Useful podcast explains how the MAGA right has built a durable counter-establishment that has plans and funding to outlast Trump. www.theunpopulist.net/p/from-conse...

The absurdity of the case that Trump is cooking up against Letitia James is precisely the point. DOJ serves him, not the law. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Good read from @theunpopulist.net on Trump's anti-constitutional deployments to Portland and other cities. www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-d...

Hmm...

Are we all free speech hypocrites? Is the right worse than the left...or vice versa? Scintillating conversation on The Good Fight podcast. yaschamounk.substack.com/p/the-good-f...

Just a reminder that I have a video up this week about Banned Book Week

If you're concerned about book ban culture, you should watch this video. If you're not concerned about book ban culture, you should DEFINITELY watch this video

It is deeply hilarious when alt-right idiots think that they won't ban anime. Are you KIDDING ME? It's full of jiggly tits, loli and things conservatives don't understand (and if they don't understand it they want to see it destroyed). Oh and it's viewed as Satanic by Christian Nationalists

I listened to SCOTUS arguments about the ban on “conversion therapy” yesterday. Both the right wing layers and justices ignored a crucial fact: kids are forced into it by parents. I explain why they’re hiding this. www.salon.com/2025/10/08/s...

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

Lessons on dying well from the father of palliative care. The best way to honour Dr. Balfour Mount’s legacy is by making palliative care available to all Canadians, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

#ICE is the violence. #FuckTrump. 🇺🇸 www.threads.com/@petra_maric...

Dear EU, Please don't cave in to these monsters. "Unlike traditional trade negotiations, the US is not offering concessions in return. “It’s a one-way street,” said one EU official."

Another important book by Jonathan Howard. Well worth reading if you want to understand how the current public health leadership really works. And trust me, it ain’t pretty

In #drylands, plants don’t grow randomly — they self-organize into disordered hyperuniform patterns that help them use water wisely & endure extreme aridity. A beautiful hidden logic of nature, revealed in a new @pnas.org study doi.org/10.1073/pnas... including #Maestrelab alumni

Me to my 5-year old: "I glove you." 5-year old: "When I'm 8, say that you 'dove' me. Me: "OK." 5-year old: "And when I'm 11, say that you 'above' be." Me: "Done." 5-year old: "Then stop because it will be super annoying."

Why even have congress? Also funding WIC is good

👀 😂 @mikenellis.bsky.social

It was taxpayers’ money. Did Homan give it back? If he kept it, did he declare it on his taxes?

👂LISTEN — (U.S. Navy veteran) country Singer Zach Bryan’s lyrics about ICE that triggered the White House

There's been a 300 PERCENT increase in FBI domestic terrorism investigations this year www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-...

Let’s stipulate that Trump will continue to do things that shock us. But, seriously, no one should be shocked about this. He’s been itching to did it for years. He’s laying the ground every day. We’ve been warned. And this is exactly what he’s going to do. charliesykes.substack.com/p/yes-of-cou...

This morning, Congress had the opportunity to ask Attorney General Pam Bondi anything and didn't ask a single question about NSPM-7 👍

My take on Bari Weiss is that she succeeded in doing something hard: standing up an independent outlet. I also think her outlet mostly does cynical culture-war hot takes designed to distract from the economic class war - which is why it attracted oligarch boosters who financially guarantee success.

Rudy Giuliani on the evil communist Mamdani nypost.com/2025/10/07/u...

Gallego: If you’re a Republican in a swing district, why are you falling on this sword for a guy who’s checked out and probably needs to be put into some kind of treatment program for whatever dementia he has? Or for Johnson—who comes from one of the safest districts and is covering for pedophiles?

Woman shot by ICE has been released from custody, body cam footage revealed an agent saying "do something bitch" while holding his rifle at her

I keep waiting for the powers that be in media to grasp the concept of bad faith, realize how often "restore trust in news" and similar statements mean "stop doing journalism, lie more in ways I like," come from people ideologically committed to destroying trust in news, and can never be satisfied.

So the American taxpayer eats it twice, once on tariffs and again on a second farm bailout. I’m glad farmers are getting help, no one should lose their farm, but it’s remarkable how fast “socialism” stops being a dirty word when the checks clear in red counties.

Positive news for #autoimmune #chronicillness. Also possible #cancer treatments and reduction of organ transplant rejections. MedSky Scientists win Nobel Prize for discovering why immune system does not destroy the body

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Air traffic controllers are working 60-hour weeks with no pay—conditions that led to a breaking point during the last shutdown.

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

Can ANY law enforcement in Canada stop the damned boiler room DUCT CLEANING calls illegally using spoofed numbers?

"This paper is not a discovery of a planet, but it’s certainly the discovery of a puzzle for which a planet is a likely solution." Princeton astrophysicist Amir Siraj talks with @cnn.com about a potential new planet, Planet Y.

This is exciting — Katherine Rundell is the closest thing we have to a modern Tolkien or Lewis. Her writing is sublime and her passion for children’s literature is unrivalled, so it’s brilliant to see she will get to produce and write the screenplays too deadline.com/2025/10/disn...

“We’re willing addicts to these people… and it will not end well if we don’t take some control of this.” @karaswisher.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com continue to sound the alarm on social media regulation.

Free and open Midterm elections looking less and less likely every day #USFascism

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

Hard to believe this attorney general can pursue justice with impartiality when she is dripping with such partisan disdain.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AryKhD/ “A sort-of Uncanny Valley sort of non-human presence.” - @timmiller.bsky.social

We are all Dr. Brunkow 😴 “Dr. Brunkow said she did not expect to win a Nobel Prize. ‘My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep,’“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Read Andrew Wilson’s latest. Great piece on the very bad numbers Trump is facing in the shutdown fight. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-shutdo...

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.