'Terrifying Escalation' as Trump's Federal Troops Bring War-Like Scenes and Chaos to Chicago www.commondreams.org/news/chicago...

Federal Workers Score Major Win as Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump From Firing Them www.commondreams.org/news/judge-b...

'So Much for America First': Trump Admin Says Argentina Bailout Doubling to $40 Billion www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

The Hatch Act? Wassat? Who cares? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

CITIES: ban ICE raids - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/fo...

New video: how the conspiracy machine generates new stuff: youtu.be/0FfuEJFKlVQ?...

Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto just threw the first complete game in the postseason in eight years. The last one: Justin Verlander on this very day in 2017 in Game 2 of the ALCS. After a leadoff home run, Yamamoto was near-perfect, and the Dodgers now lead the NLCS, 2-0.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The New Jersey governor’s race offers a litmus test on the impact of the first nine months of the Trump administration. In this installment of The Choice, Times Opinion brought together 11 local leaders to assess the candidates and their ability to head up the state.

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

This is what happens when your country is run by incompetent knuckleheads.

Andrew Cuomo has lost the Italian Jewish vote

We are living in the age of monsters, @joshtpm.bsky.social writes: "They are so much more powerful than ordinary people, mostly but not in every case because of wealth, that they distort the whole fabric of society and politics." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-a...

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days. Epstein Shutdown.

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

Mass murder.

STEPHEN MILLER

Russ Vought estimates more than 10k federal workers would be fired as a result of the shutdown. His statement comes as a judge blocks the administration from laying off federal workers during the shutdown.

The Peacemaker alternative universe where Nazis took over America is the goal for a lot of these people

GOLLUM BONDI

NOW, it's out in the open: WHITE NATIONALISM for USA. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela (Guess it's not that covert.) See below www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Mass murder.

UGH! When will it end. 😭 "Effective October 15, 2025, due to non-renewed funding, NSIDC has suspended or reduced several Sea Ice Today tools and services." nsidc.org/data/user-re...

Breaking News: A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out mass layoffs during the government shutdown.

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

Palestinian bodies bear signs of field executions; Trump conditions $20 billion Argentina bailout on Milei’s reelection; 45,000 health care workers go on strike in U.S. open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Los Angeles County has declared a state of emergency over federal immigration raids, pushing back against the Trump administration. The declaration would allow the county to provide resources for those who have been affected by the raids.

this man's marriage would not exist if not for a previous generation of people marching for their rights.

China Has Overtaken America open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says. MASS MURDER, others say. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

Qataris Reject Trump’s Idaho Offer and Demand Airbase at Mar-a-Lago open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Due process. Academic freedom. An independent judiciary. A free press. A professional civil service. A protected environment. These aren't partisan talking points; they are the pillars of a healthy nation. And every single one of them is under direct assault by the Trump administration.

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

The Purges Aren't New open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...

6 months ago I was anxious about being targeted because I’ve raised a lot of money for Democrats & have a big mouth online. I no longer think I’ll be targeted for those reasons. Now I’m afraid I’ll just be kidnapped & thrown into an unmarked van literally at random. Which I guess is the point.

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow." (Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

It really is important to note how much Bondi is on TV and how dissimilar this is from literally any other AG, R or D.

Well, she's got a history to protect.

The fact there’s a man in our White House who constantly expresses his hatred for half of the country and makes clear his desire to strip away programs supported by Democrats should tell millions & millions why they need to be a part of the No Kings protest if they still believe in America.

Jack Smith Speaks open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

War torn Portland. I am

Employees in the EPA’s Resource Conservation and Sustainability Division received an internal email notifying them that the agency plans to carry out a workforce reduction. The division oversees programs that assist states with recycling and composting initiatives.

Well, he and his dear old daddy used to attend KKK "rituals" together, so yeah, def tracks.

How much damage can one administration do to the credibility of our courts and the Department of Justice? Former AG @ericholder.bsky.social weighs in on a new episode of Making the Case. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. ⬇️

But only if the reactionary friend of tRUMP wins.