It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

Two-thirds of National Park Service employees have been furloughed during the ongoing government shutdown, worsening an already severe staffing shortage. With limited personnel remaining, essential maintenance, law enforcement, and visitor services are significantly reduced.

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 I keep saying this!

I want to live in a country in which years from now anyone who was a federal agent carrying out these horrors on human beings will be shunned by decent society including employers. I mean, who could trust such people, socially or professionally. They have proven they will do horrific things.

People are making different financial decisions because of the price of groceries.

Wasn’t there a lot of fraud, though?

This gentleman's takedown of the loathsome piece of shit and his cult of MAGA morons is fucking glorious. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👇

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.

Another successful Rio Fernando cleanup day in #Taos #NewMexico this morning! I really wish we didnt have to do this, but we do. And we always get some great volunteers. Kudos to Amigos Bravos for leading the charge! #nmwx #nmwater #NMTrue.

Like the hard extremes like, say, North Korea, still have outgroups and prison camps and pervasive authoritarianism even long after effectively eliminating their original outgroups

Traditionally authoritarians whose violence against an outgroup makes the outgroup too small to sustain just expand their definition of the outgroup to include new people

Their racism and hate doesn’t allow them to think that far ahead.

I mean, who do they think is going to cook food in restaurants and treat them in hospitals or make society function? Also, what do they think *their* job will be? Most of these folks have made a living demonizing some out group and grifting on that on social media. Who’s the out group then?

So here is my question. Let’s assume Miller & Co. are successful, i.e., they deport, jail, kill, all of the “undesirables.” What do they think society is like then? Like, what happens when they realize there’s still crime, drugs, and no one around to do half the jobs, from manual to skilled labor?1/

Well if that's the case then I will try to entertain ICE with stuff they can put in my dossier like, "ICE is a bunch of doddie heads."

Candle's description on website: "A complex blend of earthy woods, soft spices, and sweet undertones that evokes the feeling of dancing through the candlelit halls of an ancient vampire's castle." [lights candle] Candle's reality: Soap.

Christian nationalist fascism: when they lower masked Gestapo goons from helicopters in the night to smash apartment windows, terrorize residents, and zip-tie and kidnap children for not being white looking enough— and then violate the 1st Amendment by reciting scripture from a government account.

Sen. Kelly: Let me tell you a story about a woman in Arizona I spoke to. She pays $250/month on the ACA on the exchange for her health care but she gets around $9,000 in those premium tax credits. She is expecting that is gonna go away, and she says she will not be able to afford health care anymore

This new shirt from @brittlestar.com arrived the other day and it rocks! (Terrible pun absolutely intended.)

If you drive a 2025/2026 Tesla or still use X, there really isn't an excuse. You really are just an asshole that looks the other way.

Marjorie Greene is an awful person but she has a relentless, loud mouth so I’m good with her attaching her brand to Congressional demands for releasing the Epstein files.

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE] killed an unarmed person just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park...They killed somebody...They are just putting out their propaganda and then we've gotta later determine what actually happened."

Attention: The U.S. is no longer rated a “full democracy” by many indexes. It is often classified as a “flawed democracy” or “electoral democracy with deficits.”

“.. an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, older and disabled people that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Using massive Medicaid and Medicare fraud.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

PEGGY NOONAN: “.. You know why people say something’s wrong with this guy? Because it appears something is wrong with this guy.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

I don’t think that the United States military murdering Venezuelans at sea is getting anywhere near the attention it should

Wise words from Portland.

feeling very vindicated that i have always been pro-Greta, or at least anti-anti-Greta

Business idea: A streaming service that can pull TV listings from newspaper archives and then replicate the sequence of shows from a given day You want to watch all of NBC's primetime block from November 16, 1998, or the exact cartoons you watched on a Saturday morning in 1985? Here you go...

Meiselas: Well, Trump sends Kristi Noem to Chicago, and she claims she really needs to use the bathroom. So, she heads into a city police bathroom but the police are like, “We’re not going to let you poop in our bathroom. Go use another bathroom.” And then Noem turns this into a whole controversy

Far right extremist Zionist Israel is guilty of genocide. Always have been. Always will be. This is an unremovable stain. Millions of protestors worldwide are standing in unison against these atrocities. If the US doesn’t flip 180 and fully abandon Israel, we will be going down with them. 🌍

They’ve turned everyone in Chicago into extras in Stephen Miller’s villainous, unconstitutional, authoritarian fantasy

Naval Academy football head cheerleader is actually a good full time job for him. That is something he actually appears to be qualified for.

Trump Busts In On Hegseth To Warn SNL In Brutal Cold Open: ‘Daddy’s Watching!’ www.mediaite.com/media/entert...

Gather your patriarchy-smashing besties and get on over to @atlanticanticbrooklyn TODAY! We’re armed with free swag, feminist fun, and your chance to say “Hell to the no,” and #StopTheComstockAct.

Taking today off from live-clipping the Sunday shows to celebrate PN's birthday with friends. If you've appreciated my coverage over all these years, now's a great time to support my work by taking advantage of a special anniversary offer for PN subscriptions👇 Thanks!

Hierarchy of Halloween candy: 1. Small boxes of NERDs 2. Reece's minis 3. Any fun sized candy bar 4. Hershey Minis, except the dark chocolate ones. No one likes those 5. Toothpaste.

LOUD & CLEAR 📣 An unexpected visitor outside the Tesla diner last night. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

I’m anti-fascist. Are you? ✋

from this valley, the zenith looks quite high, a difficult climb- rough road ahead, but the flood is coming and staying here is no longer an option #blueskyrelay #poetry

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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I will be live on Rick the Ukrainian’s channel at around 22:00 Eastern European time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R3g...

My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.