JUST IN: Over Trump DOJ objection, judge dismisses w/prejudice federal case against man accused of assaulting two MS national guardsmen in DC. Judge Sparkle Sooknanan sees "improper purpose"/potential "prosecutorial harassment" in courthouse shuffle. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Duncan: But I’m proud to say I’m a Democrat. I’m proud that I can show up to work every day with a better toolkit to love my neighbor—instead of villainizing everyone or putting an asterisk next to someone just because they don’t look like me, talk like me, love like me, or worship like me.

Hi Donald!

Yesterday Was Not as Bad as You Thought. It was worse. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Jimmy Kimmel on Donald Trump: “That son of a bitch. It’s really unbelievable. I never imagined that we’d ever have a president like this and I hope we don’t have another president like this again”

The generals and admirals at Quantico today should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

S.D.N.Y. Essential Practice Rule 1: Do NOT mess with Judge McMahon 🤣

BREAKING: A second Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has been disqualified after a federal judge ruled her appointment invalid. Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Keep talking, Howard, keep talking.

"You don’t need to be a mental-health professional to see that something’s very seriously off with Trump—particularly after nearly three years of watching his erratic and abnormal behavior in the White House." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

He was just in the news a couple weeks ago again because he had another warrant issued for his arrest after he missed a court date for yet another driving incident.

Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park

"'Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life ... Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.'" www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-leo...

House Speaker Mike Johnson was recorded criticizing a bizarre AI-generated video posted by President Donald Trump in a confrontation with a Democratic representative.

oh my

#ICYMI, I joined @kateshaw.bsky.social and @williambaude.bsky.social for (another) @nytopinion.nytimes.com roundtable on #SCOTUS — as the Roberts Court marks its twentieth anniversary and with a momentous new term set to begin next Monday. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Huh. I was pretty sure these counted as qualifications to serve in the current administration:

Oooh, oooh, oooh—I'll take that question

(3/3) Which means that unless the courts accept some kind of wild (and I can't imagine precedented) tolling argument, Halligan, Pam Bondi, and Donald Trump won't be able to fix this even if they had a single working brain among the three of them. SAD!

(2/3) It also just so happens not only that the only lawyer who signed (would sign!) the Comey indictment was … {checks notes again} … Halligan, but that the statute of limitations on the charges it purports to allege expired … {here's another handy note!} … at midnight last night.

(1/3) I think Ed makes a pretty strong point here about Lindsey Halligan: She hasn't been lawfully appointed under 28 U.S.C. § 546, and as he also points out, his view is supported by a 1986 OLC opinion written by some guy named … {checks notes} … Samuel A. Alito. (1/3)

Happy October, and Happy Jim Comey Statute of Limitations Expiration Day to all who celebrate!! AND, AS ALWAYS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!! 😉😂

just stunning

More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

Children are twice as likely to develop long COVID after two COVID-19 infections, compared with children who’ve only had COVID-19 once, according to a new study co-authored by a doctor at Lurie Children’s Hospital.

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

This man pulled us straight out of Covid hell. This is somebody who visited two active war zones, which is two more than ANY of his predecessors, possibly when he already had cancer. Kind of hard to imagine him whining about an escalator, isn't it?

My sisters and brothers in uniform: You took an oath. You took an oath to the constitution of this country. If you have abandoned your oath, take off the uniform that so many of us bled and died for and go home. You shame us. We will remember.

Of course this bitchass coward is gonna keep his head down. Fuck Jimmy Fallon

Another fascist enabler for money. Greed is the cancer that’s killing our democracy.

Are we great yet?

Millions of Americans will attend "No Kings" rallies across the nation on October 18. (You should go!) But what can protesters reasonably hope to accomplish? I think "No Troops on Our Streets" should be a key demand. www.headsupnews.org/p/no-kings-a...

This is not a fight about tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin. We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

About to go live!

Yep

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

AOC: "This will experiences the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence. Which is why we have to stand tall right now alongside everyday Americans who want us to be standing up."

Just astounding. The reason they can shove through 100 Trump nominees at once is because the GOP changed the rules to eliminate the 60-vote requirement. Something they won’t do to fund the government. Yet they blame Dems.

HEY CORPORATE MEDIA, Say it with me. Your headline is REPUBLICAN CONGRESS FAILS TO FUND GOVERNMENT: SHUTDOWN IMMINENT Let me know if you need any help with this

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

I canceled Youtube tv as soon as I heard they bent the knee to the wannabe dictator. Fuck them, I'll keep my 85 bucks.

So one day after YouTube pays a $25M settlement to Trump, I get notice that they’re canceling Univision?

Call your dem Senators tonight. Tell them not to cave. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

If you live in: South Dakota Louisiana West Virginia Wyoming Tennessee Mississippi Alaska Call your right wing Senator and ask them why they're pushing to increase their constituents healthcare prices so much.

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

Lindsey Halligan, the attorney selected by Donald Trump to bring criminal charges against James Comey, has never prosecuted a case. But, like Trump, she did get her start in reality TV — with a brief cameo on South Beach Tow. Here is Halligan’s newly resurfaced TV moment: