Encouraging info from CM Chavez. My issue here is that the entire history of Big Tech is doing illegal things and daring people to stop them, which rarely happens. We need to say a robot can't drive AND provide a framework for strong penalties when the companies inevitably ignore that law.

Raise your hand if your brain is sufficiently capable of complex thought to understand why advocating an explicitly Christian volunteer military is not ideal.

Yes, an important test for the midterms.

People need to realize that the republicans have effectively dissolved Congress that Trump May very well never step in to turn it back on. The republicans who back Trump at a high level have been saying that is their goal for decades.

The president thinks federal goons haven’t been violent *enough* with the American people. The president seems to hope that his thugs will kill someone soon.

Anyone else looking at the Trumpite deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford to the Caribbean in the supposed "war against drug cartels" and thinking of the Gulf of Tonkin incident? Just me? Cool, cool cool cool cool. 🤨😬🫣

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

holy crap

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29. https://to.pbs.org/3Lne3zV

Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.

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In all seriousness, seeing Trump demolish the East Wing to build a gilded ballroom for his wealthy donors is stomach-churning stuff. The Administration claims no congressional approval or historic-preservation review was needed before demolition began. That should alarm everyone. Quick 🧵 (1/5)

"Every tyrant tries to convince the public that support for them is all but universal and opposition is both dangerous and futile. Trump will keep saying that. But after No Kings, it will be even harder to believe than it was before." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Nice day at the beach in San Francisco, California #NoKings October 18, 2025

Any news organization that says Trump "posted a fake video of him dumping shit on Americans" is clearer and more informative than the New York Times. The Times' political coverage is useless at best, but essentially pro-fascist.

What's going on, NYT? You feeling okay?

Lots and lots of people at the Boston Commons No Kings demonstration.

So yeah, there were a lot of people at Boston's No Kings demonstration. ✊😁

Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

Another day of horrors in Chicagoland— Immigration agents slammed the southwest side again, a fruit vendor kidnapped in Cicero, arrests and sightings across the suburbs, and feds were seen on video hassling people at the Pulaski orange line stop.

How is this remotely constitutional? Our Supreme Court has made a mockery of the separation of powers.

Notable that the Senate GOP would rather preserve the filibuster than fund the government as they wish.

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

“The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal…” TRUMP: “What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs.”🤔 (Fact-check — There are only 340,000,000 people in our entire country)

I appreciate the honesty on display here from @unraveledpress.com—an absolute must-read from the CBP operations in Chicago

Weird, indeed.

RFK JR says he first met Charlie Kirk in July 2001 where he went on his podcast, 'we were soul mates' - Kirk was 8 years old in 2001

Trump saying “I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize investment into 🇺🇸” is how you know he knows that’s exactly what he did by raiding the Hyundai plant and mistreating hundreds of South Korean workers

Not hard to imagine, really. Charlie Kirk literally called Floyd a “scumbag” and blamed his death on taking fentanyl.

Trump WANTS a shutdown.

"Imagine having died such a horrible person that someone sharing your life's work is considered 'insensitive'." Cody Ikerd

US military just killed 3 more people in another deadly strike on a vessel in international waters around South America allegedly "transporting illegal narcotics" from Venezuela. No evidence presented. No due process. Understand this fact:—this is a precursor to what he will do to US citizens.

you should buy your trans friends coffee or something today

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

I seem to recall the right storming the Capitol on January 6th and beating police officers with the U.S. flag.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

Trump on Fox & Friends: "One thing I say is we have to have quick trials. I called it quick trial. 'Cause in China they do have quick trials, you know? ... They should have a trial the following day."

I hate to beat a dead horse on this, but the GOP has never been (and will never be) serious about corporate oversight, and the press should not help them pretend otherwise

While we were distracted by Charlie Kirk, the incompetence of Kash Patel, the conviction of Jair Bolsonaro and the GOP voting not to release the Epstein files Republicans in the Senate were busy deploying the nuclear option by shredding the filibuster Thanks so much, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema

I just assumed that this is what they’d do before they “release the documents.” Sloppily, probably.

The firearms ownership ban for trans people is patently unconstitutional, and I'm willing to risk sounding naive in saying the courts will immediately reject it, including SCOTUS. But meanwhile, this signals where the Trump admin is moving on trans people. And it's terrifying.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Thinking of the emissions alone. All those parents idling their cars for hours. Oof.