Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Sydney Reid acquitted. This was a case where someone filming was assaulted, and then arrested and charged with felony assault. The grand jury no billed that, so they took her to trial on a misdemeanor charge. There were a bunch of discovery problems. And now this. Kudos to the FPDS!

Oh no. Another voice gone that has narrated public events all my life

The "ceasefire" does not seem to be going great

Look at that beautiful Trumpian landscape

Fertility rate isn’t a problem if you allow immigration. IJS.

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

There already was an “I Hate America” rally. It was on January 6th, 2021. The President spoke at it.

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities. Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

Guys, GUYS, GUYS!!!! We forgot to invite David Brooks to the protests AGAIN, and now he’s writing about how we need a mass movement.

Here we go. Anyone left is just a stenographer

Yessss

LOOK, LOOK, LOOK! @riotthecorgi.bsky.social Could this be the elusive Mongo Torto?? 😛🐕🐾🐢❤️ #CorgiCrew

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

The other day I realized the globally the use of force as an interpersonal expression of power has been almost completely ceded by women to men.

“To the extent Bank of America could publicly feign plausible deniability before Epstein’s arrest in 2006, thereafter its ability to play dumb was eviscerated, as the details of his daily sexual abuse of young females came to public light” (BoA declined comment) www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/15/j...

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

Vote YES on Prop 50 in California !

Translation: we bombed a boat in international waters

Literally the opposite of originalism. Make Article I great again! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California. California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Fuuuuck

This is bananas. Wtaf? I don’t even know where to start with this. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

The peace deal happened after Israel had its biggest protests in its history. This is a lesson for us in America. Come out on October 18 for the no kings day protests.

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Narrator: It wasn’t a hoax

My hatred for Trump is completely separate from my understanding that correlation does not equal causation

What drives me nuts about this dialogue: diversity and inclusion training was a corporate response to the statutory requirements civil rights laws. None of these laws have been repealed by Congress. Congress can pass the laws under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, which has also not been repealed.

i need jokes to send to a friend in the ER waiting to be seen

So middle class people who can’t afford libraries are tacky virtue signalers. The narrative of wealth as a ticket to virtue continues

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

They are building a Propaganda State. They are cooking the books on job creation. Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

This one featuring @karenattiah.bsky.social discusses how the broader center-to-left has failed to understand power, at both personal and organizational levels. We have to seek power and use it in order to protect our beliefs.

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

My cat has a bluesky account

three hoover dams worth of power may be no longer coming online to meet a coming power crunch and i can’t get info from the govt because of congress

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Trump hates clean air and clean water

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

US Treasury intervenes in Argentina’s currency market on.ft.com/4h13lLf

When is the general strike?

NGL I’M PROUD: That the Generals and SNCOs at Quantico had the military bearing to not cheer or clap for that disgraceful speech. @SecWar is a drunk, sexual assaulting racist who thought it was clever to give fuck ups in the armed forces permission to be drunks, racists, sexual assaulters!

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...