It has become literally impossible to distinguish @nytpitchbot.bsky.social from actual New York Times coverage.

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

This is truly deranged behavior. Also illegal. Also devastating to America’s standing, our economy and the well being of a vital ally. And the enablers and the passive observers and defenders in Congress and the normalizers in the media are all complicit.

This video clip is 1-1/2 minutes long. Watch all of it!

This particular incident involves a terrific @chicagotribune.com reporter who is doing his job by reporting ICE sightings in Chicago. Both the trump admin and Twitter extremists are coming after him. It’s outrageous.

Well, well, well...

Exactly!

“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline

Amazing...

There was no protestor violence at the #NoKings marches. but as always, when night falls, the police violence emerges.

Seriously, cancel your NYT subscription if you haven’t already. It’s garbage. The crossword and games aren’t worth supporting this.

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

SURVEILLANCE SECRETS: @lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries, including the US. It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.

Murphy: We are not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. But Trump has not won.

Is anyone keeping track of cost of Trump's pardons in lost fines and restitution payments? Santos "will also no longer be required to pay more than $370,000 in court-ordered restitution to his victims" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Here, again, is why responsible people shouldn't financially support the NY Times anymore. They reaffirm my decision to have ended my decades-long subscription every week or so.

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Trump (1) reveals he doesn't know what habeas corpus is and (2) punts to Noem, who famously revealed her own ignorance at a Senate hearing when she defined habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country." www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

Stephen Miller is a dangerous madman living in a world of his own making. I really can’t believe there isn’t more discourse around the madness we are witnessing each day.

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

Deplorable. Once upon a time, if a president had use a speech to a military academy for partisan purposes, it would be considered a disgrace by both parties.

Once upon a time, if a president head lied this brazenly, it would be considered a disgrace by both political parties

He seems to have literally gone mad with power, thinking he can just bluster the country into some kind of Fourth Reich with the power of screechy Twitter posts written with all the forced bombast that an insecure dweeb imagining himself as Goebbels can muster.

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

NEW: Judge Immergut's says Trump's assessment of "war-ravaged" Portland was not made in "good faith" Even under a legal standard that gives the president "great deference," she said, there's no basis for "ignoring the facts on the ground." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in older adults Prior COVID-19 infection was associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause dementia. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

ICE is out of control in Chicago. Now just tossing tear gas canisters out of the car in the middle of one of our neighborhoods as kids are walking home from school, people out going grocery shopping. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

“Another ABC7 interviewee ducked upon hearing flash bangs detonate, and was then distressed by the sight of children detained. ‘They was bringing the kids down too, had them zip-tied to each other,’ she said.” 10/2/25 newrepublic.com/post/201258/...

We're living in 1984 now. This truly is insanity. "War-ravaged Portland"??

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

I just received this statement from ICE re: Barbara Mariana Gomes Marques May in which they can't even be bothered to get her age right (she's 38.) She never received the notice to appear in 2019, and was at the final step of her green card process with her US citizen husband when she was taken.

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.

Trump just said the shutdown will cause disruptions to Social Security services - but Social Security funding isn't impacted by a shutdown, and the staff who run it are "necessarily implied" & continue to work. If Social Security stops, it's because Trump illegally stopped it - to try to blame Dems

This is nuts. I’ve been riding the Metro for almost four decades and my kids ride it growing up. This is BS propaganda gaslighting. Such shameless lying.

Tonight, a post that is longer than usual. But a Judge in Boston issued a 1st Amendment decision that is incredibly important (& long), and we trace his reasoning and some startling conclusions he committed to paper. I hope you’ll stick with me and read to the end. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

“While tariff revenue has indeed increased, that money didn’t fall from the sky and it wasn’t paid by other countries; it’s a tax on American consumers and businesses.” www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-farm...

with all the other things, it's remarkable what a ridiculous person he remains

Ezra Klein has been speaking a lot on red states and rural Democrats and here’s the thing…he shouldn’t. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

This is the best, most concise summary I've seen.

Installing soldiers to create chaos for the peaceful, nonviolent No Kings protest in three weeks.

President Trump posted unsupported medical advice on Truth Social telling pregnant women and young children not to take Tylenol, and gave unfounded recommendations on children’s vaccines. @vinguptamd.bsky.social joins @anacabrera.bsky.social to share his expertise. www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...

We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.