I need to reach out to the Mets fans in my feed. I'm a rookie. First time this year rooting hard, with real feeling, for the Mets. It just took hold of me. Anyway, can someone explain what happened? One day, they're invincible. Next day, Keystone Kops. Is it always like this? Please help.

I think this is a BFD from Schumer.

Is anyone going to say this is treasonous?

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

A thing about this is that it's literal treason

Tubby told the brass he's going to use the military against American citizens and this is the best the Prestige Press can do.

Non-stop law-breaking. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Trump is covering up the Epstein files and the government shutdown should prove that fact. This seems to be the play many Democrats are making. Good.

So it turns out the president who wants a shut down is going to get what he wants and that there's nothing the other side can do to change his mind. That's the story.

Another excellent thread, on the anti-Mormon hatred that may have motivated the MAGA guy who murdered four (maybe more) at that LDS church in Michigan.

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

So much for defending the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic . . .

A detailed but easy-to-read thread looking at the fractious relationships between right-wing Christian groups (sects, cults) that appear to be fracturing. As Trump consolidates his cultish grip on conservative protestants the need to work with the Mormons (now guilty of Kirkicide) wanes.

Also: the animosity is not as fierce as it once was and that's due to politics, specifically that politics has forced some (white) Catholics and Mormons to adapt much of the evangelical view of Christ, thus making them seem less terrible to evangelicals.

Highlights of Hegseth's speech: 1. No more fat soldiers 2. No beards 3. Anti LGBTQ 4. Anti Women 5. No more punishment for one mistake *probably rape I'm not joking.

The man who was given everything demands that others earn their place.

“You kill people and break things for a living. You are not politically correct,” boasted the ambitious sociopath.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

How Trump imperils the Mormons. The attacker was maga, but his victims may never know it. A THREAD.

1. Over the weekend, there was once again an act of horrific violence and once again the president suggested his enemies are to blame.

I don't know how you can say it isn't political when the shooter was maga and he hated Mormons. That's political. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

As we recoil in disgust at Hegseth's TED talk, I want to remind you of this episode and why earning your place in the ranks of the military, as Lloyd Austin did, is so important, and why a man-baby like Hegseth as head of the DOD is a bad idea.

I'm sorry but is this what generals and admirals were called in for? A TED talk?

I am losing my mind, just a little, that the top brass of every service branch was forced to fly back and listen to an attempt at a motivational speech

Hard to blame Democrats for the shutdown when sources close to Trump say out loud that the president “welcomes the prospect of a shutdown.”

As the shutdown looms, let’s play; what are the facts? FACT: Trump wants to distract from Epstein. RELEASE THE FILES FACT: Republicans run the House, Senate, & White House… if there is a shutdown, Real Math says it’s the REPUBLICANS’ SHUTDOWN.

Any college that kneels to this is revealed for its hypocrisy. Either free speech matters or it doesn’t. How many elite professors signed that Harper’s letter? Where are they now?

Medicaid patients lose quick access to basic care after Planned Parenthood cuts and closures www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...

Trump will hasten their betrayal by providing cover for those who no longer see the need to tolerate religious minorities and as a consequence, regard them as expendable. And he will do that by claiming that the epidemic of violence comes solely from “the left,” putting his allies deeper in peril.

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are being arrested based on ‘how they look’

The case YouTube settled with Trump, with a payment of more than $24 million, had already been closed for two years.

“How you die does not redeem how you lived,” the Rev. Howard-John Wesley, of Alexandria, Virginia, said in a sermon in the aftermath of Kirk’s killing that has amassed tens of thousands of views online. religionnews.com/2025/09/25/b...

Another craven act of surrender by Big Tech. There is exactly zero merit to this lawsuit. For Google to pay Trump off adds it to the long list of companies that have decided to be complicit in his attack on free speech www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

He stands out not because he's any kind of radical but because he seems to understand the escalation ladder we're on here, and how many steps up it we already are. He's not just being hardline on principle, he's escalating because he's actually thought about the strategy of how this plays out.

FEMA and CPB hacked.

Very straightforward.

Not enough is said about how disgusting some of these GOP lies are.

if i were negotiating for the Ds i’d have one ask: can you please provide us with as up to date a list as possible showing how many people are acting as de facto president right now; who they are; and what are the policy areas they are functioning as the chief executive over, respectively?

Not true, Tom. In fact, this is about the 11,000 Minnesotans in your district and over 89k across the state looking at huge health insurance premium increases. Doesn’t that concern you?

For anyone arguing that the Big Ugly Bill “didn’t cut ACA tax credits:” Sen. Ossoff introduced an amendment to extend them as part of the BBB. The Senate GOP shot the amendment down. So yes, they damned well *did* vote AGAINST extending them.

Trump will hasten their betrayal by providing cover for those who no longer see the need to tolerate religious minorities and as a consequence, regard them as expendable. And he will do that by claiming that the epidemic of violence comes solely from “the left,” putting his allies deeper in peril.

I don’t mean to suggest that Thomas Jacob Sanford was thinking about any of this. I do mean to suggest, however, that entering into any agreement with a tinfoil dictator like Donald Trump is fated to end in betrayal, whether you’re a university, a corporation, a farmer or a religious minority.

While the Mormons have been a key faction of the Trump coalition, the president himself is consolidating power such that it may seem to some of his supporters that he doesn’t need the Mormons anymore, and that they are free to indulge the religious hatreds of yore.

DOJ’s attempts to charge these cases in DC and LA have been resoundingly unsuccessful. Grand juries have rejected a huge proportion of the attempts to indict. One case in LA that went to trial as a misdemeanor recently ended in acquittal

John Fetterman still favors a clean CR: “I refuse to shut our government down, and that’s not gonna change.” “I would absolutely like to extend the ACA credits,” he says, but not at risk of a gov’t shutdown. His advice to Democrats who want to change policy: “Win elections.”