Signs of psychosis. No biggie

24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska; 270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina; 4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii --> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight. But consider this... Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending. Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

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This is more or less what the American Revolution was about

It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Called it last week: The true rationale for the change to Department of War is the war Trump is waging on America: lucid.substack.com/p/trumps-war...

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

A reflective moment about how I'm spending my time, and why.

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

The Energy Department adds “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its restricted list.

Will Ted Cruz Go to Prison for the Lies He Told as Part of the Jim Comey Indictment? www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/w...

A brief summary of yesterday's international embarrassment. Charlie Sykes has a good column today. charliesykes.substack.com/p/trumps-mid...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Now Is Not the Moment to Fall Silent The moment when it becomes most difficult, perhaps even impossible, to tell the truth, is the moment when it is most critically important to tell it. charliesykes.substack.com/p/now-is-not... Charlie Sykes, Sep 15, 2025

Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired

The Greer Center was supposed to be a refuge for people with developmental disabilities. But accounts from inside the secretive facility in Oklahoma paint a starkly different picture, depicting a place where helpless patients faced beatings, waterboarding and constant fear. nyti.ms/4mcQZR9

This is sick and depraved treatment.

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Take note that she is saying this lie long after the identity of the killer was known. Fox is poison.

In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.

Once again, Trump says jump and Republicans ask how high. They're using a backdoor procedure to ram through dozens of unqualified and unfit nominees without a full process on the Senate floor. As they go nuclear, they should remember: they won't be in the majority forever.

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

State Department to ban immigrants speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. VP to fly his body to Arizona on Air Force 2. Trump to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Journalists getting fired for asking the right questions. We are spiraling into a dystopia beyond our imagining.

Agreed.

1. Jared Kushner is taking TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS annually from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern governments Simultaneously, Kushner is playing a CENTRAL ROLE shaping Trump's Middle East policy It's a massive conflict. And a scandal. That's getting scant attention

Chicago isn’t in the top 10 cities in violent crime.

That's because *medically* "pregnant people" is used to include pregnant girls, but the Trump regime simultaneously wants you to think it's because of transness while they're also advocating for younger and younger pregnancies and marriages.

Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

Send them home. Trump is making them stand around and act like groundskeepers. They need to be on standby for real emergencies in their own states. Not as Trump’s pretend palace guards.

Chief Justice “Calvinball” Roberts has earned this ignominious place in American history, thanks to the incomparable Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson:

Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...

Thread exposing our current thugocracy 👇

Today’s declaration of famine in Gaza City must be a wake up call to the international community that this conflict needs to end. Here's my full statement.

Everyone on TV not asking this question is doing it wrong

So let me see if understand how things work here in the United States. If you inconvenience a police officer with a harmless sandwich, you face jail time, but if you rape children and extort money from colleges, law firms, and corporations, you get a free $400,000,000 jet? Seems a bit off.

Trump looks like a schoolgirl swooning over Putin.

Who will pay the costs of Trump's tariffs? You will. qz.com/us-consumers...

If the federal government can simply seize privately held patents then that is the end of the U.S. patent system, the legal basis for American innovation.

I think a lot of Americans believe their country is the one they learned about in school. They haven’t grasped the fact that it’s well on the way to becoming a Christofascist dictatorship.

inexcusable... in a foreign country we would sanction the perpetrators under Magnitsky Act: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Raskin: "What we have is the Trump Justice Department organizing itself not around the interests of the survivors -- the people who were victimized by Maxwell and Epstein -- but rather organizing itself around protecting the perpetrators."

Insanity

Remember-- if Trump wanted transparency on Epstein, he wouldn't need to gather Vance, Bondi, Patel, Blanche and Wiles tonight to discuss strategy; he would simply release the files. This is what a coverup looks like.

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