When you give yourself a Department of War, soon enough you are going to find a war to fight.

We’ve been looking for the destruction all day. 👀 #PortlandHellscape

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

“New year, new mayor,” said CEO Jamie Beran, referring to Rosh Hashanah earlier this week. “We are really very excited about Zohran and his platform not in spite of our commitment to Jewish values but because of them.” From @jccoltin.bsky.social @politico.com 2/x

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Also, the Portland Marathon is next weekend. I’m sure the organizers need as many volunteers as they can get. Maybe the troops can pass out water at the aid stations or have their own pop up in one the neighborhoods. Runners always appreciate it when people come out to cheer.

I am deeply honored to receive the endorsement of @bendthearc.bsky.social, , their first ever in a mayoral election. “We are really very excited about Zohran and his platform not in spite of our commitment to Jewish values but because of them.”

NEW: Responding to a @nytimes.com report that the Trump Justice Department is planning to investigate the Open Society Foundations, @alexsoros.bsky.social said the massive left-leaning philanthropy did nothing wrong & would only stop its work "over my dead body."

I'm not sure people are going to buy that, Stephen. You might want to tone it down

Somebody can have major disagreements about ICE’s actions and not be violent. The White House blurs that line and speaks of a killer aligned with a violent left movement but the evidence doesn’t show that yet. It shows someone deeply involved with no one in particular. @cnn.com

@karaswisher.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com are baffled by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s threat to investigate an Office Depot employee’s refusal to make a Charlie Kirk poster. Watch the latest episode of Pivot on YouTube, or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

This is going to be hard on couch fuckers (see what I did here @profgalloway.com?)

Lots of tech folks went. He was constantly at events sucking up to them www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

This sounds like extravagantly gratuitous grandiosity.

"Strengthening our national defense is not the point of the gathering [of the generals]. The point is "the optics of power.” And not the optics of American power. The point is the optics of Donald Trump' power. Trump will surely be the headliner at Tuesday's show." www.thebulwark.com/p/they-want-...

#BREAKING: Over the dissents of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, #SCOTUS grants (yet another) stay to President Trump—this one allowing him to cease obligating $4 billion in foreign aid funding appropriated by Congress. I’ll post the link when it’s up.

The farmers expect a bailout, too

In good news, the superintendent of education in Oklahoma resigned. He's going to be the CEO of an anti-teachers' union outfit. As my Oklahoma daughter said, "Good, maybe he'll run that into the ground, too."

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No 💩. Retail, entertainment, and hospitality have taken hits. How's Vegas? The beaches are slow over here on the Gulf of MEXICO!

I keep hoping that this is not true and people cannot be this evil…. You tell me

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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Bailing out a failed libertarian austerity agenda in Argentina... "That's just how it is."

Well then... Donnie-boy, Dr. Quack, and Arseface claim Tylenol causes autism... If they actually believed it, then, why didn't they have the FDA ban it? Trying to get Tylenol's owners to pay for the new ballroom?

The rules have changed. Mike Johnson wants to wait until the official results come in October 14th to swear in Grijalva.

Talk about insanity. I just heard that in Oklahoma they are trying to mandate that there be a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter at EVERY high school in the state. You must know this is backed by the same 2025 Project bankers that are helping trump turn the US backward.

When it’s a food stamp for a poor family: “SOCIALISM!” When it’s billions for Trump-loving farmers: “Safety net.” Guess who’s footing the bill (again)? Blue states. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

You mean all that tariff money you took from the American people and you are going to give that money to the struggling farmers that you basically fucked over with your idiotic tariffs. Right - got it.

Coming soon, posthumous Presidential Medals of Freedom for the MAGAts who murdered Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, and those three civil rights workers in Mississippi.

Walking through a grove of golden quaking #aspens is one of nature's most beautiful experiences, like entering a natural cathedral with sacred light. See my gallery of #Colorado #fallcolors photos here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/autu...

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'She changed her name to Assata Olugbala Shakur to reflect her identity – Assata meaning “she who struggles,” in Swahili, Olugbala meaning “love for the people,” in Yoruba, and Shakur meaning “the thankful,” in Arabic. Opponents vilified her, but she inspired racial justice movements for decades.'

No veteran should have their social security number leaked, let alone passed to a political opponent by the government.

Seventeen more Ukrainian children have been rescued from the temporarily occupied territories. Among them is a 17-year-old boy who was taken in the middle of the night by russian troops for hours of interrogation at gunpoint, without his parents or any legal guardians present. He was threatened 🧵

Yeah well... Isn't that what I said a few weeks ago? I based my statements on banking records that are not public.

ICE official confirms that the detainees who were shot were restrained when they were shot

James Comey got indicted. But the real criminal conduct happened in the White House. Donald Trump appears to be clinically addicted to impeachable offenses.

Fired for comments he made 8 years ago on social media when he was in private practice & had a perfect 1st Amendment right to do so. Welcome to the Trump-loyalty corps at the Justice Department. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

If Jack is weaponizing illegally leaked documents as a candidate, just imagine what he would do as governor with New Jerseyans' personal data.

Braids are a great way to keep your hair out of your face, especially when ICE teargasses you. Also they don’t get caught in a respirator. 10/10 would recommend.

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

Boy howdy, am I curious what Peter Thiel would have discussed with Jeffrey Epstein over lunch in late 2017!

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