Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of Jeffery Epstein lore. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at the White House door. Tis Stephen Miller I muttered and nothing more.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

LOL. MAGA destroyed Christmas.

I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.

As we all watch Ken Burn’s American Revolution on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) this evening, remember that federal funding for this public programming has been cut by a president who aspires to be like the king patriots separated from nearly 250 years ago.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

For Trump: Seafood towers at Mar-A-Lago For Americans: Bread lines

A woman ruined my workplace By Caravaggio (c. 1602)

What we need is an Unfavorable/Disapprove With A White Hot Incandescent Anger option.

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

I'm so tired of the things I care about, the things that make life good even when it's hard, being systematically stripped for parts by people who don't even understand what they're breaking.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

It is breathtaking how much of what was painstakingly built up over 250 years has been destroyed in ten months. From the economy to civilian/military relations to our foreign alliances to the DOJ to civil rights and on and on.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

It will be worth noting which politicians Wal-Mart pays for and how they move wrt SNAP since Wal-Mart is set to lose billions if they don’t fund SNAP. Because guess which company actually gets 25% of SNAP payouts, as well as underpays their employees to the extent that a large chuck need SNAP?

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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

people who claim that if they are asked to pay a penny more in tax then the economy will collapse, suddenly find billions to finance election campaigns or pander to the vanity of politicians and they expect us to believe they’re just philanthropic gifts with no expectations of something in return.

It’s so easy to feel powerless right now. I get it. We may indeed not have the power to do some things. But we can donate to a food bank. Volunteer. Foster an animal. Seek to find opportunities to give genuine compliments. Get sleep so we can think more clearly. Create art. This too is fighting.

It's ever incredible to me that all it would take is for a handful of people in Congress to stop pretending this is all fine and yet, nope. Survivalist nihilism is their north star.

Congress could stop this at any time.

Updating my LEGO White House

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

If I were ever elected president, the first thing I’d do is take a sledgehammer to that ballroom.

By the way - everything I post on Bluesky is off the record.

So, which media outlet is digging into the White House general contractor's background and supply chains?

“Are you telling me we can spend $40B on Argentina, $1B on Trump’s Qatar jet, $250M on Trump’s ballroom, $150M on Trump’s golf, $520M on Trump's National Guard deployments & $172M on Kristi Noem’s jets - but we can’t spend a penny on lowering our healthcare #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #EMSky

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

At @theunpopulist.net, I'm launching a new project about how our institutions failed so completely and what a constitutional reconstruction should look like. Because the aftermath of this catastrophe will be here sooner rather than later. 1/

The anti-voter SAVE Act failed in Congress thanks to widespread opposition. Now, its proponents are pressuring the Election Assistance Commission to enact a similar “show-your-papers” requirement for voting. Will you speak out against this attack on the freedom to vote? bit.ly/4ngSyyl

Coast Guard bought Kristi Noem two private jets (I guess if one breaks down). Cost: $172 million. Is that what you call draining the swamp?

And here, gathered in the shadow of Independence Hall, it really hits you why we’re all here today. Why protests and rallies like No Kings matter. Why these people and being visible in our discontent matters.

It is funny that we just did a No Kings thing this year like, idk, a few months ago and people have memory holed it? It was grandmas and moms and shit holding flags and signs and having people on the road honk their horns in support

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Some of us have been trying to tell you who these folks are and what their agenda is for a decade or more. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The sheer volume of this regime’s efforts to undermine our elections is already *staggering* & woefully underreported.

We’re a gigantic, unwieldy country. The regime needs to project images of domination in the absence of assets they haven’t organized. Our fear and compliance are their strategic object.

It’s illegal for noncitizens to vote. Requiring proof of citizenship creates barriers for eligible voters. Tell the Election Assistance Commission you oppose requiring citizens to submit passport, birth certificate, or other citizenship documents to register to vote! Do it here: bit.ly/42EZzkR NOW!

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

TFW a lower federal court issues an opinion that respects the Constitution and the rule of law

There is no "real America." People who live in cities are just as American as people who live in suburbs and just as American as people who live in rural communities and and just as American as people who live with no neighbors for miles.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

"We have entered a period in which it is becoming important to ask: What happens when our leaders and the people who work for them see immigrants not as human beings but as scum?" www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...

I'm not a political genius, but I'm pretty sure the party that published a 600-page manifesto on how they want to shut down the federal government are the ones who shut down the federal government.

“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