www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-... So glad I’m vegetarian. Yikes! #FDA #TrumpEffect #TradeWars

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas dismissed a GOP lawsuit against California’s new congressional redistricting plan ruling that the plaintiff, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), had no right to sue over another state’s election laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: Jack Smith is requesting that Congress and the Justice Dept. let him testify in public. In new letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Smith says he wants to testify "in open hearings" because of "the many mischaracterizations" around his investigations.

Every single damn day there is something new to be livid about, absolutely downright fu*king livid. #TrumpEffect #ANWR

Watch: Ratified | Independent Lens PBS | www.pbs.org/video/ratifi... The fight for passing the ERA. #WomensRights #equality #documentary 🎥

A U.S. citizen wants to sue the federal government after he says he was wrongly detained by ICE. President Trump is seeking $230 million from the government, claiming mistreatment. The difference between their experiences underscores the ethical conflicts in Trump’s situation, legal experts said.

Ever since Donald Trump was first elected President, in 2016, a slew of books have attempted to reckon with the growing divide between urban and rural populations in the U.S. Few do so as deftly as Beth Macy’s new book, “Paper Girl,” Grace Byron writes.

In 2024, there were 735 immigration judges. Now there are fewer than 600. E. Tammy Kim reports on the attack on immigration courts.

VA Dems *confirm* they're moving forward with a plan to revisit the state's redistricting commission. It would require lawmakers to pass an amendment twice, which would then go before voters—in theory early enough next year to allow time for a remap before 2026. From Reid Epstein at @nytimes.com

North Carolina will be sued.

"How Trump’s assault on climate science is a ‘threat to humanity" | Commentary by opinion columnist Harry Mok in today's @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

Behold the ubermenschen bsky.app/profile/bgru...

Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.

almost wonder if he's gonna lose interest in the east wing and just like leave it half built and like exposed

Just look at that mess of a room he's speaking from and realize how ridiculous it is that this idiot can even speak about "properly." Trash.

I read this today in a book ‘A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees’ by Kenko and couldn’t help but mourn who we placed in our White House: “…the high-born and exalted are not necessarily fine people, surely. A dull, stupid person can be born into a good house, attain high status..

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... “The White House has not submitted plans for Donald Trump’s new ballroom to the federal agency that oversees construction of federal buildings, though demolition is already under way.”😳🤦🏼‍♀️ Absolute complete incompetence.

The European Union gave its top human rights award to two journalists imprisoned in their native countries of Belarus and Georgia. “This house stands with them and with all those who continue to demand freedom," European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said.

Eric Lu, a 27-year-old pianist from Massachusetts, became the first American since 1970 to win what some consider the Olympics of classical music. https://wapo.st/43wmHSS

Trump slashed USAID so that children die for want of $2 mosquito nets or 12-cent-a-day medicines--but he now is backing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina that will also pour money into the pockets of billionaire hedge fund investors. My take: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

“Rabbi Harold Robinson, a retired rear admiral and Jewish chaplain…told me that he’s deeply worried that Hegseth is chipping away at the sense of cohesion among service members, which has up until now been one of the U.S. military’s greatest strengths.” Hegseth is downright dangerous.

@qjurecic.bsky.social: “The extravagance of Trump’s attempted theft may itself be part of the point. The goal is not just dictatorial power, but the ostentatious performance of dictatorial power.”

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... A new crop of conservative media and influencers — including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse — signed an agreement with the Defense Department.

Watch: The Rise of RFK Jr | Frontline PBS | www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... This documentary is worth watching but the arrogance and misinformation this guy puts out to vulnerable people is truly disturbing, along with his addictions and endless attention seeking worrisome.🎥

Hahahahahahahahah *breathes* ahahahahahhahahahahahah www.notus.org/trump-white-...

christ almighty what is this guy doing www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“Trump says he’s preparing an emergency bailout for struggling farmers. And once again, it’s because of an emergency he created.”

The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov” www.newyorker.com/books/second... “”The Brothers Karamazov” is a collective novel—it is about the profusion of voices, how they are intertwined and, though they themselves are unable to see it, how they form one whole, one connection, one chorus.” #literature 📚

“To live through this moment is to feel that some essential component of our shared humanity is being slowly leached out of the world.” It is truly disheartening and feels unmanageable and unconquerable. But it makes me glad that I filled my home with books, music and films that avoid the slop.

Surveillance and propaganda reign supreme in the fictional world of “1984”—for which generations have found real-life parallels, again and again. The new film “Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that noting such similarities isn’t enough, writes Shirley Li:

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Once again proving Trump knows nothing about the programs he heads. Refugees are in need of safety, it’s not an ‘I like you, so you can come’ process. #HumanRights #TrumpEffect

“Moynihan is one of a growing list of Jan. 6 defendants who have been charged with, convicted of, or sentenced for other crimes since Trump ended the nationwide manhunt.”

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

Having a fight with the boss when you promised to stop this war on ‘day one’ months ago. #TrumpRussia 🙄

How President Obama treated the East Wing.

www.bbc.com/news/article... “It's safe to say that no-one expects gender equality issues to be high on her priority list.”

This is incredible bsky.app/profile/adam...

Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.

Former FBI director James B. Comey asked a federal judge to dismiss the criminal case against him, calling it a vindictive prosecution driven by President Trump’s long history of personal animosity toward him.

Comey's attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, moved to dismiss the case on the grounds that it is based on a vindictive and unlawful prosecution. He is also challenging the appointment of interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan to that role. www.cbsnews.com/news/james-c...

Pursuing misdemeanor charges against SEIU ISWW & @seiuca.org president David Huerta is a gross abuse of power by this administration. The 15 million members of the AFL-CIO stand shoulder to shoulder with David as he fights for justice. aflcio.org/press/releas...

The child raped by Prince Andrew and subjected to sadomasochistic sex by Jeffrey Epstein thought she would "die a sex slave" to Epstein and his rich friends, the BBC reports. The memoir is heightening calls to release the Epstein Files, a move opposed by the GOP House. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“They want so badly to be in the room where it happens that they’re content to be throw pillows. I’m stumped. If you owe your lofty station to your lax scruples and if your power hinges on your obeisance, what power do you really have? What pride?” #authoritarianism #TrumpEffect 😵‍💫

The East Wing was first added in 1942, under Franklin D. Roosevelt, primarily to provide office space for the First Lady’s staff and to conceal a newly built underground bunker known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) during World War II.

“The worst possible thing those of us who care about literature can do is sell it short and put some end date to it,” writes Gerald Howard, a retired book editor. “An irrational belief in literature’s primacy in and importance to the human prospect is the cure for despair.”

“Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians who project the stern-father archetype to their followers. Once the pants are lowered and the undies of the despot are glimpsed, there is no point of return.” #NoKings

“The Trump administration is poised to reduce funding for HUD’s housing program for the homeless by more than half, putting at risk tens of thousands of people who have escaped homelessness,” Philip Mangano writes.

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU