"If love dwells in you, you have no enemy on earth. And if you are a true child of peace, you will do no wrong to your neighbor." -- St. Ephrem the Syrian #quotes

The U.S. Congress is largely ceremonial at this point, and so is the U.S. Supreme Court. Each is actively complicit in the unlawful aggrandizement of the U.S. President and his regime. #Murica

Notwithstanding a clear statutory mandate that she afford ready access and cooperate with inspections, Kristi Noem refuses to admit the two Illinois senators to her fortress in Chicago.

Who knew that MAGA's "America First" posturing actually meant Muslim government military bases in Idaho? Is this to stage an invasion of Canada, or is this regime inviting troops from "kinder, gentler" Muslim authoritarian states to exercise force within U.S. borders? #BeamMeUpScotty

Trump is out here blowing Venezuelan boats out of the water—no trial, no due process, just murder on the open sea. And the Nobel Peace Prize? Awarded today to a Venezuelan Latina fighting for Democracy. The universe really knows how to rub salt in a tyrant’s wounds.

CNN does a segment on Trump's health issues, including photos of his drooping face and discolored hand

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Federal researchers are confronting growing uncertainty about their future, as the 10-day-old shutdown of the U.S. government is now poised to extend into at least next week. https://scim.ag/4n1uy22

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The Kremlin expressed support for President Donald Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History" Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldn’t have to say this.

Does Bluesky care about sports at all?

Georgia has fantastic U.S. Senators. Does any state have a better duo?

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

Gray Scramble by Frank Stella, 1968 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137193

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Thursday froze President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in and around Chicago, saying the president lacked the authority to do so. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

The state constitution does not, but should, expressly protect liberty of conscience. Idiosyncratic posturing that compromises community health should not be given formal legal sanction. Religious Waivers Soar For Child Vaccines On Kauaʻi | Honolulu Civil Beat #Hawaii #HInews

Grim news. At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Myanmar Buddhist festival | BBC News

It's so important to nip the framing of this reporting in the bud right now. Don't accept the narrative that Trump and his team only just started discussing invoking the Insurrection Act. January 6 happened because his White House was in conversation with radicals about what it'd take to invoke it.

Michigan Avenue right now.

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

What happens when TSA agents and air traffic controllers are using their paid leave time en masse (for those who have it) to adjust to not getting paid? Will PTO not be accepted? Isn't working without remuneration a form of servitude?

"If all the flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wild flowers." -- Thérèse of Lisieux

Pritzker fights. It's refreshing as all hell.

I feel like this might be a clue to our current problems. We don't read anymore.

thank you brett kavanaugh!

One of the big things about the Secretary of Defense role, and why waivers for Mattis, etc. were controversial, is that it's a civilian job. And any former military needed to be a certain number of years removed, save for a waiver.

18,457 names of children murdered by Israel in two years. Those are just the names we have so far. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Happy to share a gift link to one of the top articles I've read all year. 🎁 What Happens When an Israeli Meets Two Gazans on a French Buddhist Retreat @haaretzcom.bsky.social

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Scientist on three-week off-grid hike finds out he's won the Nobel prize

Those who are Gen X and younger will generally have a lower standard of living than Boomers. Yet this sod is cheering those privileged enough to drop out of schools like Stanford and not worry about decades of debt. People who forward rubbish deserve rebuke not adulation.

This is so dark

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo? I talked to him yesterday. He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility. Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying. All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

I just canceled my years-long subscription to The Washington Post. Enough of this nonsense!

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They had to buy the Post, gut the newsroom, and restaff with reactionary grifters that don't deserve to carry their predecessors' dirty socks; that was the only way to remake the paper, because they were never gonna get through the front door on merit.

Supreme Court on banning gender-affirming care for trans youth: Sure, that's fine, no constitutional violation. Supreme Court on banning so-called conversion therapy for gay youth: No, can't have that, grave constitutional violation. Here, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets to the bottom of it:

Congress needs to pass a budget amendment specifically providing that no federal funds be used for this odious purpose.

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

The cover-up has accelerated. Trump Administration Live Updates: Defiant Bondi Stonewalls Democrats on Epstein and Homan Investigations #EpsteinFiles