"In less than two hours on Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump got a pair of sharp reminders that he’s just the president of the United States of America — an elected official whose powers are limited under the Constitution and who ultimately answers to the people." Law Dork:

Did you notice? NO PRESS COVERAGE of Zelenskyy visit. What I found out: Zelenskyy will give a media briefing to Ukrainian media only at 3pm ET

“You can’t shoot ‘em in the head (with pepper balls),” the judge said. “You can’t deploy tear gas. You can’t use flash-bang grenades. You can’t drive a car through a crowd.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/u...

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

India’s Foreign Ministry says it has no record of any call between Prime Minister Modi and President Trump on Wednesday, contradicting Trump’s claim that Modi pledged to stop buying Russian oil during a conversation that day.

In addition to $20B in previously announced direct U.S. support for Argentina, Bessent said yesterday that the United States would help assemble an additional $20B from private banks and sovereign wealth funds to help the country repay its debts.

In two days, be a part of the largest peaceful protest in modern American history. Join No Kings this Saturday at an event near you to push back on Trump's power grabs and make it clear—we don't do monarchs here. nokings.org

To @DaveWeigel.bsky.social’s point, it’s never once been “no,” and everyone in Trump’s government is refusing to answer what happened to the $50,000 in taxpayer money that Homan never denied taking inside a paper bag.

In other words, kiss your Tomahawks bye bye.

The "ceasefire" does not seem to be going great

Say it!

Cartoon by wolvertoon.com.

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record: This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

It's going up to $40 billion. USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

American fascists are, obviously, very scared about how big a protest "No Kings" will be this weekend, as seen by their hysterical, dishonest rhetoric about it. Let's make their fears come true by showing up on October 18

ICYMI — PELOSI: “Shut up. I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn’t send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?” (The unserious questioner is Alison Steinberg, who works for Mike Lindell — the my pillow guy)

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

The Trump admin is apparently finalizing plans for two days of events under the pretext of the 250th anniversary of the Marines. Sources close to MTN describe the closure as part of a “vanity parade” that may involve Navy warships shooting live missiles into Camp Pendleton as a “show of force.”

LA Times now confirming our earlier reporting: www.latimes.com/california/s...

ICE has arrested a mother of a three-year-old for playing her clarinet outside an ICE facility in Portland, as reported by her husband.

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

CHICAGO: “Feds chased a car through a residential neighborhood… intentionally crashed into the car.. responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying 3 rounds of tear gas with children & seniors in the area…” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

In fact, the “Young Republicans”group extends to age 40 There is NOTHING Republicans won’t try to gaslight us about

“Kids”

An emotional minute as the word Democracy melts away in front of the US Capitol Building.

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Remember, I reported about a week ago on Vance attending a "military event" in CA? Newsom’s office is considering closing parts of I5 from Fri on due to WH-directed plan to have Navy ships, off Camp Pendleton’s coast (San Diego County), firing over the freeway onto the base.

Young Republican Leaders’ Leaked Chats: Racist, Violent Rhetoric Triggers Fallout www.onestnetwork.com/post/young-r...

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

That absolutely isn’t how it works. - me to Trump … and the NYT

WITH SOUND ON PLS (if you can, but it also has captions)

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals  You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

AOC: Trump should be having congressional leaders in the WH. Do you see that every day? No, you don't because they're playing golf and they're going to mar-a-lago and the Republicans in the house have been on vacation for weeks now

NEWS: Here's a report on the shutdown RIF TRO issued by Judge Illston at a hearing just now. (This is also the end of a thread from @jennifershutt.bsky.social on the hearing.) —>

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

Welch: Mike Johnson-If he's a big Christian, he should be fighting for the marginalized, fighting for the poor. But instead he weaponizes his faith to lure voters in and then dicks him over every chance he gets.

Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.

You can't win when the facts of the case include: POTUS "has publicly stated that the layoffs will be ‘a lot’ & that they ‘will be Democrat oriented, because we figure, you know, they started this thing, so they should be Democrat-oriented.’” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

We can’t pay air traffic controllers during the shutdown, making us less safe, but we can send $40 billion to bail out Argentina. Make it make sense.

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

If you’ve recently awoken from a coma, the Speaker of the House is stalling the swearing in of a newly elected member from Arizona because she would be the deciding vote in the discharge petition to release the Epstein files, which would be trouble for his boss. You’re caught up. Ps: Welcome back.

Apropos of nothing, once the President of the United States confirms covert CIA operations in a country… say, Venezuela, those operations are no longer covert. And it puts CIA officers at significantly more risk.

“Not going to be great” is quite the understatement by Fox here.