The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

lol r u kidding me

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.* The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

Indicted for shit posting on Blue Sky but the jury said nah

Operation Paperclip 2.0

It is far past time to stop tip-toeing around people's feelings and start being upfront with members of the gerontocracy. Sometimes it is just time to take away the keys. www.thedailybeast.com/police-repor...

during the 2016 campaign, the Boston Globe ran a scary mockup front page of what a world where Trump was president would look like, and it’s pretty tame compared to a random Friday morning’s headlines now

This little item by Luke Broadwater on the abrupt, wholly unannounced destruction of a major component of the White House complex is a microcosm of the dysfunctional relationship the press has with this mendacious administration. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Art

JUST IN: 11 9th Circuit judges dissent* as appeals court declines en banc rehearing of ruling letting Trump use National Guard in L.A. Some judges may keep powder dry for Oregon case w/weaker facts for Trump admin. Doc: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

“ICE uses bureaucracy and location transfers to isolate their detainees from both their families and their lawyers, limiting their ability to get out of their predicaments” and prove the government erred. [Emma Janssen, American Prospect]

Sociopathic behavior

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...

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Last weekend, the Trump administration sent 10 more people to an Eswatini prison, joining five other ICE detainees sent there in July. None of the 15 men sent to the nation are from Eswatini. But they are now under the authority of its king. Read Noah Lanard's full story: https://bit.ly/47gNtB1

"we are going to murder americans without due process" ~pam bondi, US attorney general

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

Welcome to antifa <squints> wait are we sure about that <looks again> uh Cato Institute.

The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways. blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

Posts that will be evidence in judicial proceedings

Well that's fascinating. Hey @lizdye.bsky.social get a load of this

Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.

The same administration that posts website landing pages and out of office messages specifically blaming Democrats for the shutdown considers an employee’s display of a desk flag a year ago, before Trump took office, to be objectionably political.

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Wonder why the right is so silent on this guy who murdered a bunch of people at the LDS church 🤔

This passage nearly broke me.

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

This is a superb essay by @pastpunditry.bsky.social. The only thing I would add is that one could backdate the history of conservative "cancel culture" even earlier, if we consider the first Red Scare in the WWI era and the "gag rule" in the antebellum period. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

I'm a 4 star general and I love to fly halfway across the world to watch a stand up performance from the weekend Fox and Friends host who happens to be opening for the host of Celebrity Apprentice. Also they are my bosses.

so I wake up to find that Hegseth summoned the entire brass to tell them we now protect and revere rapists and war criminals in the US military, followed by Trump holding a mini campaign rally and whining about lack of applause, and this is somehow basically the best case scenario

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

"Officers said Treven Gokey wanted to send a message to the far left and that transgenderism should be eradicated." www.kold.com/video/2025/0...

This is now the second attempted terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community in a week as "revenge" for Charlie Kirk. This follows an attempted mass shooting of a gay bar in Arizona. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Just learning about "medbed" conspiracies.

I just want to be sure what I'm seeing: the President of the United States, from his actual social media account, is promoting an AI video of himself promoting a made-up medical conspiracy? Is that what's happening?

Famous American citizen Wernher von Braun.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u... Some good news

I think this is a bigger deal than the Comey stuff. Like this is beyond characters in the Trump cinematic universe—this is a local pillar of his community being targeted for, what, exactly? It cannot be tolerated.

here's the more targeted data on gender men's social circles have shrunk more than women's, and fewer men report having friends they lean on for emotional support but this is clearly a whole of society problem, with secondary gendered effects www.americansurveycenter.org/why-mens-soc...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Yup, and for the reasons stated. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....