President Trump's White House is already the second most-blocked account on Bluesky, just days after joining the platform. The only account ahead of it on the block list? It belongs to VP Vance. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

New in PN: No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response. "Calling this movement 'No Kings' turns out to have been a stroke of genius, because Trump’s response was to essentially say *Yeah, I’m the king — and because I’m the king, I can poop on people!*"

Donald Trump is trying to fire nearly every federal worker who supports special needs education. It’s kids with disabilities who will suffer. The cruelty is the point.

“The governor had objected to the plan to fire over the freeway, Interstate 5, and ordered a 17-mile stretch closed — against the guidance of military officials, who had said it was safe for it to remain open.” Which the heck military officials were those? Fire them.

You’re Invited! - You’re Invited! Paws and Pumpkins YOU ARE INVITED Due. to the recent influx of trauma patients at Bradford Cat Watch Rescue and Sanctuary we are hosting this event to help raise much needed funds for Bradford Cat Watch Rescue and Sanctuary CRITICAL CARE WARD.

FIRED DOJ LAWYER: “I responded up the chain of command - that’s a lie. I cannot sign my name to that.” Erez Reuveni says he was fired by Trump’s DOJ for refusing to lie that KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA was a terrorist & gang member.

A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..." www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

Saturday, October 18. Everywhere. Find your local event at nokings.org. #NoKings

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it. Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants. Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

The cartoons are a selection from the last 15 years, most of which were published in The New Yorker, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

A clip from LIVE Substack discussion about Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum and what it might mean for No King’s Day. Join me for more: substack.com/@thefrankfig...

Sunday reading explores 'difficult' women: from Jane Goodall to Jess Phillips. We need more to move things forward #equality occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

Ernesto’s Sanctuary for Cats in Syria is in urgent need of #donations to support efforts to neuter, vaccinate & tag street #dogs in a town proposing to cull street dogs. Here #Ernestos rescues a dog that was shot & left injured. #ErnestosSanctuary #streetdogs #rescue @ernestosanctuary.bsky.social

🎃 Spooky Season PSA: When public health gets ghosted,👻 we all feel it. Don’t let science become a skeleton 💀 of its former self. Not just a Halloween prop. It's a warning. We have a skeleton crew holding it all together. Public health isn’t scary: it’s essential. Spread the word.

🚨 Update on CDC staffing situation. It remains fluid. 🌊 With a lack of transparency from HHS, it is hard to confirm the numbers and if any addition cuts are coming. We estimate ~600 people were let go between Oct 10–11. Grant us patience and grace, as we gather further details to share.

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it. Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device. The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

New in PN: Trump is the insurrection "It’s a wild assault on state sovereignty, bringing us ever closer to the brink of civil war. This is despotism, & whatever chaos & violence is about to be unleashed lies squarely on the robed shoulders of Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, & Barrett."

😕 Here’s the video again: www.instagram.com/reel/DPi9m_2...

👉“And the rest of us, whether we’re elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to let our fellow Americans in uniform know that if they risk their careers and even their freedom to protect the Constitution, we will stand with them.” ✅

“Underfoot” is a new podcast by Flatbush Cats (of Brooklyn, New York City), exploring the hidden cat crisis in NYC, and how we can solve it. @flatbushcats.bsky.social 🐈🐈‍⬛❤️

Tommy Tuberville on the 2020 census: "The Democrats were letting illegals come in for a different count. They obviously had a census going that was all rigged. The 2020 election basically was rigged." (Believe it or not, Donald Trump was president in 2020.)

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

Valiant, Brave & Hope Update - Valiant, Brave & Hope Update The 3 kittens dumped in a box left for dead are still fighting on. We have named them Valiant, Brave and Hope. Here you can see them eating a little kitten food in their new emergency ICU that our lovely supporters have funded .

Judge Karin Immergut’s ruling capped a dramatic weekend that included President Trump sending California National Guard members to Oregon and ordering others from Texas.

The new term of Court starts today. Here’s what I am paying attention to. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump and Republicans shut down the government to gut health care for working Americans. In my district alone, Republican cuts to Medicaid and the ACA would lead to 43,000 people losing coverage. They’re wrecking health care just so billionaires can get tax cuts.

Rep. Greg Casar showed up at Ted Cruz’s office in Texas and read a constituent’s letter straight into his ring camera. Ted Cruz, however, was nowhere inside. www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT...

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.

Thank you to General Bonta, to all the people in California and Oregon working for both of our states in this fight, and to the judge for this righteous result.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Our work on visualising protein aggregates in human brain tissue in Parkinson's disease was published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, well done to Becs, Bin and Christina for their hardwork! www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

🚨 Over-stretched Bradford Cat Watch Rescue & Sanctuary (in UK) has emergency need for donations to cover a £1500 surgery to repair a one-year-old cat's broken femur. The cat was injured in a road traffic accident, and will have to be put to sleep if BCWR cannot raise the funds for the surgery today.

With rulings such as this, the right-wing SCOTUS majority has proved the speciousness of their claims that their rulings are based on constitutional originalism. Here they prove they care nothing about what the Constitution says or means. Instead they rule to implement whatever outcome they desire.

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

NEWS: The country is barreling toward a government shutdown in 24 hours, YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5 million, Pete Hegseth exhibits erratic behavior in the Pentagon, and much more. All the news you missed: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

A very efficient, distilled and to me pretty persuasive version of the bear case against AI economics.

"Staffing cuts under the Trump administration mean forecasters are struggling to maintain normal operations...." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he's part of an administration embracing it. “The administration’s explicit goal to unleash the fossil fuel industry will also unleash plastic pollution.”

“In 1885, labor tensions boiled over in the UP Railroad's coal mines, stemming from an argument over who had the best work opportunities. The mob, many of them European migrants, blamed the Chinese… After burning several blocks…of homes & shops, the mob killed 28 Chinese people & injured another 14”

Tonight, all eyes are on Portland as Trump tries out strongman tactics in another American city. It’s one more step in an attack on democracy, read here to see how all of the pieces fit together. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...