“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

This viral post has turned into a column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

"Democratic strongholds" in this militaristic context makes it sound like we're terrorists or insurrections or warlords. I cannot express how angry I am at American journalism for enabling this moment.

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

The joke was that she was willing to overlook bigotry against her personally for the sake of lower taxes, but seriously she was willing to overlook bigotry against her personally for the sake of larger bigotries she supports

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

That chart 📊

This Portland police officer stood up for his community against ICE agents trying to drive into a crowd of protesters. “You WILL be arrested.”

It is so peaceful in Portland that Corporate Media (CNN) posting pictures of 1992 LA riots while pushing their pro-Trump disinformation about need for Confederate soldiers in Democratic cities.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Nice to see ESPN quote our New York Times story today. But the big story here is this sentence: "According to a report from Deloitte earlier this year, revenues are projected to top $1 billion this year." If true, WNBA players are getting 2% of revenue!!! www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. apnews.com/article/chic...

I'm as qualified to run cbs news as bari weiss. (I am not at all qualified to run cbs news.)

Trump is starving American children for fun. Republicans are sick fucks.

Hell yeah. Keep it up. Never buy bourbon again. The Irish and Scottish and Japanese whiskey purveyors have you covered.

delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍

I hope Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and Garland (among others) come to fully recognize how they were our era’s Chamberlains before they leave this earth, since there will never be any real accountability for their gross negligence while they held power.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Just a reminder that Congress could stop this today.

The DA needs to press charges.

this is incredible

Pathetic that the mayor's response to violent ICE thugs is to yield to their illegal violence. Tell the DA to arrest them for attacking protestors! Don't tell protestors they're not allowed to protest because ICE will attack! That's not law enforcement!

Liberals will appease the fascists before allowing you to protect yourself or community from fascist violence. The mayor is doing the fascists job for them by curtailing our first amendment right to protest

GET OFF SUBSTACK

Blue states like California are not powerless. This piece by @clarajeffery.bsky.social makes a compelling case that they should exact retribution against less populous Red states with less cultural sway and economic firepower. Fight the Trump administration through direct harm to its allies.

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus. A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

MoC can shape the media narrative by drafting articles of impeachment and talking publicly about how POTUS’ speech Tuesday furnished proof of the *intent* behind his military occupation of cities; he’s waging war on the United States in violation of the Treason Clause.

We are seeing the risk inherent in dismissing actions as “just theater” all along. This is theater, but there’s no “just” about it. It’s not civil war, but it’s the posturing performance of civil war’s elements (“your troops can’t match our troops”). As such it’s drawing closer to the full deal.

We’re only 9 months into this presidency and he’s already sending troops from red states into blue states while clearly stating his motives are political.

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

Halloween is going to be weird now that there are scary masked people on the streets all year long.

If Trump's deportation machine were an army, it would be the 13th largest on earth, ahead of Poland, Canada, Iran. The funding increase kicked in Oct 1, as federal agents unleash violence on the Chicago area, raiding communities and brutalizing protesters. By me & Lindsay Koshgarian, 📷 Steel Brooks.

And I will die on the hill that she said nothing wrong. It was a comment specifically urging people to not write off all Trump supporters, but the press pushed its own insane version of it.

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data. Including some users passports & DLs Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic. Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo.

In 2020, Oregon sued Tom Dundon’s former company for allegedly preying on Oregonians through high-interest car loans they couldn’t afford in a case involving more than 265,000 borrowers nationwide. With @opb.org

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

They're also admitting that the only reason they like country music is because the genre has chased out POC

That is key — democracy has been eroded & replaced by "everyone is a consumer not a citizen" & "money is all that matters" as the guiding moral frameworks of our time. This is why fash are destroying democracy: it's the mechanism that will eventually stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

A reporter at that notorious leftist rag, The Economist. 👇🏼

Anyway props to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for just flat saying "in times of crisis your supposed protectors reveal themselves as the racist lynch mobs they always were" 57 years ago

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.