Axios being forced to report on this story in this way means the Dems need to keep doing what they're doing now which is nothing because an angry Trump is gonna keep doing worse and worse things and ain't no one gonna be able to defend him anymore outside of the WH so let him cook.

Democrats. They are HANDING YOU GIFTS. The Attorney General just had a guy we know took Russian money speak to the country. There's a direct link from Russia to Benny. You cannot fuck this up.

I wish lying wasn't just accepted and allowed because there's no way that happened. Sorry but no producer is ever doing that. Ever. Just not something that happens. And I'm referring to real producers like Ms. Brockman here and not a "producer" on Timcast

WTF is wrong with grand juries lately?

The sooner the average voter learns that, in most states, LEOs operate as a quasi-independent self-governing branches of govt that can literally pick & choose their battles w/o fear of oversight or consequences, the sooner we can move on to rational ideas about how to fight this.

Would I could find a fine frog!

Outrageous -- and apparently in blatant violation of yesterday's ruling protecting protesters and journalists from this kind of shit. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

Men’s pants: Your waist is 30 inches, therefore you are a size 30. Women’s pants: Your waist is bad inches, you have wide hips, a small butt, short legs, a long torso, a prehensile tail, and we don’t like your face. Therefore you are a size whatever the fuck we want, but only at this store.

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

Can anyone recommend a picture book or read aloud about plagiarism or copying? Or taking credit for something you didn't do? 📚

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance." www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Wild list of errors - significant but subtle enough that someone not paying attention would let is pass - generated by Microsoft's generative software INSIDE Excel formulas We are so SO MUCH TROUBLE office-watch.com/2025/facts-a...

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

Some folk: "THERE ARE ONLY EVER TWO SEXES OR GENDERS OR PRONOUNS OR WHATEVER I'M UNCLEAR ON ALL THESE TERMS BUT MY POINT IS THERE ARE *TWO* AND YOU CAN ONLY BE ONE OR THE OTHER". The natural world: "LOL cute, hey new spider, catch".

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/a...

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

I know it's tiresome to play the "imagine if the parties were reversed" game, but thinking about how Republicans (and right-wing media) would be reacting if a Democratic-controlled House was refusing to swear in a newly elected *Republican* member may be the apotheosis of this particular meme.

I do not understand why television stations are not showing live coverage of how there is literally nothing happening in Portland and Chicago. I mean, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw would each be sitting on a set in those cities telling everyone the white house is lying.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

DHS is repelling from helicopters into apartment buildings to raid them and zip tie children in the middle of the night while saying "fuck them kids." They're shooting at people on the streets and lying about it. This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.

I think we are well past the point where future historians look at us and say that civil war could not be averted.

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Yep! A lot of reasons the South hasn’t changed is because it’s been coddled with a hands-off “don’t want to upset them too much” attitude. That should be over now. Placating sets the wrong example and gives the gutter racists among them too much leverage.

i am real, real, real fucking done with the idea that coastal liberals owe southerners any kind of patronizing fucking deference.

I have been talking about US autocracy but @dhnexon.bsky.social lays it out more clearly-- the American system has failed. The checks and balances didn't work, so we will need a new constitution and new institutions once the regime is eventually toppled www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

they’re illegally sending troops from more and more states to occupy my fucking city because a bunch of shitass ICE chumps can’t tolerate a person in an inflatable frog costume legally gyrating at them in front of a single building they lease from us, keep it fucking shut down, fuck these people

When the military of Sovereign State A moves into Sovereign State B, against the wishes of the civilians & leadership of Sovereign State B, that is called an invasion. The only plausible motive here is for Republican states to show their power over Democratic states, to terrorize US into submission.

The states absolutely have the power to enforce their laws against federal agents that violate them

Wurman has a very principled position: courts have no power to stop the President doing things he likes, but plenary power to stop the President doing things he doesn't like. Hence courts having the power to enjoin all student debt relief, even in cases where no one with standing brought suit.

“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

I see a lot of Democratic governors talking. I see NONE of them enforcing the laws of their states. You have masked criminals in your state, breaking your laws and all you do is talk. No really. You’re useless as tits on a bull. Your citizens are being terrorized and all you do is talk. 🤷‍♂️

Also to reiterate, Illinois State Police should be there! They just should be serving the role of defending Illinois residents against the feds not doing whatever this is.

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

America did not collapse into authoritarian rule all that quickly. It’s been in democratic backsliding since at least 2016, with lawbreaking, norm violations, dismantling of checks-and-balances, attacks on rights, etc. A lot of this is just building on Trump’s first term. Too many discounted that.

Cops lie. Police statements are lies until proven otherwise. Newspapers blithely printing CopShop PR statements as facts are failing. Wait for the whole story

sure would have been nice if Schumer et al had refused to fund the budget of our tax dollars paying for all these ICE recruiting ads but alas

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down