“If Trump is allowed to move forward on his plan, no one in America who dares criticize him will be assuredly safe. That means no one – not just political figures...” @kimwehle.bsky.social unpacks how the president is criminalizing being anti-Trump in America. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/trump-anti...

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

"...the way out is standing between supremacists and their targets and telling them "no, you have to live with them, just like we live with you, and if you can't do that, then you have a problem with us, too."

this Syrian is more American than MAGA

Imagine all the people like this we haven’t heard about at all and might never hear about

wtf is he even talking about? I mean AI can be wrong but approximately 7K law enforcement in Oregon vs. 14K (less with firings, but still not yet half that) in the FBI. This guy just pulls stuff out of his ass and as a result is not surprisingly full of 💩

here’s the kind of statement that is both true and untrue — but the reality of politics renders its truthfulness more important: nobody voted for this.

At some point a governor has to mobilize the national guard against participation in Trump's ICE raids & disappearances; SCOTUS will grant Trump the win but calling the question on the state of the exception means contesting his authority anyway. We don't have a constitution while Trump can do this

Tremendous thanks to Cory Doctorow for helping us get the word out about Blue Bonds, MotL's fiscal strategy for mobilizing sub-federal debt financing to defeat authoritarian sabotage & extortion. pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

This is figuratively what Musk sleeping with Katie did to Stephen Miller’s mind

A significant proportion of my understanding of travel is “go to strange & exotic places and get high there.”

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

“These lies are pissing me off,” said Virginia Senator @markwarner.bsky.social. “This isn’t about health care for undocumented immigrants—that’s already against the law. It’s about the fact that Republicans are intentionally skyrocketing your premiums”👇🏽

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Aha! I had a suspicion Trump might just want to sell off these neighborhoods he’s “cleaning up.”

Call it a child trafficking ring because that’s what it is

What @zackpolanski.bsky.social is saying is simply what anyone who pays attention to politics is witnessing Starmer has played a key role in mainstreaming far-right politics, enabled by a mainstream media which still tiptoes around this terrible state of affairs

Experts said federal officials would likely be deeply interested in understanding direct Chinese investment in SpaceX. The U.S. government has asserted China has a systematic strategy of using investments in sensitive industries to conduct espionage.

Inspiration is the difference. And the other difference is we can imagine Mamdani’s coalition taking the Democratic party forward. Spanberger is taking us into the past. A part of “bipartisanship“ with a Republican party that no longer exists.

When Leavitt claims that Portland is war-torn, reporters should ask her where in Portland this is supposedly happening? What's the death toll? How many structures have been destroyed?

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Pouring a little out for @anthonyjeselnik.bsky.social whose edgy/nihilistic mean guy bit has been preempted by actual shitty human beings that aren’t even clever about it

Pouring a little out for @anthonyjeselnik.bsky.social whose edgy/nihilistic mean guy bit has been preempted by actual shitty human beings that aren’t even clever about it

WOW The Assistant US Attorney tells the judge at Diddy’s sentencing hearing that Diddy has booked speaking engagements in Miami next week. The AUSA calls it the “height of hubris.”

Colbert: “We Heard That JD Vance Loves a Good-Natured, Funny Meme” consequence.net/2025/10/colb...

“Democracy didn’t work last time” because the threat was theoretical feels like the appropriate mic-dropping reply I am really not sure how these people understand their job

Welp

"you're paying double, triple or more at the store, and the money is going straight to lifted pickup trucks for people who are farming the mailbox" bsky.app/profile/maxe...

Trump pal, if you can fathom it

"Our nation is incredibly divided right now, and the last thing we need is someone standing up and further dividing us with statements based on facts."

Just gonna keep reposting the meme every time it's relevant

From 2023: "People who lack experience, do not care about core organizational goals, will not listen to stakeholders, and are hell-bent on pursuing their narrow ideological agenda will ultimately destroy the organizations they are charged with leading." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/new-colleg...

Noem & Rubio “deliberately & with purposeful afterthought” sought “intentionally to chill the rights of freedom of speech & peacefully to assemble.”The judge’s view tells us with utter clarity their level of hostility to our beloved country & the Constitution. www.americaamerica.news/p/a-judges-a...

worth remembering that hoover's administration was defined by 4 years of economic chaos, suffering, dislocation, and fear. People genuinely believed the country itself was on the verge of irreversible collapse. He still got 40% of the vote.

Great Chris Murphy quote from our interview: "I would be a sucker to agree to a budget that literally funds an operation to hunt me and my allies down—to imprison us, harass us, intimidate us. If you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness." Tons more like that all throughout:

like, you'd think that would be the entirety of the message they were telling their readers every day. the president is attempting to destroy the constitution and impose a dictatorship.

I gotta be real it is extremely doing a number on my mental well-being that mr. cato institue here is taking a stronger stand than the majority of the democratic party. the anti-DHS coalition is uhhhh a bunch of socialists, the cato institute and the neocons as led by bill kristol???

Is Palpatine slaughtering the younglings in a smart way?

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

When a whale dies it sinks to the ocean floor and creates a massive feeding opportunity, called a "whale fall." The collapse of the Soviet Union created the biggest whale-fall in the 20th Century. Putin and treasonous American oligarchs, along with the Repubs, are trying to repeat it with the USA.

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 I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.” -Mohanda Gandhi

Stay brave!! Beautiful work here!

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.

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.

They are the occupation government and they do not have the country's interests in mind. We all have to accept this. bsky.app/profile/airb...