Republican who introduced Trump derangement syndrome bill arrested for soliciting a minor www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

So the Epstein thing is still going well?

Go back 30 years, 20 years, even 10 years, and ask a generic civics teacher to make a video illustrating full-on fascist communication. This is what you’d get. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Every government shutdown over the past 30 years was caused by Republican intransigence in Congress, the White House, or both. (Remember that one time when Ted Cruz was basically the Speaker of the House for a few weeks?)

A man who worked for a prominent German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament was convicted Tuesday of spying for China for more than four years, according to German news agency dpa. https://to.pbs.org/46ROvSP

This will be the fourth shutdown with Trump as president. He sticks to his word about running the government like one of his businesses.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

If you live in: South Dakota Louisiana West Virginia Wyoming Tennessee Mississippi Alaska Call your right wing Senator and ask them why they're pushing to increase their constituents healthcare prices so much.

While we're talking about abolishing ICE, we should also get rid of DHS entirely.

My favorite part was when hgsth said “godspeed” in anticipation for applause and nobody applauded

Dear @apnews.com The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once. Fix your headline.

Russia has started the autumn draft. The Putin regime intends to conscript 135 thousand men for compulsory military service but it will almost certainly fall short of this target. Ukrainian defenders are killing or severely wounding about one thousand russian invaders per day.

‘Swear Her in!’ Republican Frantically Adjourns House to Avoid Swearing in New Member to Duck Epstein Files Vote

More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Shutting down the government won’t stop us from demanding the truth. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Fire sales to raise money to fund the war has kicked in. Putin has greatly accelerated the procedure for privatizing federal property "due to unfriendly actions by the USA and other countries." 1/2

It’s not midnight but they’re going to start anyway because republicans always wanted a shutdown.

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

That meeting could’ve been a leaked signal chat

Sure. Left wing terrorism is at an all time high, going from 3% of domestic terror fatalities to 4%. Right wing terrorism on the other hand has dipped to an all time low of 95% So technically, yeah.

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

😬 whoopsy. Freudian!

I asked the FBI to expedite the release of the tape of "border czar" Tom Homan being bribed. FBI said it couldn't see how there wasn't an urgent need to provide the public more information about (checks notes) an active federal official taking bribes and denied expedition of the request.

The New York Times is commissioning polls meant to mislead voters and get them to blame Democrats for the Republican shutdown. That paper is beyond saving, and everyone working there is a collaborator.

That's why families used to have to many damn kids. Until relatively recently, parents KNEW some of them would not survive to adulthood.

The Trump regime is wildly incompetent.

Forcing all those generals to witness how amateurish and foolish both Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are firsthand might increase the chances of illegal orders being ignored in the future.

Meanwhile, the US is spending billions on coal 🙄

I need journalists to be able to identify a push poll when they see one.

Mafia boss wants me to get rid of a Gen Z snitch. I drive him out to the Las Vegas desert at gunpoint but he refuses to dig his own grave. The kids don't want to work!

It’s all so fucking stupid!!!

BREAKING: Just hours before the fiscal year ended, a federal judge in R.I. has ordered the Trump administration to preserve $233 million in FEMA funds it attempted to abruptly steer away from 8 blue states. Without that order, the states would've lost the money at midnight.

1/ Wounded Russian soldiers have been systematically beaten, extorted, and treated "like convicts" in a military rehabilitation centre in Luhansk. The directors of the facility have recently been arrested, but conditions are still said to be dire for the patients. ⬇️

Nobody seems to have noticed this, but after Hegseth ran on for a minute about how beards are terrible on service members because if "you let the small stuff go, the big stuff eventually goes," he then adds that you can still have a beard if you join Army Special Forces

Believe it or not, Adrian Bonenberger and I wrote about this very thing years ago newrepublic.com/article/1540...

10/10. no notes

Who guessed that @irvinewelsh.bsky.social would be banned by Belarus? Ten books by the British author are among 32 titles added to the blacklist by self-appointed dictator Lukashenko. A statement said "All of these publications are capable of harming the national interests of our country"

Always moving the goal posts. 🤡 @financialtimes.com @piie.com www.ft.com/content/3354...

Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.

It would be nice if the reporting on the shut-down gave some context on how we got here. Republicans did not even talk to Democrats. Yet it's reported as if it fell from the sky because "both sides are digging in."

Everyone has yelled at the left for years for living in various echo chambers but NO ONE is more utterly shut off inside their absolutely insane bubble than the far-right crackpots running the country.

Rarely seen photos that painstakingly document the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968 serve as a reminder of the limitations of authoritarian solutions.

Folk in Pennsylvania voted for John Fetterman because they thought he was a progressive and found out he was just Kyrsten Sinema in a funky hoodie and unwashed basketball shorts.

Newsom Trolls Trump’s Physique After Hegseth Demands No ‘Fat’ Generals Allowed www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom...

A man who has a makeup room is fat shaming generals.

New study finds more than 400 pregnancy-related prosecutions after Roe's fall www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

CBO warns a shutdown could sideline about 750,000 federal workers each day.

🔴 Zelenskyy warns the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is in a critical emergency. Russian shelling cut power, forcing it onto backup diesel generators—one has already failed. He urged the world to act as the plant faces unprecedented risk.