Dems please clip this and run it hourly. 'We don't care if he hits women, we care that he votes to keep the Epstein Files locked away'

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations? JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

You know it’s bad when even the MAGA Fed guy sounds like he’s begging Powell for a hug.

Star Island, Rye, NH. July 2012. Black and white infrared photograph. #infrared #blackandwhite #monochrome #photography #starisland #seacoast #rye #newhampshire #granitestate #islesofshoals #summer #vacation #eastcoastkin #smuttynose

Fox News analyst (👀) Jack Keane on new Pentagon press policy: “They want to spoon feed information to the journalists, and that will be their story. That's not journalism.”

This was from an interview Cory Booker did yesterday.👇

The case before the Supreme Court is called Louisiana v. Callais, a redistricting dispute that has become a major test of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), the landmark civil rights law designed to protect Black Americans and other minorities from being shut out of political representation.

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

Impeachable acts every day

Well, so much for that ceasefire and peace deal and... www.cbsnews.com/news/netanya...

This is what happens when your country is run by incompetent knuckleheads.

"Modern conservatism always contained the seeds of authoritarianism. But the same can probably be said of most ideological movements, can’t it? When it comes to modern American conservatism, those seeds flowered because of choices, actions, and events." www.thebulwark.com/p/elian-gonz...

Day 267 The Trump regime continued to murder people yesterday. They blew up another boat of ‘suspected’ drug dealers. Suspected. They killed them. There was ZERO immediate damage to life. They could have boarded the boats. This is a CRIMINAL act. Utterly disgusting You are all caught up.

Democrats shouldn't let go of these Young Republican messages. Have the right-wing defend it. The VP, JD Vance, already has, and the talking points have been delivered to the MAGA base. They keep deflecting and doing both sides, but nothing is comparable. Just keep it in the news.

🇺🇦 Officially: Zelensky has formed a military administration in Odesa. By a separate decree, he dismissed the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Serhiy Lysak, who will head the Odesa OVA.

FINK, on @cnbc.com: $BLK

Harper Lee “To Kill a Mockingbird”

Excellent accidental double feature in the @nytimes.com today—random folks resisting MAGA’s police state tactics in Chicago, and how a group of the German elite resisted the Nazis’ police state tactics 80-90 years ago. Gift links: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

A few weeks ago, as the military imposed the policy that eventually caused almost all reporters to turn in their press passes and leave the Pentagon, I wrote “Censorship Makes You Dumber.”

I used to think Donald has never read a book (even his own). Well, unless there is one with cartoons called "How Stupid, Insecure Men Can Clumsily Pretend to Assert Authority."

Trump has a very simple worldview: the Presidency is not a public office, it is his property. He can use it to satisfy his personal or partisan whims, or to enrich himself. So here, he threatens to reorganize an international competition, cohosted by Mexico and Canada, to settle a vendetta.

New, from me: I break down all that is happening with the shutdown. Shutdowns are bad. But only Trump and Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞 @sbmitche.bsky.social www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

Here, the President of the United States says publicly that people on the left in America have “the devil’s ideology.” The devil’s ideology. I don’t want to hear anyone on the right whine & complain anymore about “divisive/dangerous” language coming from the left. Not when you worship this guy. Ok?

/5 And unlike JD Vance, apparently, I think it’s perfectly possible to think Jay Jones is a creepy weirdo unsuitable for public office while also thinking that these people are bigoted assholes.

/4 They are aided, in this, by their own factions (devoted overt bigots, unserious irony-poisoned permanent adolescents, and if-it-works-I-say-it sociopaths), as well as by a “free speech culture” movement that is weirdly obsessed with them being comfortable to do it.

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

/2 You’ve got true believers who consciously and overtly believe in this stuff, you’ve got the goatfuckers who believe it but are too chickenshit to say so so retreat behind “irony”, and you’ve got the neckbearded snort-laughing futon-stains who revel in fatuous adolescent shock.

The thing is that the modern GOP (not to mention its basement-confined moron stepchild, the Mises Caucus libertarian “party”) is accurately depicted by this language and a critical mass of the party is absolutely fine with it. /1

“.. Tuesday brought a major and highly symbolic rebuke. Fox News, the very same network .. which employed Hegseth .. rejected his attempts to control media coverage of the Defense Department he now leads.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...

I don't think Putin can afford to admit that the war hasn't been a mistake&stop the war he cannot win.This’ll mean the end of his power.He needs a war that lasts- lasts until the end of his life Is Putin ready to stop the war?That is the wrong question The right question is:Can Putin stop the war?⤵️

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

GOV. WALZ: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business — the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Trump’s the one with government interference." (From @atrupar.com )

The stock surge also pushes LVMH’s market cap to €304.89—making it Europe’s second most valuable company by market cap.

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The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Of all the things I will read this week, this will be the least surprising.

I understand Saddam did this too.

What would you say if you saw it in another country? What would you say if you had been told in 2015 that this is where we would be?

🇺🇦 Zelensky has stripped Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov of Ukrainian citizenship after the SBU confirmed he holds a valid Russian passport issued in 2015. Trukhanov denies it and vows to fight the decision in court. His removal effectively ends his tenure as mayor.

Shitshow is a travesty, a debacle, a dumpster fire. Shit show is something the Russian Ambassador arranges for Trump to view.

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.