while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Trump is threatening the safety of my colleagues for trying to uphold the rule of law and obey the Constitution.

An asylum-seeker wrongfully deported to CECOT then repatriated to Venezuela may have succumbed to the violence he was fleeing, a federal judge says in a newly unsealed opinion that declines to hold the Trump admin in contempt of court for violating her orders talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I don't think legacy media is reading the room correctly on the Epstein Files. Many of us are asking why they have ignored this story for the last decade? Why did they dismiss all of us who were concerned that Trump might be compromised? And where is their fucking contrition and apology now?

About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.

So Trump says he has to “bring in” foreign talent because American workers don’t have it. I also notice he says “No YOU don’t have it, instead of WE, Americas President is a literal foreign agent

The U.S. has just emerged from the longest government shutdown in its history — a period of deep uncertainty that put science, safety, and resilience at risk. 🧵

AGU is calling on Congress to finish full-year appropriations for science agencies—and we need your voice. 📢 Read more from our president, Brandon Jones, who reminds us that together, we can keep science standing strong: buff.ly/prxry8C #ScienceIsEssential #AGUAdvocacy #SupportScience

A real president does this. Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

So there were, y’know…edits?

Democrats must not cave to Trump now. We cannot allow health care premiums to double, 15 million to lose their health insurance and Trump’s authoritarianism to accelerate. To surrender now would be a historic tragedy for our country, something history won’t look kindly upon.

This week's @nature.com cover highlights a report of A.I.- mediated distortion When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41...

Hideous flooding in Vietnam, where five feet of rain in 24 hours nears world-record Life and death on an overheated planet www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump administration has already canceled or threatened to cancel billions of dollars of previously approved federal spending and now wants to go after even more funding during the government shutdown. https://to.pbs.org/48QCYpy

"On Thursday morning, Trump signed one of his most scandalous pardons to date. On Thursday afternoon, he couldn’t explain his actions from hours earlier..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The American people are enraged. Enraged while walking through their neighborhoods and watching on their screens seeing all the ways Trump is abusing power to empower, enrich, and protect himself while the rest of us suffer.

Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include: -Amazon -Apple -Coinbase -Lockheed Martin -Google -Meta -Microsoft -Palantir -Tobacco companies -The Adelson family Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

"At this moment in time, of course, the release of the TRUMPSTEIN Files is really the public's main priority."

when all this is over we need to have a pretty serious conversation about the utter moral failure of the elite of this country

$170B for ICE and Border Patrol $40B for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $98M for Trump's golf outings But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

> @newyorker.com

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

“.. what unfolded that night was an ordeal .. that left residents .. terror-stricken and humiliated. “.. I don’t understand how they decided who they can do that to,” Mr. Polk said. “They didn’t treat people like they were American.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

Bernie Sanders: My fellow Americans, we rejected the divine right of kings in the 1770s. We will not accept the divine right of oligarchs today.

#NYC #NoKings 👑

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet. They make sure we have clean water. They protect us from financial fraud. They provide healthcare to our communities. They make our government actually work for people. Do not forget this.

Today is a beautiful day for Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva.

Most of Dem Senators did not attack Bondi yesterday as they should have. Among other things they should have said, "You're lying again, Ms. Bondi" and "That's a bald-faced lie, Ms. Bondi." The rapid rise of authoritarianism is no place for etiquette.

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square. Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files. Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

Premium increases notices will soon arrive in the mailboxes of Americans all over the US. The average increase? 114%. For some, the numbers are even higher: A couple making $129,000 with two adult children at home in Savannah, GA, will pay $3,150 more per month for insurance.

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

What's happening in Chicago is not normal. The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.