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Did Hannity finally splurge on neck reduction surgery? Hawt.

'My office is open!' AOC dares Republicans to pay her a visit as they push shutdown theory

Zelenskyy sounds alarm over unprecedented power outage at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

oh my

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

If you were in the room during Hegseth and Trump's speech, and you'd like to share your response anonymously, reach out to me on Signal (in bio.) Share widely.

October 18, 2025. Bring flowers. Sing songs. Flood the streets. Nonviolent resistance is the best path forward.

"And Klein just. Didn’t. Get. It. His argument was, 'But we have to win.' And I’m like, 'Who the fuck is we, Ezra?' Because I’m not now and will never be on the side that negotiates away basic human rights. Even if that means I’m in a party of one." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.

President Donald Trump has steamrolled Washington this year with few checks on his authority — until now. Senate Democrats, incensed by unilateral actions made by Trump, his cabinet and especially his budget chief, are making a stand. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

JUST IN: Democracy Forward and federal labor unions are suing to block the threat of mass firings during the shutdown, saying they're an abuse of OMB Director Russ Vought's authority. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump threatens to permanently cut jobs and people’s health care if a shutdown happens, making it clear only Democrats would actually care — then lies about “fraud/waste/abuse” Tough to negotiate with people who don’t actually care about the people they’re governing

If Hegseth wants to implement the ultimate warrior ethos he'll allow servicemembers to challenge him to a fight for his job.

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Republicans don’t need a single Dem vote to keep the government open. Yet here is the banner at HUD today.

that's the story, folks

Trump is covering up the Epstein files and the government shutdown should prove that fact. This seems to be the play many Democrats are making. Good.

Trump opens with a threat to the generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent … Have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud ... If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose."

The government is in the verge of shutting down due to the failure of the party in control of the WH & both houses of Congress, but Trump is headed to the patriarchy-fest “War Sec’y” Hegseth is holding today for a photo op instead of working for Americans.

Hegseth fat shames troops:

Trump's message to his own base is not your gettable audience here, and if they're not gettable, they're irrelevant. But they're also not a majority! His approval ratings are terrible! He's not popular and the people who do like him and will buy his attacks on you are not the entire electorate.

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

Of course Trump, the GOP, and their media sock puppets will attack the Dems! There's no scenario on the table where they don't! Oh they voted for cloture on a spending bill, I guess they're not evil radical leftists we have to apocalyptically crush and censor after all, let's play nice now? Come on.

Look I don't know any of these guys but I can't say I share the surprise that Louie C.K. or Chappelle signed up

"America is trying to survive a 12-alarm fire. The only ones with the tools to extinguish it are the Republican perpetrators. And they don't intend to do anything but stoke the flames." My latest, on Democratic travails and leaders ill-suited to the moment. @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

this is why you can’t give an inch to transphobes. they are driven by hate and no amount of kindness will make them even momentarily soften. it is a militant ideology.

Friendly reminder to all media this week: The GOP controls both houses of Congress. They can keep the government open with their own votes. It’s their own fecklessness and chaos that REQUIRES Dems to vote for this budget.

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

Why does David Brooks still have a job at the @nytimes.com ? Day 3. @sulliview.bsky.social

An iconic moment in Trump 2.0….

Please stop asking Donald Trump to please be reasonable. He is out to destroy you not cut a deal with you.

Every 6th word should be Epstein. It's all a distraction from Epstein. Comey, Tylenol, Portland are not Epstein. Amelia Earhart is especially not Epstein. It's all a distraction from Epstein. Release all the files on Epstein. Thanks for your attention to Epstein.

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

Every accusation ....

As bad as the ICE attack on these protesters was Just imagine what might happen in Portland With Donald Trump authorizing the National Guard to use “full force”

I know we’re supposed to be Past That, Marge, but it really is astonishing that Trump—through a weird combination of total shamelessness on his part and sneaking regard on theirs—has largely gotten to the media to treat him in a way that applies to literally no-one else in American public life.

If it turns out our best experts and detailed reporting strongly indicate Portland is not in fact “war ravaged” can we get an Analysis™ of why the President gets to say this sort of thing without much in they way of direct reporting to the effect that he is spouting nonsense in a worrying manner?

This is about as good a statement as I'd expect right now from a governor. What's left unsaid, however, is what the plan is when peacefully "documenting" events proves ineffective. Eventually, probably soon, some governor will need to use force to protect residents from lawless federal authorities.

Is the Trump administration going to arrest Newsom's press team?

Portland. Another distraction. For the Epsteinth time.

Now is the time for churches, synagogues, mosques, and Meeting houses to be out and visible at protests. In Portland and everywhere.

Last word about the massacre to American Horse (Lakota): "The women as they were fleeing with their babes were killed together, shot right through, and the women who were heavy with child were also killed." /fin

Dakota physician Charles Eastman was an eyewitness to the massacre: "Fully three miles from the scene of the massacre we found the body of a woman . . .and from this point on we found them scattered along as they had been relentlessly hunted down and slaughtered, while fleeing for their lives." 3/

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

US forces surrounded a community of Lakotas along Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 and used the new invention of rapid-firing Hotchkiss cannons to kill large numbers of the population. Soldiers than pursued the survivors for miles, killing them wherever they were found. 2/

The thing is the press isn't yet approaching the Republicans in congress as if Trump is their problem to do something about yet, so they get away with pretending all of this is normal.