On Wednesday, Rep Malcolm Kenyatta D-Philadelphia was called "boy" and told to "be careful" off camera by Rep Scott Barger R-Blair/Huntingdon after making this statement on the PA House floor.

Stephen Miller's use of the term "fascist" relates directly to stochastic terrorism.

As NATO finds itself in a crisis following a dangerous series of Kremlin provocations, unable to take action in response due to stonewalling by Trump, America's secretary of war is strutting across a stage like a peacock chattering about calisthenics and fat generals and indifferent to the threat.

WIRED: Federal employees “received a template from human resources for their suggested ‘out of office’ email. They were advised to blame the Democrats ..” @wired.com #Shutdown 🇺🇸 www.wired.com/story/govern...

If the commitment is written into law, that would be the first step in the right direction for this GOP-run Congress, which has willfully ceded Article I powers to Trump time and again. If it's just a "deal," then it's worthless.

Great interview with @miasato.bsky.social: "As journalists we’re ceding ground to content creators who don’t know left from right, who didn’t report the stories, who don’t have the expertise to explain ... And so part of me being on TikTok is honestly being the representative for my own work"

Sometimes it's a good thing Trump can't help talking and posting so much!

Jürgen is correct. Any historian of Germany in the 30s recognizes this language and approach instantly: the "enemy within" consisted of Social Democrats, Jews, Poles, Gyspies and Gays. Their eradication was sought and to a horrendous extent accomplished.

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Good breakdown of how shutdown affects different agencies. (Also a good example of the type of in-depth factual communication that traditional media still does better than alternative media). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Well. I guess here is one thing SCOTUS won't let Trump do: destroy the economy.

Nauseating. President Trump hailed the use of military force to police American cities, telling generals and admirals during a Tuesday address that it was important to quell “the enemy within.” “SF, Chicago, New York, LA, they’re very unsafe places and we’re gonna straighten them out one by one.”

Oh wow, more signs that the news is not 100% smitten with Fascism yet.

Wonderful story

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And now Tony Blair with Trump holds the keys to Gaza’s future. While Oracle, the company owned by the man who bankrolls him - Larry Ellison’s - with its deep relationship with Netanyahu’s govt, will be incorporated into essential uk infrastructure.

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Five More Things I Want to Tell My White Friends. “Please understand the degree to which Black and brown people (and LGBTQ+ folks) in this country are particularly scared and feel abandoned at the moment…” [cupofjo.com]

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It's just you can search my feed for "anxiety" and 9 times out of 10 it's going to be a cute bird

If pressed, I would probably say cranes are my #favorite bird, but they are all fascinating and unique. Since moving north, I have encountered #snowyowl in the wild, and it is always a treat. #birds #wildlife #nature #birdoftheday #photography #protectnature #EastCoastKin #owl

I don't use the term "illiberal democracy," as it's an oxymoron. Without liberal institutions to enforce its core principles, democracy is meaningless. I use the phrase "competitive authoritarianism," which is what exists in Hungary, Turkey, etc. Those are the models of where the US is headed.

I am begging comedians to understand that "Hitting both sides equally" doesn't mean you're avoiding politics. That's literally the opposite of what that means. If you host a late night show and want to "keep your head down," quit and make room for someone who doesn't. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Male Black-crested Coquette at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature #hummingbirds

That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America. On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that. www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

I wish I could find the post, but someone on here recently pointed out that the elite pundit addiction to Twitter is distorting their worldview even further. They really think America is far more right-wing than it is, which requires ignoring actual data. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-right-...

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Trump extraordinarily egregious quest to threaten war against the American populace is proof-positive of the irretrievable devolution of the United States into a full-scale police state.

The number of people that go bankrupt every year from medical bills: Canada - 0 Australia- 0 France - 0 Sweden - 0 Norway - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 UK - 0 Finland - 0 Iceland - 0 Germany - 0 United States - 326,000

In exchange for giving Trump a luxury airliner for personal use, Trump claims to have given Qatar a NATO-like defense “guarantee,” while quietly reneging on America’s actual treaty alliances and refusing Ukraine any similar guarantee in the future. Scummy even for him.

JUST IN: Democracy Forward and federal labor unions are suing to block the threat of mass firings during the shutdown, saying they're an abuse of OMB Director Russ Vought's authority. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Shutdown votes: Senate will vote at 530 on the Democratic CR (with health care money) and the House-passed CR. Both would need 60 to pass.

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“...because it’s the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control,” Trump said. “It won’t get out of control once you get involved. U.S. cities should be military “training ground”, and tells Kegsbreath to use American cities as a “training ground” for the U.S. military.

"They spit, we hit." Trump tells the military they can do whatever the hell they want in response to rioters. "From now on, if that ever happens, AND I SAY IT HERE, you get out of that car and you can do whatever the hell you want to do."

Trump: “I told [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth], we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military — National Guard, but our military, because we’re going into Chicago very soon ...That’s a big city with an incompetent governor.”

Your health care premiums could MORE THAN DOUBLE thanks to Donald Trump. That’s the health care affordability crisis that Democrats are fighting to fix.

Missouri’s governor signed the GOP’s congressional gerrymander into law, likely handing Trump an additional GOP seat in Congress. The seat comes at the cost of Kansas City’s Black voters, who will now be split and packed into red-leaning districts.

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been without power for a week now. This is the longest blackout period at the plant. Currently, the NPP is being supplied by diesel generators, one of which, according to President Zelensky, has already failed. t.me/c/1463721328...

Kremlin spokesman claims residents in Ukraine’s Odesa and Mykolaiv oblasts secretly want to join Russia - providing no evidence Russia regularly strikes these regions with missiles and drones, killing civilians and damaging infrastructure euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/30/k...

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“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Jeanine Pirro engages in wild gand jury forum shopping, searching anywhere for a grand jury that will rubber stamp her politically motivated and baseless prosecutions. One magistrate isn't taking her misconduct sitting down. Indeed, Pirro is also headed for disbarment for gross misconduct.

Republicans' closing argument going into the shutdown is "so wildly untrue I almost didn't write about it." But @citizencohn.bsky.social did, so read about it here, in the latest edition of The Breakdown: www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

New from 404 Media: ICE to buy tool that tracks locations of hundreds of millions of phones every day. Billions of pieces of location data. ICE previously stopped using data remotely harvested from smartphones. Now it's buying it again. Usually used w/o warrant www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Judge William Young’s opinion reads like a mini-novel (based only on having read the first and last pages so far). In light of the felon’s speech at the Pentagon today — its significance is all the more great. Fu*k Donald Trump and God bless America. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...