The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow 'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

They aren't trying to hide the corruption. Trump’s DOD Gives Massive Contract to Company With Ties to His Son newrepublic.com/post/202253/... via @newrepublic.com

Poll watchers were a significant tool in stopping Black citizens from voting during Jim Crow. So it tracks that the white supremacist Trump administration is bringing them back.

The U.S. has conducted 10 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing 43 people. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.

“Trump’s Take” is a real-time financial tracker documenting the cash and gifts that President Donald Trump and his family have received by selling the presidency. Check out the real-time updates on President Trump's corrupt earnings, gifts, and crypto gains. www.americanprogress.org/feature/trum...

Can't these ICE-wannabe idiots just do what Donald Trump did for the SAT: Pay someone smarter to take it for them?

If you're in Washington, DC, don't forget to visit these four structures that attest to the legacy of each president:

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... A blatant act of corruption and self-dealing.

What is Mike Johnson doing all day? He claims not to know the "details" of anything happening in Washington. What a useless liar he is.

Wow! The dissenting judge has asked for an en banc order to: "I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority’s order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur."

Meanwhile in Russia: pundits gloated about the pendulum swinging their way with Trump flip-flopping about providing Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles. They've surmised that Trump's peacemaking is just a show meant to glorify himself and won't lead to peace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU3U...

Putin’s Propagandists Laugh at Trump for Following Kremlin Orders Russian state media is openly mocking the U.S. and claiming Trump was following Putin’s secret plot to pull a bait and switch on Zelensky. My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social: www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-put...

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV propagandists boasted that Trump's play on Tomahawks is a part of a secret deal he made with Putin in Alaska. They boasted about Russia's record-setting rate of war crimes that left 1.5 million civilians without electricity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiXq...

"'Will it mean I have to move back with my parents?' Lindsay Corley said. 'Will I have to take less medication, and just be in a lot more pain?'" This is what the shutdown is about. The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/actual-hum...

The latest episode of our new podcast, The Briefing with Michael Waldman, discusses today’s era of corruption and a path forward to end the culture of kleptocracy. Listen: bit.ly/3W64x6C

If you couldn't catch it live, you can watch it here at your leisure. The government is screwing with evidence. www.youtube.com/live/Ams4OLn...

the ceasefire is not holding www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

All John Bolton has to do is announce that his name is in the Epstein Files; and Trump will protect him forever.

In case any of you are looking for troll accounts to block on BlueSky, here are two new ones:

Following Republicans’ playbook, I’m calling for work requirement for people receiving money from the government to legislate.

Funny, how the "No Kings" protesters were "elderly white hippies" in August (per Stephen Miller), but are "pro-Hamas terrorists and violent criminals" in October (per Karoline Leavitt). It's *almost* as if this regime makes its shameless lies up as it goes along . . .

"Why doesn't Chicago want us to zip-tie more naked children in the middle of the night and shove them, screaming, into vans? So ungrateful for refusing our kind, helpful offer to help!" Pamela Jo Bondi

American fascists are, obviously, very scared about how big a protest "No Kings" will be this weekend, as seen by their hysterical, dishonest rhetoric about it. Let's make their fears come true by showing up on October 18

A Court Tells Trump No (Again), While SecDef Clamps Down on the First Amendment open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Congratulations to the idiot media execs, who were sure they could pay a ransom to make Trump be nice to them and it would have no long-term effects whatsoever

The attack dog targeting Trump opponents over their paperwork hasn’t even filed his own www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

Add to this the Court’s usurpation of trial judges’ fact-finding function, often getting facts way wrong, in ways that get the Court to desired outcomes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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." The Origins of Totalitarianism

I co-wrote a book about Benedict Arnold’s treason, focused on his co-conspirator wife. The difference between Arnold and today’s Republicans is that Arnold did brave things before his betrayal. But he’d likely be gratified that the GOP's actions mean he’s no longer the worst traitor in U.S. history.

United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, flanked by Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, get loudly booed in Tel Aviv, Israel as they praise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021."

I’m old enough to remember the $21M Trump Seven Springs Estates conservation easement tax crime.

Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.

Some fun weekend viewing: we recently sat down with Katie Phang to discuss the latest updates on our National Guard lawsuit. It’s always fun to get into the weeds! Pour some coffee & watch the full conversation:   www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuOs... @katiephang.bsky.social @katiephangshow.bsky.social

Trump's Justice Department indictment of Letitia James carries echoes of the civil fraud case that she brought against him — albeit at a scale so small that most federal prosecutors would never deign to pursue it, write @jonesieman.bsky.social Devlin Barrett www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/n...

We need to make the Hippocratic underground a robust reality—and we need to do so immediately. People are suffering and dying because of state-imposed obstacles to essential care. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“We’re going to look at maybe reaching out to Cook County State’s Attorney for subpoenas, “ said the Broadview Police Chief, “It’s actually a violation of law. It would be classified under disorderly conduct, filing a false official report.” trib.al/ozRgJ9J

$47. And that’s if the government isn’t lying about the interest rate. Plus, they will have to prove she intentionally schemed to swindle $47 from the bank - as opposed to just not knowing the difference between a second home and an investment property. Good luck, Lindsay.

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

Good morning from Greenbelt, Md. Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys will argue in federal court for his release from immigration detention. Now feds want to send Abrego to Ghana. Reporting live.

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As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

The U.S.-Born labor force will shrink over the next decade: Achieving historically ‘normal’ GDP growth rates will be impossible, unless immigration flows are sustained www.epi.org/publication/...

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

Of all the many, many questions Pamela Jo Bondi refused to answer today, the most incendiary was about whether she's seen photos of Donald Trump with unclothed underage girls. It is so damning that she couldn't just say, "No."

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule newrepublic.com/article/2014... via @newrepublic.com