ht: @lindademocat

nano's enjoying the mountains

So clean on opsec then

Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks Thousands of uniformed and civilian officials would be required to sign nondisclosure agreements and take lie detector tests, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ramps up war on leakers. gift link 🎁: wapo.st/4pO0OrJ

"I am proud to shut down the government .... I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down." —Donald Trump, Dec. 11, 2018

via @acyn.bsky.social Vance: You don't use your policy disagreements as leverage to not have essential services of government actually function

"Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has played a leading role in directing US strikes against suspected Venezuelan drug boats... At times, his role has superseded that of Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Church shooter is a trump supporter. US media remains silent. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

this asshole peed on my shoes

Meanwhile, another Jan 6 defendant today asked for the court to order a reimbursement of the restitution he paid after his jury conviction If approved, this motion would shift more of the burden to taxpayers, to pay for the repairs and cleanup ===>

EU, defund this guy already!

Jeffries: “We said from the beginning that we are willing to find a bipartisan path forward. Our line in the sand is the bill has to help Americans, not hurt Americans.”

I tell ya I got problems. I bought my wife a medbed and set it to cure all her troubles. When she woke up, it served me with divorce papers.

via @lincolnsquare.media 🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence. Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.

Hear me out Casa Bonita Hotel in Las Vegas

At least grocery costs aren't skyrocketing as fast as the cost of health care.

Democratic leadership should have to deliver all interviews from a spring loaded chair that catapults them into a giant vat of tapioca pudding anytime they say something like this.

Reminder: In his first term, President Trump ordered his then Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protestors. ht: @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

via @micaherfan.com Immediately after the Michigan shooting, Trump implied the shooter was an anti-Christian leftist. We now know the background of the shooter. Here he is wearing a “Make Liberals Cry Again” shirt:

Never Forget

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

‘I’m sad and alone’: Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported and now separated from his family spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

“You fat orange bitch” 🤣

apparently trump now thinks he's a doctor

"Representatives from dozens of countries walked out of the hall just before Mr. Netanyahu began his speech, the latest public protest of Israel from an audience of world leaders demanding an end to the war in Gaza." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

We're in the "Starbucks closing stores/laying off workers" part of the cycle: * STARBUCKS CORP - ESTIMATES $1 BILLION IN RESTRUCTURING COSTS - SEC FILING * STARBUCKS -DECISION TO ELIMINATE APPROXIMATELY 900 CURRENT NON-RETAIL PARTNER ROLES AND CLOSE MANY OPEN POSITIONS @reuters.com

"They were finishing up a battery factory at the site, which the state’s governor has praised for bringing thousands of new jobs for Georgians." gift link 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...

Trump/MAGA are trying to gaslight us into believing that anti-Jimmy Kimmel America is vast and deep, that MAGA's grip on the culture is unshakable, that mobilization is futile. But this episode has demonstrated the opposite. Let's not forget it. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2008...

A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28

Sounds silly to say Jimmy Kimmel’s TV show was an important fight to have, and a significant victory, but it’s true. The regime’s resources are limited. Make things harder for them anywhere they push. They’re pretending they have more power than they do. Symbolic losses like this undermine that.

Just found out that rabbits can swim. Also learned their ears go into swim mode when they do. This is important news.

You just know the White House videographer was overly excited about getting footage of Trump and Melania on an escalator because of how much he's tried to mythologize his ride on the "golden escalator."

The Department of Homeland Security Is Unlawfully Collecting DNA www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Democrat succeeds her late father in Congress as GOP House majority shrinks www.foxnews.com/politics/dem...

Over the weekend, we wrote about how dozens of judges have found ICE's new detention policy — seeking to lock up millions of people facing deportation without a chance for bond — is illegal. Last night, four more judges added to the growing list: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"Speech... it ain't free no more... If you wanna say something nice about the president's thick, yellow hair, or that he can do his makeup better than any broad? That's free. But if you wanna do a joke like, he's so fat he needs two seats on the Epstein jet? That's gonna cost ya."

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I really need you guys to internalize this. Government and corporations ripped Kimmel off the air for lightly badmouthing their behavior. Coordinated pushback by us is what forced them to cave in and put Kimmel back on air. Again. The fascists caved in *due to coordinated pushback.*

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

Kimmel: "He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now."

Kimmel is up on YouTube

Meet the new Texas Bluebonnet Curriculum complete with Bible indoctrination. I doubt discussions of Wicca and Zoroastrianism are included.

omg there's a new slow horses

BBC News rips apart President Trump's absurd rant at the United Nations ht: @implausibleblog.bsky.social

I'm sorry I'm late to the story, but here is my hottake on the Secret Service vs. SIM farm story. cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secre...

Remember when we used to joke that Trump was going to go after everyone who ever sent a mean tweet about him or donated money to Democrats or voted against him? Welcome to the Antifa, y'all.

via @andyostroy.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social on free speech: