Some good news! A librarian got fired for refusing to remove LBGTQ books and sued the county, its board of commissioners, the library board, and members of both government boards for violating her 1st amendment rights, and discriminatory and retaliatory firing. www.rawstory.com/wyoming-libr...

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News. Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios. www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon. The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

I want an unprecedented meltdown on the right so I want Greta Thunberg to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year

We can’t afford health care for our citizens but we can bail out Argentina for $20B. Thanks GOP voters www.bbc.com/news/article...

Never have looked back; so glad I cancelled last year. Democracy Dies in Darkness…

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption. My full statement:

BREAKING: Federal judge issues TRO following a second day of hearings, blocking the Trump administration from “ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois” from now through Oct. 23. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum: "Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

Jay Jacobs, the chair of the New York State Democrats, has issued a statement on the indictment of AG Letitia James, calling it “nothing less than political retribution by a vindictive felon who happens to occupy the White House.”

There needs to be a mass unfollow of WaPo on this app. We need to throttle their reach.

Perry: "I see no credible evidence there is a danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

The Trump administration is aggressively attempting to use every legal artifice it can to exert authoritarian control.

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. www.nokings.org

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.” Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

NEWS: New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted by a federal grand jury in a case brought by Trump’s former personal lawyer-turned-prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, following Donald Trump’s demands.

I stand with Attorney General Letitia James. This attack won’t silence the truth.

This is the price of citizenship Brett Kavanaugh thinks we should all pay

Breaking on MSNBC: Trump's handpicked U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan — who brought charges against James Comey — just presented evidence to a grand jury in the hopes of bringing criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Interesting little slice of local news. Pumpkin Patch owner, in his role as Torrence County commissioner, voted for county to keep extending the Torrence County prison contract with ICE. Albuquerque Teacher's Federation sent out an email emphasizing the connection www.kob.com/new-mexico/a...

at some point you have to wonder why this barely interesting thing warrants any media coverage at all in a country with oodles of interesting things editors deem unfit to cover

Two Former Trump Officials Warn About Trump and Miller's Plan For Absolute Power With @oliviaoftroye.com and @milestaylor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Remember when the right complained about "participation trophies"? Now they demand them

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

This is that "plenary" authority Stephen Miller was referring to in the now edited CNN interview. Arguing that the president's deployment of troops is unreviewable by the courts is arguing that his power is plenary.

Could the Supreme Court still apply different rules to a Democratic president? Of course. You don't need to remind me of that. But a lightning-fast blitz that repurposes Trump's new powers for good stands the best chance of standing up in court. Democrats need to start thinking about this right now.

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions. Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

The best "defense" of SCOTUS' hypocrisy is that there's an asymmetry between how Democrats and Republicans wield executive power. Broadly—Dems want to give things (health care, asylum, foreign aid, loan relief, civil rights) while Republicans want to take things away. SCOTUS makes the latter easier.

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly. It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

Shadow Docket. This Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump an appalling number of times without explaining themselves and they worked against the Biden administration. They are not impartial and their corruption is open and flagrant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_...

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

It's so important to nip the framing of this reporting in the bud right now. Don't accept the narrative that Trump and his team only just started discussing invoking the Insurrection Act. January 6 happened because his White House was in conversation with radicals about what it'd take to invoke it.

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Jeffries to Lawler: "You're a complete and total embarrassment. You're embarrassing yourself and your district right now. And you're going down to defeat next year."

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

I'm not an expert on voting laws or policy, but it strikes me as quite a long shot that the GOP could actually get this done before 2026 and have it pass legal muster. Regardless, the fact that these OR GOP activists are talking publicly about their desire to nullify Oregonians' votes is bananapants

Their conversations with the Trump Administration seem to have been quite explicit on the plan. Pass a federal voter ID law that vote by mail states like OR and WA can't possibly comply with before 2026. Then have the GOP controlled Senate and House simply refuse to seat the people who won.

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Democracy isn't automatic. It's something we have to fight for again and again. Apathy is how we'll lose it.

Nationwide protests against Trump and the rise of fascism are taking place on Saturday, Oct. 18. You can find a local protest here:

Along with the fascism, the other way you know this is not OK is to imagine the hysterical National Conversation™️ about freedom of religion & the separation of church & state we'd be having if an observant Muslim or Jew in a Democratic president's Cabinet opened a government meeting with prayers.

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

This is the lesson of 2025