I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

CNN: The judge presiding over the prosecution of Jim Comey has agreed to Comey’s request to schedule a near term trial. Comey asked for a Jan 12 trial date. The judge went with Jan 5. Comey is counting on the gov’t not being ready for trial. A good bet.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Woman shot by ICE has been released from custody, body cam footage revealed an agent saying "do something bitch" while holding his rifle at her

Schiff gets Bondi so flustered that she starts blurting things out while he details what a farce this "oversight" hearing has been and the Republican members' lack of interest in doing their jobs

Padilla: Do you believe government officials are obligated to follow court orders whether they agree with them or not?  Bondi: I wish you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump. Padilla: I asked a simple yes or no question

It’s great that Dems are winning the messaging war on the shutdown and all but we don’t have the sort of time to just be at “they’ll pay for this at the polls midterms.” They need to get the public to broadly understand the immediate authoritarian crisis we are facing now.

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

manna from heaven

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

A day in the Portland war zone The Portland War Zone isn't for everyone but at least the chaos is locally sourced.

Today at 11:00am ET! Join CNAS for a conversation about the role judge advocates general (JAG) serve in the U.S. military and national security. Watch here 👇 www.cnas.org/events/virtu...

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

It’s hell out there ….

Hirono to Bondi: "It's very clear to me that when the president posts something like, that he considers the DOJ to be his law firm and you his lawyer."

Durbin on Epstein Files: Who gave the orders to flag records related to president trump? To flag any records which included his name?  Bondi: I'm not going to discuss anything about that with you

📌 The tide is slowly shifting Souls are fighting back ⤵️🐥

TODAY: Do you write textbooks or academic material? Our colleagues at TAA are hosting a webinar today 2-3pm ET on the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright case and have developed a helpful resource. Learn more and register for the webinar:

The European far right does not need its voters to know who Charlie Kirk was to make use of him, write @pawelzerka.bsky.social @ecfrpower.bsky.social https://bit.ly/46XO1L0

Thank you Mark Hamill. May the force be with us.

I know we're all used to the president talking like Livia Soprano all the time, but this is a goddamn outrage

Does AG Pam Bondi think she’s auditioning for the VP slot in Trump’s unconstitutional third term? Here’s the mashup from today’s shitshow you definitely didn’t ask for. But this important point: she’s reading off a script. Someone actually wrote this garbage and thought it was good to go.

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur. from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

WATCH: Did the FBI find those photographs? 😶 #pambondi #donaldtrump #epstein

The subhed here is a master class in corporate journalism rewarding malfeasance via semantics Bondi didn't valiantly fend something off, she refused to answer legitimate questions before Congress because the answers would be horrifying and politically inconvenient And that's a profile in cowardice

The ICE stories in this Reddit thread should shake every American, regardless of party, to their core. We no longer have a Constitution. This is fascism, pure and simple.

“Federal employees are guaranteed back pay at the end of any shutdown by law without question or exception. This is clearly...stated in the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, which Congress passed nearly unanimously in 2019." - @RepDonBeyer (D-VA08) bluevirginia.us/2025/10/virg...

Great to see research on biomarkers for ME/CFS but the headline is premature IMO. Not clear what the test was validated against given there’s no gold standard. What is needed -and can be achieved rn- is consensus on diagnostic criteria which may include -but not defined solely by- blood tests.

LIVE at 7 AM: SCOTUS hears Bost v. Illinois, deciding if federal candidates can challenge state laws on the “time, place & manner” of federal elections. At stake: states’ power to count mail-in ballots up to 14 days after Election Day. Watch on Legal AF below!

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality. They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

This is so dark

Professor @mcfaulmike.bsky.social, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, offers key takeaways from his new book, Autocrats versus Democrats: China, Russia, America and the New Global Disorder, available starting Oct. 28.

Can we get a journalist over here to confirm whether major cities are "burning to the ground"? Or it's just opinions.

COHEN: “Federal workers earned that pay, and the law makes it clear they’re entitled to it.” US Rep. Steve Cohen rips into Trump for threatening to withhold back pay from federal employees who are working through the #republicanshutdown

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

Freedom of speech may be the one constitutional right the current Supreme Court doesn’t demolish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

Firing David Frum would be praxis over evil

The fucking hypocrisy of the Trump administration.

“There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.” @karaswisher.bsky.social shares some words of wisdom from Homer — and a larger message for the current moment.

John Candy in "Planes, Untrained and Automatic Weapons"

We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all. Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.

If any other president in all of our history said the military should use American cities as a training ground, he would have been removed from office that same day.

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In response to Trump saying he’s getting calls from Democrats, Sen Elissa Slotkin pushed back. “Because we literally all checked with each other, and my understanding is that his spokeswoman came out a couple hours later and said that was not taking place.”

Ultra fast-fashion et grands magasins : un pacte dangereux pour les consommateurs et la planète

scottdworkin Speaker Mike Johnson’s press conference was cut off the air by MSNBC, after he once again lied about Obamacare subsidies. Host Ana set the record straight: “Just to make sure we don’t offer misleading information ... There is no access for undocumented immigrants to get Obamacare....”