The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

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NoKings.org For the love of America 🇺🇸 #NoKings | Oct 18th

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

this doesn't seem great www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Health care rate hikes expected WV - 387% WY - 382% AK - 346% TN - 320% MI - 314% TX - 289% SC - 285% AL - 284% SD - 235% ND - 234% No one wished anything poorly upon these states, except themselves They voted for this; THEY DID Enjoy your vote, you really owned those libs FAFO

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Happy birthday to Kirsty MacColl. Her debut solo single "They Don't Know", released in 1979, peaked at no 2 on the Music Week chart. However, a distributors' strike stopped copies of the single getting into record shops. She died, aged just 40, after being hit by a speedboat. #KirstyMacColl

On this day in 1991 Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Few believed her claims then, not enough people believed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and too few listened to Kamala Harris in 2024. See a pattern? Believe women, burn the patriarchy. #BelieveWomen

giving the nobel peace prize to someone who approved of indiscriminate military strikes on civilians is an indelible stain on the award. but enough about Barack Obama,,

The autocrat's toadies destroy functioning governance and launch crisis after crisis in order to create a nation that runs on patronage in which he's the only one able to do anything for anyone.

Bull’s eye …

I am deceased

A confrontation is building between the Supreme Court and the lower courts.

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A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

MSNBC is reporting that the DOJ is seeking an indictment of John Bolton. I can’t stand that guy, and still: THIS IS SO WRONG.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent. Will you? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

www.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track... This person is doing an invaluable service.

Fascism Can't Mean Both A Specific Ideology And A Legitimate Target www.astralcodexten.com/p/fascism-ca...

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

"The question we have to ask ourselves, is ‘why do people feel so powerless?’ The answer is clear. People feel powerless because we live in an economy owned and run by the rich, who have also bought off our political class, and destroyed the foundations for working class power. 1/n

While providing tech support for my FIL: FIL: What's that screen? ME: The terminal. You should never use it. FIL: Never? ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself? FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

Portland propaganda open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

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Apropos of nothing in particular this morning, I've been told that, in essence, there are two things that physicians can't do at the White House medical unit: MRIs and surgeries. Virtually anything else can be done there if you have to or want to.

it just feels like.

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old. There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

The U. S. will host a Qatari Air Force contingent at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, where Qatari pilots will train to fly F-15 fighter jets. This is part of the quid pro quo for Trump getting a jet. Trump gets personal gifts in exchange for giving away U.S. assets.

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History" Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.