#NoKings in red red Gainesville GA. Huge turn out. People have had enough.

Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t... #Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills

www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n... “"I never walked into a room so silent before," Trump said. "If you want to applaud, you applaud. You can do anything you want."” Dude. They are doing what they want. NOT applauding.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I’ll be one

This is a remarkable piece. Conservative AND liberal legal scholars come out TOGETHER to condemn Trump’s compact for higher education. www.chronicle.com/article/our-...

Tom Paine, Common Sense #nokings

He’s right. She should be working for her constituents so do your job Mike Johnson and swear her in tomorrow! Over 800,000 Arizonans are being taxed without representation!

Yes, speaker. She should be. So swear her in, as you’re supposed to do. Big gaslighter.

JD Vance thinks we should forget about the leaked messages of the Young Republicans, who are ages 35, 31, 29, 28, 27, 27, 24 & 24 years old. Evidently their slurs don’t matter bc they are too young so it doesn’t count. Hey maybe this is why so many Republicans think it’s okay to fck children?? 🤔

$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.

Contrast this rhetoric with the GOP stance on the Jan. 6 insurrection.

This is so great. 😄 youtu.be/YZ42k83mUlk?...

wtf Idaho? Why Idaho Schools Continue to Be Inaccessible For Students With Disabilities www.propublica.org/article/idah...

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... wonder whether YOUR loved one was one of the 7. This is no way to run health care.

fortune.com/2025/10/12/t... I noticed at the grocery today that my regular coffee is WAY UP.

www.advocate.com/politics/tru... “firewall between science and ideology” is broken down

In a development absolutely everyone saw coming….

Can't we just have healthcare?

I mean no disrespect to Italian-Americans, you know the people whose ancestors come from a country that didn’t exist as a unified entity until 1861, 355 years after Columbus, “the Italian,” died.

Wow, still waiting for the Epstien files.

Nothing. The federal govt never actually changed anything about Columbus Day.

If you have a loved one struggling with Alzheimer’s in the US … good thing China and Spain are researching breakthroughs. alzimpact.org/Statement-on...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “It is one thing to warn about genuine dangers and argue for or against regulation. It is quite another to imply that one’s opponents are enlistments in the armies of the Beast.”

So we’re going from qualified DEI hires to unskilled nepotism. And we wonder why affirmative action was needed to balance out legacy admissions.

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in. The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight. They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

Nice recap

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

I really have yet to find a very good theory explaining why it is that both the Republicans and the Democrats have been so openly handing power to a guy who tried to murder them. It is truly one of the scariest and most bizarre political events I've ever seen.

I bet Bobby gets his too. www.nbcdfw.com/news/nationa...

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h... this entire team was cut, so does that mean no one will die anymore? (Also, does anyone actually fall for that BS message about the shut down at the top? So dumb.)

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

Just so we're clear. Any party who tells you who you can love, what gender you are, which books you can read, what history you can learn, what prayers you can offer, what you can say, where you can piss, what you can do with your own body ... Doesn't believe in freedom.

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

Wait a second, Porter stayed and answered 20 more minutes of questions after the viral video snippet? Then outside of everyone who talks about politics online being frustrated theater critics, why are we having this conversation? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

I guess I should also add that a key difference between the Trump investigation and the Comey indictment is that *Trump did something obviously and significantly wrong*. Like, if you can't grok that distinction as important, I don't know what to say.

"One of the founders of antifa" Of course they were! You can just make up anyone you want as the head of your imaginary insurrectionist group! I hear Santa Claus runs supply drops for them! And they get their money from Leprechauns, which is why they're in league with the LGBTQ and their rainbows!

ANTIFA is not an actual organization. They've no headquarters, no website, no members, no budget, nothing. Federal law enforcement classified ANTIFA as a political ideology, & not an actual organization. This reality is in direct opposition to the baseless propaganda spread by Trump & his lackeys.

He only cares about whether he’s going to get more fawning praise. apnews.com/article/trum...

Most people cannot afford these mortgages yet this article says these are the lower end of the market.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ““The president sounded incoherent, exhausted, rabidly partisan, at times stupid, meandering, couldn’t hold a thought together,” McCaffrey said.”

Considering becoming a fresh Irish butter importer. I fly there every other week, buy out the tesco, fly back and sell out of the hatchback to the addicts. #FirstPatFree

The Trump administration’s blatant disregard of the laws and traditions governing federal communications—rules that most employees follow dutifully throughout their careers—has left some workers with a bad taste in their mouth.