BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

NEW: November general elections are around the corner, so it’s time to launch my cheat sheet of what’s on the ballot this fall! I guide you thru the *185* elections I'm watching, & why: lawmakers, governors, judges, DAs, mayors, school boards, & dozens of ballot measures. Explore, share, save:

It's now a fireable offense to support gay people.

We need more Governors like @govpritzker.illinois.gov to call for trump’s removal from office due to his declining health and dementia. Thank you Governor Pritzker. #DV1 #ProudBlue #25thAmendmentNow #TrumpIsMentallyILL

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor, pleads guilty to sexually abusing a child www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

Dave Chappelle Jokes 'It's Easier to Talk' in Saudi Arabia 'Than it Is in America' While Performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival. This man is a deluded nit-wit. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Another reason to vote in every election

They know the MAGA stooges will believe anything they say..

Joint Chiefs vice chairman nominee. Well I guess not anymore.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. (🎥 Luc Auffret)

“this bill could put people in prison for up to 30 years if they help women access the procedure — including providing information about where abortion is legal, according to one attorney — or if they undergo an abortion themselves.”

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no. Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

Barbra Streisand is joining Jane Fonda and 600+ entertainment figures in re-launching the Committee for the First Amendment. Fonda announced the revival of the organization, initially founded by her father, Henry Fonda. The organization was founded in the 1940s to defend free speech against fascism.

Pope: "We should be nicer as and to humans and not be evil" Christians: "That's where you're wrong, buster"

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Sour grapes. That’s why this is happening. ICE plans to run immigration enforcement at the Super Bowl. Cori Lewandowski: “ICE will be everywhere”

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh

Bravo! Now let's hear from the rest of them!

Foreign-born son of Cuban refugees, Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz, thinks anti-Mexican racism is funny. Wonder if he posted this from Cancun.

BERMAN: Congress passed funding. The WH now says it's not going to spend it. The two Dem leaders dealing with this shutdown are from New York. Is this right? GIMENEZ: Ah -- even when we pass projects, the administration still has to look B: You seem to be working through this as we're talking

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

BBC: 'Why are more people getting Lyme disease?' 'And globally, cases are on the rise. In this edition of The Inquiry, Charmaine Cozier explores what's behind the increase and hears about new tests and vaccines currently being developed.' www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

We're all making our circles that are not "inside baseball" fanatics like us, aware of this, right? R I G H T? Especially our elders? And generation TikTok who will fall for whatever's in a reel? House GOP launches ad campaign hitting Democrats over shutdown thehill.com/homenews/cam...

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An “immigration judge” is not an actual judge in the judicial branch. They are a DOJ employee. As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

... and this post has a comments section showing all the other sites that should have complaints filed on them bsky.app/profile/muel...

Go to hud.gov and use the website feedback button to tell them the website is for all Americans and to take down this partisan propaganda. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

In the history of mealymouthed disingenuousness in American politics, few have come even close to this annoying puritanical pixie.

BASH: Are you okay w/ the military using American cities as 'training grounds'? JOHNSON: I don't know what's being implied by that B: It suggests troops are going to be in cities & use them military training J: That's been very beneficial for the Guard B: So it's ok? J: It's a win-win scenario

If they claim they haven't heard the quote, play it for them and ask for a response. If they claim it's being taken out of context, play a longer version and ask for a response. If they try to sidestep the issue, play it over again and ask for a response.

A great piece that hasn’t aged a day since 1941. Play the game the next time you’re in a room full of people. I’ve played it. I think for some people it’s almost a reflex. “Which one of you would call the Gestapo on me, and which would watch, relieved, as I was taken from my home in the night?”

Are we really going to have debate over whether using the bullshit machine to make up data is a good idea?

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Folks, I'm not saying the guy claiming to have proof of Mike Johnson's Grinder account is a grifter, and I'm not saying he's not. I have no idea. I don't know him. He could absolutely be telling the truth. But please don't give him money for "legal defense" until he actually needs it. Free advice.

Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate

Im just saying...

"It's not just about being Sikh. It's about being brown. People don't distinguish between Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus... It feels like the 1970s again. I remember the National Front. The difference now is social media is amplifying hate." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #r4today