Also, if your city isn't on this list yet and you run a theatre or event space there, let us know and we'll let you run it for free. Email [email protected] and we'll get you fixed up. Again, this is real. Thank you.

Elon Musk went to Pedophile Island www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Folks, some incredible news: A couple of weeks ago, a national theatre chain axed our release of Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile because it mentioned Donald Trump. Now, because of you, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will now run on over 25 screens throughout the world. theonion.com/badpedophile

An iron law of reactionary thinking: when they are in a weak position vis a vis an institution, they demand fairness; when they gain power, fairness goes out the window. Which is to say: once the reactionaries take over higher eduction, liberal voices will be eliminated.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court greenlights Trump's "pocket rescission" of $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress. Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, has a sharp dissent. She says this "result conflicts with the separation of powers." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Man who has long been despised at a distance makes extravagant arrangements to be despised up close.

Headlines that typically immediately precede either a civil war or an autocratic coup signifying the end of a republic

There is no one this court is more determined to protect from potential harm than the most powerful person in the world. You know, just like the Founders intended.

The government's case here depends upon the Supreme Court being willing to ignore the actual text of the Impoundment Control Act. The govt says the ICA prohibits grantees from suing. The ICA explicitly says it does not limit "claims or defenses of any party to litigation concerning any impoundment.”

Yet again, the Supreme Court is overruling a lower court ruling with a couple of paragraphs The practical effect is to allow the Trump administration to cancel spending that Congress appropriated, and which Congress refused to rescind. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Leading the dissent, Kagan laments that her colleagues continue to use the shadow docket to decide novel issues. She called Trump's actions "essentially, a presidential usurpation of Congress's power of the purse." @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Yet again, the GOP supermajority steps in to allow Trump to break the law. The case will be decided on the merits later, it says, when the damage cannot be undone. But in the meantime it is giving the Trump administration a green light to engage in impoundment.

Maryland elected officials have yet to comment on Wednesday’s dangerous and violent attack.

Imagine what happens when a Democratic administration declines to spend a GOP congressional line item funding religious liberty work. I’m sure it’ll be treated the exaaaaact same way.

They will *never* actually tie their hands such that they can't strike down a future Democratic president who tries pulling this shit.

3. Dems cannot sleep walk their way into all of this They need plans, messaging strategies, etc. in place yesterday. Most electeds don't have time to do this, hence this is a staff-level thing.

1. Scorched earth on SCOTUS. Roberts court is unpopular. Trump is even more unpopular. Tie them together. 2. Dem aides should already be attending regular session on mobilization — especially for if and when Trump tries to interdict results — with veterans of overseas democratization movements.

this is normal, now all of this is normal to people who have spent the last decade living in a world where politics means donald trump it is our job to make it abnormal again, to show people that actually it doesn’t have to work this way

One puzzle we’re going to have to solve after Trump is how to rebuild trust in institutions. You can and should say “don’t listen to the CDC here”, but that’s also undermine trust in institutions, which is also part of their agenda. It’s a nasty little trap and I don’t know how to get out of it.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Happy birthday to the one and only Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social! A great day to subscribe to his indispensable substack One First: www.stevevladeck.com

There’s been a mass walkout at the UN as Netanyahu delivers his address.

We will hear about little else soon. Let's make sure we always talk about how the Trumpists are aggressively sabotaging the cheapest, easiest, and fastest-to-build sources of electricity today: wind & solar

Aside from how utterly deranged it is to even make light of this, he's not mocking some reporter or pundit by calling him "General." Ben Hodges is a real three-star general, he was the commander of the US Army in Europe before he retired. In other words, he's worked with a lot of Germans soldiers.

When Donald Trump took office eight months ago, the Department of Justice had 36 experienced attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians and police officers. Today it has two. www.notus.org/courts/doj-p...

As frankly dumb as a lot of what this administration does is, it can be laser-focused on being hateful, and this is an example

There is so much dumb in this, but remember when the GOP flipped out with the (misleading) claim that the IRS was targeting conservative groups and their tax exempt status? And now it's official WH policy for the IRS to target "left" leaning groups in that way.

got some bad news for anyone who voted for Trump because he promised to bring down prices www.ft.com/content/dd6d...

The view from nowhere reporting style is so stupid.

The event was not about mask mandates nor did Violet advocate for them, it was about clean indoor air. Her comment “We can create clean air infrastructure that is so ubiquitous and so obviously necessary, tomorrow’s children don’t even know why we need it” is the main aim. Treat air as we do water.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

If leftists are such a tiny minority why didn't Kamala win

Whether it’s Barack Obama wearing a tan suit in front of reporters or an ICE agent brutally attacking a mother in front of her children, both sides have subjected our most vulnerable citizens to disturbing images.

The best way to look at the Trump Administration has always been that of an organized crime syndicate. They operate the same way. Threats. Kicking up to the boss. Side hustles. Extortion. Protection money. Harsher treatment for disloyal allies. Indiscriminate violence.

🚨BREAKING: 6th Circuit Court of Appeals DISMISSES Republican National Committee lawsuit challenging Michigan's voter roll maintenance practices. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

For the record, no, SCOTUS did not say this was ok in California. Justice Kavanaugh, writing only for himself, said investigatory stops could be made in part based on ethnicity. Not arrests—there is no authority for ethnicity-based arrests.

Casey DeSantis didn’t treat her cancer with ivermectin. She’s just another craven opportunist. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Just a reminder that in the Los Angeles ICE case, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence played up the extent to which those *not* properly subject to immigration arrest were detained "briefly" and released "promptly." www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-177-... That wasn't true in L.A., and it isn't true here.

Comptroller Lander’s 2nd post says “Seconds earlier, her husband had been abducted by masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves, did not present a warrant, did not give any lawful grounds for his detention” The federal government is openly disappearing people, then attacking their families

Don't really care if this makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist. These guys lie all the time. They get caught. They lie again. Their lies are dumb. Their evidence flimsy. They are not smart. Absent hard evidence, I assume every suspicious claim they make is untrue. The press should do the same.

Starbucks unions are practicing picketing as the company abuses its workers and denies them a fair contract. This is your reminder to not cross a picket line and support workers! NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right. Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

Nice to see @isiaq.bsky.social, ASHRAE, and American Lung Association among those organizations.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France from 2007 to 2012, was found guilty of trying to illegally finance his presidential campaign with money from Libya's former leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, and he was sentenced to five years in prison: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/w...

If these are actually low attention citizens (which I'd be skeptical about fwiw), this is quite promising

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

The anti-trans side constantly used this exact and talking point about a 4000% increase in trans youth. Similarly, there was a change in diagnostic criteria along with increased access to care. It's the same exact playbook.

This is incredible work here from @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social. Speaking facts straight to Steve Kirsch and Pierre Kory’s faces. youtu.be/-9o6Hdd6sEM?...