An “immigration judge” is not an actual judge in the judicial branch. They are a DOJ employee. As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

From the brutish behavior of many ICE recruits, they are not only incompetent lawmen but testosterone junkies. So angry confrontation may simply give ICEmen exactly what they want: a chance to bust heads under color of law. Perhaps mockery instead. digbysblog.net/2025/10/01/m...

As long as D's let the R's frame the discussion and demand the R's equal agency to take responsibility, D's will keep losing. As a strong liberal D, I want to scream. Where is @george-lakoff.com when we need him? The Right-Wing Infosphere: You're Soaking In It open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...

Meal Team Six is on it

Worth reposting

Mad Libs shooting template for US media: "______ killed, _____ injured as _______ attacked in ________, claims ______, (Police|FBI|Sheriff) responding." Number, number, perpetrator, location, motive, choice)

If politics was about persuasion we would have no Civil Rights act. We wouldn’t have the emancipation proclamation, or women’s suffrage. Or social security!!!! The right has taken the lessons of those successes to heart more than the left. They are just slowly shrinking the pool of who benefits.

Probably the best video I've seen on how Project 2025 is now reality.

President Donald "Smells Like Poop" Trump surely needs to receive all the childish name calling he uses to diminish and infantilize his critics. President Donald "Tiny Diseased Hands" Trump should have his pocket ranting device locked away each night so he can get the sleep he so desperately needs.

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

Every conservative who has criticized the FCC's attack on Jimmy Kimmel says it's because if that power is granted, it will eventually be used to censor conservatives. It'd be nice to hear at least one of them say that it's JUST WRONG for the gov't to do that, regardless of who is being silenced.

These people know that if the Democrats ever get back into power and hold them accountable, they’re all going to go to jail. Which is why they’re feverishly working to make sure that can never happen again.

This broadcast from Australia's ABC network "If You're Listening" needs to be watched by all who need clarity on where demonizing/targeting "They" and "Them" against "Us" is leading. Maybe only journalists from outside our country have the clearest perspectives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiUP...

Actually, when only 97% of the stories about a person who is 100% bad are bad, it means someone is the media isn’t doing their job.

(Was just reading @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social reporting on VP Harris choice not to select Sec'y @petebuttigieg.bsky.social during the campaign) If you're worried that something *you are* will sabotage your candidacy, maybe you shouldn't be a candidate, because you're worried about the wrong thing.

Hey Republican voters, its *your* guys who have voted to legislate away *your* health care. Why don't you ask them why and see what they tell you to do?

Unless he's too feeble-minded to respond, I really believe Senator Fetterman owes us an explanation why he keeps voting against the Democratic caucus, frequently being the only vote in favor of the Republican bills.

I'm against fascism, anti-fascist, anti-fa, if you will. If you're not anti-fascist, does that make you pro-fascist, or pro-fa?

It is misleading to say that Trump's net worth has increased by $3b "due to crypto." It would be more precise and accurate to say that Trump has accepted $3b in bribes in the past 12 months, most of which amount has been laundered through sham crypto transactions. And that is the story.

Its another Friday afternoon. Just idly wondering what breaking news from the US government will be released later today to hide it in the weekend weeds?

The billionaires all think they’re going to easily buy their way out of anything that might happen to the riff-raff and hoi polloi and make more bank on the outcome, but no amount of money will buy a cancelled and unavailable vaccine that could have saved their families and themselves.

It’s MAGA that is seceding, not us. They are seceding from - the modern world of science and fact - from the global order America imagined and built after WWII - from the West - from our democracy, rule of law and Constitutional order We are staying true to America. They are betraying it.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

So if anti-fascists are Trump’s political enemies, what does that make Trump?

This is why there's no point in highlighting their glaring inconsistencies. They gleefully argue in bad faith, knowing that doing so when the other side argues in good faith gives them the advantage.

"I want lawmakers to be telling people like Carr and his ilk not that they’ll have regrets but that they’ll face consequences." A Few Thoughts on KimmelGeddon talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

this is the shit i want to see

@govwesmoore.bsky.social Please get Maryland into the Northeast Public Health Collaborative! I'm a 64 year old cancer patient and I could not get a Covid vaccine in Maryland yesterday.

Since Antifa is now designed as a terrorist organization it will be interesting to see how they determine who is a member and how they prove it is an organization.

On social media Wednesday night, after Kimmel’s suspension was announced, The Onion’s Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social wrote: “[it’s] Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love.”

How did Dr. Monarez go from being “a public health expert with unimpeachable scientific credentials” who had the “full confidence” of Secretary Kennedy into being a “liar” and “untrustworthy” in less than a month? She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.

“They” works so well for the right-wing because there is no need to actually identify the people the speaker claims are doing whatever they’re decrying. If you use “they” you don’t have to name names or even identify the strawman.

I've got some extra copies of There Is No Place for Us, and I'd love to give away 5 signed books. Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday. Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.

There will be a point at the trials when the prosecutors are going to want to prove a depraved indifference to human life, and man are they going to be spoiled for material.

PSA: If you haven’t yet, it may be a good idea to get your COVID shot this week. Reports suggest that CDC may further restrict COVID vaccine access to people aged 75 and up, unless you have an condition. The committee that advises the CDC on vaccines meets this Thursday.

Let us pledge to force anyone using "They" or "the Left" to other-ize political critics and enemies, to HAVE TO NAME NAMES. Push back against "they" and don't let the MAGAs strawman everyone who doesn't agree. The MAGAs get tremendous mileage out of blaming faceless "They"s and prevent defense.

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

I've lived in D.C. for the better part of two decades. Nearly my whole adult life. Something folks aren't talking about--a giant elephant in the room--is the amount of "brand protection" going on right now. I don't mean fear of Trump or political persecution, although those can overlap. (thread)

This. FWIW no one seems to be listening to those of us still out here beating the drum, trying to explain and understand this stuff anyway. It's depressing how we have this *same conversation* every time. Even more depressing that I need to say "every time" because this violence is so common now.

Some helpful tips for following the awful news out of Minnesota today.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Hannah Arendt said 'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism' We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans

Another way of looking at this chart is that everything being done by the government is to keep 73% of self-identified Republicans, and virtually no one else, "satisfied, happy or thrilled"

imo, especially if you look at the menu, trump has actually perfectly recreated something I'm closely familiar with: a non-profit awards dinner at an airport marriott ballroom

Peter Thiel, Musk, Stephen Miller, and Russell Vought realize their King is sick and dying. This is why they're ramping up towards a dictatorship. To ensure their groomed boy toy, JD Vance, has all the power to do their bidding.

trump does not intend for the next january 6th to fail www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.

Why won’t Trump bring up the missing children from Ukraine?

Thou shalt live to remove the Republicans from office, gerrymander them out of existence, and then put a HUGE Trump / Epstein exhibition in the Smithsonian Museum.