This is TNC, and this is the foundational difference between his politics and Kleins’s. At a basic level you either believe in the biologically deterministic myths that historically and currently animate hate and exclusion and oppression, or you fight them with everything you have.

In addition to explaining why the Comey prosecution is more likely to prove Kash lied to SJC than that Comey did, it also explains what we know of theory of case. www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/28/w...

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the US Constitution is a suicide pact.

This

Broadview Police have opened an investigation into an attack from federal agents on a CBS crew at Broadview, per BPD Chief Mills.

So exhausting..

Oregon v Trump Complaint intro: "stated basis for federalizing members of Oregon’s National Guard is patently pretextual" "violates the Posse Comitatus Act" "violate[s] the Tenth Amendment’s guarantee that the police power ... resides with the states" www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

Hey Mike, I call on you to put the January 6th plaque up. Infact, I urge democrats to demand that the plaque gets installed as a part of ANY deal that may come out of these "negotiations" 🙄 www.foxnews.com/video/638022...

“I’m all for unifying, I’m all for bridging gaps, but not at the expense of my neighbor’s humanity. I just can’t.” Thank you for this, Ta-Nehisi Coates. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ta-nehisi-coates.html

More than 200 GOP House members voted to hide the #Epstein files and protect child rapists. They can't evade responsibility. HERE'S ONE: [ All of them are shown at wearesaners.org/pop ]

We’re in an existential game of rock, paper, scissors.

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

Worth reposting

Excellent

Well this is weird

Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.

The amazing part about this is Trump doesn’t know how to clip videos and post them. This went thru layers of senior approval and publication, including approval by Trump himself (per protocols), and this just made it past the literal president, at least one deputy wh chief of staff, et al Wonderful

Ty Cobb: "The simple theme is rewriting history. Trump wants to rewrite history so the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection... America needs to learn from the mistakes that we've had. And one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was reelecting President Trump"

FWIW, I think the conversation today between Coates and Klein is important, and I am impressed they both were able to model disagreement. Lots of people disagree w Klein, but broader attention of the topic he raises (why progressives are losing) is worth engaging with www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Strategic call for Comey: seek bill of particulars to demand EDVA explain convoluted charges in detail or let this mess go to a jury, where confusion alone may create reasonable doubt? As former prosecutors, Comey and Fitzgerald must be cringing at the amateurism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Nothing changes if you don't vote. Everyone is counting on you to do your part.

So, Hegseth called all the flag officers to Quantico so he could peacock on stage and film it for his clips and Trump just big footed him and is showing up. It’s so on brand for this perpetual clown show of narcissists.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

He deleted the insane Medbed video. Just because it happened overnight, don’t miss that Trump just did possibly the craziest thing he’s ever done. He posted an AI video of what looked like a Fox News report showing Trump announcing new technology that would cure all ills. People believe this exists.

Learning how to scare.

Obama on the coming shutdown. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Me in 2040 telling my grandchildren of my heroics at the Battle of Prefontaine. We held the Voodoo Donuts for 16 days surviving only on kombucha and mustache cream. Btw, in 2040 they still haven’t released the Epstein files.

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting The names of the dead and wounded Jose Andres Bordones-Molina Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

Sure seems like the president just instructed the military to use lethal force against US citizens.

Hard to overstate how big a deal this one is. This is saying the budget doesn’t matter. It’s not a fight over a couple million dollars for a program that became incredibly controversial.

What does a “government shutdown” look like now that we’re post-“power of the purse?”

It's been one month since the Annunciation Catholic School shooting. Even in their grief, Minnesotan’s calls for action have only grown louder. Minnesota lawmakers have let them go unanswered.

Portland:

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been without external power for 3+ days — a record. IAEA warns of a possible “Fukushima scenario” as cooling systems rely on emergency diesel. Western experts fear the Kremlin is pushing a crisis.

I really welcome creative thinking like this. Because SIMPLY expanding the court won't be enough.

The way the media spins stories like this is “look how the dogged cops cleared this terrible quadruple-murder 34 years later” and not “oh by the way they totally accused and convicted the wrong guys before, oops lol” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too." Read Gisela Salim-Peyer: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Calls to "close the skies" over Ukraine — the rallying cry of pro-Ukraine demonstrations in early 2022 — are resurfacing after a wave of Russian airspace violations against NATO members.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski cast the deciding vote to keep the Epstein files sealed. We dug into why—and uncovered a tangled web linking her to Ghislaine Maxwell, her husband, a powerful donor, and big money in Alaska. Go to the LINK in BIO to read the full investigation.

The “alarmists” were and are right about COVID and climate change too. Maybe we should stop calling them alarmists and start calling them the people who can correctly read a room.

Antifascist "alarmists" were right about all of it. And I really, really hope folks can think about what that means for who they should listen to moving forward.

State Dept's revoking visa of Colombia's president because he said in Spanish "That's why from here, from New York I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

This only happens to you once

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

One more time

Kagan: The so-called irreparable harm that the Trump administration says it suffers is merely "the price of living under a Constitution that gives Congress the power to make spending decisions through the enactment of appropriations laws...a frustration any President must bear."

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...