If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

Pam Bondi is supposed to be a public servant. The performance at today's hearing - an utterly horrific display - indicates she is fully comfortable letting taxpayers know: she is Trump's lawyer, not America's. Zero shame and zero checks by Republicans: www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bo...

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

Elon Musk once said he would pursue former Twitter execs to the ends of the earth. Instead, he just settled their $128 million lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Well that's not how appropriations work at all *WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

Shot ---> chaser

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS CONSIDERING CANCELLING AN ADDITIONAL $12 BILLION IN FUNDING FOR CLEAN ENERGY PROJECTS BEYOND - REPORTS

Tyson, Cargill to pay $88 million to consumers in beef price-fixing lawsuit reut.rs/3KwLmAq

Bondi refuses to answer questions about allegations Trump's border czar Tom Homan took $50K in cash in exchange for his promise to funnel government contracts to "businessmen" who turned out to be FBI agents in 2024. After Bondi became AG, the investigation was terminated.

“My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.” - 2/6/25 9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times

One of the cooling towers at the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant in Russia was struck. The operator, Rosenergoatom, claims a Ukrainian drone was forced off course by electronic warfare systems. The so-called 'jamming towers'.

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

Someone should ask what Miller was doing between 2021 and 2025, why David Horowitz recruited him to the foreign policy team of the Trump campaign, why the Democrats never followed through on their 2017 investigation of alleged lies on Miller's SF-86 clearance forms, but no one asks real questions

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

Chinese national Xinyue Lou is on trial this week, facing criminal charges for conspiracy after being accused of illegally funneling money to President Donald Trump for his 2020 re-election bid.

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

WTO: Full impact of Trump tariffs may hit next year

“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”

One guest, a retired major general, was asked about Hegseth's dismissal of the rules of engagement. He answered: "The words the president and secretary of defense are those of potential war criminals."

The president does not have this power. He’s acting unconstitutionally to commit crimes against humanity— murder on the high seas. Lest it be forgotten, the president may be immune re: official acts (assuming these are), but subordinates committing extrajudicial executions are not so entitled.

“.. it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

The headline every day should be that across the nation, across every district of voters, across all wings of the party, there aren’t even a *dozen* elected Republicans who oppose any of this.

✈️ NATO again scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian planes over the Baltics — three times in a week, - LRT Su-30, Su-35, MiG-31 fighter jets, as well as An-12 and An-72 aircraft, were spotted in the skies over the Baltic Sea, heading from mainland Russia to the Kaliningrad region.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

Hamilton has asked for a week to respond to the complaint. Perry asks if Hamilton would be willing to hold off a week on troop deployment. Hamilton: "I am not able to represent that we will do that."

Perry asks Hamilton if, once the troops are here, they could be deployed anywhere in the Northern District of Illinois. He says he can't say. Perry asks who they will be answering to. Hamilton ultimately says "to the president."

- because of who he is, in part because of his background in consultancy, and in part because his massive ambition continues to outweigh his experience. He is not unique in any of this, nor is he a particular threat.

Buttigieg is a talented politician who is not going to be president. He differs very little from the so-called mainstream Democrat of today, who is miles further to the left than the mainstream of 4-6 years ago. Despite his talent the calculation always shows a bit too much, I think in part -

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

The escalating grey-zone conflict between the West and Russia is being contested on the sea as well as in the air. A rise in worrying maritime incidents is forcing NATO to step up econ.st/3ILHiM8 Photo: Reuters

I think substantively Dem approach should be no support for reopening without guarantees on ending impoundment. But I think rhetorically they should say Republicans are shutting down the government to prevent the vote to release the Epstein Files.

Virginia Giuffre's family reacts to SCOTUS denying Ghislaine Maxwell's petition: "We are committed to ensuring that convicted child sex trafficker Maxwell serves out the entirety of her 20-year sentence in prison, where she belongs." Full statement below

Never in Social Security’s 90-year history has a commissioner held a second job. But it always takes less time and effort to destroy something than to build and maintain it. The Trump administration is allowing Social Security to rot through sabotage and neglect.

New: An ambitious plan aims to restore imperiled sea otters to their historic range on the US West Coast. The playful predators are climate warriors, reviving coastal ecosystems and keeping healthy carbon-sequestering kelp forests that nurture fisheries. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

(this is a survey of legal experts including "former attorneys general, solicitors general and their deputies in the Justice Department and White House counsels, as well as former U.S. attorneys and retired federal judges from across the country")

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

Giving themselves completely made up titles to avoid Senate confirmation in a legislative body controlled by their own party.

OPENAI’S BROCKMAN WARNS THAT THE WORLD IS UNDERESTIMATING THE SHORTAGE OF COMPUTING POWER

Reminder to the Supreme Court as they start a new term: Presidents are not kings and should not be treated as such

Ex-NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was stabbed during an altercation with a truck driver in Indianapolis, which resulted in criminal charges against the Fox Sports analyst, according to court records.

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS "A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

US Treasury's Bessent to remain as IRS commissioner, CNBC reports reut.rs/4nzlLoT

Last week Jesse Watters spoke to man named Eric who claimed he was formerly a member of antifa. Two years ago Watters interviewed Ramon "Mundo" Mendoza, a former Mexican Mafia member. Some folks thought the men looked similar. This is a side by side comparison. 🤷‍♀️

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

ok so what are we calling this look