My opinion as an unbiased journalist analyzing the president’s speech is that the Republican Party should be outlawed

@asking4myfriend.bsky.social I'm not the only one to say Willis committed 'an error in judgement.'

With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.

Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is. There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”

Yes MAGA, there is occasional election fraud committed... mostly by your people. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

"Democrats probably aren’t going to make the Garland mistake again.” You only get 1 chance to make that big of a mistake. Thanks a lot Dems. open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

The Dem. party calls itself a defender of democracy while condoning rigged primary elections. Do Dem. reps. think their voters are that stupid? share.google/n7AkJNrFEBzy...

"...even though Republicans hold a supermajority in the Indiana legislature, not enough Republican senators are willing to face the anger of voters to back the [gerrymandering] plan." I sure wish D reps were as afraid of their voters as R reps apparently are. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"[Epstein] is found dead in his cell.... guards didn’t check on him that nightm.. The cameras... malfunctioned... the CCTV footage... is missing more than 60 crucial seconds." Has any credible agency investigated this? open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Best political speech in my long life. www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...

"...the truth is that [the] Heritage [Foundation] has always been a fraud. It has always been a propaganda mill cosplaying as a research institution..." You can't get mainstream media to admit that b/c they are both funded by the stinking rich. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

"...how the HECK did the Biden administration sit on this? ...what 'norm' compelled Merrick Garland and his comatose compatriots to actively sit on files suggesting that the then-former president was deeply in bed with America’s best-known child sex offender..." open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

"This is an elite failure, not a popular one. The Democratic base understands what’s at stake. Grassroots activists and voters have shown they’re willing to fight. The failure lies with party leadership who mistake capitulation for pragmatism." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-compas...

"But I am betting that some Republicans in the House will now hesitate before obeying Trump’s every command lockstep if they believe that their seats may be at risk in 2026." They're more afraid of MAGA's wrath. I wouldn't take that bet - it's a dangerous cult. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Embarrassing.

'The problem is fifty years of institutional rot and elite capture — and you don’t undo that with one election." - Corbin Trent. open.substack.com/pub/americas...

This seems rather bad— the Trump regime’s top officials are moving onto protected military bases.

"When Democrats focus all their energy on the exploiter rather than the rot that enabled him, they guarantee that nothing will change." - another gem from Corbin Trent. open.substack.com/pub/americas...

"One can forgive those who fall into wishful thinking about the Democrats as the bulwark of the resistance." socialistcall.com/2025/10/08/i...

This is the manifesto for a faction within the Democratic Socialist of America. Very well thought out. Bread and Roses DSA share.google/U8jchrIPmWC4...

"This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran and others like him are its future." - Robert Reich. Wow! open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

"The average utility payment for electricity and gas rose by 3.6% year over year in the third quarter..." finance.yahoo.com/news/big-tec...

Another good story on the N. CA tribes... Tribes revive fire practices to protect forests from modern wildfires - Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Dems. just can't stop rigging their primaries. open.substack.com/pub/progress...

This Dem. governor won't be leading the resistance. Come on Connecticut, you can do better than Ned Lamont! finance.yahoo.com/news/connect...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Excellent.... open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...

Review of Harris's new book... open.substack.com/pub/quartzev...

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use. How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

That feeling of powerlessness is not wrong... "According to a landmark study published in 2014... the preferences of the typical American have no influence at all on legislation emerging from Congress." Elections alone can't fix this. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

House Bill 3546 – “POWER Act” "Requires that big energy users—like data centers or crypto mining operations—pay for the actual strain they place on Oregon’s electric grid." apps.oregon.gov/oregon-newsr...

We need a wealth tax. Too bad we don't have a political party that supports it. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

See how quickly - one year - the judicial system can dispense justice when it affects the stinking rich. But for the 1/6 failed insurrection attempt, and the crime spree that has trailed Trump for decades, even before Epstein, there is only justice delayed. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Another day, another Trump H-1B visa 'reform' trial balloon... share.google/ZQirKdHvcNAR...

"The Trump administration is the alliance of right-wing authoritarians with big money. That alliance needs to be broken. Part of how we do that is to break the alliance of big money with the Democratic Party, so that we have a pro-worker, anti-billionaire party," says @repcasar.bsky.social.

@asking4myfriend.bsky.social Some good news... www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

@asking4myfriend.bsky.social Some glimmer of hope... (free read) wapo.st/46D57h8

So Stephen Miller's 'deportation only' solution to immigration killed Korea investing in the U.S.

By TNC. Has lost none of his edge.

More of this please... www.opb.org/article/2025...

I asked Sen. @vanhollen.senate.gov whether Dems should fund government in exchange for short-term ACA subsidy extension: "I'm not going to vote to fund Donald Trump's ongoing lawbreaking, right? Because right now, any agreement is not worth the paper it's written on." www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWYQ...

We need more Dem. Senators like Van Hollen - and less like Schumer (free read).

"The DHS spokesperson said one of the people arrested had been deported twice previously." This is NOT unusual. Deportation just makes the revolving door at the border spin faster. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

@asking4myfriend.bsky.social Dem. leaders OK with Trump's dictatorship as long as they get healthcare subsidies restored.

"Political violence is a complex problem, and a great many people can be blamed for contributing to it. But no one bears more responsibility than Donald Trump, and we should never forget it for a moment." open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...