Good Lord! What is happening in Texas?

I mean yeah, I'd refuse to cooperate too. She absolutely knew and saw and experienced some shit and was threatened with hard evidence of what would happen if she ever spoke up. This wasn't random ass people it was names like Bill Clinton and Trump and Prince Andrew. I'd be scared shitless.

More than three-quarters of Americans say that the issues that divide the United States pose a serious threat to the future of the nation's democracy, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll.

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots. This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline. An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION. Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

The latest edition of my newsletter is about a subject I've been obsessed with since I was a snot-nosed 20-something telecom beat reporter: The U.S. press simply refuses to acknowledge that widespread corruption at the hands of unchecked corporate power is THE reason for most U.S. dysfunction.

Jasmine Crockett is packing rooms in deep Trump country. 🔥 People are paying attention. They are ready for something different. @jasmineforus.bsky.social #SheShed #Voices4Victory

per report, DHS is aiming to complete construction on the camps in november. that’s plenty of time to stop or delay them indefinitely, but we need to be clear-eyed about the timeline here—and why a cautious response from our elected leaders isn’t acceptable.

Breaking: fake journalist discovers mixed-use buildings exist. Film at 11.

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

“Fix your hearts and live.”

ICYMI — The FBI director flew there on the taxpayer dime on a private jet to do this… Kash in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

It’s time for data centers to pay their fair share. So today I proposed a Senate budget that removes their 1.6 BILLION dollar tax break and returns that money to benefit the taxpayers of Virginia.

"Oh, I didn't want *this* much racism & xenophobia! I just wanted a little bit, the fun kind! I just wanted to say 'retard', I didn't want a eugenicist in charge of health policy!" Oh? You didn't want this? Yeah, fuck off. Fuck off to space. Fuck off to eternity. Fuck off & never stop fucking off.

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

The call has been made! NYC Public Schools will have a full snow day tomorrow.

Virginia is home to such a broad and beautiful range of cultures, religions, and traditions. Every single Virginian is worthy and part of that. Humbled to spend a Saturday celebrating what makes Virginia great.

ICYMI — “If Donald Trump’s administration really wants to find evidence of foreign interference in Georgia’s elections, then they need look no further than the president’s old friend Elon Musk and his shady super PAC.” newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE... “They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees. “I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Literally

Not only is Massachusetts one of six Dem-run states that hasn’t banned ICE’s 287g program (see map below)…. … it’s also the only state where a state-level agency, so one under the control of the governor (@massgovernor.bsky.social) is contracted with 287g: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

No context or explanation required.

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

This administration whined to the SCOTUS that they should not have to pay out SNAP even though they were legally obligated to do so. They spent so much cash appealing a court case they knew they were gonna lose just for spite and to waste taxpayer money just to make life worse for poor Americans

Part of the context here is that Bucks County recently elected an anti-ICE sheriff to replace their pro-ICE sheriff. The actions of Quakertown police (which is separate) are best understood as a gang that sees its power to intimidate slipping and so has initiated a violent suppression campaign.

They can’t figure out how to spend the extra $500 billion they gave themselves for the military, but cut our healthcare and food assistance because they said they couldn’t afford it.

Required reading!

Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

From @nowthisimpact.bsky.social : “Trump is sending all pregnant minors to one detainment center in Texas… so they can’t get abortions.” #ForcedBirthNation

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

They're quite literally pillaging the government.

Today's SCOTUS decision makes it crystal clear that three justices will let Trump do literally anything he wants. Screw the Constitution, the law, facts, morals, and ethics. It should have been 9-0.

if anyone is tempted to briefly hand it to John Roberts remember that he is about to finish his life’s work of destroying the Voting Rights Act and save yourself the trouble

"Not me! I can keep posting on Twitter without absorbing any of these negative effects because I'm just built different than everyone else. Better."

Biden already played the “healing” card. No, thanks.

I have really come to believe that we'd be in a much better place right now if we had put Nixon away in a dingy cell for the rest of his natural life, instead of the slap on the wrist for being naughty that he actually received.

NEW: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested and is in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office — following weeks of revelations over the former prince's dealings with Jeffrey Epstein.

Feel like it would be cheaper to acknowledge Noem and Lewandowski are having an affair than fund their secret fuck palace in the sky

Tell me again how Trump loves the troops? www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico. Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

This is a bombshell: One of Epstein's victims accused Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her when she was "13 to 15" and the FBI deemed her credible enough to warrant an interview.

This is why you keep whatever parts of the Federal government shut down that you can. They are actively working hard to make life worse for Americans. That's the entire goal. You Nazi enablers with a D next to your name already gave them my tax money to build camps in November. Not another dime.

AOC: “You are the Attorney General of the United States of America & you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable — resign or be impeached"

it’s exactly what Republicans did to the IRS money in the Inflation Reduction Act

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash