JB Pritzker: “Another thing that’s happened with very few people paying attention is they demanded our voter data. Not just ours in Illinois — every state’s voter data. Why? They won’t tell us why.”

Before us are illegal and unnecessary Republican mass firings, which they will own; behind us, millions of Americans whose health care Republicans attack, and will own. We stand our ground. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

This alone should get him impeached and subsequently prosecuted and it’s barely even a story

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

Really seems like a thing that a consortium of blue states could set up in exile, maybe with corporate donation help.

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight. As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

I am old enough to remember when Trump said he would lower grocery prices on Day One.

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

Per NYT, Trump is trying to criminalize being generous, which I can understand if you're Trump but may not work out. Under rules, Tish James could do short term rental in first year. She did (and made <$5K). Then her great niece has lived there, rent free. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl] there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

If a foreign hostile country was trying to take down the USA, they’d do EXACTLY what these MAGA nuts are doing. EXACTLY.

They want to kill us

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released. DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood. I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Trump announces he's putting a bajillion percent tariff on China

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

No, it’s absolutely not tenable.

Three key points: 1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February 2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty 3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Every single Democrat in Congress should’ve already had a post up by now about the Trump admin approving a Qatari air base inside the US.

This "speech" is about one thing and one thing only. To paint any opposition as terrorists to justify murdering them. Protesting is a right, not terrorism. Fuck you, Emmer.

Counterpoint: Protest is patriotic

"After a few moments of laughter..." The No Kings organizers with a fun, tidy response to Mike Johnson's shenanigans.

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism. They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Know who else is not in a good mood, Mike? Americans who are seeing their health insurance premiums DOUBLE because YOU refuse to act.

A peaceful protest rally under the Tom Paine motto "No Kings" is being held on the mall in Washington and in hundreds of other sites around the country. Prior No Kings rallies have attracted 11-12 million attendees, the largest political rallies in US history. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone thinks its a bad idea to put massive solar factories in Nevada. Have you *been* to Nevada? It's completely inhospitable in all but a couple of places. You can't farm there, you can't ranch there, you can't live there.

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

"CBS is no longer independent, but under the tutelage of a conservative billionaire who is putting more than his thumb on the scale." Kudos to Dan Rather, a 44-year veteran of CBS News, for speaking truth to power. deadline.com/2025/10/dan-... #CBS #Paramount

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party. Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists. Seems bad?

Winsome Earle-Sears — that is, in fact, discrimination.

Oh, so they give the Peace Prize to people pushing to go AWAY from autocracy? I see the problem.

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.