Republicans are in charge of the Senate. Republicans are in charge of the House. Republicans are in charge of the Executive Branch. If the government shuts down and you honestly think Democrats are to blame, you're the reason shampoo bottles have instructions.

Jayapal: It is a strange and bizarre time when we literally have a president thinking about plating the ballroom in gold—while he’s thrown 15 million Americans off healthcare, fired over 150,000 federal workers, and is threatening to fire even more if we go into a shutdown.

This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)

😬 whoopsy. Freudian!

Oh this is savage lol

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Why can’t we have nice things, too, instead of more spread of preventable diseases?

What I would give for a completely honest, anonymous assessment of this appalling and ludicrous spectacle from the commanders in the room.

Trump: EVERYONE HAS TO LICK A TOASTER AT 3PM NYT: A bold new directive from the President has experts questioning norms Centrist: Trump is proving Dems don't understand the importance of American toasters Trump: PUT YOUR DICK IN A TOASTER Schumer: Let's compromise on kitchen appliances

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

This is a rapist telling the military that rape of military women is now permitted, as a policy

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.

Trying to imagine any of the higher ranking military people I've ever encountered taking kindly to being told that they kill people and break things for a living

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Horrifying. Thd former S.C. GOP state representative, R.J. May plead guilty to 5 counts of child pornography. Disgusting. #USDemocracy scdailygazette.com/2025/09/29/f...

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

War crimes - all good. Rape reporting - bad. Need to stop smearing "good men's" reputations. Got it.

I’m still processing what happened this morning. Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?

Again, someone tell Ezra Klein that Louisiana's abortion ban trigger law that helped set this nightmare in motion was signed by a 'pro-life Democrat', Gov John bel Edwards. apnews.com/article/abor...

FUCK ICE FOREVER

I have generally been heartened by Pritzker's rhetoric, but we need more right now than him telling us to keep filming ICE. People have been detained for doing that. People across Chicagoland have been brave, and we need brave leadership. We need more of a plan than urging individual action.

Hegseth claimed we need to “return to the male standard” in combat jobs, but there has never been a separate male and female standard. When women entered combat roles, one standard was set, and we’ve been meeting it ever since. You can either do the job or you can’t. Period. youtu.be/9TGwqIi1qIA

Pete Hegseth concerns me. He's the villain military general in...like EVERY movie with a villain military general.

Photojournalist hospitalized after chaotic incident with ICE agents at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC

Really the only question that matters

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump declares war on Americans: "Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic. That's what the oath says -- foreign and domestic. Well we also have domestic."

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Saw somebody repost an environmental history job at Texas A&M, and look, I know the academic job market is absolutely brutal, academics have zero labor mobility, but I also can’t imagine applying for that job right now in that state. How soon until discussion of climate change is prohibited?

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

Oh wow that thing that always happens

Trump on Mamdani: "He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City. Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises. He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him?"

This is what they did in Chicago in the last day or so bsky.app/profile/bunn...

this is basically the aim of every AI company

A lot of people chattering about that NY Times abundance guy again, but I’lol politely suggest you click this free link to his column because Ta-Nehisi Coates very effectively pantses him & lifts up humanism in a way I rarely see in newspapers under authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Just in case you are wondering kids… this is EXACTLY what they don’t wanna be called looks like

I’ve never cheered for anyone so hard

And in no world is this freedom. There have been revolutions/civil wars over centuries to stop this very thing.

The Deputy Chief of Staff... is in charge of military strikes? Do we even have a president?

National Lawyers Guild of Chicago is a very reliable source with numerous legal observers at protests and meticulous note taking and info gathering. This is how they say things seemed different Saturday at Broadview ICE detention center.

Charles Whitaker did this at Medill, too. Deans breaking policy and ignoring the disciplinary committee’s findings makes them foot soliders in the march of fascism and turns universities into colonial battlefields.

Very cool that IDF vets can just decide what courses US profs are allowed to teach now and uni admin just nods and smiles bsky.app/profile/nkal...

Freedom is 20 kitted up feds armed to breach the bin laden compound chasing a delivery worker bsky.app/profile/marm...

"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."

'out of the three mass shootings today'

2 dead, 8+ hurt after Thomas Sanford of Burton, MI, rammed a truck into a Mormon church, opened fire, and set it ablaze before police killed him. His home had a Trump–Vance 2024 sign and FB shows years of pro-Trump posts. Motive unconfirmed, but points to far-right politics.

FTR, I don’t think we need to run anti-choice Democrats ANYWHERE. But certainly not in 3 states—even if they’re red—that just passed pro-choice initiatives/amendments. Please just stop it. You have to stand for SOMETHING. And Klein doesn’t seem to stand for anything but cloying both-sidesism