Big if true. A classified satellite network is emitting a mysterious signal www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...

Big if true. A classified satellite network is emitting a mysterious signal www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...

“The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. “So ProPublica created its own count.” Thank you @propublica.org (Bookmark for those friends and family who insist this isn’t happening) www.propublica.org/article/immi...

The reason Hitler, Stalin & Mussolini didn't put their portraits on coinage is bc they knew those coins would be defaced...AND be in circulation indefinitely. If the proposed Trump $1 coin goes into circulation, believe me, it WILL be defaced. Full ramble: gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-...

“People like Maxim — who refuse to become silent accomplices to the Kremlin’s crimes — are saving our country’s honor amid this current darkness. And it will be they who will lead Russia back to normality once the drawn-out nightmare of Putin’s rule is over.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

First it was a $200 million ballroom.   Now he’s trying to build a grand arch on the Washington Mall—without Congress's input.   Creating a new D.C. museum or monument is supposed to be a collaborative process. Because these places belong to *all* Americans.   Trump treats them like his property.

Seems bad. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“Kids”

Glad to see this from Brown. Let's hope other universities follow the example set by Brown and MIT. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

“Swear her in! Swear her in!” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

Solidarity is the only way

I have been waiting for this @ninaburleigh.bsky.social piece on Laura Loomer, and it did not disappoint. Excellent piece. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

The American-born pope has released his first apostolic exhortation—the message is certain to rile conservatives. Leo is making clear that the moral center of contemporary Catholicism is Latin America, where the theology of the poor and marginalized first formed half a century ago. trib.al/5tuWMNl

In an interesting turn of events, MAGA is now in favor of the government pressuring Big Tech platforms to censor users’ speech. On Tuesday, AG Bondi revealed the DOJ got Facebook to remove a group page where users shared information about ICE operations in the Chicago area. trib.al/kpUJoNz

The House Speaker has refused to swear in Arizona Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva until Congress returns to its regular session, breaking precedent set in April when the GOP swore in a pair of Florida Republicans during a pro forma session, the day after they won their special elections. trib.al/RBpgN73

A Portland mother was violently pushed to the ground and has since been transported across state lines. Her husband has no idea when they’ll hear from her again. trib.al/89dsyj8

More violence, more tumult, more Americans ferociously at one another’s throats. Exactly as President Trump and Stephen Miller intend. The next anti-Trump frontier for the Democratic opposition should be a promise of relief and a vow of accountability. trib.al/0QpWdGe

It's remarkably ironic that an administration axing critical American agencies, under the auspice of cutting spending, is “working on a $20 billion facility that would be adjacent” to the $20 billion credit swap line Trump already approved. trib.al/XyGBxMW

This, it seems, is an early preview of Trump’s lasting political legacy: Republicans are no longer apologizing, nor are they pushing out racist, bigoted allies when they inevitably find themselves embroiled in controversy. trib.al/bESbWqb

Reports are circulating that the White House intends to shut down a stretch of California highway and fire missiles during his second “vanity parade.” trib.al/voJoNg4

If Rep. Rob Wittman of Virginia thought he could hide from his constituents by hosting a virtual town hall, he was sorely mistaken. “You’re a fake. You only answer questions you have pre screened. You are not looking out for all the people who depend on you to stand up for them." trib.al/AKMzRMW

Under the plan, MAGA allies would be installed at the IRS criminal investigative division, where they would “exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations.” The administration is already putting together a list of targets. trib.al/8gJBJDd

I really enjoyed my conversation with the musician, computer scientist, and generative AI pioneer Maya Ackerman, whose terrific new book, CREATIVE MACHINES: AI, ART & US, is out today. Here is the video, along with some of the transcript and my thoughts on AI at the top:

Alt man seeks alt woman.

I’m not an intelligence guy, but how is a front page NYT story “covert?” Aren’t we supposed to, like, NOT alert them? Or does “secret authorization” mean something else?

Putin decriminalized domestic violence in Russia yrs ago. It's a required step in the fascist playbook; @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social documented this over a century of fascism. This regime of state-sanctioned gender terrorism serves the same purpose in oppressing women as Jim Crow did toward PoC.

JD Vance has real “character the producers introduce in Season Nine to reinvigorate the show but who everyone hates” energy.

You know who hates America The guys who took healthcare away from millions of Americans The ones who CUT billions of dollars for programs like cancer research and FEMA Who sit and watch the president use military troops to attack our cities That’s Mike Johnson HE hates America NO KINGS OCT 18

Meta advisor spreads disinformation due to political partisanship www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...” apnews.com/article/pope...

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt. This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..." www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

Miller is responsible for ICE brutality. Indict the him for the deaths while detained, the injuries to protestors, the trauma to children … all of it. Some one must pay a price for this. newrepublic.com/post/201663/...

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post: God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

In response to trump’s new tariffs on China, China shut down rare earth export, globally: this means no weapons, war planes or cars can be produced. It takes years to upscale mining of rare earths anywhere else. China has the cards.

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted: When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

Thanks to @matthewboedy.bsky.social for joining us tonight. Great convo about 7 Mountains, Turning Point USA, and much more.

Donald’s been waiting impatiently for weeks to fluff Putin again.

I agree. And needless to say, Peter Thiel is not clever. The name of his creepy spyware company derives from Lord of the Rings, a book he seems to believe is pro-Sauron.

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters. And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

This is what the Israelis are doing to Flotilla members still imprisoned.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition? JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back R: Why not now? J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

You go, Girls! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...