Senator Murphy also lays out a clear set of codified demands that Dems can stand for. Among them: *no more using budget to punish enemies *no more using FCC to censor critics *restrictions on ICE lawlessness in interior *clear ban on troops in cities 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

SCOOP from @brendawintrode.bsky.social: In the national redistricting one-upsmanship, Maryland House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones says she’s ready to redraw the state’s Congressional map, currently 7D-1R. The latest on the conversations in Annapolis: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Wild stuff — nuking a portion of your website because MAGA got mad at you for it. jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-...

Disingenuous, Squalid, and Dishonorable: The Story of the Trump Administration

if the US military does end up refusing the call from this administration to go to war against Americans, we may paradoxically owe Sloppy Pete a debt of gratitude. shine on you soaked diamond

Gosh who will he choose

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

When we tell Dems to fight back, Jeffries, Schumer, and their people say "let Republicans sink themselves with unpopular policies." Then when the unpopular policies arrive, Jeffries and Schumer come rushing in with a compromise to save the GOP from the worst of it. So what is the plan?

How hard is it to say “invading an American city with the US military is treason and the second we have power we will prosecute anyone who gave or obeyed an illegal order”

Another Seagull in the books

Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54 Approval on economy: 39-56 Approval on trade: 39-54 On National Guard into cities: 42-55 On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55 Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

jd vance blurbed jack posobiec and joshua lisec's book *unhumans*, a work of grimdark fashfic whose title recapitulates the nazi slur "untermensch" to demonize opponents of maga as literal satanic subhumans and which celebrates mass murderous dictators franco and pinochet

We need to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance and jack up your premiums because budget, but also here's $20 billion for the psycho shock jock who crashed Argentina's economy. Makes perfect sense www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chris "Permanent Wealth Tax" Van Hollen is running for President

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is a great chart and that includes the random man vaping in the corner

"TJ Tampa"? "Christian Mahogany"? Did Thomas Pynchon script this game?

In Baltimore we know exactly who these freaks are. We welcome broader American participation in shutting them down.

The yamim noraim are coming. Shanah tovah www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpbd...

At a local parade this morning with lots of local Dem pols, the fact that the majority of our Congressional delegation voted to honor a racist and antisemite was a major topic of conversation. Couldn't find one person who would defend it or could even explain it

More than a dozen immigration judge were just fired. Such firings have been common on Friday evenings and often involve newer judges still on probation. But today's firings include a Sacramento IJ who's been on the bench close to 20 years. "The judge version of Jimmy Kimmel," one source told me.

they stuck the toothpick in and when they pulled it out there were little chunks of the economy on there. probably needs like two more days

The way to "save social security from insolvency" is to raise the contribution cap so the richest are paying fairly into the system. The whole thing would not only be fully funded, but that would allow us to *lower* the cap to give American workers more years to enjoy the fruits of their labor

I've been generally bullish on @raskin.house.gov as a future House Speaker and he's doing a lot right, but as a constituent I am shocked and appalled that he apparently voted to honor Charlie Kirk, a notorious racist, antisemite, and participant in January 6. I genuinely don't get it.

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Received a mass email from a general contractor I hired once, saying that one of their former employees had been racially profiled and detained by ICE. Email goes on to condemn the administration and asks customers to contact their representatives and demand an end to ICE activities

I have been watching Alien Earth and just discovered that the opening title card song is a cover of Strange Brew sung by show creator Noah Hawley www.facebook.com/watch/?v=110...

What is remarkable about Hannah Einbinder is just how typical she is

Trump literally said "don't even bother dealing with" Democrats to keep the government open, and now he has us barreling towards a government shutdown. I sure as hell won't be voting to give a blank check to his lawlessness. That's not how this works.

Wealth inequality is so out of control in the US that the economy itself is starting to fully split in half, like a rocket beginning to come apart during launch. Same dynamic playing out in the stock market with massive share buybacks propping up productivity slowdowns. Disintegration incoming

at the center of the efforts to destroy civil society in russia, hungary, georgia and elsewhere is the stigmatization, harassment, & criminalization of NGOs. that's what this is about, a full-on assault on democratic debate & freedoms. this is not hyperbole. it's right here.

"57% cited [inflation and cost of living] as a “very serious problem.” Another 53% said the same of housing costs." www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

The sedatives this guy must be on could knock out a T Rex

Charlie Kirk was a notorious antisemite. Kirk said "Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them...the philosophical foundation of anti-whiteness has been largely financed by Jewish donors in the country.”

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Lol keep whining

praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith

The general pundit illiteracy in distinguishing argument from demagoguery, which is all that Kirk ever did, sure is something. You'd think people who claim to make arguments for a living would have a nominal stake in this but nope

something something honor something something thieves

lookin like a great next Dem House Speaker to me...

It would be a shame if the US far right melted down in violent confrontations that took out key leaders from its various hate sects, resulting in a movement decapitating itself over its own obsession with violence, & ridding us of a generation of psychos. Sure hope cooler heads prevail over there

“In arguing for Mr. Netanyahu’s arrest, Mr. Mamdani noted that the Israeli prime minister had made military decisions while in New York that killed civilians in the Middle East.” “‘This is something that I intend to fulfill,’ Mr. Mamdani said.” Mamdani reiterates his pledge to arrest Netanyahu.

If we structure our whole political economy such that getting famous, by any means necessary, is the only way to have safety and security, we shouldn't feign surprise when some young people skid out. We are obsessed with "rising from the ranks" when we ought to be, like Debs, rising with the ranks

We'll have to learn more but this is highly suggestive of internecine right wing warfare as opposed to something from the left that all the dipshit pundits and the senile president were whining about

blood a little complicated, actually