1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

I don’t…what…huh??

The appropriate market-based risk premium on a 50 year mortgage with an embedded option to lock-in the lowest yield of its life would be absurdly high. To make it affordable, the state subsidy would have to be enormous. These things would be near permanent profit drags.

Remember, historically judges will almost always take gov't claims at face value. It's an astounding fact that judges are now increasingly realizing that this administration just flat out lies to them constantly. And it's good to see them calling it out (in this case with a Trump-appointed judge).

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I don’t know who is more pissed off…Bill Ackman…or Donald Trump. Nor…do I give a fuck.

Zohran off the very top rope quoting Eugene Debs in his *first sentence* as mayor-elect, this is going to be so much fucking fun.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Zohran Mamdani in his victory speech: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up." The cheers in the room are deafening.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Another step in the de-professionalization and politicization of DOD. "The head of an office that helps organize technical research and disburse billions of dollars for the Navy is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGEr with no apparent naval experience." www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Quick reminder...

New YouGov poll has Trump's overall approval at 39-58 He's 10 points under water on immigration and 31 points under water on inflation and prices

This seems bad www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

The president of the United States is “increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10%” because he worries the nine justices on the Supreme Court could be swayed by a 30-second commercial.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

"Trump Officials Flip Out Over the ‘Trainwreck’ Trying to Jail MAGA’s Enemies" Trump’s hand-picked prosecutor Lindsey Halligan “is going to be the most subpoenaed person in not too long,” says a Trump-aligned federal law enforcement official, report @swin24.bsky.social & @andrewperez.bsky.social

This is among the most corrupt things a president has ever suggested, and I hope the press treats it that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Happening Now: Thousands out for a “No Kings” protest in Chicago

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

This article by @radiofreetom.bsky.social is a must read for all those wearing the uniform, but as importantly for all those wanting to maintain our Constitutional republic. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“I voted for none of this." Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

​I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

"America is 'going in an authoritarian direction at an accelerated pace', with centralisation and personalisation of power under Trump, attacks on independent institutions, and criminalisation of protests. 'All the US’s checks and balances are collapsing.'” www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-madnes...

President Donald Trump, in an address to the U.S.’ top military officials Tuesday, stressed that after decades of military campaigns abroad, it was time to turn the armed forces inwards against an unspecified “enemy from within.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Yet again, the American people are dealing with the consequences of Trump believing something that he saw on TV. If you’re tired of the regime’s absurd propaganda, then join a peaceful protest near you for the next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

An entire street in Kyiv just wiped out

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Democrats: Please give the American people health care. Trump: Go fuck yourself.

It's all so corrupt with the Trump movement. Not only is being anti-corruption and pro-integrity a great moral stance, as @donmoyn.bsky.social has been pointing out of late, it is surely a winning approach. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Essential reading www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

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?

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Trump: "Asceda -- well, let's see how we say that. Ascenem -- enophin. Acetaminophen. Is that okay?"

While LCRW gives live updates from the Kirk memorial, I’ll be giving updates from outside. Follow along for both (if you care lol). This sums up the energy outside — lots of trash, lots of bad merch, medical emergencies everywhere you look. Also content warning because the bigots are out in force.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Ted Cruz blasts FCC Chair Brendan Carr: "I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying we're going to decide what speech we like and what we don't, and we're going to threaten to take you off air if we don't like what you’re saying."

There goes the First Amendment.

Normally it’s one or the other: weak growth or rising inflation. But tariffs gave us both. Welcome to the economics of supply shocks and stagflation.

This is the clip. I still can't believe this is all he said. gizmodo.com/why-jimmy-ki...

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11