The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Genuinely least self-aware motherfucker in Washington.

Happening Now: Thousands out for a “No Kings” protest in Chicago

No Kings is reporting that 7,000,000 Americans turned out to rally against Trump today. That's over THREE TIMES the number of votes Donald Trump claims to have gotten over Kamala Harris.

Dallas didn’t disappoint. #NoKings

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

Look at this turnout in Charlotte! #NoKings (via Marco Foster/Threads)

Federal officers pepper ball protestors at Portland ICE facility just now.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

Jacksonville, FL

Until we can explain it, I won't be letting my guard down. #COVID #LongCOVID #PublicHealth #MedSky #MaskUp

A powerful visual.

Here’s the most important measure of Ontario’s self proclaimed « working for workers » Conservative government. They pretend that laws requiring employers to draft policies about this or that is progress. But real measure is enforcement of labour standards. www.thestar.com/news/gta/wor...

This is not a minor issue: it’s a serious threat to democracy. We’re rapidly transitioning into a world where, as long as you support the president, you can be above the law; if you’re in the opposition, you have a target on your back. Opposition can’t survive under these conditions.

Trump isn’t even trying to hide the fact that the DOJ is completely politicized and the rule of law no longer applies federally

Trump Says He Is Commuting George Santos’s Fraud Sentence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

It occurs to me Trump is doing something extremely similar to what Sam Bankman-Fried went to prison for. SBF took funds from customer deposits at his crypto exchange FTX and put them into his other company Alameda Research to keep it solvent.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

In #Odesa, the choir and audience continued the performance in the shelter of the Philharmonic Theater despite a Russian attack. 📹: y.krasinskyi

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

As the ceasefire begins in Gaza…

Why did the Trump regime decimate the CDC last night? By destroying the systems used to measure disease spread and health outcomes, they ensure they cannot be held accountable for killing thousands upon thousands of US residents with their eugenicist policies. This is fascism.

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

Chicago hospitals need to establish a security perimeter and not allow any ICE vehicles/agents inside—and certainly not unless they have a valid, specific judicial warrant. That’s the bare minimum they owe our communities. Not one is currently doing this. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

Every network should be diving into this story: www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/u...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Again, why are there no general strikes in the USA as their democracy is being dismantled in real time?

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️

I still can't get over the surreal experience of watching Trump effectively telling all our generals he is going to order them to kill American citizens in my city in a speech that he also stopped midway through to spend 5 minutes explaining how he is so smart for walks down stairs slowly.

The last seconds are absolutely shocking

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

A reminder that by the end of the day today, there will have been over 130 car collisions in Toronto alone. And that’s just the reported number. Collisions with less than $5000 in damage do not legally have to be reported.

that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure

OMG this is an Ontario version of a Japanese show I watch on Netflix!

Excellent interview by @drgorfinkel.bsky.social on the importance of masks www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Unbridled authoritarianism now. They aren't even attempting a pretext.

MAGA ambassador Pete Hoosktra is telling Canada that he doesn't like the term "elbows up." He says it's anti-American. Sorry Pete, your president might be able to fire Jimmy Kimmel but you don't get to tell Canadians how to talk. Elbows up Mother-stucker.

1939

Trump has difficultly pronouncing "Azerbaijan" while taking credit for ending a war between "Azerbaijan and Albania" (he meant Armenia)