(can we also talk about the handwriting)

Senate Republicans blocked Democrats' bill that would have reopened the government and saved health care for millions of Americans. This is the SIXTH time they've done this. Republicans are responsible for this shutdown.

These people vote too,

Christian minister attacked by ICE agents. Waiting for the outrage from MAGA. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This term, the Supreme Court could pave the way for states to oust 19 Black and Brown members of Congressmen by demolishing the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais Which would cripple minority representation at the federal level And gerrymander up to 27 districts for Republicans in total

What we can learn from Napheesa Collier’s call for accountability from WNBA leadership. @carronjphillips.bsky.social

🇨🇦 The 154th Thanksgiving Day is on Mon. 13-Oct-2025 — in 4 17⁄77 days (or 4 days and 5° 17′ 57.141″).

{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: Witness the explosive reality behind ❝law and order❞! {𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘦!} Border Patrol agents fire on protesters — discover how chaos is manufactured for the cameras. See what power is really provoking on the streets!

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𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿: Trump’s threat to use the Insurrection Act is a clear power move, targeting Democratic cities as ❝safety❞. Dormant since 1992, it lets presidents deploy troops at home. Experts say it’s vague; governors warn of authoritarian overreach.

2/ "Justice Department officials have privately expressed that the case could quickly unravel under the scrutiny of a federal judge and defense lawyers." @kfaulders.bsky.social Alexander Mallin and Peter Charalambous reporting abcnews.go.com/US/central-w...

Prosecution of Comey looks headed to a dead end. "Federal prosecutors ... determined that a central witness in their probe would ... likely prevent them from establishing their case to a jury." abcnews.go.com/US/central-w...

Greta Thunberg alleges torture in Israeli detention after Gaza flotilla arrest reut.rs/4nE1CxU

Thus far, ICE and CBP in the Chicago region killed an immigrant Shot a woman 5 times-after allegedly taunting her, saying “Do something, b****” And shot a priest-who wasn’t remotely a threat-in the head So when does Governor Pritzker deploy the National Guard to protect citizens from these thugs

COHEN: “Federal workers earned that pay, and the law makes it clear they’re entitled to it.” US Rep. Steve Cohen rips into Trump for threatening to withhold back pay from federal employees who are working through the #republicanshutdown

“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to strike down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy by licensed therapists practiced on minors — a ruling that could affect similar laws in nearly half the country and make life more difficult for LGBTQ children at an already perilous time.”

So, yeah, basically, expect both Senators and witnesses to be somewhat misleading about who did what for what reason in tomorrow's hearing. Thankfully for my sanity, I will be on an airplane without internet access (if the plane actually takes off on time).

And, as I covered earlier this week, Ted Cruz's whole report is based on him (1) not understanding disinfo research (2) not understanding that monitoring disinfo is not censorship and (3) pretending Biden was President from 2018-2020. www.techdirt.com/2025/10/06/s...

Tomorrow Sean Davis of the Federalist is going to testify before Congress claiming Biden targeted him and I'm guessing he's going to claim the targeting involved Google "demonetizing" the Federalist. There are many problems with this (read along).

This strikes me as pretty bad

Fascist republicans have confirmed idiot MAGA lunatic Herschel Walker as US Ambassador to the Bahamas for no other reason than to give yet another deranged unqualified cultist a title with fancy taxpayer funded salary for a job he doesn’t give a flying fuck about.

Agree. Agree. Agree.

🚨 6 former surgeons general —𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘴, 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢, 𝘌𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘺, 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳— warn that HHS chief RFK Jr. imperils public health by sidelining science, purging experts, + spreading vaccine falsehoods. Their joint alarm—unprecedented in scope—brands his tenure a threat to national well-being.

{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} Canadian here: Trump’s ❝love us again❞ feels less like reciprocity than tribute demanded. Too, my patience ends where he and his followers begin. ⤵

🇨🇦{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: Trump’s ❝Canada will love us again❞ line capped an Oval Office meeting with PM Carney that produced no tariff deal — only ❝substantial progress.❞ LeBlanc called talks ❝positive,❞ but Trump still vowed quotas and tariffs, casting Canada as a rival. 𝓞𝓹𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓰𝓸𝓸𝓭𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵, 𝓼𝓾𝓫𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓮.

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October 5, 2025

LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE DESPERATELY RUNNING 26 MILES, 385 YARDS TO ESCAPE A WAR ZONE

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...

WATCH: “58% oppose um using the National Guard in our American cities” Jessica Tarlov says Trump is trying to normalize military occupation in U.S. cities, but judges of all stripes as well as a majority of Americans are pushing back. cc Gov. Bill Lee

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker explains what he believes is Donald Trump's real goal in normalizing a military presence in U.S. cities by dressing ICE and Border Patrol agents in military gear. Watch:

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Trump claims without evidence that insurrection is taking place in Portland reut.rs/46PQWVW

{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: Leavitt crumbled under Collins’s simplest question: ❝𝓦𝓱𝓸 𝓲𝓷 𝓟𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪𝓼𝓴𝓮𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓸𝓹𝓼?❞ She had no answer, only insults for a Trump-appointed judge and a press corps that knows the law better than she does. The White House can’t defend its Portland stunt — 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝙞𝙨 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲.

{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿}: ICE under Trump behaves less like a lawful agency and more like a proto-𝕲𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖕𝖔 — political policing under a nationalist pretext, shielding the regime while terrorizing vulnerable populations. It’s not just metaphorical anymore; it’s structural.

{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: ICE isn’t just enforcing Trump’s agenda — it’s marinated in it. With cops-to-agent pipelines, MAGA-loyal unions, and leaked chats drenched in racism, analysts estimate ½ to ⅔s of ICE leans hard right. Many aren’t guarding borders anymore — they’re guarding the cult. ⤵

{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: ICE’s Chicago feud just hit clown-car fascism: agents allegedly faked 911 calls, summoned cops to their own facility, then gassed a journalist days earlier. Chief Mills calls it ❝disturbing❞ and vows subpoenas. This isn’t law enforcement — it’s a rogue militia playing soldier on U.S. soil.

Who is Bari Weiss, anyway? Bari Weiss is not just a heterodox; she is the patron saint of respectable reaction.

🚨 Bacon warns that ❝Bari Weiss conservatism❞ is MAGA with manners — a polite, urbane veneer masking the same anti-liberal project. By sanitizing Trumpist grievance for elite audiences, Weiss normalizes the authoritarian drift. The threat isn’t red-hatted rage; it’s respectability politics in pearls.

{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: Favreau nailed it — Trump’s ❝gnats❞ rant was bait. He’s provoking unrest to justify military crackdowns and feed his strongman myth. The bluster about health and Bin Laden is noise; the plan is chaos. 𝐀 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 — 𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓵 𝓭𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓪𝓬𝔂 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓹𝓼 𝓱𝓲𝓶. ↴ tinyurl.com/vy2zbu8h

{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: Karlan’s right — SCOTUS’s boxed itself in. After siding with Trump in 21⁄23 power-grab cases, the RW-bloc looks less like referees & more like cheerleaders for a 𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝓮𝔁𝓮𝓬𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓮. The ⁉️ isn’t if they’ll restrain him — it’s whether they still believe in limits at all. ↷ tinyurl.com/hyrz49sr

{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: Nicolle Wallace torched Trump’s DHS + Defense aides for ❝Signalgate III❞ — Hegseth’s team plotting 82nd Airborne deployment on an encrypted app out in public. Regime’s contempt for secrecy laws and democracy alike. ❝This is not The Onion,❞ but fascism texting itself. ⇘ tinyurl.com/3xhmcn8t

{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: A commander-in-chief telling troops to ❝𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇❞ Democrats crosses an 𝒆𝒙𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 authoritarian red line. It’s incitement from the dais, a betrayal of civilian rule, and impeachable. Congress ducking it is complicity; the brass staying quiet is cowardice. ⤵

Trump’s ❝gnat❞ tirade to Navy troops was a fascist dog whistle in uniform — urging soldiers to ❝take care of❞ Democrats. Experts called it impeachable, authoritarian, grotesquely un-American. Weaponizing the military against civilians isn’t rhetoric; 👉🏽 the language of tyranny. ↷ tinyurl.com/4kpjjtyh

Kavanaugh claimed ICE ❝promptly lets citizens go.❞ Judd Legum shredded that fantasy — documenting Americans detained, beaten, jailed w/o warrants. A veteran, a woman knocked down, a man cuffed 2x despite a REAL ID. ❝Kavanaugh Stop❞ proves Trump’s raids defy law + humanity. ⤸ tinyurl.com/3hevh43u

{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: ❝𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐚ñ𝐨𝐥!❞ ⤵