Not sure "if Trump could have silenced dissent by shutting down rallies, trampling on your freedoms, he would have" is quite the argument that the speaker thinks it is.

🇪🇺 EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said it was wrong to pressure Ukraine to secure an end to Russia's war, after reports US President Donald Trump pushed Kyiv to give up land. ➡️ u.afp.com/Ssdy

I guess if I *had* to pick my favorite part of the video the president posted where he’s a big boy pilot and he pew pew pews his poop all over everyone, it would be the part where he shits on the American flag?

The hope is that Trumps unpopularity will eventually convince his enables to stop enabling him.

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

22 arrests. All Maga. Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman. I think we know who the violent ones are. #NoKings

Trump told Zelenskyy he was losing the war, warning: “If [Putin] wants it, he will destroy you” The US president threw Ukraine’s battlefield maps to one side & said he was “sick” of seeing the frontline again & again Scoop w @christopherjm.ft.com @maxseddon.bsky.social & @a-mackinnon.bsky.social

Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed. THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

here's today's post: "no kings, fuck yeah!" massive protests coast to coast — and country to country. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

We always get these huge Trump announcements with much media hype and fanfare with lots of big promises and assurances, effusively praising himself looking for awards & prizes, while experts say the details are scarce or nonexistent. Then a short time later we get the reality.

I think this moment of people feeling nervous about something and doing it anyway could prove quite liberating and profound

London outside the US embassy: many citizens came to rally against tyranny. The frogs and dinosaurs are not missing.

Trump & JD Vance are grooming young men to be little creeps. The leaked GOP texts read like a digital frat basement dripping with the dance-party sweat of insecurity & cruelty. By making excuses for these folks, they’re ushering in an age of revenge-porn politics. www.treason.io/p/read-are-r...

I'm spending the next four months at our winter place which is also where we stay in the spring, summer and fall.

I think I have enough demons thank you. See we

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities. Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

Chris Murphy gets it. I wish everybody did.

Even in Texas, even under corrupt Trump administration, clean energy is gaining on fossil fuel. A. It costs less. B. It’s cleaner. C. It’s faster to build.

Murphy: "If we want to win the argument nationally on the economy, then we've got to break our addiction to incremental economic change. And we've got to talk about big, bold ideas that reorder power in this country."

That’s a lot of “people who hate America.”

Whenever Democrats are tempted to pull out the old “spirited disagreements but we’re all Americans” bromide, they need to remember this first.

Republican Christians are in the “Nazi boys will be boys” portion of their moral collapse.

282 former DOJ officials signed a letter sounding the alarm about "this administration’s degradation of DOJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it." The fact that hundreds felt compelled to say this speaks volumes.

He still had this up *after* the story about the Young Republicans group chat with the Hitler praise was released.

Subject of Investigation: Are some Congressional Republicans Nazis Means of Investigation: look at them Conclusion of Investigation: yeop

If anyone was holding out hope that the younger generation of Republicans could save the party from continuing down the path of white supremacy, hate and fascism, you can stop hoping. My new article on the bombshell reporting today on young GOP hate: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/young-gop-...

NEW: A huge ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” is currently melting away in front of the US Capitol. Organized by artists and activists, it was commissioned by the Up In Arms campaign, an effort led by Ben Cohen, the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

How fashy do you have to be for the Washington Post to refuse to sign your pre-clearance policy? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

We’re seeing a lot of pop-up protests against ICE in the Chicago area, such as this one outside a Home Depot in Evanston, IL, where 2 of our neighbors were taken yesterday.

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

If Nancy Pelosi runs in 2026 you can feel free to assume every bad thing you've heard about her is true. If she cant read the room at this point she deserves all the backlash she will recieve. Just the fact she hasn't announced her retirement at this point is eyebrow raising.

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check. It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

Why wasn't this a bigger story? Odd

Ukraine has just hit the Saki and Belbek airfields in occupied Crimea. #explodey

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

A producer and editor for WGN-TV was violently forced to the ground this morning by two Border Patrol agents, before having her hands cuffed behind her back, during an ICE action in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. Debbie Brockman has worked for the local television station since 2011.

Michigan Avenue right now.

Why aren't people going to restaurants? Because everything is prepared by Sysco systems and all the restaurants are doing is heating up that shit.

5 Alarm Fire, folks. Everything we've been warning about on Democracy-Ish and The Left Hook for months. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

"El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who attended the meeting, said Chicago-born Pope Leo was visibly moved after being handed dozens of letters from immigrants describing their fears of arrest and separation under Trump’s enforcement policies..." www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...

Eric Swallwell (D-CA) says it’s coming to an end and House Republicans are privately breaking, that a “jailbreak” is brewing the moment the Epstein files hit the floor, and that Trump’s aura of fear is finally cracking. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...