Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

"‘What the F**k?’ CBS News Insiders Prepare for Takeover by Self-Described ‘Zionist Fanatic’" Exclusive Zeteo reporting from @premthakker.bsky.social on Bari Weiss and taking over CBS News, as employees worry her new role will bring a pro-Israel bias and more censorship. zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

Stephen Miller said last year this was the plan. They said it out loud. Some of us highlighted his remarks at the time and warned how dangerous they were. Most of the media missed them and/or moved on from them. It’s happening:

So Weiss will remain editor in chief and CEO of The Free Press and editor in chief of CBS News, so they’re not hiding the conflict here? The head of CBS News, supposedly impartial and nonpartisan, will also simultaneously be running a highly partisan site.

“Yet as a public figure, it appeared her newest allies were mostly billionaires”

Republicans would rather keep the government shut down than roll back their cuts that will kick 15 MILLION people off their health care.

On top of ripping away Americans' health care, Donald Trump is using this shutdown to hurt federal workers. Federal workers like this one, who told me her story after being needlessly fired earlier this year, deserve so much better.

Frank Bisignano is already wreaking havoc at the Social Security Administration. If he tries to run his same chaotic playbook at the IRS, it could spell disaster for American taxpayers.

Texas proudly invading Illinois. It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Is it good when federal judges have to schedule Sunday night 10 pm hearings about absurd military invasions of their state.

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

Ohhhh not staying the order is *really interesting*. The tidal shift we're seeing in the past two or three weeks in how much judges are *completely done* with the presumption of regularity and refusing to play Calvinball is fascinating

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if a federal judge has to remind you (multiple times) that you’re a lawyer and an officer of the court?

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

Read this. open.substack.com/pub/jasonint...

And yet Google Maps is allowed to keep telling me that police are ahead

I think folks should prepare themselves for the off chance that there is a different outcome in Chicago than the litigation has yielded thus far in Portland. The facts on the ground, I think, are arguably different enough. But that’ll raise serious Posse Comitatus issues in Chicago. It’s not good.

The Supreme Court just denied Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal with no noted dissents: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

"Never in modern times has the federal government undermined bedrock constitutional protections on this scale or usurped states’ police power by directing federal agents to carry out an illegal mission against the people for the government’s own benefit," asserts the lawsuit.

Brazil’s Digital Agenda is a first step toward tackling concentrated digital markets, writes Paulo Henrique de Oliveira, chief of staff at the Tribunal of CADE, the Brazilian competition authority. The competition bill isn’t a final answer—but it’s the start of building fairer institutions, he says.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Too perfect.

Trump’s efforts to militarize ICE & send federalized Nat'l Guard troops onto American streets, firing government employees during the shutdown, it's all part of Project 2025, which he disavowed all knowledge of during the campaign because it was so unpopular. joycevance.substack.com/p/project-20...

It’s the Sunday Morning Wrap-Up. Read any of the Civil Discourse columns you may have missed last week, with links all in one place for convenience. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The new term of Court starts today. Here’s what I am paying attention to. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Happy first Monday in October to all who celebrate. The Supreme Court is back in session. Here’s what you need to know about key cases this term. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

It would’ve been surprising if they had agreed to hear the case. It presents no novel issues of fact or law & the conviction is clearly due to be affirmed. Trump can pardon her, but she’s not entitled to any legal relief. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

How out of touch can Donald Trump’s top economic adviser be? A 60-year-old couple making $85k/year will have to pay over $22,000 more EVERY YEAR. TWENTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/e...

Trump wants to use a shutdown of Republicans’ own making to keep YOU in the dark about our economy. The September jobs numbers are ready – and Trump must release them. Without them, the Fed is flying blind while making decisions that impact you.

I learned something new: Medicaid is called Dr. Dynasaur in Vermont. Maybe you didn't know that either — or maybe you don't know you're even on Medicaid because it's called something else. Either way, Republicans cut your care, and Democrats are fighting to restore it.

We shouldn't rip away health care from millions of people. We shouldn't take an already broken, creaky health care system and smash it to the ground. But that’s what Republicans are doing. Democrats are working to bring down costs and fix Republicans’ health care crisis.

The White House has the jobs data collected. If Trump has nothing to hide, he should release it today.

Next year, a lot of folks are going to see their premiums go up $1,000 or more per month because of a Republican policy. If you start having to pay $1,000 extra every month, what will you stop being able to afford? This is what Democrats are fighting to stop.

How could the President even be considering a deal that would turn over more of our economy to Xi Jinping? Trump should put a stop to China’s crushing of American farmers already suffering from his tariffs. Instead he's negotiating their surrender.

Because of Republicans' health care cuts, families will be forced to the brink of bankruptcy from one bad medical diagnosis. That's what this shutdown fight is about. Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress own this government shutdown.

Donald Trump is plotting to cut Social Security benefits for older Americans — after he promised during the campaign that he wouldn’t touch Social Security. We must call it out and stop these cuts.

Republicans shut down the government. Here’s what happens now.

Guess how many times Republicans have tried to negotiate with Democrats to save health care? None. Zero. Not once. Republicans would rather shut down the government than lower health care costs.