Anytime you ask “why did the Times cover it this way?” or whatever corporate media it is, remember that influential moderates are the tool of the wealth class and are there to normalize whatever the wealthy want and create doubt regarding reform and change.

They use govt accounts, employees & resources to make partisan political messages. They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely. They get pardoned when they commit crimes. They ignore the laws. There is zero congressional oversight.

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

Heard a bunch of old guys singing in an Irish pub in Cooperstown. Turns out they were members of the Pitt glee club in the 70’s. Here is ‘Hail to Pitt’ courtesy of them:

Pittsburgh band The Commonheart performing 12/27 @ Mr. Smalls. They will be peforming a cover of an album for one set. Last year performed Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. Was awesome! www.instagram.com/p/DPy6xF6keT...

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

"House slave." Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

Reminder that tomorrow on Oct. 16, I am hosting a telephone town hall to answer your questions about the Republican-manufactured government shutdown. Join us!

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor. According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

Quick question: If the Republicans are right, and someone is paying millions and millions of us to protest, and has done it hundreds of other times, and they STILL can't figure out who's funding us, aren't they way too stupid to hold office?

The idea that there are activists and citizens who attend protests because it’s what they believe in is completely foreign to them. If it isn’t a personal grift, they don’t understand the motivation.

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying. There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero. They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

He got the COVID and flu Vaccines like every 79 year old should this is a good thing. "Cardiovascular age validated by by ECG and found to be 14 years younger than chronological age" is a nonsensical phrase. I am an internist this is not something we do or write in medical reports.

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Can we get a Turner's Iced Tea/Ja'Kyrian Turner collab/NIL?!?! #H2P

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it. Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device. The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This is that "plenary" authority Stephen Miller was referring to in the now edited CNN interview. Arguing that the president's deployment of troops is unreviewable by the courts is arguing that his power is plenary.

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

It was not just Trump and Epstein it was also Trump and Casablancas and the teen models they groomed and booked for “career building” dinners with older men. I remember this. Does most of the press have amnesia? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Christmas ornament spotted at the Hallmark store. #H2P

NEW: Trump considers a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. “I’ll have to take a look at it,” and also says Diddy has asked him for a pardon.

Trump says he will “have to take a look at” a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell after the Supreme Court rejected her appeal today. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

The only healthcare policies I can think of from his party are: -Restricting women's access to reproductive care -Restricting care for transgender people The ACA was passed in March 2010; 15 years later, there is still no plan besides "kill the ACA"

It’s even less responsible for a Republican president to be starting one.

What was the real message at Quantico? Janine Davidson (former Undersecretary of the Navy and former Chair of Department of Defense Policy Board) discusses: The domestic paradigm shift in President Trump's addressing Active Duty military leaders with National Guard Adjunct Generals excluded.

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

Has Trump said anything about his former “spiritual leader”, Robert Morris, who was just sentenced to 6 months in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl? Will the media even bother to ask him?

Trump promised an infrastructure bill for 4 years in his first term. Said it was coming in 2 weeks many times. Never delivered one. Democrats then delivered critically needed funding for crumbling infrastructure. Now Russ Vought is taking that away. But only in blue states.

If you say Dems should negotiate with Trump, please confirm you've read the pre-shutdown Trump EO that authorizes you and yours to be probed as terrorists if you commit any thought-crime listed on the right-hand side of this Ken Klippenstein report excerpt. *That* is who you want to negotiate with.

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Don’t be fooled, Pennsylvania! Vote YES this November 4th to retain Dougherty, Donohue and Wecht. @jjabbott.bsky.social

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.

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews. Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

The weird thing about people decrying physical media is ... it's not binary? I watch streaming and I also spend money on awesome little objects with movies on them. One is convenient, the other is quality. Anyway, I went to @vinsyn.bsky.social Pittsburgh! www.pittsburghmagazine.com/colliers-wee...

Another brutal jobs report. The economy lost 32,000 jobs in September, and August was revised from +54,000 all the way down to -3,000. That’s not just a slowdown—it’s a collapse. The economy is clearly in trouble under Trump, and Republicans are still in total denial.

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:

Uh-oh Mike.

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."

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