"Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs," an agent can be heard saying in the video. "Hey, I can give it through the door," a man is heard saying in response. "You can do it right here," the agent says, pointing to the ground in front of himself. on.nbcboston.com/3phHyWE

It's impossible to overstate how problematic it is for the White House to demand payouts or company stakes in the course of approving deals, hand-selecting acquirers, demanding corporate compliance or anything else.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Fifty Six Year Old mfer

When you don’t have the Politics Reporters on the policy beat, you get actual real POLICY analysis, not soul-deafening, democracy-eroding bothsiders nonsense.

remember when the bloggers showed up and all the 'I don't see truth' folks got mad

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

head of medical ethics at NYU Med: "The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recycling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science." whew lordt

not only should we not run government like a business or education like a business, seems like we should also not run business like a business

[ seinfeld voice ] "and to think you all were once against bailouts..."

Not a solitary citation to law. Any law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

SHOCKET DOCKET

JD Vance: "yeah, we're fascists, so what" [ two days later ]

worth noting that the Vice President of the United States already confessed to it all; yes, they used the powers of the executive branch of the federal government to demand that a show be taken off television because of its political message; and also the government no longer cares about free speech

there's also something really creepy and disturbing about their obsession with autism

the Act was dramatically expanded in 1965 as part of the Great Society but the initial 1962 Act resulted in some 50 million people getting vaccinated for polio between 1962 and 1964. the story of vaccination in modern times begins with JFK's proposal.

Trump's Executive Order on Antifa is written such that someone recording masked agents snatching people off the streets, or asking these agents what they're doing, can be deemed a "terrorist."

Taking Kimmel off was not, as the right insists, a business decision; it was a political decision. Putting him back might be a business decision.

there is a terrible, bitter irony in how the Vaccination Assistance Act of 1962—a lesser-discussed achievement of JFK that made funding available to guarantee all children could get vaccinated for polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and other diseases—is now likely to be undone by his nephew.

he's deranged

SCOTUS says Trump can fire a FTC commissioner without cause for now and will hear oral arguments in December on whether to overrule Humphrey’s Executor. Wow I wonder how they’ll rule? www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

These findings in the new Washington Post poll jump off the page: Trump is underwater by 19 points on his handling of the economy (40/59) and underwater by 30 points on his handling of tariffs. By contrast, the same poll found him at +14 net approval on the economy in Oct. 2020.

is the sink white

an entire group of people utterly seized by their whiteness

He’s seriously a serial killer. He’s had 3 mass killings where he has no idea who they killed or what they were doing. It’s insane.

and this deranged criminal nonsensical babble was a DM?

It seems fitting that when authoritarianism came to the US, it would express itself in the form of mad libs.

but if he knew that they committed crimes and he covered it up, don't they now have dirt on him??

Trump phishes for teen girls, so this phrasing makes perfect sense, libs

"recreational gunfire?"

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

"Dogs Cheating at Poker"

they were on the fence about civilization until this week

he's quoting a voicemail from his wife

no televised funeral

Donald Trump, that famously sensitive and empathetic soul

Brett Kavanaugh's imagination v. reality, a potentially infinite series:

Remember when Republicans spent years complaining about the fact that some people mentioned politics at Paul Wellstone's memorial service? nypost.com/2002/11/01/a...

Trump at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service: “He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry.” Again, this is a memorial service.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

This was somehow a flash in the pan headline in all the chaos last week, but throwing out there that at this rate this would be in the vicinity of 50k people vanishing from the face of the earth over the remainder of the term. And this is before they use that newly allocated $75B to fully scale up.

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

We bitch a lot about NYT headlines but this one is *chef's kiss* www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is what we need from elected officials -- a commitment to stand up for their constituents and, just as important, a willingness to tell right-wing trolls to get bent.

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.