Over a quarter of Trump's proposed $1T military budget would go to just four companies who have spent $103B in taxpayer dollars on stock buybacks and dividends over the last decade. He wants to use your money to make the military-industrial complex even richer.

Please watch this. The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill. You need to know this, so you can help stop it.

Pete Hegseth is right: Mark Kelly shouldn't be a senator. He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF. I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Priovate equity has done so well in buying up retail, home improvement. What could go wrong? There oughta be a law. Oh, wait - maybe a single payer system.

As we’ve been saying for months, X’s new location feature is exposing what we’ve been warning about, many of the loudest MAGA accounts aren’t even in the USA. We’ve been tracking this behavior and helping people learn how to spot bot activity, and this update has made it easier than ever to see.

ICYMI - POPE LEO: “When people are living good lives for 10, 20 years… (Trump) is treating them in a way that’s extremely disrespectful, violent — We have to look for ways to treat people humanely and with dignity.” (H/T @CBSNews)

After an unnecessary, weeks-long disruption, more than 1.4 million Ohioans should have their federal food benefits for November, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services confirmed last Thursday ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/ohio-...

Sam is right. DOGE did exactly what they wanted it to do- hurt poor people, destroyed faith in government, enriched Elon.

One thing that is not getting enough attention is that Trump has normalized the idea of the United States supporting the transfer of territory and millions of people from a democracy to a dictatorship. The ending of freedom for millions is now the official US position.

She quickly became known as the "final gatekeeper" for all funding requests. "Her nickname was the terminator," a former senior official told CNN. "She was terminating grants, terminating contracts, terminating people." https://cnn.it/48x3mE7

Perfect reply

The Trump administration is abusing the military justice system to target its political opponents. A despicable new low for a group that strives everyday to find the moral bottom.

The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals. The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry. Where is the MAHA outcry?

In a tacit admission that U.S. food production requires foreign labor, the Trump administration is making it easier for farmers to employ guest workers from other countries. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/24/r...

It’s Hamas It’s antifa It’s Soros It’s terrorism It’s… It’s… It’s Americans who will be peacefully marching with signs and supporting democracy—and don’t want a King. #WeAreTheMajority And they know it.

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

States are continuing to operate programs serving the neediest people during the shutdown. But if federal dollars run out, states can only keep programs going for so long, and worry that if they have to dip into their own coffers, they won't be reimbursed. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/10/r...

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These do not look like police videos. They look like campaign ones." I spoke about DHS's glossy, military like videos. The deportations are for the camera. @cnn.com @zbyronwolf.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Argentina gets $20 billion, Qatar gets an airbase in Iowa, while our soldiers are being fed by food banks. Orgs like Army Emergency Relief are stepping in amidst Trump’s shutdown, and you can make a donation at any of the links in this thread:

Almost every great government program is from the Democrats…

Trump is using our tax dollars to buy Argentine pesos to bail out the country's failing libertarian economy. My friend Rohit Chopra explains how this will hurt struggling Americans here at home.

Brendan Carr did not “make a joke on social media,” he went on a podcast and said ABC had to take action against Kimmel or the FCC would revoke licenses! We all saw it! Ted Cruz quoted it on HIS podcast in a silly mafia accent!

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Oklahoma superintendent Ryan Walters on TPUSA chapters in schools: "We have folks in every school district say 'we want one.' What we have seen are teachers unions, woke administrators trying to block them from happening, and that's what you can't do ... we're going to have them in every school"

JUST IN: The Trump administration's bid to coerce states to comply with immigration enforcement in order to receive disaster aid is illegal and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Jeffries: "Trump agrees to our demand to hold a meeting to avert a govt shutdown. The meeting is set on Monday for later in the week. And then Trump wakes up Tuesday and goes on an unhinged rant and cancels the meeting. Why? Because he doesn't want to discuss the Republican healthcare crisis."

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Yes, this is the part I really want explained.

Sadly, entirely true. We’ve got people who have put themselves above the law, and alleged law enforcers who can’t be trusted with the law. This is how you lose the rule of law. And thereby how you lose democracy.

What science?

When President Trump signed an executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from states and localities that have adopted “cashless bail” policies, he escalated a national fight over how courts decide who should remain behind bars before trial ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/24/r...

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like: -masked secret police kidnapping people off the street -creating concentration camps -attempting to eradicate trans people -banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books -murdering fishermen in open waters

Motherfuckers. And I don't even like Comey.

Horrible

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

ABC should know that the public does NOT support it bowing down to Sinclair in a textbook attack on free speech. I don't know if they'd open potatograms or glitterbombs, but we can at least flood them with letters and postcards. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The story is not what Kimmel said but what others won’t say now for fear of state retribution. Authoritarian countries thrive on self censorship.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Chilling montage by MSNBC showing how Sinclair Media forces a script to be read by talent at its stations warning of the dangers of “biased and false news.” www.threads.com/@thebriefing...

Late night hosts criticizing the president isn’t new. Having a thin-skinned dictator wannabe who can’t take it is.

Resist

Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves. The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.

To say that the media is bending a knee, falsely assumes there are still hardened bones and a joint in place in their operations. Their mission now is to report the news fearfully and to seek Trump’s favor. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/lega...

🇮🇱 Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “There’s a business plan on Trump’s table to turn Gaza into a real estate bonanza. We paid a lot of money for this war. Now we need to divide how we make a percentage. We did the demolition phase. Now we build. It’s much cheaper.”

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Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."

> @apnews.com

Damn. This is refreshing. Worth listening to the whole thing

We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time. Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.