Let's see... Nobel announces at 5am Eastern Trump will be up and freaking out Figure Bondi will pull herself together by 6am Miller will sputter and scream for 10 minutes Invective indictment out by 7am

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

When will AG Paxton be charged? www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/k...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at the Cabinet meeting that her department is buying buildings in Chicago and Portland out of which to base immigration enforcement operations. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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It's wild to think that this, by itself, would have immediately ended the career of literally every other President we ever had. It would've caused tanked approval ratings, demands for resignation, impeachment proceedings. Headline news for weeks.

VIRGINIA CALLER: “As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party, and I'm very disappointed in you… I am begging you to pass this legislation. My kids could die... the audacity of someone who makes 6 figures a year to do this to military families is insane.” #TrumpShutdown

In Trump's America, you're a hell of a lot more likely to lose your healthcare due to Trump's tax giveaways to billionaires, than because an emergency room doctor patched up an undocumented immigrant.

🚨 Horrifying. Does misinformation do real harm? Yep. Who believes FALSE claim Tylenol causes (true / probably true) autism? - 41% of parents - 57% of Republicans Thx MAHA / MAGA. Dark Age 2.0 www.kff.org/public-opini... via @kff.org

Not "a little." Not "sometimes." Not "occasionally." Not even "when mandated." 50% NEVER read. Which means the 50% that does is also probably an extremely small amount

Re the shutdown, this is one of those moments when it's crystal clear who's fighting for whom: econjared.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Some good news. apnews.com/article/wyom...

At a recent panel in Vienna, academics who study in America said it was now "too risky" to visit, comparing it to the likes of China and Russia. "Thank God for Canada," said one. www.salon.com/2025/10/09/t...

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS

Pam Bondi is going to see in the end that her alliance with Trump is going to cost her everything. All of these loyalists never come out on top when it’s all said and done.🤷🏾‍♀️

Another MAGA pedophile

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 The White House Office of Management and Budget has deleted a reference to a 2019 law on paying government workers after a shutdown from its FAQ on the current impasse.

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Children around the world have died because Trump and Musk needlessly destroyed USAID. These are some of their stories. apnews.com/article/myan...

“Millions of dead children” will be in the first line of Marco Rubio's obituary. Nice that the only State Department comment here is that “the U.S. 'continues to stand with the people of Burma.'” Myanmar hasn't been called Burma since 1989, but since Trump is forever stuck in 1983, that checks.

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people." Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Stephen Miller just said the quiet part out loud claiming that Trump has plenary authority when it comes to deploying troops. (Plenary means full authority.) After making the statement, he froze completely, like a deer in headlights. The video is worth watching.

Miles was chief of staff at DHS in Trump’s first term 👇🏽

When people are hired, not for their honesty or competency, but for their ability to be snarling trolls on TV for the delight of their immature and unpleasant boss, you get an AG like Pamela Jo Bondi.

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ADF's lawyer just cited the "desistance myth," the very false belief that most trans kids "grow out of it." I wrote about how demonstrably untrue and harmful this myth was nearly a decade ago, and we know even more to that effect now. But the myth persists. archive.thinkprogress.org/transgender-...

Someone saying "Let's do the fucking news" is the ultimate sign that person has never, ever worked in a real newsroom (the fantasyland of the NYT Opinion section doesn't count)

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

As I look around at America outside my window, here’s what I know: Just as with Germany, a few decades from now, people will gather in classrooms all around the world to view these days and this nation. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-americ...

Wonderfully succinct 👇

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Trump doesn't rule out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell: "I mean, I'd have to speak to the DOJ. I'll look at it."

OTD in 1975: Diana Nyad set a new record at the time for swimming around Manhatten. Young lesbians and allies in the 1980s were dazzled by this opening line by Phranc: Oh, give me a pair of pectorals like Diana Nyad I want to swim 89 miles www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Zq...

There is no acceptable excuse for zip-tying children! None. This shouldn’t even have to be said.

LOL THEY’VE USED HIM BEFORE

Cartoon: Back in my day ...

Breaking- The Supreme Court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's bid for an appeal this morning. Serving a 20-year prison term, Maxwell's lawyers argued that a non-prosecution agreement for potential co-conspirators reached in 2007 also applies to her. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

DAILY BEAST: “White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called out after a fire tore through a South Carolina judge’s house… Goodstein had reportedly been receiving death threats for a few weeks…” www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill...

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

The trickle ain't tricklin' 😒

Nobody cares and nothing will happen but this is classically, paradigmatically fascist language. Comparing opponents to vermin and pests is straight out of the textbook.

Medicine Man, Performing His Mysteries over a Dying Man, 1832, by the American artist George Catlin, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Featured in our essay “The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram” — https://buff.ly/2QZcWIB