This story is breaking my heart. And making me so furious.

From Friday's #SCOTUS ruling in the Venezuela TPS case: "Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties’ legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here." One problem: the May ruling didn't *analyze* those arguments/harms:

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

This is important. The GOP can open the government literally today with zero Democrats. Just ditch the filibuster. Go ahead. Why won’t they do it?

It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway. By Alan Rappeport www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

3/ impacting DC’s assumption about who the public is actually backing and whose back is really to the wall.

2/ In other words, we might say archly, the American people our out of touch with the DC consensus. It’s not just a throwaway line to note that those numbers could change. But the discrepancy is pretty glaring. So let’s see whether the two measures come into alignment. Or whether those polls …

Shutdown dramas are dynamic and unpredictable. But here’s something to note. Most DC press is portraying the Dems as having their backs to the wall. But just this morning WaPo released a poll showing that a substantial but no means overwhelming percentage of Americans blame Trump and the GOP.

You'll be shocked to learn New College of Florida is on the brink of implosion just a couple of years after DeSantis engineered an extreme right-wing takeover Fun fact: NCF's new overlords spend $134K per student (!!...the average at other FL publics is $10K) www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

NEW: "Trump and his mooks are taking what you might call the 'cartoon supervillain' shutdown approach." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-sho...

The director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute: "Their words should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that the civilian leadership intends to use the threat and actuality of violence to infringe on Americans’ constitutional rights."

Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh

It's kind of wild that crypto scammers became *the single biggest source of political donations* in the last US election and barely anyone even noticed. These dipshits basically own both parties now and are getting whatever they want and there's been zero (0) public deliberation or debate about it.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Its always Bidens fault. They bear no responsibility for anything going wrong. Quite amazing.

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?

“An MIT Technology Review investigation finds that caste bias is rampant in OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT.”

Kavanaugh stop

The reason for military rules of engagement and adhering to laws of armed combat is not “political correctness,” it’s better strategy, serves long-term national interest, and is a way to make an awful part of the human experience a little less awful, based on lessons learned from centuries of blood.

As the shutdown begins, and partisans scramble to assign blame, Trump is making things worse for himself and his party: - promoting racist videos - erratic threats - failed negotiations - rampant lying - glee over breakdown It's like he's trying to get blamed. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Fix this @apnews.com.

Completely agree on this

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

This is a direct assault on the US norms around civil military relations. It is a direct message that the military leadership either has to join a personalist regime or leave.

Good job Brett

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

We’d be wise to remember Milley resisted Trump’s push to use the military on Jan 6. His later words that Trump is “fascist to the core” should remind today’s generals where their duty lies when forced to choose between the Constitution and their careers. We won’t forget. And neither will history.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

There is no next step in the road to authoritarianism - it's just a matter of implementation. Trump declares war on the "enemy within" and his Secretary of War says the crackdown will be illegal and merciless. That's the whole enchilada right there.

"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

Karoline Leavitt now says the awful shooting of Mormons is "yet another targeted attack on Christians." The shooter appears to be a Trump voter. On the pod, @sarahposner.bsky.social smartly explains how this message is really aimed at Evangelicals for nefarious ends: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

New in PN: Get ready for the next big bailout "What this means is that the farmers will be insulated at least somewhat from the damage Trump’s foolish trade war did to them; in other words, they’ll get a bailout. The rest of us will pay for it. And the economy will get no benefit at all."

NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid

One thing Americans should be able to agree on - no president from *the other party* should have the powers that Trump claims www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u... My comments to the NYT on why Republicans should worry too:

This is such weird GWOT cosplay. What is normal about masked agents with long guns patrolling BY BOAT a major American city!? Authoritarianism amok.

In theory, the federal government has civil service laws, and protections against personnel actions that are driven by partisan reasons. The reality is that massive purges are going on, and lawyers are being targeted because Trump/Miller figured out that is a crucial lever in federal agencies.

A Kavanaugh stop