If you live in #Pennsylvania you have until next to Tuesday to request a mail-in ballot. Plan to #vote #PA , with the state of the fed. govt. local and state matter more than ever www.pa.gov/agencies/vote

Hey whatever happened to that Charlie Kirk guy, I remember there was some brouhaha a few months ago

I don't think anyone has gotten more special treatment than cattle ranchers, so I have zero sympathy for them after they backed Trump and got screwed in return.

New poll finds most voters view Trump as a ‘dangerous dictator’

Important subtext: Hard to oversell how rare this precise Christian coalition is, and how unusually defiant this letter they're signing is.

"Anyone who has ever read the Federalist Papers knows that anywhere between a third and a half of them are about Donald Trump."

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

A friend in Corvallis, Oregon sent me this one 🤣 #NoKings

🚨🚨🚨 Hoo boy. It turns out the #FLORIDA Office of Insurance Regulation quietly published FINAL 2026 #ACA rate filings two months ago... ...and the marketwide average full-price premium hike is over 7 points HIGHER than I had estimated: +31.5%. 👀 acasignups.net/rate_changes...

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Trump must love King George III. Why else copying his actions that spawned a revolution to rid a newly formed America from him.

Blandford hosts dedication to Revolutionary War patriot

OBAMA: “What if I sent the National Guard into Texas and said I don’t care what Governor Abbott says… and just kind of took over?” Imagine that. Fox News would’ve held a 96-hour emergency broadcast with 18 split screens and a countdown to “Tyranny Day.” But when it’s Trump doing it? Crickets.

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Here’s the one big thing the polls get wrong about Americans’ support for political violence

Pope Leo quotes 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." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command. The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

Meanwhile, here's part of the amicus brief from the military brass also filed today in the same case, in support of neither party, but definitely not in support of Trump.

This is getting wild. The states of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and 14 others have just asked for permission to file THEIR amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

I've said before, like in his first term until Covid, Trump has not yet faced a crisis not of his own making. Could an AI bubble breaking be the one this time? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Pope Leo XIV says he will "stand with" Catholic leaders in protecting immigrants facing mass deportations in the U.S., according to advocates who recently met with the Pope.

This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

This is not what democracy looks like. Anyone who cares at all about the Constitution has to take a stand against this and against MAGA.

Draw on your own experience: Is there any situation you've ever been part of, with you or anyone else in the hot seat, in which a person who does NOT have something to hide, reacts the way Bondi does? I've been on trial juries that concluded "we can't trust that witness," after evasions like this

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military. They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

The reason this theory works is because most of our elites and leaders have no real views or opinions, but merely adopt those that they believe will earn them approval. And now they’re all seeking approval on the Internet, where everyone really is 12, or has the mental capacity of a 12-year-old

MSNBC is reporting that Kash Patel fired another FBI agent today because they refused to arrest and perp walk James Comey. It's all for show—they want to embarrass the guy and put on a big display for their base. They know the case is going to get thrown out by the courts.

Important, and true.

Trump sits far behind Obama in president approval ratings, new poll finds

Posse Comitatus Act: What it means for military deployment in US cities

Very good @aselrod.bsky.social piece. They are attempting to summon into existence the New MAGA Man, similar to the New Soviet Man and other totalitarian imaginings and creations:

Good @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social piece on the need to recognize that Trump's consolidation of authoritarian power is not limitless. He's facing serious resistance, he's losing on a number of fronts, and Trump doesn't want you to know any of that: www.arcdigital.media/p/kimmel-and...

No law enforcement role for military in US cities, ex-Veep Pence says in Boston stop

oh my

Democratic U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, from Montgomery County, on Tuesday confronted Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson about President Donald Trump sharing an AI-generated deepfake video on Truth Social showing House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero with a fake mustache.

Congress looks unlikely to meet its Oct 1. deadline to fund the federal government, leaving Pennsylvanians bracing for a political pileup that threatens to stall more paychecks and shutter services in one of the only states with a divided state government.

"Republicans currently run a House committee investigating former President Joe Biden’s 'Mental Decline Cover-Up.' Notice how their framing assumes guilt from the start. Democrats should adopt identical framing approaches for Trump investigations."

New England has been spotting tyranny for over 250 years so we’re pretty good at it by now. #JudgeYoung #Massachusetts

Today, a Massachusetts judge stands strong for freedom of speech. We don’t do oppression up in our neck of the woods.

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.” — The Declaration of Independence

Have you been to the I Bar? In San Diego? Or some of the dives on Coronado Island? There is going to be more mutinous talk in those places alone this weekend than there's been anywhere in a hundred and fifty years. Jesus Christ.

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...