Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious: - Super Bowl halftime entertainer - getting a Nobel Prize for Trump - terrifying naked bike riders Topics he thinks are not serious: - Epstein Files - domestic violence - being able to keep the govt open - the neutering of Congress

If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th. Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I'll be there. Please join in. www.nokings.org

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS: During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭 Why that matters 🧵

Trump regime forces brutally beat Americans in the streets of Chicago for witnessing their neighbours be kidnapped and disappeared in broad daylight. Concerned citizens stood up for themselves as the regime continues to expand its fascist terror campaign.

this is today's Supreme Court oral argument on the Voting Rights Act in a nutshell

Strikes me that one problem we still have is how many people will never allow the holes in their sofa to be sewn up.

If you want to preserve the rule of law, accountability and talk of accountability are critical.

Not enough writers with national reach are traveling around getting flash banged and shot at by various police imo.

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

NEW: Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings. Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. Tonight, at Law Dork:

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’ “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” -Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

These people are so cooked.

an important thing to understand about crabs is that there's nothing in there. the guts don't populate until you actually cut one open

...exhibit B

Pretty much

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?

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Fox Sports is bad for baseball

Democratic Senate candidate in Maine responds to WH defying Collins on RIFs

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

honestly I feel things are probably so bad for the GOP it might get the Dem AG nom through

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week. Everyone ready? Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

The job of a Washington Post editor today is to distort the facts—including about incidents from the recent past that were well documented by the old Washington Post—and to be seen distorting information like that, to curry favor with the Trump regime. It’s sad, a real loss. But that’s what it is.

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genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Isn't "vibe lawyering" just a synonym for "legal malpractice?"

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JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Centrists can try to rewrite history, but they’ve been winning the battle over the Democratic Party for years. If that’s translating into losses at the ballot box, maybe it’s time to actually try something new.

The median voter thinks this is how it has always worked

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

Look, if you want to support someone who understands why we need to regulate the shit out of this particular industry to avoid a whole host of negative outcomes, I’m just saying, the donate button is right here.

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Honestly, the most surprising thing here is that the inbred mouthbreather was able to put together an entire sentence before shooting a civilian. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...