Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

“A federal agent shot and wounded a motorist in Chicago on Saturday morning, according to federal officials, touching off more protests in the city as tensions rose over the Trump administration’s threat to send troops there.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

When a president sends troops into American cities to “restore order,” what he’s really doing is testing obedience. Portland and Chicago aren’t war zones…they’re warning shots. Authoritarians don’t announce takeovers. They practice them. One city at a time. However, each practice destroys families.

The obscene face of Christian Nationalism: outlandish untaxed wealth in defiance of Jesus. Oh, and this time, slave laborers, too! Glory! Just remember, for any money you give to Heaven, there is always a 100% handling fee here on Earth.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Comer: "We care about the people that are gonna lose -- ah, that could potentially lose healthcare. But there are people that can't afford healthcare. We've gotta get people off Medicaid and into the workforce and into private healthcare."

“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth considered sending an elite U.S. Army strike force to Portland, Ore., to quell protests that President Donald Trump has characterized as ‘lawless mayhem,’ according to images of messages provided to the Minnesota Star Tribune.”

“Of all crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude.” — David Hume

Tylenol use is safe in pregnancy, lowest effective dose. Don’t listen to the utter nonsense emanating from the highest office in the land today. Speak to your medical provider.

Imagine being under daily 🇷🇺 terror attacks and then respond like this👇🏻 Putin won’t control Kharkiv EVER!

Do you know your constitutional rights? Why not? (Do you know the “Five Freedoms” guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, by the First Amendment, even for illegal immigrants? Why not?)

Do you know your constitutional rights? Why not? (Do you know the “Five Freedoms” guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, by the First Amendment, even for illegal immigrants? Why not?)

Secretary of Homeland Security on racial profiling by ICE: “That is not true… Don’t you dare ever say that again.” Who the f*ck does Kristi Noem think she is, addressing a legitimate question like that? It is true. Tom Homan admitted it. Noem is a liar.

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The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it was going to.

(Also fascinating: Gay men earn less than straight men on average, despite having higher levels of education; lesbians earn more than straight women, despite having lower levels of education.)

52% of gay men in the U.S. get college degrees, but only 36% of straight men and 45% of straight women do, and an even smaller percentage of lesbians do (at just 25%). Wonder why.

the head of fema finally rolled out of bed, grabbed a shirt off the floor, and showed up in texas

Now THAT's a cease and desist letter

Firing everyone who could tell you what you're doing is unethical or illegal does not make what you're doing ethical or legal.

(If you need god to be good, you’re not good. Ethics precedes religion.)

Goebbels would have won WWII for Hitler if they had podcast bros back then.

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

Why do you think Republicans are governing like they don’t care about ever having to win any future elections?

#NoKings New York

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

I'm not sure that Trump and most MAGAs hate science and medicine and facts per se. I think they hate effective government, and science and medicine and facts get in their way of destroying everything in government that actually works. RFK Jr., however, clearly hates science and medicine.

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

MAGA read your f*cking Bible: “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.” (Leviticus 19:34)

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that a war between India and Pakistan would be "none of our business" — utter suicidal lunacy.

Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

Bird-man with broken spears slain by a gored bison, Lascaux Cave, France. Unlike most cave paintings, which focus just on animals, this one has a human figure in action, making it one of the earliest known narrative scenes in art history. It’s ~18,000 years old, dating to the Upper Paleolithic.

Where my so-called “Constitutional conservatives” at? The US Constitution: “No person shall be denied life, liberty, or property without Due Process.” Former Supreme Court justice the arch conservative Antonín Scalia said it right.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Statement from the National Weather Association as Trump dismantles the National Weather Service and NOAA’s ten research laboratories: “certainly disastrous consequences for public safety and economic health.”

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Elon Musk is such a sad, pathetic little man.

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

When Socrates bit into his daily bread on the streets of Athens, that wheat was imported from Russia or Egypt, not grown in Greece. Trade is smart, protectionism is dumb. Stop electing dumb people, democracy!

From Steve Rattner: if you take out oil & gas, we’ve actually had a trade surplus with Canada for over 15 years. #EconSky

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

JD Vance today speaking about the U.S. invading and “acquiring” Greenland: “The president said we have to have Greenland . . . We cannot just ignore this place. We cannot just ignore the president’s desires.” No new wars my ass. MAGA, you’ve been duped. Again.