ICYMI on Tuesday: California was on track to pass a law that'd bring a path out of prison for some survivors of domestic violence convicted of harming their abuser. But the bill ended up dying in the state Senate as the session drew to a close this summer. What happened?

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Well, that experiment crashed spectacularly. Tried reducing metoprolol to 25 MG, and I have been getting afib almost every night - it hasn't been this bad since last September. So I went back to 50 this morning - after having been up since 1AM. Problem is: Metoprolol 50 gives me bradycardia. :-(

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

As a point of Antifa™ Housekeeping: It's a very, very good time to start practicing leaving your phone at home, deleting old chats, clearing out DMs. Maybe picking up an old fashioned digital camera to record things. You know.

You will pry that uniquely-sized box from my cold, dead hands.

Now we know why Hegseth is calling back all the generals.

Ok, I finally read it. This is my takeaway. He's basically accusing liberals of behaving like the Jan 6th insurrectionists. If it weren't so serious, it would be hysterical. According to this, any of us could be accused of being terrorists and attempting to www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Longer video if you click through to article. Major rule of firearms: don't point at anything you don't intend to shoot. ICE agent in the foreground at one point *fumbles his own gun*, dropping it to the street, and then picks it up hastily and points it directly at the bystanders.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

Rest In Power ✊🏼

www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrest-g... Only the finest. Truly the elite. We are being terrorised by fools, incompetents, and madmen.

New Epstein drop from the Oversight Dems has some interesting names in it 👀 👀 👀

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

My heart wants to get into afib SO BAD right now, and I'm not letting it. But this sucks, as it's all happening during the Holter, and now it looks like I'm having more trouble than I usually do because this shit didn't happen before.

Hey Americans, I see from your NYT Spelling Bee puzzle that you don’t have the word ‘gurning’. My gift to you…

ILLINOIS!!! Show up and show out at the Broadview ICE facility tomorrow morning. Join us in peacefully protesting for our neighbors. The pressure is mounting — let’s get this inhumane facility shut down. 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM.

In the last few days, we've assembled independent theatres in LA, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Chicago to air this thing. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will be in theatres on October 2nd after all, followed by the first theatrical screening of Sex House. It is going to be fun as hell.

UK tells it like it is. 🎯

Hawai'i's supreme court issued a major ruling. From now on, police MUST record interrogations of suspects at police stations (& when feasible, outside police stations, too). The ruling aims to promote fairness when a defendant's word stands against an officer's word. boltsmag.org/hawaii-supre...

Since preview isn't working - Chesebro has been disbarred in DC. www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

"The purpose of the First Amendment is to protect the right to publish what the government does not want published," @seth-stern.bsky.social said on @kcrw.com. The Pentagon's new policy is "antithetical to everything the First Amendment represents."

Of course, you can't have the "brood mares" in life threatening situations. I mean, while I know it is unfair to call it the American "Taliban" the Taliban did a great job branding that toxic religiosity. I'm ok turning the proper down into an adjective.

Criticizing the enlightened centrist isn’t kicking them out of the so-called tent, it is presenting them with an opportunity to stop eroding the integrity of the tent by tirelessly trying to find commonality with people who want to burn the tent down.

This headline should read: "CONGRESS Warns Supreme Court to Allow Lisa Cook to Remain at Fed" [or it will defund clerks, force the justices to ride circuit, and take away their building] It is notable how @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov are leading their teams to inaction.

One fascinating wrinkle in this story is that the guy who taught Orban to go after Soros was Arthur Finkelstein, a gay Jewish political advisor who also worked for Netanyahu. He was a key GOP strategist from Goldwater through Reagan. truestoryaward.org/story/230

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France from 2007 to 2012, was found guilty of trying to illegally finance his presidential campaign with money from Libya's former leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, and he was sentenced to five years in prison: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/w...

👀 Who’s keeping a tally? I’m curious.

Reminder. Congress gets paid during a shutdown. Fed workers do not. On top of that, feds deemed essential must continue working while not getting paid. Refusal to work could easily lead to termination. Make sure to find a way to helps feds who will be impacted by losing pay. Not all make big $$

I went to buy tickets for a @criticalrole.bsky.social show - Tickemaster stole the VIP tickets out of my basket before I had a chance to place the order. Those same tickets showed up on a scalper site, which has ties to TM Not CR's fault - but this is the last @ticketmaster.com venue I will ever do

This pretty much sums up mu childhood. I was typically quiet on my own. I was VERY good at instigating trouble and then fading out so everyone else took the blame.

Not many hot takes make me laugh out loud, but this did. I don't get how authoritarians could think that *spreads arms* all of this was conquerable. Americans are chaos gremlins - for every sheep, there are a dozen folks with a dozen flavors of sarcastic clap-backs. You can herd cats easier.

Discovery for the Comey case is going to be lit. Seriously, it's like the regime completely forgets how courts work.

On top of everything else, the comedy history nerd in me loves Kimmel even more this morning for this deep cut, a cut on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such cut in the history of man.

Little Reichstag Fires Everwhere (With my apologies to @pronounced-ing.bsky.social)

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’ It was originally ‘ekename.’ ‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.” Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it. Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

The military industrial complex in the US is going to have a fit. Their deal requires the US to be a defacto "only super power" I can't believe it took this long for Europe to come to this decision. I am not isolationist, but boy, howdy relying on a bunch of idiots in the US is not sound policy

My friend in D.C. just texted me (I’m in AZ) that they didn’t air Jimmy Kimmel there. Sinclair🤬 She said they are airing a show called National News Desk and they were covering Turning Point. She said they just showed a commercial to join ICE. FVCKING DICTATORS! Please share.

Oh hey cool, we switched sides again. Ironically, this makes war with Russia more likely because neither they nor we know where our red lines are and therefore we are more likely to do Bumblefuck 1914.