The Democratic leadership talking points on the shutdown should be simple. GOP control govt. If they are too inept to keep govt open on their own, the Democrats are willing to entertain offers. Here's the list. (The list is not just healthcare. No masks. No NG deployments. Rule of law.)

Late tonight, a federal judge issued a sweeping new order prohibiting the president from deploying any National Guard forces—from any state or DC—to Oregon. The president cannot keep playing whack-a-mole with different states’ Guard units to get around court orders and the rule of law.

Doomers get unfollowed, because when you're so busy focusing on what you think is impossible, you're the one creating the world where nothing ever gets better and everything perpetually sucks.

I do not want to go back to a time, which existed very recently in our history, when the fbi was a much more thuggish, much worse secret police, and boy, do Team Trump and the ruling party disagree with me

For everyone in the comments trying to identify the animal: there was heavy internal debate in our office over what this was. We eventually landed on a capybara. That’s Portland for you.

Yesinia *wants* to be creative with her magic. She wants to sell her creations in a shop along with her friend Kirsten. Her family wants her to become part of their spell matrix grinding out goods for the mundanes. What's a witch to do? books2read.com/becomingsolo

Which is...why I'm selfpub.

We must be careful to sift between Trumpist fascism and the facts of emerging post-imperialism. The erosion of U.S. global power isn’t a bad thing. Its replacement by regional fascist spheres is.

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

So this is a quick and dirty low down on drug addiction and nursing. At one point, it was really easy for both doctors and nurses to steal drugs from hospitals. Which resulted in A METRIC FUCKTON OF CHANGES to prevent the candystore from being abused. Meds have to be checked out and are attached

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"no, the other one"

And pay close attention to how the cops were like 'case closed' This was discovered through independent autopsy.

Armchair historianing here but the neocons and xtian right have been setting this in motion for like 40 years too...

We need to understand that, too. There is no "reform." Either poorly trained people with no impulse control can murder people on the streets while we watch, or we have a democracy. The two are antithetical.

One of the things we are going to have to be very, very aware of is that a lot of people who are being heavily armed right now will simply not be willing to accept the results of a democratic election because they will go to jail.

Is there a reason why the #OnlyPosts feed is borked? I'm not seeing anything new there.

The arrival of Shadow the Question brings home to Yesinia what the loss of a Magic Fair really means. But can she go against her family's wishes and needs? They expect her to marry Sergio and settle into the family's spell matrix. But is that enough for Yesinia? books2read.com/becomingsolo

As far as I'm concerned, JayDee's talking about himself in this post. Not Joy Reid.

It's really tough for non-film folks to grasp how big and sprawling the industry is, how many people it employs, how many people benefit from it. Sooooo many of my friends have been saying for years now how bad it's been, and only worse since the fires.

You know, I've noticed that they never say that Black barbershops and beauty salons are "segregationist" and "divisive." Social media is so ahistorical. It's frustrating.

It's brutal

Yep, and one more thing: we were the last generation who didn't get the Internet until we were adults. Some elder Millennials didn't have online access until after 18, but the vast, VAST majority of Xers did not. I was 19 by the time I got an email address and a Geocities account. That matters.

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Dragging kids from their beds naked, not caring how you treat them, is how you create terrorists. It's begging for a violent response. And I'm willing to bet Trump Republicans want a violent response. As soon as they have one, they can start killing people in response.

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TGI(stfu)F. Learn the script.

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Well, when you put it like that, Brian . . . (I'm all about singing automotive repair garages, everyone knows this). (Okay maybe not. But I like the band Auto Body Experience. That's something.)

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OH an if you defend LLMs stealing from artists please unfollow me. Our values do not and will not ever align.

I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale. If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood

what trump and most republicans want is a permanent 2020 portland they can kick around and brutalize at will so that they can make social media and news clips to weaponize against other liberal cities

Rwanda. And now Florida. #WhatImAfraidOf #Disappeared

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Yesinia's family needs her magic. But she wants to become a Solo practitioner and open a store with her best friend. First, however, she has to deal with a threat to the Bright Star Magic Fair. books2read.com/becomingsolo

The reality is that the US Department of Homeland Security has been openly seized by unapologetic white nationalists who freely indulge in neo-Nazi rhetoric and use their huge and growing paramilitary army to mount massive attacks on communities of color in the US in a campaign of racist oppression

also please know if you dont this was the second time that day he ran up in that class to disrupt it. I see students who want to protect their professor who routinely has to fend off weirdos running in her classroom acting like they're going tp attack her or worse.

(no, you do not have a first amendment right to run in and disrupt a class you're not taking even at a public university, because time place and manner)

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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this does not sound minor to me and is another significant point in the “failure to consolidate the security apparatus” column

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve told the extra left that nobody in their right mind would give control of their healthcare over to the government when they have repeatedly shown that they’ll protest vote over the rainbow shitting unicorn dujour and hand it over to a sociopath like Trump.

Live shot of that libertarian defense of freedom

Libertarians watching Government goons fast rope from black helicopters into a Chicago apartment complex, drag Americans from their beds, and leave them hogtied naked on the street:

Kicking off a spooky October with Yesinia! On sale for $2.99. County fairs struggle for survival in some areas...and even more so when they're the source for local magic renewal. Yesinia's choice...isn't just about her. books2read.com/becomingsolo

"fight against misinformation and propaganda" when every org basically sets up white informational overseers/ casual homophobia/ devaluing women's labor and is erasing their own failures at protecting DEI and racial justice so its bad when MAGA does it but not "us"?

I totally understand blaming farmers for voting for Trump and enabling this economic disaster, but it's also true that at 2% of the population, if they would have split along national lines instead of voting 75/25 for Trump, it wouldn't have changed the election result.