If you’re wondering why there’s a lull in the Epstein files discussion, it’s because the law that just passed gave Pamela Jo 30 days to release the files. So we’re all waiting to see how she tries to sabotage it. The discussion will pick back up in earnest on December 20th.

Yes, sadly it is real.

Just my opinion: Bluesky is ruined by starter packs, requests for follow backs, thanks for follow backs, congratulations on follow backs. These posts take up a shit ton of space even tho I’ve muted a bunch of words to minimize them.

Trump posting a video of himself literally shitting on America is pretty spot on to be honest

When I see a post condemning boomers for being do-nothings, it tells me they haven’t been to a protest since 2017.

I know invoking Latin terms can be a bit esoteric, and "dementia" is fine and accurate, but I think there's real merit in zeroing in on the relevant legal concept: he is non compos mentis. Not just that he's a batty old man, he is debilitated in a concrete legal sense, fit for conservatorship.

Thugs.

Yes! A righteous cause, a heroine, and a huge fucking slap to trump’s delusional vanity.

Please tell me. Is there ANYONE in this country who believes this is a good thing? What is wrong with us, America that we put up with us? This is the type of thing we have repeatedly gone to war to oppose

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Are we great yet?

From Portland to the Polls: ICE Is Deporting Your Political Power open.substack.com/pub/lukium/p...

Essential reading What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

If you’re against ICE, wouldn’t you shoot an iCE officer and not a detainee?

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This is terrifying. Hegseth is summoning all flag officers from around the globe to Quantico the night before republicans shut down the government. Is this a final purge of dissidents? Are they going to use a government shutdown as pretext for massive domestic military mobilization?

I guess they no longer trust Hegseth with Signal? Jokes aside this is v freaking weird. Calling them in from around the world?

Yes. Yes we do.

Sounds like a plan ...

Measles. Mumps. Rubella. This vaccine is safe, it’s effective, and it protects us all. RFK Jr. is leading our country into a dangerous, uncertain future. He must resign.

The questions from and behavior of RFK Jr.‘s ACIP is the most egregious and dangerous display of science denialism I’ve ever personally witnessed. The harm to the United States is incalculable.

Thanks @docmurphydog.bsky.social Autocrats can’t take a joke.

How you know Trump is a vengeful, malignant narcissist, part 87: because no sooner than getting Kimmel booted off the air, he starts hinting that he wants NBC to kick Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon off the air. He is bottomless.

VOMIT

HAPPENING NOW: Rep. Raskin moves to subpoena four banks that helped move Jeffrey Epstein's money and have subsequently reported $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions. Vote will take place at the end of today's hearing with Director Patel.

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Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

If we transported 2025 Charlie Kirk back to 2012 he would have been widely considered the most vile and contemptible human being in politics, worse even than Limbaugh. That he wasn't in 2025 is a testament to how much of a permission structure for gutter racism the right has built.

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

At this point abolishing ICE and reforming the Supreme Court have to be non-negotiables for every 2028 Dem.

Pushing back works. Stand strong, Chicago.

Hubbell this morning: declaring war on an American city is treason.

New Covid shot and flu shot thank you Governor Healy!

“every day we waste debating the ‘legitimacy’ of fascist actions, those actions harden into the new normal. Fascism thrives on brutality, but it triumphs thru passivity. Right now, it’s the liberal lullaby-not the fascist ideology-that’s putting America to sleep.” open.substack.com/pub/lukium/p...

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

Imagine that

To be clear this is a huge change to Medicare. Currently Medicare does not require or even do pre-approval for procedures. At all. This would not only allow them, but would incentivize companies to deny the requests all while leaving the decision about whether to approve or deny up to AI. 😬😬😬😬😬😬

Yes, RFK Jr is a monster. A cruel, ignorant, pathologically dishonest, conspiratorial monster. And it’s not surprising RFK Jr is where he is now. A cruel, ignorant, pathologically dishonest, conspiratorial monster chose him, nominated him. Vote in 2026 like your life depends upon it. Bcuz it does.

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie filed a discharge petition today to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Working with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, Massie now needs to persuade 216 additional House members to sign it.

Pup cup in Newton Center

See through it.