A helpful primer on how major soybean buyers like China are viewing the US's new penchant for trade wars. Really appreciate the writers' commitment to breaking it down so a 5-year-old can understand it asiatimes.com/2025/09/braz...

Everyone else has already said it but I have to say Mamdani is remarkably skilled as a politician. The way he's able to navigate what is clearly a hostile interviewer without losing his cool and still make everyone feel good is impressive.

Other people have noted this but it's staggering how many journalists mention that NYC has the most Jewish people of any city in the US without also mentioning that it also has the most Muslim people of any city in the US. There are three-quarters of a million Muslims there!

I need more managers to ask themselves not "how cheap is this?" but "what would you do if an employee made calculation errors in 40% or more of their work?"

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

When a state or local law enforcement official violates your rights, you can sue for money damages. When a federal official violates your rights — you largely cannot, thanks to a quirk of the law and the Supreme Court's decision not to find an inherent cause of action to sue under the Constitution.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

The Millennial in me says, "That's a surprise. I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and die of that surprise." 🙄

Huh. You mean to say they want healthy soldiers or something? www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

1. It's only feds asking a few questions. What do you have to hide? 2. It's only masked, armed feds asking you to justify your presence. What do you have to hide? 3. It's only masked feds assaulting your home, dragging your naked children out and holding them in a van for hours. Shut up commie.

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

when im president im gonna have them arrested by the fattest most bearded troops i can find

🎶 And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free 🎶

It’s a shame that the September jobs report has been canceled. I’m sure it would have shown us how everything is going perfectly.

I knew, knew I had read something about finding away around this a month or two ago " The RECOURSE Act would let the state withhold payments to the federal government only after it withholds funding for New York programs. "

I think we should do everything we can within reason to avoid direct and actual civil war, which is why I think the best case scenario is blue states meeting federal overreach in kind. Precisely because that is how we avoid either a) pacifically allowing ourselves to be razed or b) war.

No better diagnostic of the media environment right now that the non-story of a Trumper deciding to kill heretics & burn their church

In Matt 25 Jesus says that individuals & nations will be judged by how they care for the poor & sick. Govt is shutdown bc GOP wants to throw 12-20 million low-income/disabled Americans off Medicaid. Bc the GOP uses Jesus as a prop, while despising His actual commandments.

As regular readers of my bad posts know, this account is very interested in Gov. Pritzker as not only a 2028 candidate on-paper but as someone who is trying to model a kind of post-Trump version of 'wartime liberalism' that makes concessions to things Trump exposed but tries to use them for good 1/n

This is more or less what the American Revolution was about

this article shows how critical local partnerships are for ICE to hit their numbers, which is why you should keep the pressure on your local city governments to refuse cooperation with them

Mike Johnson agrees that Trump is “unhinged” and “unwell”

I hope this catches on and becomes his legacy

DHS includes a bunch of false and defamatory statements in their tweet about Kilmar Abrego Garcia as they prepare to send him to Uganda.

I actually don’t think the Dem spin on who did the shutdown is necessary because it is probably a good idea to try to limit government functions if you think the ruling party is doing accelerated fascism

This is illegal

the degree of sheer incompetence that pervades this administration is remarkable, and incredibly dangerous.

Black folk will tell you: The 1st thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.🤷🏿‍♂️ They lie because there's upside in it for them, and no downside. No matter how many times they get caught lying, newspapers will print their next lie as the gospel truth.🤡 And people stop caring before truth hits

They zip tied children.

Hi. Stop letting your kids get Covid, I absolutely beg you as a fully grown adult who can’t believe how little of a life I have after 3 years of LC. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

An important thing that is often ignored about Mamdani: he's cheerful! Taking the city's (and country's) problems seriously doesn't have to mean projecting nothing but darkness and rage. His positive vibe is an unbelievably effective way to make the tent bigger. As is fun/dorky stuff like this.

look we’re obviously going to bail out the farmers and I think there’s a reasonable case for doing it given that we’re doing the tariffs, since they are getting absolutely rocked by the tariffs. but this is an argument for not doing the stupid tariffs.

You know the military is a force for good when the Secretary of Defense starts calling himself the Secretary of War and demands that everyone sign an NDA

This is my favorite LLM after the one made in Oxford

Honestly “Republicans are shutting down the government to hide the Epstein files” is pretty good messaging.

Some of you may remember my rant about getting surprise charged $653 for a medically necessary ultrasound to screen for the cancer that killed my mother. Well, I wrote about it, and now my bad experience has been made into a cartoon for The Out of Network Network! open.substack.com/pub/outofnet...

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.

The White House is engaging in direct extortion of local and state governments, attempting to force them to change their policies by stopping funding projects that already have signed grant agreements with the federal government.

thou shalt let donald john trump fire any government employees he wants, so sayeth the supreme court unless, and this is important, it fucks with our bank accounts

Here we see the Supreme Court falling back on the venerable Trump is God-King Unless He Tries to Do Something I, John Roberts, Personally Disagree With doctrine.

Well, this seems normal for October in Michigan.

The specific ask is healthcare, but at root the principle is that if they need democratic votes, republicans don’t get to tell them to go fuck themselves and then blame them for the results. And at root *that* is about the republicans’ autocratic tendencies.

This is the kind of thing we need to see more of. Judges and State Bars have power here and if they start holding the govt attorneys to account you can slow things down dramatically. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Stephen Miller is a fascist and we need to stop the fascists. The fact that he wants to stop people from calling him a fascist--political speech that has been said about people in every administration of this country for decades--is proof that he is a fascist.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

september 30 ... october 1

Thought just occurred to me. Well, two thoughts, actually. OK, three. Amongst my thoughts... 1: Lower court judges also have lifetime tenure. 2: There's really no mechanism, other than appeal, forcing the lower federal courts to follow SCOTUS rulings. 3: Also judges understand malicious compliance.

a friend of mine (who i honestly didn’t even know followed me here, different cities these days) made this for a NO KINGS rally a few months ago and i have been thinking ever since about how to make an easy reproducible version for people who don’t have confidence in their drawing skills