Jeffries: "If Donald Trump really believed that he had a strong position here, then why did you back out of the meeting bro?"

I often criticize the Dem leadership, but this one strikes me as a good approach.

In which @adamserwer.bsky.social makes a useful distinction between "chickenshit" and "cowardice." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

these people are giant fucking dorks and they should be mocked relentlessly for being giant fucking dorks

BREAKING: DOJ sues six states (California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania) for refusing to hand over private voter data. Story TK.

Josh makes this good point about the threats of mass firings if there’s a shutdown:

A group of the country's top economic leaders, including every living former Federal Reserve chair, file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of Fed governor Lisa Cook, who President Trump is seeking to remove.

The financial economy is immersed in the kind of wild gambling we saw leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is. Be warned.

Jeffries: "As a negotiating tactic, our response to Russ Vought is simple: Get lost."

“In exile” is a weird and dictatory way to say you were voted out in a free and fair election. Feels like that word choice should get some attention.

They *think* they can pull it off. They are gonna realize just how big America is if they try.

Every single Democrat in congress has signed the discharge petition to release the full unredacted Epstein files immediately.

Well. This may be where the rubber meets the road. If they are given an unlawful order, the GENERALS and ADMIRALS et al. will face their choice. And Nuremberg II awaits those who fail the test.

This is terrifying. Hegseth is summoning all flag officers from around the globe to Quantico the night before republicans shut down the government. Is this a final purge of dissidents? Are they going to use a government shutdown as pretext for massive domestic military mobilization?

It’s wild to me that the Pentagon is just… fine with reporting that most of our senior military are going to be in the same location. Personal security nightmare.

*taps sign*

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)

“Who do you think you are? Killing thousands and flattening neighborhoods, then wrapping yourself in Judaism like it’s some shield from criticism. You’re making life for Jews miserable.” Netanyahu makes a South Park appearance

Pretty rich for someone using his office to grift and running multiple crypto cons to call SETTLED SCIENCE the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” Trump’s lying and profiting as he’s killing the planet. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/c...

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the reason for this ranges from "world war 3 is about to kick off" to "someone wrote 'Pete Hegseth is whack' in marker on the bathroom stall" that's just life under rear echelon motherfuckers www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The guy who ordered prosecutors to get no-billed under Jeanine Pirro's watch (and is now demanding investigations of Open Society Fund) got promoted in spite of his DWI.

Trump: "They're really dumb people. I mean, I look at Crockett, I look at some of these people, they are very low IQ people actually."

Following new reporting, I'm launching a new line of investigation to determine the extent of JPMorgan's compliance failures, the role of top execs in the decision to keep Epstein as a client until 2013, and the degree to which the bank enabled Epstein’s sex trafficking.

Trump's approval is on track to fall below freezing (32%) just in time for winter

Frankly, as a journalist, people in power *should* hate me. I don’t understand people who get in this game to kiss the ass of the powerful, instead of staying with their foot up the ass of the powerful

“A government shutdown could draw precious attention to the regime’s worst outrages and persuade more Americans that they have a viable alternative. It could even help Democrats gain enough power to do more than yell and scream about it.” open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

Gift link to the article!

As someone who worked on the personal staff of two three-star General Officers during my time in US Army, I cannot express how abnormal and incredibly suspect something like this is. Terrifying is absolutely the correct way to interpret this.

Trump has to put farmers on welfare after putting them out of business. Socialist Farmers for Trump. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Murphy: "The point is to get a few of Trump's political adversaries in jail, but the real point is a tried & true tactic of despots all over the world, which is to just harass & intimidate their political opposition so that protesters don't show up, candidates don't run. That's how democracies die."

WATCH: “Let’s be honest - they’re not showing up on HBCU campuses to debate. They’re showing up to agitate our children and incite a response from us.” Reactions to the Tennessee State agitators who showed up uninvited— who now claim they didn’t know it was an HBCU 🤔🙃

Murphy: "The second remedy is for the Dem Party to make clear that if you give us power, we're gonna break up these media monopolies... if we want to be credible as a critic of Trump's slide to totalitarianism, we have to explain how we're gonna put local communities back in charge of their news."

Chris Murphy: "Trump's Ukraine policy is just who was in the room last. What he said here in New York was helpful and positive for Ukraine, but next week he'll be attacking Zelenskyy as a corrupt dictator. The real bottom line is that he hasn't actually done anything to help Ukraine."

The votes are there for an #EpsteinFiles floor vote. That's why Trump suddenly wants a government shutdown.

Sinclair Makes Itself Visible www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/24/s...

📌First Republicans fled Washington early to protect the ghastly, orange pedophile. Now they are going to shut the government down to protect the ghastly, orange pedophile. 📌This isn’t a cult, it’s a sick, demented crime ring. We MUST find out what is in the Epstein Files.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told reporters this about the decisive 218th signature for House discharge petition seeking to force release of Epstein case files: "The House leaders and some of the powers that be in DC are in full panic right now"

Russian Ambassador to France: “War will begin if NATO shoots down a Russian plane.” No, it won’t.

"People don’t understand that Palm Beach in the 90s was a different time, he groused." Every word of this is a yikes

NEW: I’m calling for a Government Accountability Office investigation into ICE’s billion-dollar detention center contracts with private corporations. Trump’s admin is funneling cash to shady private prison corporations — including GOP donors. The American people deserve answers.

Everyone believes the drones buzzing Denmark are Russian and everyone knows they’re coming from civilian ships offshore. This from TV2:

Stop trying to make Scott Bessent the adult in the room. It’s not going to happen. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Jimmy Kimmel was on fire again last night.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic – is violence against the truth.

Look up “black pilled” and “radical nihilism”, it sounds pretty off the charts political to me. bsky.app/profile/clbe...

🔥 @adammockler.com : “Every time one of these tragic shootings happens everybody’s at each other’s throats about which side did it but we’re missing a broader pattern in 🇺🇸— this was another white young white dude in his 20’s… an acceleration of radicalization of young men…”

Here’s how a guy who wrote a book on the subject explained treason when we spoke in 2019. The definition is not “made the president mad for vague reasons.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...

Meanwhile, of course, Trump's handpicked stooge prosecutor is scrambling to find some way to bring an indictment against James Comey, under direct pressure from Trump, even though career prosecutors found insufficient evidence.