"It went as well as we could have hoped", believes Colin Robertson, senior advisor and fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, about Mark Carney's meeting with Donald Trump. Full interview: youtu.be/ou_jp3wjJNk?...

Mike Johnson says he'll swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social as soon as she wants. Okay, so how about today?

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

Notice how they’re now calling everyone else an “insurrectionist.” Pure projection.

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California. I urge anyone in the state to vote yes. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW. While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

National Guard members from Texas were at an Army Reserve center in Illinois on Tuesday, the most visible sign yet of the Trump administration's plan to send troops to the Chicago area despite a lawsuit and vigorous opposition from Democratic elected leaders.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Thanks, New Yorker

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH: djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey." Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it." djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret." And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children. #PedoPrez

Ottawa, Ontario urge each other to help Marineland's belugas amid euthanasia threat.

MICHIGAN: “Firefighters contain 101-acre wildfire near Houghton Lake in northern Michigan” www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news... - CBS News Detroit #HoughtonLake #Michigan #MIFire #MIwx #Wildfires

@merovingians.bsky.social gets it. Go to a No Kings protest. Make connections on the ground. Join or form a group, whether it’s 50501 or something more obviously leftist. Use those connections for mutual aid and to organize anti-ICE action, boycott, prep strikes and more. See you in the streets

An injured hiker was airlifted from Mount Arroswmith on Monday after a coordinated rescue effort by two Vancouver Island rescue teams.

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⚡️Over 100,000 Western-made parts found in drones, missiles used in Russian recent mass attack, Zelensky says. The components were reportedly manufactured by companies based in the U.S., China, Taiwan, the U.K., Germany, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands.

The problems that we as a nation have sought to illuminate, so that we can remedy them, are disappearing — not because the problems are disappearing or have been remedied, but because we will no longer know about them. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/turning-out-the-lights-on-the-economy

October 5, 2025

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

Same. #AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

bingo

Key: Thin on details. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anybody else wishing this was how our world was working now? www.themoviedb.org/tv/688-the-w...

The trip to Luxor from Safaga is in a word EXCRUTIATING! But I am sure that the tomb is worth every bump and sway. apnews.com/article/egyp...

Super busy border crossings. www.wgrz.com/article/news...

So interesting that Nexstar also runs Fox channels. fox8.com/news/canada-...

That's not true, David: they've taken it away from women....

Rep. Ted Lieu is so good at this.