The deal to reopen the government didn't include ACA subsidies but it included giving Lindsey Graham the right to sue the government (read taxpayers) for $500,000. Graham opposed the subsidies & plans to sue for that $500k. Classic Lindsey Graham. SC can do better with @drannieandrews.com

Oh.

This provision by itself is reason enough for the 8 democratic senators to not vote for this bill in the first place. And foreshadows any vote they think they are going to get on ACA subsidies before even considering the poison pills that any future legislation will contain.

It's not about winning wars you asshole. It's about remembering and honouring those who fought and died for democracy against fascism. Fascism you have brought to the United States. F*ck off! #cdnpoli

Sharaa's actual job in al-Qaeda in Iraq was overseeing suicide bomb manufacturing. Amazing career progression.

Among those fired or forced out, the WSJ has reported: Fannie Mae’s chief ethics officer and general counsel, about a dozen members of its ethics and internal investigations unit, and the acting inspector general at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae.

Aurora SW of Chicago.

Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?

By sending us $2,000 to give to billionaire insurance CEOs, and by tripling the interest we pay to mortgage companies while he continues to limit what we can write off, he's effectively looting the treasury and using us a mules to launder the stolen money; funneling it to the wealthy.

Just as I predicted. We just had our first snow. Soon there won’t be any lawn work, so there won’t be Latino men doing low-wage work standing outside that they can find by chopper & drone & direct Border Patrol from the air to the right house to kidnap men for gardening while brown.

It’s a sign of the times that the only Americans who will be able to obtain damages for constitutional violations are these corrupt Senators whose rights weren’t violated at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

Eliminating trust in source material outside state sponsored propaganda is a key objective of this republican administration’s destruction of our country. This guide helps you sort through the bullshit. Doing this is a necessary step to resist becoming a lemming. Be a participant not an observer.

New: On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command." www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

If you frame this as a Sophie’s choice problem you should know that forcing the abuser to make the choice is the only acceptable outcome.

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

all the state workers that got those payments out as fast as they could should be getting free drinks forever.

Like many Americans, Scott Adams had insurance problems. But unlike most people he has powerful friends on social media, and when he asked President Trump for help, he got the cancer drug he needed.

Even the idea of a lifetime debt is pure insanity

This scorching obit of James Watson features a narrative & cast still referenced by modern eugenicists—quite eerie His obsession with challenging “the establishment” meant he couldn’t stop blowing up his own legacy What a warning it should be to all today’s goons www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

Trump selling out Ukraine to help another Russian puppet. Note also in the article from Reuters the visa waiver for continued infiltration of the US by authoritarian friendly migrants. The Republican congress is holding our republic hostage for these tyrants. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Automated calipers are, of course, big tech's end game.

even now antifa is emboldened and arming themselves

In Trump’s second term, the need for congressional action against corruption has never been clearer. Our latest report offers recommendations for strengthening the vital anti-corruption safeguards in the Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses: bit.ly/3XdgCaq

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

Allah bless that “radical” Muslim!🙏🏻

“The Democratic Party is back?” No, Mr Minority Leader, DEMOCRATIC VOTERS ARE PISSED OFF. That’s the lesson from yesterday. Dem voters, not the Dem Party, carried the day yesterday. And it’s been this way since Trump won. Dem voters understand this moment. The Party doesn’t.

A big thank you to our poll workers and election judges for your commitment to democracy. Minnesota’s elections are safe, free, and fair because of you.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto was worth the $325M even if his arm falls off tomorrow. Two titles they definitely wouldn’t have won without him. Four hard earned World Series wins in four appearances. HOW open.substack.com/pub/mollykni...

We've got you 👍

“What immigration enforcement looks like now is not just arrests. It’s public intimidation.” Must read by Chicago journalists @royalpratt.bsky.social & @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social on how Bovino & the border patrol are taking over from ICE with 'cameras rolling' & reckless racial profiling.

Sort of. The Marine Corps activated 4th LAAD as a provisional security unit in 2004 for OIF. From that experience they recognized the need for a law enforcement mission to support MAGTF operations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Low...

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

AOC is literally never EVER referenced by anybody, even Bernie, as working class or blue collar. Ever.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Sat down with Ed Bogan, a 24-year veteran of CIA and (maybe) former acting CoS Kyiv to discuss his and his aunt’s trip to Uzhhorod, the war, America’s role in it, and states of exception: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

BREAKING: The Pentagon has cleared the transfer of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, leaving the final call to Trump. Despite initial approval, Trump held back after a call with Putin, citing concerns over US needs and Russia relations. The missiles remain on standby, awaiting green light.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from Kyiv. Filmed this for you today. If you’re wondering whether we celebrate it – I wrote about our traditions in the latest Sunday Letter (pinned post).

"I have never seen a set of pretrial motions quite like this one in its power and breadth and its attempt comprehensively to dismember the legitimacy of, process behind, and substance of an indictment." @BenjaminWittes.lawfaremedia.org summarizes Comey's recent motions to dismiss the indictment.

As Marcy notes, @seamushughes.bsky.social is doing such critically important work. Here, folks should read Judge Rodriguez's opinion (to which Marcy links) for themselves. It's a chilling account of what's become standard practice in ICE arrests these days—from a district judge who is no firebrand.

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice" -22nd Amendment "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States" -12th Amendment

This is pretty funny and is clearly labeled as AI.

This is a phenomenal read and captures the meaning of “regular forces” accurately.

Color me unsurprised that the war on terror tactics we used abroad are now being used by the panopticon state domestically. www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)