‘The same story is unfolding across the country: more AI begetting more gas and oil. In the United States, power demand is growing for the first time in over a decade.’

same as it ever was — Trump does Putin’s bidding

‘Even Maggie Cleary, the MAGA loyalist that Attorney General Pam Bondi tapped to serve as Halligan’s deputy [read: do the real work] wouldn’t put her name on this indictment.’

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 73 out of the last 85 days. Epstein Shutdown.

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days. Epstein Shutdown.

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond. Pay attention and act!

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform? Is it...requesting content moderation?

'it is impossible to overstate how important it is for a political prisoner to feel solidarity from the outside world and to know that they are not forgotten.'

Yes! Do not obey in advance!

Just amazing!

Look at this! #Resist

‘Their destinations included Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Laos, Nigeria, Romania, St. Kitt, Sierra Leone and Vietnam, according to Thomas Cartwright, who tracks deportations with the immigrant rights group Witness at the Border.’

‘Griffin-Gracy’s work as an activist ranged from her work on behalf of people suffering with HIV and AIDS in the early 1980s, to launching San Francisco’s first mobile needle exchange, to her championing of the abolitionist movement, often prioritizing trans women.’

‘But when individuals claim their African-, Italian-, Japanese- or other heritage as a part of their identity, they aren’t disavowing their American-ness. Rather, they are invoking a unique cultural narrative that has shaped their path and relationship to this country.”

WHCA Joint Statement on Press Restrictions at the Pentagon

Billionaire corporations are already seeing the money roll in from the giant tax giveaways Donald Trump and the Republicans stuffed into their Big, Beautiful Bill. What about working Americans? They're losing their health care, and their costs just keep going up. It's shameful.

‘Witnessing such events means journalists don’t have to accept Homeland Security’s version of them.’

‘Governors Pritzker (and) Newsom…grasp Miller’s theory of the case, and they are responding in kind, with their own war for attention, on the intuition that voters will side with the rule of law over authoritarian dictatorship—if they are presented with this as a clear choice.

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

'Scammers will use AI-generated photos or videos to make it appear Elon is promoting a given cryptocurrency or online platform where someone can supposedly get rich.'

The coal industry has been shrinking for a reason: Coal is no longer cost-competitive. There are more students enrolled at say Penn State than there are workers left in the coal industry (about 40k).

Infuriating. ‘ICE is not allowed to arrest people who are going to or coming from a courthouse, under a 2020 Colorado law. ICE did not immediately respond to questions about the arrest.’

Soft succession,baby.

‘Czechia was Ukraine's per-capita champion, ranking in the top 10 globally for aid as percentage of GDP.’

Brown Jackson. ‘“yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket,“ Jackson wrote that the majority had failed by “privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the stability our Government has promised them.’ Damned shadow docket…

He's lying. If Bessent actually HAD asked this question, the Chinese answer would have been "Huh?? Are you crazy?? We bought half the US harvest last year - under Biden!" See: www.forbes.com/sites/kenrob...

These are all horrible, but this is just disgusting.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... 'I've never walked into a room so small lent before.' Good.

What an impact Ukraine!🇺🇦

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

‘But modern-era shutdowns stem from a common root cause: the extremism of today’s Republican Party. That’s the throughline extending from Newt Gingrich to Donald Trump, from demands to cut healthcare, education, and environmental protection, to brute-force authoritarian power grabs.’

ADP numbers for September were -32,000 on a projection of +51,000. August was revised to -3,000, marking the first consecutive negative months since the heights of Covid. This is bad.

Go Judge Collen. Do so now!

The war on wikipedia by the fascists will only intensify as they seek to entrench their power in every information ecosystem. I believe we ought to support and protect wikipedia, its community and mission, as one of humanity's greatest libraries of knowledge.

www.theatlantic.com/internationa... You love to hear it!

‘Got any bits on that?’‼️

GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. He just pled guilty to child porn charges. - “Every accusation is a confession" keeps ringing true day by day. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/gop-...

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.

In an interview with Axios, Zelensky stated that he has no intention of governing the country in peacetime. He promised to address the Ukrainian parliament with a request to organize elections once a truce is achieved. www.axios.com/2025/09/25/z...

‘…those generals and admirals will all be in one site, announced in advance, which means that the entirety of the American command structure will be more vulnerable, physically, than in any conceivable military scenario, including nuclear war.’

‘And we just learned that the White House is quietly circulating a draft bill that would vastly expand Trump’s authority for these bombings. Its details offer a damning glimpse into how unrestrained he aims to be going forward.’

‘…in a cat-and-mouse conflict that often begins with protesters taunting ICE agents with verbal tirades, leading federal riot cops to respond with a disproportionate show of force.’

Since the adolescents in the White House are making what they imagine to be jokes about Biden's autopen, reupping how Todd Blanche revealed TRUMP'S pardons aren't backed by paperwork. www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/17/t...

www.theatlantic.com/internationa... So insightful. And glad it was audio!