Abir Alsahlani Member of The European Parliament Iraqi origin, Swedish by choice, European by heart ❤️

Rest in peace, Jane.

Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved. Trump today:

Jeffries: "Trump and the Republicans spent all year last year promising they were gonna lower the high cost of living. They also spent all of last year running away from Project 2025 ... now all of the sudden, Donald Trump admits it was his project all along. He just did it earlier today."

Priorities.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.

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Zero. That’s how many school shootings, church attacks, or political violence came from undocumented migrants. The real killers are homegrown, radicalized, and armed with NRA blood money. Yet we spend 3x more on ICE than FBI, ATF & DEA combined. Make it make sense.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Erasing history.

It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress. Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights. But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

This is true.

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

Happy ~6th Birthday to Charlie! You've come a long way in 2 years buddy!

Why are they unable to sell the harvest, Senator?

Brutal.

🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Kimmel’s forever ban lasted 0.30 Scaramuccis.

Robin Trower is playing the Dallas HOB next month - no seats, just GA and those are $200 each. My concert days may be over. www.sfgate.com/culture-even...

Ummm, can you give us an example Steve?

What is it about these chef memoirs that draws me in so deeply? I loved Kitchen Confidential by Bourdain, and this one I think I loved even more. Not sure how Hamilton is regarded as a chef, but this personal story is well worth it. Highly recommended.

“Check the tariff shelf” 🙃 Imagine not being able to tell that this is a complete fabrication. As he gaslights struggling farmers.

If you aren't keeping an eye on Broadview, you should be

also they look cute

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

Mornings are strange these days. The sedative haze of sleep slowly begins to lift, and my conscious mind starts taking inventory and assembling the data and reporting back its initial findings: I’m in bed… I’m awake… I’m alive… It’s Thursday… johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-hate-wak...

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Generational grift.

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

🚨 This scene comes to us from Iowa. The man recording this atrocious attack on an innocent man makes it clear that he is a combat veteran, and explains that he is going to video their crimes and he is not to be touched: “I will knock you the fuck out.” 1/2

I don’t think I’ve ever loved anything as much as ICE loves violently attacking women.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” –James Baldwin © 2006 William Koechling

trump's DOJ barely has the lawyers to go to court for him-Oh wait-that's the plan-to have too many court cases in line to literally stall them all. @marcelias.bsky.social www.rawstory.com/trump-267403...

I call bullshit. They are just making shit up now and while we are at it there are legitimate questions about Tyler Robinson now as well. Starting with he didn't have a rifle when he went up the stairs to the roof and he didn't have one when he jumped off the roof.

Because being as big of a dick as you can be is a proven way to diplomatic success. At least the clown car of idiots we have running our country think so. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

Crockett on Homan: For instance, when you are talking about solicitation, and it has to do with, say, prostitution, it's not a matter of whether or not the prostitution took place. The solicitation is complete. Once you actually engage in the agreement, that is enough for solicitation.