I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

The Senate confirmed a new leader of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, installing Neil Jacobs, the acting director during the hurricane forecasting controversy of the first Trump administration known as “Sharpiegate.”

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Today is the 17th day in a row that House Republicans have refused to come to work. Instead of preventing health care costs from skyrocketing, they’re preventing the Epstein files from being released.

My gawd. Can he lie any harder? #Liar

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

By spraying chemical weapons inside the suit...f-ing thugs. Side note - at the start you can see him helping an officer up right before being sprayed. bsky.app/profile/iwil...

Portland Pickles have joined the chat.

BREAKING: A federal judge says there is a realistic likelihood that the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driven by vindictive motives — reflected in the public statements of Bondi, Blanche, Noem et al. He has ordered discovery on the question. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"I think in a free country we should be able to post onto the internet, 'hey, there are masked agents on Broadway and Vine and not have the government or the tech oligarchs prevent us from doing that.' Shame on you, Tim Cook." @radiofreetom.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

Remember that Vought gleefully stripped NIH funding after his daughter’s life was saved by cystic fibrosis drugs sponsored by the NIH…the banality of evil personified

When you recall that political reporters ran interference for Trump over his "opposition" to Project 2025, remember that even AT THAT TIME there was a hidden camera interview with Vought where he said that was bullshit and he didn't mean it. www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

MIKE LEE: Russ Vought has been dreaming about this moment since puberty MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility

“How can Portland POSSIBLY stand against the might of the federal government?!” “Let me introduce you to our frog.”

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.

Facts….they’re just snatching up anyone that’s brown don’t even care if they’re legal or not

Wait: so the President of the United States shared a video of a fake news report, rooted in a conspiracy theory, that features an AI-generated version of himself promoting a policy that…doesn’t exist?

Recently I learned that civil servants have the First Amendment-protected right to speak out on matters of public concern. Thurgood Marshall, in an 8-1 SCOTUS decision, noted that government employees know how the gov’t works, and the public has a special interest in hearing from them.

Elon Musk went to Pedophile Island www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Cuomo could never.

Glad to know this woman’s name, and hope she and her family get some justice

It's particularly disturbing to hear pregnant women being told to just suffer though it from the sociopath who raped his first wife because his scalp reduction surgery was painful.

They're creating a false narrative around him & making him a MAGA martyr. youtu.be/qlydemvahcs

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Trump essentially sold off this part of the government to RFK Jr. in exchange for Kennedy’s electoral slice of conspiracy theorists. The GOP Senate could easily have blocked RFK’s confirmation, but would have had to cross Trump. They declined. Now medical flat-earthers run our public health

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Democrats’ priority “now must be to show that the threat of authoritarian rule is real and unfolding every day,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says in his first piece as a contributing writer for Times Opinion. “The economy will always be with us. Our free institutions might not.”

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

In my culture it is extremely disrespectful to subject another person to AI-generated art or language.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Statement from the Writers Guild of America, West

"You tell me who misled his audience more: Jimmy Kimmel the comedian, or JD Vance the vice president." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Xp Lee, a former City Council member, was elected on Tuesday to fill the State House seat of his political mentor, Melissa Hortman, a fellow Democrat and former Minnesota House speaker who was assassinated in June.

Kash Patel says the FBI has NO information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors to anyone other than himself. SEN. KENNEDY: "Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these young women to?" PATEL: "There is no credible information, none ... that he trafficked to other individuals."

WHAT THE HELL

It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

Update: After the spokeswoman for USAID said on Thursday that millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives had been destroyed under orders from the Trump administration, the authorities in Belgium said they had checked the stockpile on Friday and it was still in place.

The Trump administration moved on Wednesday to repeal a Biden-era rule that sought to protect millions of acres of public lands from the twin threats of climate change and industrial development.

HAPPENING NOW: The Trump administration withdraws its claim that parents of the Guatemalan children it tried to send back last month had requested their return. DOJ says it has no basis for that claim now in light of contradictory info provided by the Guatemalan government.

Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Trump wrote his buddy a “funny” “poem” about them doing unspeakable things in the shape of a child sex trafficking victim

Trump said this didn’t exist. Then Speaker Johnson claimed he was an “FBI Informant” on Jeffrey Epstein. It’s all bullshit. Look at this card… these people are sick. Release the files. Accountability for all involved. Period.