I imagine if flight 93 had made it to the whitehouse on 9-11, the devastation would have looked something like this.

I'm in Chile and everyone here who still has PSTD from watching people getting stuffed into trucks by the military during the Pinochet era is like, there no way in hell I'm going to the U.S. even for 5 minutes.

Also Oct. 21, the local Head Start notified parents they would be closing Oct. 31. They don’t have the federal funding to continue. This is on top of the state cutting daycare vouchers because of federal cuts.

Hopefully some fissures are beginning to show….

Ahhh yes, nothing says America First quite like, homelessness, furlough employees going without pay, farmers struggling and every day American families barely affording to pay rent or eat; than Kristi Noem’s two shiny new jets for a cool $172 million 👇🏾

You know it’s bad when this is like the 4th or 5th worst Republican scandal of the day.

When their chickens come home to roost…

Today, millions of Americans sent a message to the Trump regime. We are not scared. We will keep fighting. We will organize, we will mobilize, and we will resist—over and over again—until this corrupt wannabe authoritarian regime is removed from power. Because in America, we have No Kings.

There are only 1,490 people in Shepherdstown, WV. That is the entire town protesting as cars drove through it.

seriously, people do not understand just how much we subsidize the existence of rural America remember when people criticized USAID for making up huge chunks of poor countries' government budgets? anyways: wvpolicy.org/federal-fund...

The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

"American civil society has more than enough financial and organizational muscle to stop this authoritarian offensive. But it requires collective resolve. And it requires leadership, which has been in painfully short supply." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

In which Harvard’s Enos & Levitsky call on Harvard to lead the way, coordinating with other universities in fight for academic freedom. Our civil institutions will need to learn that power is harnessed through coordination. Protecting oneself will never be enough. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

California is the manufacturing capital of America, period. We create more jobs, produce more goods, and drive more innovation than anywhere else in the country — because what gets built in California shapes the future and powers the U.S. economy.

ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations. The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel). "The party of small government,” folks.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

We are now getting very close to him committing Treason. Saying that you are going to end rule of law in America if a judge does not rule your way is a threat against the U.S. as serious as any foreign incursion—and indeed would be considerably more ruinous to the nation he swore an oath to protect.

Narrator: This is fascism.

ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on Chicago’s South Side They are creating chaos www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Dean: The president is unhinged Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn’t see it. Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Everyone knew about Sean “Diddy” Combs. Everyone knew about R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and Jeffrey Epstein. Everyone knew about Donald Trump. I’m so tired of people protecting rich perverts, keeping their dark secrets for decades. So damn tired.

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This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

EPSTEIN FILES: @aoc.bsky.social explains why Republicans won’t bring the U.S. House back into session 👇

"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said." www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

REPORTER: US law already prohibits giving healthcare to illegal immigrants LEAVITT: Are you denying that Medicaid money has never gone to illegal aliens?

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

It was a perversion of the US military and all it used to stand for.

Can't stop. Won't stop. RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Had Donald Trump been asked anything about his spiritual adviser Robert Morris being sentenced to 6 months in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl? Has MAGA said anything?

This is the guy scolding U.S. generals about beards, dress codes, and decency.

The awesome video team at the New York Times helped me make this video about the shutdown and Obamacare premiums.

🎯 @repdean.bsky.social is right, and @SpeakerJohnson knows it. What is it called when everyone in a group is too afraid to criticize the leader for something they know is objectively wrong?

That’s right. Lisa Cook belongs on the Fed and the Supreme Court must uphold the law. abcnews.link/iBM3aTg

Why are Ted Cruz and John Cornyn fighting to raise Texans’ health care costs?

Ted Cruz wants us to stop attacking pedophiles. Read that again. Whoa!

Let’s be clear: Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans forced a government shutdown tonight. Rather than address the health care crisis that they created just earlier this year, they refuse to come to the table and do their jobs. What happened to the art of the deal?

open.substack.com/pub/thewestp.... Republicans have jumped the shark. Trump commits so many impeachable offenses that #Epstein is buried under the weight of all of his impeachable offenses. The guy raped kids, and it is just one of many crimes.

We love Gorgeous Gavin

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.