It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Relatedly, exactly this, from @brianbeutler.bsky.social. The Dems getting heard nationally right now are those who grasp this point. "The nature of public misgivings over the Trump regime stem from his dictatorial abuses, rather than quotidian policy disputes." www.offmessage.net/p/20-thought...

"Indeed, I think Democrats could stick to their guns indefinitely and persuasively by making the case that they can’t be asked to vote for a budget deal that Donald Trump and the GOP have promised to violate." www.offmessage.net/p/20-thought...

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The GOP House passed a budget that indulged all of their worst ideas, with no compromises whatsoever for Dem votes they wanted and needed. There's no good reason for Senate Dems to help the GOP with such a bill, no good reason to share blame and give them "bipartisan" cover for wanton destruction.

I do wonder when media outlets will get interested in ballooning everyday costs. My family's grocery bill has exploded over the past six months and - unlike when a Democrat is president - this is a non-story.

i think the next few weeks at cbs news will be a peak time to do what you're told, exactly what you're told and no more, and to keep asking for advice on the best way to complete tasks. bari weiss deserves to have her pure vision realized, exactly as she would have it

SESTA/FOSTA backfired miserably. The UK's age verification law backfired miserably. The TikTok ban is backfiring miserably. So of course @blumenthal.senate.gov has decided now is a great time to revive the terribly written Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which will ... spoiler... backfire miserably

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.

I want the Democrats to have a team of people going over every policy and practice that before now was governed by “norms” and writing a massive bill to codify all of it into fucking law. You can’t have “gentlemen’s agreements” with lying knaves.

OMG just release them wtf is anyone doing anymore?

Biden and the Dems doing and saying nothing about this disgusting anti-immigrant performance at the time is a key factor in why we are where we are. Dem leadership is irredeemable and must be replaced wholesale.

These news organizations are complicit.

CBS stopped doing journalism when they settled the 60 Minutes lawsuit. The rest is just a mop-up.

“Once more into the Rolodex!”

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

here's some children elon musk murdered www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

lol…just look at this insufferable dork

America’s military leadership has more important things to do than listen to lectures on character from an unqualified drunk who assaults women. Any soldier who was as careless as Hegseth was with war plans would be fired if not prosecuted. And everyone in that room knows it.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Please note that, unlike the president, the deputy chief of staff does not have immunity from prosecution for official acts per Trump v. United States

Meanwhile at the Riyadh comedy festival

Trump has posted 3 AI slops in the past week, blamed himself for the shutdown, and if you're to believe Schumer, doesn't know how disasterous his biggest piece of legislation will be. No swing voter paying attention will blame the Dems. Those not paying attention will blame the party in power.

Like David says here, they never get to bitch about cancel culture again. I mean, I guess they can try, but no one needs to take it seriously. In fact, the appropriate response going forward, just like all these right wingers who dined out on the same BS for years, is to just laugh in their face.

‘The Riyadh Comedy Festival…features a variety of big names such as Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Pete Davidson, Andrew Schulz, Jo Koy, Bill Burr, Jessica Kirson, Jimmy Carr and Louis C.K.’ Look at all these hacks who whined about PC and wokeness that will now preen for a theocracy.

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

JUST IN: Judge Simon sets a restraining order hearing for *tonight* on Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Oregon. Suggests he could issue a very quick order.

The Kavanaugh Stop knows only skin color

Ladies and gentlemen, the Kavanaugh Stop.

Because they like Trump and support him

Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.” Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-d1e

Important lessons from the Republicans here.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

babe wake up it's the 20th year in a row the democrat legislature gives republicans everything they want in exchange for avoiding a government shutdown

Says CSIS, "the sudden decline in right-wing terrorism is both more striking and harder to explain" but actually it's not; right-wing kidnappings and attacks on civilian transports have increased dramatically but aren't categorized as "terrorism" because they now occur under the aegis of the state.

A failed Kavanaugh Stop.

The one pro-ICE guy they found to interview downtown today being a suburbs-based casino marketer and erotica convention entrepreneur named Larry Goone might be the thing that tips me over into We're Living In A Bad Fic territory

It’s going great, everyone!

The Kavanaugh Stop will live in infamy until a legitimate court tosses it in the dustbin with the other weird racist gremlins like Plessy and the Dred Scott decision

They wear masks purely to avoid accountability. One of the toughest and most important jobs the Democrats will have when they retake power is reigning in a law enforcement apparatus that is out of control, from top to bottom.

It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie; But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

“Would you vote for Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker?” must be a central question in next year’s primaries.

Another Kavanaugh Stop in action

not true