Hilarious plot twist

so this should be an article but whatever, you're getting an off the cuff thread because I have nothing but time we'll do hurt locker lady's movie first because I don't think I have the strength to do jacobsen right now (and I don't own the book so I'll have to go pull references together)

I'm watching. #Gaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla

Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats

Unprecedentedly illegal & unconstitutional crimes happening in front of us daily. Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, &, well, here we are:

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League reut.rs/48715Qp

Wild stuff. Furloughed employees within HHS got an email this morning telling them to set an out-of-office reply blaming Democrats for the shutdown. "I take that email as coercing subordinates to engage in political activity," one worker told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/out-of...

DHS appears to suggest that it will deny citizenship to "globalists"

BREAKING The Trump admin is using the government shutdown to try to pause Kilmar Abrego Garcia's habeas corpus case, which has a hearing scheduled next week. Abrego's lawyers oppose. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is particularly incredible after multiple justices admonished lower court judges for temporarily blocking other illegal firings.

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

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

A must read. @kschake.bsky.social is no alarmist and looks at questions analytically, and this is her take of Trump’s speech to the generals and admirals. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

Priorities. www.thedailybeast.com/construction...

I think republicans hijacking all government agencies for their messaging is actually a much bigger problem than most people seem to be taking it as

*deep sigh* wapo.st/4pO0OrJ

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

New from me: on the bizarre new executive order pledging to defend Qatar and what I see as two big problems with it panda.substack.com/p/did-the-un...

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

I really want The Quantico Disgrace to stick as the name for this. And have someone one day write a treatment, "The American Civil-Military Relationship, from the Newburgh Conspiracy to the Quantico Disgrace."

Thank you @cnn.com for having me on to assess the Quantico disgrace

feels like a thing placed in documentaries before horrifying footage

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

Worse than illegal… How Law can obscure morality www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

CNBC: "Very disappointing. It's a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in -32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August now showing -3,000 compared to the initial read of 54,000"

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

This is awesome. DOJ was hoping Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer would fail, pushing back against Trump's further plans to bring shitty indictments. But that failed, and CNN hopefully published this with enough time for Comey to add it to his planned response. edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

Nailed it. They're aware of how little control they have of the military and can't figure out how to change that.

USDA, lmao:

someone please check on every government website because the banners are killing me HUD:

BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

Oh hell yes *SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO LET TRUMP IMMEDIATELY OUST FED'S COOK

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT LEAVES FED GOVERNOR LISA COOK IN PLACE FOR NOW, DEFERS ACTING ON JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REQUEST TO REMOVE HER IMMEDIATELY

(Reuters) - More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

A top Mamdani adviser tells me internal data shows taking on Trump's authoritarian abuses resonates. It appeals to working class voters across all demographics, countering the frequent claim that this is a "distraction" from issues working people "really" care about. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

NEW @npr.org: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency effort has failed to deliver on its outsized promises to cut costs and increase efficiency, NPR's latest analysis of federal data finds.

a government run by internet trolls, for internet trolls.

BREAKING: The full Fifth Circuit will be rehearing the challenge to Trump’s Alien Enemies Act out of the Northern District of Texas known as W.M.M. v. Trump en banc — putting off Supreme Court review. Previous discussion at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/bondi-doj-...

Whoa, White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

I could be picky here, but instead I’ll just tell a joke I heard from a Google senior: ML tends to be written in python, whereas AI tends to be written in powerpoint.

Excellent www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

I just really hope we're all sitting with the fact that we're having a government shutdown in a year when ONE PARTY CONTROLS ALL THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT.

BREAKING: A second Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has been disqualified after a federal judge ruled her appointment invalid. Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This won't be popular, but Democrats in this instance should cave unless they can force the GOP to nuke the filibuster to keep the government open.

Every government shutdown in era of modern budgeting, in one chart. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...