This is the truest thing I’ve read on the Internet in a while

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago

ICE agents arrest Alderperson Jessie L. Fuentes (26th Ward of Chicago city council) after she questions them on whether they have a signed judicial warrant to arrest a person at Humboldt Park Hospital. “He has Constitutional rights.” “No.” ICE’s exact mindset: no one is allowed any rights now.

There are lots of sorry stories about U. S. journalism these days. The firing of Joy Reid and Matthew Dowd. The spiking of the LA Times' Kamela Harris endorsement by the paper's billionaire owner. But the worst so far must be the absolute gutting of the Washington Post by Jeff Bezos lackeys.

What a pathetic lie, JD. Nobody’s arguing for benefits for people who are undocumented. But now that we’ve cleared that up, are you saying you WILL support continued ACA health care tax credits for millions of U.S. CITIZENS? That’s what we’re fighting for!

Voter Fraud MAGA’s Top “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. Jack Posobiec votes in one state and lives in another. (Slate) The idea that widespread voter fraud could exist, let alone does, understandably persists in the minds of people likely doing it. (Eschaton)

Petty tyrant requires endless flattery, thirsting after Nobel Prize. Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize before. Experts say he’s unlikely to win this year (AP)

Remember when the president directed the attorney general to use the Justice Department to persecute his political opponents? Last week, was it? Has he been impeached and removed for that yet?

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Yesterday Republicans told people the racist video Trump posted was just a joke But today.. Today his racism was put into practice when his ICE goons rounded up Black and Brown children in Chicago-including citizens And I bet the families of those kids aren't laughing Nor should anyone else

Yes on 50!

like you can do Hegseth's performative MANLY MAN deus vult assed tattooes too and it works, it's all drag, top to bottom, Trump's bad toupee and bronzer all the way down to the social media tradwives, it's all a terminal case of stage IV metastatic gender, always has been

Dershowitz franticly screams the word “underwear” & other profanity-laced legal objections to his tv set as he realizes that he will never be served a pierogi anywhere ever again.

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The Donald is just a Cause Pain and Punish kind of guy. gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

Trump is angry tonight. "Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life," Pope Leo said. "And someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the U.S., I don't know if that's pro-life." (NPR)

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

Why Wall Street shrugged off the government shut-down. They like Trump's anti-worker policies. "How Trump could use a government shutdown to turbocharge his economic agenda. The president has vowed to use expanded powers during a shutdown to fire government workers and cut programs." Yahoo Finance

Anecdote about current politics: A centrist friend of mine told me today that he hopes the Democrats nominate a "moderate, sensible" candidate and not a far-left one. Then he added, "But I'll vote for whoever they nominate." Left candidates may do well in 2026 and 2028.

Musk fires the messenger. An engineer presented Musk with data and a Google Trends chart showing his popularity had fallen from 100 to just 9. Musk told the engineer, “You’re fired, you’re fired.” (Daily Beast reporting on Jacob Silverman book about Musk)

Turns out "going high" doesn't work at all. POOR JD! HIS SWEET BELOVED COUCH NOW COSTS MORE WITH THE TARIFFS! (Gavin Newsom on X today)

Blunt. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) called Trump out for suggesting that the military use the country’s “dangerous cities as training grounds.” “Look, the president’s an idiot,” Gallego told CNN. “He doesn’t actually understand how the military works.” (CNN, HuffPost)

"It took a little longer than I expected, but we have apparently already forgotten about America's greatest human, Charlie Kirk. Keep his light burning, Ezra!" --snarky Eschaton blog disq.us/t/4vvqsf5

The ADL will need to decide whether it's a watchdog against hate or a lapdog of Trump and Netanyahu. I'm not sure we're going to like the decision.

Outrageous.

I had lunch with my mom and she unprompted said “did you hear about the guy running for mayor I don’t know his name but I like him” so this stuff works I guess

American Psycho.

"I want you to understand what voting for MAGA budget means: 1) your health care costs immediately go UP 2) hospitals CLOSE 3) cancer research ends"

Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate

Vance and Trump make America racist again. Vance brushed off Trump’s posts of vulgar AI-generated videos of top Democratic leaders as “funny,” and an example of his boss “joking and having a good time.” Jeffries was depicted in a sombrero while mariachi music played in the background. (Politico)

People always used to ask, "How low will Republicans go to protect and pander to Donald Trump?" Thanks to Ted Cruz, we now have our answer.

All the biggest US companies are down over 1% in four hours of overnight trading since the shutdown began. Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Avgo, Tesla, Meta. All down more than 1%. The downtrend will probably continue once the market reopens. Jobs, pensions, recession. We're in trouble.

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He's protecting dear leader?? "How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop murders.’ How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop rape.’ How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles.’” #Pinks www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cr...

Trump said to the generals, "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military" (NY Times). He sees the great American cities as enemy terrain, as rehearsals for Iran, Iraq, and Venezuela. If there are casualties, he's good with it.

I don't know if people -- in general -- know what "authoritarianism" is. I don't know if they really know what "fascism" is. But I think they're far clearer on what a dictator is. Choice of words is very important right now.

The crazies are wreaking havoc. Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Kennedy, Musk.

Musk world imploding. He is sacrificing all to his vendetta against Sam Altman. Departures from Musk businesses include Tesla’s U.S. sales brass, battery/power-train leads, the CIO, linchpins from the Optimus robotics and AI teams, as well as xAI's CFO and general counsel. (FT, Daily Beast)

Hegseth demands the end of "individual expression." He's gone full neo-Nazi. “No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression.”

Hegseth becoming increasingly “obsessed” with his own security, exhibits frantic behavior, such as fidgeting and pacing in meetings. “There’s a manic quality about him. Or let me rephrase, an even more manic quality, which is really saying something.” “Dude is crawling out of his skin.” DailyBeast

From The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara: bookshop.org/a/862/9780520201668 #poem #books #writing

This. Get it, or don't. But, know that this is correct.

Well, there goes the all-volunteer military. So is Trump reinstating the draft?

Will reunited with Gwen! #BB27

Trump is a sick puppy. As the US government barrels toward a shutdown, President Donald Trump shared a racist video on social media, which appears to be AI-generated, depicting Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero and a mustache and Chuck Schumer speaking in a fake voice. (CNN)

Freedom of speech in America, of all places, faces extinction event. Judge William Young excoriates Trump in blistering decision calling efforts to deport pro-Palestinian academics illegal. The Reagan-appointed judge decried Trump’s “great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.” (Politico)

Glinda asks a good question.