaccines recommended by state officials, no prior prescription needed. The order also requires insurance companies to cover the vaccines.

Minorities make up 60% of Texas’s population and even drove 95% of the state’s growth in the most recent Census. Yet their new map cuts their share of districts from 34% to 21%. Advocates say that’s no accident.

NEW: Missouri's new congressional map carves up Kansas City into three separate districts, fulfilling the wishes of President Trump. The ACLU filed a lawsuit Friday, and Kansas City Council recently passed a resolution authorizing legal action of its own.

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In summary: The hateful Charlie Kirk was shot by the acolyte of a more hateful version of Charlie Kirk. It wasn’t any of the imaginary bogeymen they were hoping for. Just a case of them slowly drowning in their own hate.

“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.” From the archives:

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

This concludes the Reichstag Fire portion of the Trump admin - because it turns out that both shootings this week were done by young white men with an affinity for Republicanism, guns, religion, Trump, or nazis. So I'd like the doxxing websites to be retracted & the "radical left" given an apology!

the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry

Incredible darkness gathering now

Violence begets violence. We must resist succumbing to this: “Alabama State University has received a terroristic threat directed at our campus. Out of an abundance of caution, the University has shut down campus operations until further notice.” www.al.com/news/2025/09...

The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops. Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you.

@jamellebouie.net remains unparalleled in today’s media for being able to use history to explain where we are and what we are seeing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

Judges vexed by Supreme Court 'shadow docket' rulings in Trump cases

Genius!

“It’s really everyone — not just noncitizens or undocumented people — who are in danger of having their liberty violated in this kind of mass deportation machinery,” said Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. (Published March)

Because of the Hyundai raid, Korean companies have frozen travel plans for staff. "Korean workers are being treated like criminals for building factories that Washington, itself, lobbied for." A company in Seoul says if this continues, their investments in the U.S. will be reconsidered.

If the GOP passes this law, Missouri will be sued.

Pirates attacking shipping routes could never have cut small oceangoing traffic by 80 percent. It took a mad king.

🧵Rachel will have lots to say about this. I think I see DC too. ⬇️

US health insurers are raising insurance premiums by the most in 15 years. Recall that Trump recently threatened 250% tariffs on pharmaceuticals. GOP lawmakers also chose not to extend the expanded premium tax credits that expire at the end of this year

BREAKING: Missouri Republicans just voted 10–4 in committee to advance Gov. Kehoe’s gerrymandered congressional map. If enacted, Kenhoe’s map would dismantle Kansas City’s 5th District & lock in a 7–1 GOP majority in the House delegation.

Let’s go!!! www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

For folks who see the Supreme Court as the cloud that goes with the silver lining of the legal defeats of Donald Trump's agenda, Norm Eisen points out that not everything goes to the Supreme Court.

In Chicago/Chicagoland or anywhere else in Illinois: -Call Gov Pritzker; tell him you agree w ⬇️: 217-782-0244 -Find & call your state electeds & US Rep & Senators - tell them this unconstitutional power grab is wholly unacceptable: www.elections.il.gov/electionoper... -Ask others to do the same 7/7

Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.

Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the city's police from collaborating with federal officers on civil immigration enforcement operations, and U.S. military personnel on police patrols.

Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.

DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.