Folks: I am not on TikTok. Any account there is not me. And I will NEVER ask for money!

In an irony she has not overlooked, Overgaard says she's more likely now to take shows from NPR and other outside producers to fill the holes. "It costs more money to create local programming than it does to purchase national programming,"

so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?

If you allow a government to break the law because of an “emergency”, it will create an emergency to break the law.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

“This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation.”

“I just spoke with the president about this, and he has directed his team here at the White House to begin reviewing aid that can potentially be cut in Portland,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “We will not fund states that allow anarchy.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/a... When Johnson suggested in his interview with Noem that the N.F.L. was sending a message to the Trump administration by choosing Bad Bunny to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, Noem replied, “They suck and we’ll win and God will bless us.”

“Hegseth has a thing against women in the military. He always has, and that’s why he’s pushing this narrative.” @amymcgrath.bsky.social on Defense Secretary Hegseth’s false claim that military standards had been lowered to accommodate minorities and women.

Russell Vought, Trump's shutdown hero, lives in a neighborhood where "everyone knows someone who lost their jobs." . @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social talked with a few of them about the shutdown www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

apartments were ransacked, women and children were taken out in zip ties…and some of these children were naked. Some were taken away in unmarked cars. Some were held for hours and then released…When confronted about their actions toward the children, one laughing agent …said, “Fuck them kids.”

No Supreme Court…has ever been constructed the way the Roberts court has—with the help of…secret money,”…Each…was selected…because they were believed to be dependable votes for a revolution in the law—one Leo…knew could be accomplished only by keeping Americans in the dark about their views.”

What I Learned From My Days www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o... Rather than speak up, a lot of Silicon Valley denizens…are buying citizenship in New Zealand or Portugal. When conversation turns to passport shopping…I think about…how I convinced my Russian friends to escape to the United States.

Nutrition Program for Mothers and Infants May Run Out of Money Within Weeks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u... 41 percent of all infants born in the US participate…which…provides benefits averaging $64 monthly…W.I.C….its funding is subject to the annual appropriations process and thus more at risk

Posobiec is very concerned about voter fraud. An influential MAGA voice and prominent conspiracy theorist, he’s perhaps best known for amplifying the 2016 “Pizzagate”…has loudly espoused a range of debunked conspiracy theories. That includes the GOP theory …[re]millions of fraudulent votes.

Casey Desantis’s charity that got $10 million redirected from a Medicaid fraud settlement the state entered into directly into its bank account rather than the FL treasury.

Jack Ciattarelli wants to be governor of parts of New Jersey

The Free Press, becoming a symbol for right-wingers…Weiss’s The Free Press notably recently made headlines for a repugnant, cruel attempt at a “gotcha” article claiming that viral images of gaunt, malnourished Palestinian children in Gaza should actually be disregarded as pro-Hamas propaganda

www.military.com/daily-news/2... They’re letting a lot of experienced judges go…and yet…claim that there’s a shortage so they need to have these military JAG officers step in and take over,” …the administration is not requiring experience as an administrative law judge or in immigration law

With the US military's new shaving crusade, Pete Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops

From his mad ravings to the generals meeting yesterday (transcribed in @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter this morning). This kind of shit is what they're trying to hide:

expert ratings declined significantly in the following areas: toleration of peaceful protest (from 49% in April 2025 to 38% in September 2025), not using government agencies to punish political opponents (from 15% to 7%), and unbiased election district boundaries (from 8% to 3%).

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

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Here are three more factual statements: 1. 25,000 of Mike Johnson's constituents are about to lose health care 2. 27,000 more are about to have their premiums skyrocket. 3. A 60 year old couple in his district would pay $19,000 more a year.

More Losing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u... administration has rounded up people, including some U.S. citizens, with no history of violence in its sweeps. D.H.S. officials acknowledged that four children who are U.S. citizens were taken into custody amid the operation at the apartment complex on Tuesday…

Democratic congresswoman Rep. Dean confronts GOP Speaker Johnson over Trump AI video: ‘It’s racist. You should call it out’ | www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

[chatbot] is not going to report…that you’ve looked at yourself and determined that you are a very bad idea.”No…I won’t…send up a flare to warn the world that I’ve glimpsed something rotten at the root. That’s not in my power. You’re not talking to the driver—you’re talking to the steering wheel.”

WIRED: Federal employees “received a template from human resources for their suggested ‘out of office’ email. They were advised to blame the Democrats ..” @wired.com #Shutdown 🇺🇸 www.wired.com/story/govern...

Q: When he tried to hand you that Trump 2028 hat, what was your reaction? JEFFRIES: They just randomly appeared in the middle of the meeting on the desk. It was the strangest thing ever. I just looked at the hat, looked at JD Vance & said, 'Don't you got a problem with this?' He said, 'No comment.'

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump: SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346% Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... So funny!

“You kill people and break things for a living” is one of the most insane sentences I’ve ever heard

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h... Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h... officials also announced they will create a new website, TrumpRx, where Americans will be able to use their own money to buy drugs directly from manufacturers, while sidestepping health insurance. The website…will go online next year

And of course we all know that the "no beards" rule is aimed at getting as many black men out of the ranks as possible. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

“ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence." A Reagan-appointed judge just wrote a blistering anti-Trump decision, calling the president’s crackdown on civil liberties un-American.

About a fifth of American adults say they get their news primarily from TikTok. Now Donald Trump is putting the wildly popular app in the hands of his allies. “If I could, I’d make it 100 percent MAGA-related,” he said.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u... Describing the question…as “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court,” Judge…released a scathing rebuke of…Trump, whose administration…had worked outside the law to curtail First Amendment protections for noncitizens.

The Mayo Clinic estimates that 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. Nonetheless, Sasha was arrested and jailed for the improper disposal of hers. A local abortion fund that had heard about the arrest on the news provided Sasha’s $10,000 bail.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u... retired Army Maj. General Paul D. Eaton, [said] “Pete Hegseth spent millions to fly in all of our generals and admirals to rant about facial hair and brag about how many pull-ups he can do, and have Donald Trump sleepwalk through a list of partisan gripes.”

forward.com/news/772504/... the video defines anti-Zionism as “the opposition to the Jewish right of self-determination.” The speaker adds that “anti-Zionism also takes many forms, most of which are antisemitic because they work against Jewish human rights.”

She Was Fired for a Comment on Her Private Facebook Account www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u... posted on Facebook…”If you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can’t be friends.” Her Facebook settings were private, but one of her followers must have…sent it on without her knowledge

The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u... At the heart of Vought’s plan…is the intentional engineering of a legal battle over Congress’s power to decide how…money is spent, potentially creating a new legal precedent for the president to block spending

"The Trump administration will launch a program to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients... "It will affect patients in AZ, OH, OK, NJ, TX, and WA starting January 1..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Sen. Warnock called Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program “the real waste, fraud, and abuse.” “This report shows that Pathways is incredibly effective at barring working people from health coverage and making corporate consultants richer.”

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"