This is happening because Republicans in Congress cut off all of their federal funding in July. www.huffpost.com/entry/corpor...

In a statement, Riley says the majority of the CPB staff left the org yesterday. "All local stations will be negatively impacted by this and communities across the country, especially in rural areas, are now losing essential services that only local public television stations can provide."

No more federal $ for local public broadcasting starting today. “For the first time in over 50 years, local public broadcasting stations will not receive federal funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting," says Kate Riley, president and CEO of America’s Public Television Stations.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

After increasing spending to $134,000 per student (!!!) and facing retention problems, the New College of Florida is apparently having discussions about privatization or closure after DeSantis leaves office.

This is going to be a long, messy, and nasty government shutdown. Here is the homepage of hud.gov.

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

Tonight, @staceyabrams.com, the Walter Chair in Race & Black Politics at Howard University, & @profmbj.bsky.social told an audience we’re now under an authoritarian regime. They both outlined ways to combat it. Abrams recently launched 10stepscampign.org, which has tips on actions to take.

If you find it too daunting to read Judge Young's opinion in full, read this excellent summary from @emptywheel.bsky.social. I promise, it is worth your time.

“If you have not experienced the kind of supercharged harassment this environment breeds, count yourself lucky. But don’t count yourself safe.” Thank you @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for this. Will be assigning it to my students to read and discuss in class TODAY. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that? MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

TPM's Morning Memo always delivers important info, inc today More on Sigal Chattah On the same day that a judge ruled that Nevada acting US Attorney Chattah was invalidly appointed, Reuters reported that she had asked the FBI to investigate debunked GOP claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election

The latest data released by ADP on Wednesday shows that employment in the private sector dropped big time last month as the US shed 32,000 jobs from private payrolls. mediacenter.adp.com/2025-10-01-A...

Either you're out of the "being funny about politics" business, or you're in that business with a strict both sides charter. But hitting both sides is not a way to avoid politics. Neither is tousling hair.

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

Because of SCOTUS’s earlier order in this case, AEA-based removals from the Northern District of Texas remain blocked during this rehearing. Here is the order, with a little back-and forth from Judge ho and Southwick, who were on the three-judge panel: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: The full Fifth Circuit will be rehearing the challenge to Trump’s Alien Enemies Act out of the Northern District of Texas known as W.M.M. v. Trump en banc — putting off Supreme Court review. Previous discussion at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/bondi-doj-...

Yes: Directionally right, but underestimated the speed and scale of the collapse. Main error: assuming SCOTUS would defend the law, maintain guardrails.

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration. It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

I’ve expanded my note a bit here with some more info on what SCOTUS did today regarding the Fed and Trump’s thus-far-unsuccessful attempt to fire Lisa Cook. tl;dr: SCOTUS changed nothing, but, in reality, that is doing something.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT LEAVES FED GOVERNOR LISA COOK IN PLACE FOR NOW, DEFERS ACTING ON JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REQUEST TO REMOVE HER IMMEDIATELY

for once, SCOTUS denies Trump

“My jaw dropped when I read it,” says an SBA employee who asked to remain anonymous because they are not authorized to speak to the press. The employee says they worried that if someone actually used the email template, it “would be a blatant violation of the Hatch Act.” Read now:

The email goes on to say that once the shutdown is over, “we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we are providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration.”

SCOOP: At 9:35am on Wednesday, the first morning of the US government shutdown, employees at the Small Business Administration (SBA) received a template from human resources for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.

BASH: Are you okay w/ the military using American cities as 'training grounds'? JOHNSON: I don't know what's being implied by that B: It suggests troops are going to be in cities & use them military training J: That's been very beneficial for the Guard B: So it's ok? J: It's a win-win scenario

“It feels like coerced speech where the government is forcing employees to spread its propaganda in communicating with the public,” says Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social), a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan.

It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.

SCOOP: Federal workers are being told to blame democrats for the shutdown. At SBA workers got an email suggesting they set out-of-office replies blaming Democrats for the shutdown and at HUD internal systems have a pop-up blaming "the Radical Left." @wired.com www.wired.com/story/govern...

NEW: Workers at the SBA got a template from HR suggesting they set out-of-office replies blaming Democrats for the shutdown, which would appear to be a blatant Hatch Act violation; at HUD, even internal systems have a weird pop-up blaming "the Radical Left." @telliotter.bsky.social has the details!

“.. Byrne is singing, playing and moving for nearly every moment of the two-hour-plus set, a feat of endurance and agility that would challenge performers 20 years younger. .. even casual fans will not want to miss it.” 🔥 @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/r...

"The withdrawal comes after CNN’s KFile reported earlier this month that Antoni operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay people, conspiracy theories, and crude insults aimed at critics of Trump."

Wild stuff — nuking a portion of your website because MAGA got mad at you for it. jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-...

This is enriched weapons-grade shade

Russia is militarizing its children at an alarming pace. Happy childhoods are no longer a priority, discipline and military training become key elements of a Russian childhood. Russian propagandist Solovyev openly says that Russian kids will fight after their fathers⤵️

SCOTUS's reasoning on why Trump can fire the boards of every other agency but not the Fed's is going to be something to behold. It will be studied in law schools for centuries when analyzing this SCOTUS's complete estrangement from any semblance of principle.

Goldman looks at how the economy is relying upon the rich continuing to spend money — and how the rich are relying upon stocks continue to rise.

Yesterday Was Not as Bad as You Thought. It was worse. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Millions of Americans will attend "No Kings" rallies across the nation on October 18. (You should go!) But what can protesters reasonably hope to accomplish? I think "No Troops on Our Streets" should be a key demand. www.headsupnews.org/p/no-kings-a...

Nailed it. They're aware of how little control they have of the military and can't figure out how to change that.

NEW: In the lead-up to Trump’s second term, a PA businessman hired Tom Homan as a consultant and said he could put together a group of companies wanting to get in line to win contracts for a massive immigration enforcement plan, sources said.

"Records of internal meetings obtained by ProPublica showed that over the summer Homan was in conversation with industry executives about the government’s contracting plans."

Pete Hegseth Is Living the Dream A man who retired as a major lectures hundreds of generals about the need to meet his standards. By Eliot A. Cohen Gift article www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Pete Hegseth Is Living the Dream A man who retired as a major lectures hundreds of generals about the need to meet his standards. By Eliot A. Cohen

Hegseth Lectures "Fat Generals" and Trump Threatens War Against U.S. Cities youtu.be/hlS5um3WJqg

A tiny Pete Hegseth preaches to America's military giants www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...

And the crowd goes MILD for Pete Hegseth. 🦗🦗🦗😬

Ever give a speech so bad The NYT runs a callout asking generals and admirals if they’re quitting? Pete Hegseth has.