It’s such an obvious point but this is an organization predicated on the idea that it would fight back against Big Government Imposition, rolling over because it likes what’s being imposed. Another example of how shallow so much of the right’s Gadsden-waving Constitution-hugging always was.

they understand insurance. the entire premise of libertarian opposition to mandatory insurance is that they should not have to care about anyone else and be permitted to take risks. it's the same opposition to vaccination and taxation. they are bad neighbors.

Trump repeatedly fell asleep during his criminal trial in New York last year. You may not have heard about it much because the media decided that Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard 20 years ago merited more prominent coverage

Out of curiosity, I checked, the 2024 USAID budget of ~$25 billion is 1/40 of a trillion. Also, counting from one to a trillion at one number per second would take almost 32,000 years. It is a quantity nearly inconceivable to the human mind.

That awning is a like a pet cone to prevent the top half from seeing what they did to the bottom.

Hey @npr.org why am I listening to the ADL head slander Mamdani? Anyone with eyes and ears can tell Mamdani's "antisemitism" consist only of being a Muslim who supports a free and safe Palestine. This is a bad look for you. Do better.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will maintain a Democratic majority as voters decide to retain three judges in the General Election.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Oh no

Note: This is not the exact quote — which is weird, since it's on video and the pope said it in English. But the exact quote conveys roughly the same meaning, and goes arguably even harder by making an apparent reference to the detention of migrants with no criminal record. Rush transcript here:

the senate minority leader and de facto leader of the dem party was legitimately willing, able, and attempted to undercut the dem candidate and have once again dropped intra-coalitional trust to near 0. awesome.

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

Pennsylvania is a state that has really diverse & high stakes, up and down the ballot tomorrow. —control of state supreme court —lower state court races —Philly DA: Krasner's reelect —important, heated school boards —partisan battles for county execs in swing counties —Bucks County at a crossroads

Polls opened at 7:00 AM this morning for the general election. We’ve gotten confirmed reports of delays at only one polling location so far:

you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.

More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration officials.

My early 2000s architecture school dreams of “facade becomes amphitheater,” have finally been realized.

Damnit

Kiner-Falefa bunting here kind of like the pirates in the World Series? Right?

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Why do they keep taking this interview?!

These Gillette ads touting, “30 shaves per cartridge,” as if I have any idea how long it has been since I replaced my razor.

Cris Collinsworth is the drizzling shits.

Ontario Reagan ad is BACK!!! Is it just because I’m streaming?

I am convinced that in the last second of the “Arby’s, we have the meets” commercial, just as the music fades, there is a sample of the first vocal line of Dave and Ansel Collins’ 1971 “Double Barrel,” to wit, the shouted, “I” specifically. To whom should I report this indignity?

Saw this during the ALCS and thought it was very good, forgot that our president does nothing but watch televisions and nurse grudges.

Let’s get this straight: We are being told shots were fired when the subject rammed officers (an account proven false by video in Chi), only given a health update for the nameless compatriot they also managed to shoot, and Oh, by the way, the guy shot is a Spanish-language anti-ICE Tiktok jorno…

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Gonna get out my ruling pens and vellum to write those architects a nastygram. Send it with a pigeon and whatnot.

If recent experience at PA State Park campgrounds is any guide, the glamour will end the moment you need to use the toilet...

It’s time #NoKings

NYC Italian-Americans harping on Columbus, like Giuseppe Garibaldi isn’t right there. He even briefly LIVED IN New York.

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

You know, if these guys worked for a private employer, you’d have a pretty rock-solid OSHA workplace safety violation for all this rubbing around in the roof without appropriate fall protection… Though I suppose OSHA is managed by a table saw lobbyist at this point?

Been waiting for a story like this. Is it crazy to think that in the future, even if the US isn’t going to prosecute for what is no more than murder in international waters, some other nation might? And that a future admin might allow extradition? I can dream… www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

I made the mistake of reading Russ Douthat. Shouldn’t do that. The pope is asking us to wholly change our hearts and minds to the plight of the poor and inequality in our world, and ol’ Russ wants policy proposals and a rough budget to fund it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

What I can’t get over is just how interpersonally unpleasant this is. Think about good leaders in history, no matter who you think that is - would any of them go to a minority critic and tell them to “express a little gratitude” with a sneer? Of course not, because it makes your skin crawl

Cops and feds have successfully split up the demonstration now. ISP standing side by side with Border Patrol.

Apple has removed from its App Store several programs that alert users to sightings of immigration agents amid a furious pushback from the Trump administration over the services.

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Miguel Ángel García, one of the immigrants shot in attack at ICE office in Dallas, has died. 
García’s wife was allowed twice daily visits for two hours while a DHS officer guarded her husband’s hospital bed. Officers kept soft restraints on his arms and shackled him.

Trump Audibly Counting Non-White Generals

The ICE officer who was recorded shoving a woman outside an immigration court in NYC was suspended on Friday. And he was returned to duty already today, one business day later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

One in eight federal workers, or some 300,000, will have left the government by the end of the year, and it’s possible even more could be pushed out if the government shuts down next week. In interviews, some former federal workers shared what they left behind and what they face next.

The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP reports.