🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes. In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

"we are going to murder americans without due process" ~pam bondi, US attorney general

Remember that WaPo endorsed Bondi as qualified and serious. Unfortunately, WaPo is neither.

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

Report: Apple defined ICE as a "protected class" in blocking "discriminatory" anti-ICE apps boingboing.net/2025/10/08/r...

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

One of the most nefarious actions that actually takes place on a regular basis is that laws & rules meant to protect those historically violated by our status quo and the individuals upholding it are weaponized against us. It's also why I think Ethics should be required continuing ed for lawyers.

A lotta folks have been warning for YEARS that govt subsidies encouraging US farmers to invest near-exclusively in two crops (soybeans and corn) could have catastrophic consequences. Most were thinking climate-change implications (making these crops ungrowable) but here’s a self-inflicted one!

“We should be able to walk into a bank and just take the money.” See how stupid that sounds, Nick?

Then it has no right to exist

It is a day that ends in Y so Brendan Carr is once again exceeding the FCC's statutory authority to police speech and tech he hates. FWIW: I wish people had listened to the handful of us who had been screaming about Carr since about mid 2017. potsandpansbyccg.com/2025/10/08/f...

All brought to you by the same group that in a previous episode staged a riot inside the national capital to disrupt and prevent the legal transfer of power to their political rivals after losing an election

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees: -the right of the people peaceably to assemble -to petition the Government for a redress of grievances -the free exercise of religion -freedom of speech If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

In a press release, Texas Attorney General calls "transgenderism" a "corrupted ideology" that is "a cancer on our culture." This is openly genocidal rhetoric about trans people from a sitting AG.

Here are the 10 states that will see the highest premium increases for families that lose tax credits if Republicans refuse to act. West Virginia 387% Wyoming 382% Alaska 346% Tennessee 320% Mississippi 314% Texas 289% South Carolina 285% Alabama 284% South Dakota 235% North Dakota 234%

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Two people whose original claims to fame were that the other staffers at the New York Times thought they were whiny weirdos. One felt "ostracized" because he liked Chik fil A, the other quit because she was "bullied" there. They're the poster children for self-imposed cancel culture martyrdom.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Worth noting that 1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin 2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out. 3) They do deliver internationally booksupstairs.ie

Do not pay $100,000 to become a podcaster for the love of god

On a completely unrelated note, we should bring back the monocle.

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately. The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities. She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

Important point

This is a drum I have been banging for a few years with those who do administration: the "blowback" you are getting about a particular online thing is often more perception than reality, and the more national that blowback is the more likely it is that it's an astroturfing campaign. ...

This is assault. This is fascism. This is evil.

Tucker seems to have identified a new journalistic "talent" who he wants to introduce to the MAGA millions who follow him. Hm, I wonder what this Elizabeth Lane says that makes her so platform-worthy...

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

"Faced with a choice between long-standing practice and black-letter federal law on one hand and Trump’s vague and abstract policy suggestions on the other, the Supreme Court essentially chose the most lawless path available to it." newrepublic.com/article/2012...

A genuine person with a real love of all things Irish / Gaeilge - and a genuine loss to those of us who shared that love of culture. #32WordsForField #Speirgorm #Irish

NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin continued to threaten Europe as part of a multi-pronged informational effort to deter the West from responding to hostile Russian actions. Read the October 2, 2025 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment: isw.pub/UKrWar100225 Other Key Takeaways ⬇️ (1/5)

This is a disgusting conflation by the police of an abhorrent act of political violence and antisemitism on the one hand, and a completely unconnected peaceful political protest on the other. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Video: a Nazi at the University of Washington interrupted a psych class by doing a Nazi salute and yelling Heil Hitler only to have the entire class chase after him as he tried to escape I will always repeat this: we outnumber them, by far. We need to be organised. www.reddit.com/r/udub/s/YDY...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

"Hey so about Singal's TOS violati-" "WaFfLeS! lol u did a waffles everyone take a shot" "Look man I just wanna feel safe on this websit-" "'OOOH, I wAnNa fEeL sAfE, OOOH, pLz HeLp mE mOdS!!' lol get a life and let me eat the $30 breakfast plate I ordered specifically to post and spite you."

Flatly untrue: *No legal requirement to cut programs/employees under shutdowns. Never happened before. *In Feb, Vought told agencies to prioritize firing employees deemed non-essential during shutdown to enable DOGE mass firings that occurred before the shutdown. www.opm.gov/chcoc/latest...

The perfect encapsulation of Politico. "Of course the White House is lying, but it's a pretty savvy lie, so let's see how it plays?" It's all a fun little game with no stakes to them. It's like they're recapping episodes of Real Housewives.

Never should have stopped calling these guys weird. They're so freaking weird.

The war on wikipedia by the fascists will only intensify as they seek to entrench their power in every information ecosystem. I believe we ought to support and protect wikipedia, its community and mission, as one of humanity's greatest libraries of knowledge.

Yes, racists will disagree with anti-racists about racism existing and about racism being bad. Fascists will disagree with antifascists about fascism being dangerous. No shit and so what.

Klein literally did do the “oh but don’t you see my friend, other people might disagree with you” thing, which sounds profound if you totally excise moral clarity, which is why people without moral clarity always think of it as a rhetorical checkmate.

Feel like @durbin.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @welch.senate.gov should maybe answer that fairly basic question?