MAGA: there wasn’t even a mishap with the artillery over I-5 you lying libtard Marines: halted exercise after firing 6 155 mm rounds because one prematurely detonated over the highway MAGA: DIDN’T HAPPEN NERDS Marines: we’ve opened an investigation and believe a fuze failed

Just a reminder that "en banc" review in the Ninth Circuit is ... unique. The full court (29 active judges, currently with a 16-13 D-R split) votes on whether or not to rehear a case en banc. If so, then *10* judges are randomly drawn to sit with Chief Judge Murguia as the "en banc" court.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Look, "if Obama did this" is a boring counterfactual, but the shit that scanned as "defiling the office" under Obama would blow your mind.

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

The metaphorical aspects of this are tragic. Our heritage demolished before our eyes. Also, here's Trump in July: "It won’t interfere with the current building. It won’t be. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."

Trump: "We took care of Medicaid and Medicare. We took care of everything. We didn't know where we'd stand in a year or two years from now, so we put every single thing that we wanted in that bill for four years. So we don't need anymore votes."

Snapshot of recent polls show Rs struggling to defend seats they hold: - VA Spanberger 51%-41% Earle-Sears - ME Mills 42%-37% Collins - NC Cooper 46%-42% Whatley - OH Brown 49%-48% Husted - TX Cornyn 48%-46% Allred, 48%-45% Talarico More 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-have-15...

Jesus Christ We are in deep trouble

Elon Musk now owns two thirds of satellites as 10,000th Starlink launches

The longer this goes on, the more Americans want to know why Republicans are protecting pedophiles.

Trump "told so many lies about No Kings during a gaggle with reporters Sunday evening … that it was hard not to wonder if he’s confusing AI videos with reality.”

One year ago: 🇺🇸 @economist.com

The winner of Virginia's gubernatorial election will likely influence abortion law in the only Southern state that’s maintained broad access to abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 eliminated a national right to the procedure. https://to.pbs.org/43outhB

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Oooh this is juicy. This is from Jim Comey's response to Lindsay Halligan's motion to disqualify defense counsel Pat Fitzgerald, and to set up filter protocols over old warrants. THE DEFENSE HAS REASON TO BELIEVE WHAT? lol

My latest: Trump is slowly but surely desensitizing the public to a brand of authoritarianism aimed at subverting the will of the electorate. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

No other U.S. president has used the military as their own personal police force against the American people. We implore the courts to reject Donald Trump's ongoing, illegal actions and definitively affirm states' sovereign right to handle public safety matters.

Literally

“.. a rare repudiation of a Trump nominee by a Republican Senate that has largely gone along with the president’s staffing choices.” @semafor.com @politico.com www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Oooooo, interesting. Somebody on the Ninth Circuit was quite unhappy with the baloney order justifying the National Guard in Oregon. (They also likely believe there's a good shot at reversal before the whole Circuit en banc, or they wouldn't have done this.)

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

“In 2016, Tesla proudly announced that all its vehicles produced onward are equipped with ‘all the hardware for full self-driving,’ which would be delivered through future software updates. “.. The automaker turned out to be significantly wrong about that.” @electrek.co electrek.co/2025/10/20/t...

‘A market correction of the same magnitude as the dotcom crash could wipe out over $20T in wealth for American households, equivalent to roughly 70% of American GDP in 2024. This is several times larger than the losses incurred during the crash of the early 2000s.‘ www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre. It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.

That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

NEW. Powerful piece by Miles Bruner. "I know the thought of walking away from your career and your social network is terrifying...I urge you to recognize that our nation is heading down a very dark path. But it’s not too late to change direction...Take a stand." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I treat the Bolton prosecution the same as indictments of Comey and James because they are all the product of Donald Trump's vindictive abuse of the DOJ. Also, I don't trust a single word in any of the indictments. They were drafted by prosecutors who ultimately report to Bondi and Trump.

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

It’s clear at pretty much every turn that none of these people have any experience with anything they’re doing and are just playacting what they’ve seen in movies. It’s a government run by people whose experience amounts to the “I’m not a doctor but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night” ads.

seems like you could be minimally fit, join ICE for the signing bonus, and then just not do the job

Top causes of serious injury among out-of-shape Americans: 1. Pickle ball 2. ICE tryouts 3. Fell off couch onto wineglass

Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey urged a judge Monday to dismiss the case against him, calling it a vindictive prosecution motivated by “personal animus” and orchestrated by a White House determined to seek retribution against a perceived foe of President Trump. https://to.pbs.org/4nhaBUX

I was right! The Bronston literal truth motion is going to be about the DoJ indicting Comey for something he never actually said (see the footnote), but is true on its face: that he stood by his previous testimony.

We had new windows installed today and our guys showed a lot more care and concern for the rest of the house than whoever is slapdashing this godforsaken shit.

OMG! In Comey's motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution, he points to others who have lied to Congress that were NOT prosecuted. Number one is JEFF SESSIONS when he said "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two, but I did not have contact with the Russians." 1/

1/ Thanks to Comey's lawyers, we have the appointment order for Lindsey Halligan in EDVa that the gov't has been trying to hide for weeks. I think it means Halligan is not long for this job & the Comey and Tish James indictments not long for this world. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So weird that this keeps happening www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

This is genuinely gut-wrenching. Anyone associated w this structure knows the endless ranks of people, over the decades, who have treated the structure and surroundings w respect—since they were symbols for traditions of America as a whole Too apt a metaphor for Trump and US institutions overall

The new talking point from the Speaker of the House is that the No Kings rallies were about calling for the murder of political opponents?? The way they defame the American people is insane.

Kristi Noem dismisses a question about "shocking" images of ICE kidnapping and brutalizing people, including children: "Our law enforcement officers are doing everything appropriately and correct."

The Tea Party was a totally contrived astroturf psyop that dominated American politics for years. It was even obvious at the time, and yet we all had to talk about it seriously.

You can see pretty clearly in this chart why the "K-shaped recovery" narrative was nonsense prior to roughly this year but is now very real.

Started / Going

The revolution will be inflatable..

A few people in colonial costumes complaining about immigrants was novel to NYT editors. Their friends don't do that. A running narrative would be exciting, especially after Obama won big. Millions rallying against Trump's authoritarian abuses? Bor-ring. NYT editors have heard that argument before.