This passage nearly broke me.

Why is it that the livelihoods of federal workers or the healthcare of millions of people always end up on the chopping block, but never the trillions in tax cuts handed out to billionaires and massive corporations?

Republicans are shutting down the government because they don’t want to fix the health care crisis they created. They’re holding the entire government hostage so they can raise health care premiums by 75% for 20 million Americans and throw millions off their health care. NO.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

We will steal you money from the bank unless you explicitly opt out of the money stealing option fine print on page 7. That's legal right?

Why not just ask people for permission? Oh what’s that? You don’t think enough people would consent? So you’re just going to steal their livelihoods to get rich and hope they never notice?

Talking about 2028 is dangerously naive; the danger is now. Trump is directing the military and justice department to go to "war" on US cities and his enemies, from TV hosts to former FBI directors. Keeping the 2026 midterms fair may be the last stand. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This regime continues to try to hurt Americans.

Or Russia. Not a coincidence that dissidents from authoritarian nations and reporters that covered those places have been waving their arms over what the Trump White House has been doing since 2017 while most US opposition and media have been sedately concerned. It’s not confusing to us at all.

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

On this day in 1915, Alabama passed a law forbidding public and private medical facilities from letting any "white female nurse" provide care to a Black man.

There is one tried and true way ordinary Americans can stop Trump’s political prosecutions: Jury Nullification. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Florida town where I grew up had a road named Lynching Tree Drive until 1980. James Clark was lynched on that street in 1926 and it took over fifty years for the town to decide the name should be changed. This is recent history. All of it. myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/ar...

So exhausting..

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Another Kavanaugh stop.

We don’t have to live like this. We can pass tougher privacy laws. Our low expectations of privacy are a choice, and not an inevitable one. But we will never be able to avoid this sort of dystopia if we don’t change the bleeds-it-leads narrative abt crime, which justifies so much surveillance.

Chicago finally looks like everyone's parents imagine it: gangs of violent young men with guns roaming the streets, literally looking for trouble.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

Sen. John Thune and Rep. Johnson deserve so much blame for what the Trump regime has done and is trying to do. People think “normal Republicans” are different than Trump. But they may be worse because they and the SC have enabled so much over the last almost 9 months.

Telling the truth about red states will get you roundly condemned but spreading lies about blue cities is just standard operating procedure for Republicans. It’s especially weird because most red states are living off tax money from blue cities.

Once again, the moderate position is for ICE to be abolished and Border Patrol to be gutted, and massive civil rights prosecutions leading to prison time. Anybody running on anything less is kicking the can down the road.

it is just a straightforward statement of fact to say that the trump administration sees any black student at an elite institution as one too many

To do what they are doing at this scale you have to dehumanize. It's just not possible to be this cruel and believe that these people are just like anyone else. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict. They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning" When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

It should be 9-10 right now (Ohio State up by 1). UW should have taken the field goal in the first half and Ohio State spent only gotten a field goal on their last possession.

Ohio State only got that TD because of the refs’ terrible call

That is ridiculous. That was such a weak hit! Terrible call! These refs are clearly trying to help Ohio State!

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department. Violent crime is at a 50-year low. This is amazing. www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...

Why didn’t the refs call facemask?!

The refs can’t take that fumble recovery away!

These refs are clearly helping Ohio State. This is ridiculous!

Every branch of the military should ‘obey orders of humanity’ rather than orders from Stephen Miller. The “army of the United States [should] not point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity."

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

What if you were immune to all viruses? 🦠🧪 A small number of people carry a rare genetic mutation that causes their bodies to produce interferons, virus-blocking proteins, all the time, keeping them immune without activating the rest of the immune system.

Well said by Karl Jacoby, this has been much on my mind, need to think about the absurd meeting of generals in this light

ICE is a secret, unaccountable police force for an authoritarian regime. Pass it on.

My recommendation: We should understand the Constitution as fundamentally transformed by the Reconstruction Amendments, imbued with a new liberatory directive to finally make multiracial democracy real. Interpretation undermining that goal is illegitimate. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

Has union busting always been legal? Or are our labor laws so weak that companies can do whatever they want?

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

before being pardoned by the governor. Local whites fired at their house. The boys’ parents lost their jobs, were evicted from their homes, and were basically run out of town. They continues to be threatened by police well after this incident.

Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.

Trump DOJ: -overruling career prosecutors to indict Trump's political opponents -suing states to get sensitive voter data -urging SCOTUS to gut Voting Rights Act -helping GOP states gerrymander mid-decade A 5 alarm fire on every front www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Faculty of Forestry, that’s awesome.

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

We’ve created a system in which there’s no disincentive stopping a shameless, power mad administration from doing this. At worst, they get struck down in court and they get to ruin a lot of people in the process. But civil, criminal liability for this sort of abuse of power are nonstarters.

Remember that Trump lamented that domestic violence was a crime. This is their version of “masculinity”

Compare this with Kavanaugh's baby-brain concurrence