The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

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“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

“Leave them alone for a few days. Let the sun shine on them, let the rain fall on them. Then your seeds will start to grow.”

We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.

I’m begging people to understand that the goal is to make it so that people live in fear. The fear is the point.

Highly recommend you read Sarah’s article for some history on Trump in Portland newrepublic.com/article/1591...

Trump is now threatening to prosecute his first hand-picked FBI director, Chris Wray

Really important to internalize that the president of the United States is ordering troops into major population centers precisely to create violent confrontations, for the sole purpose of intimidating, criminalizing and disabling opposition

Paul Butler: “At this point, being innocent is no longer a bar to being prosecuted for a federal crime by this administration.” It takes a few seconds to realize how horrifying this sentence is.

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

What a sh*t show: National Weather Service at ‘breaking point’ as storm approaches www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I need someone to run the EO tracker, but it'd be a full time job. But as best I can tell more than half the shit he's signed hasn't even happened.

Just Security is a reputable and measured source of natsec legal analysis if this FAQ weren't written by a military lawyer who teaches at Yale Law and published on JS I would write it off as the most paranoid possible take on next week's meeting but here we are www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...

“The DOJ’s findings establish that Minneapolis traffic stops were not based on the number of accidents in an area, but were instead tied to the number of Black and brown residents who lived there.” www.startribune.com/mary-moriart...

Per capita CO₂ emissions have declined in every state in America. Between 2005 and 2023, energy-related CO₂ emissions per person declined in all 50 US states. The nationwide average drop was 29%, a major structural change in the world’s second-largest emitter. buff.ly/GOf44Ie #ShareGoodNewsToo

A North Carolina GOP operative who tried to limit the state’s crucial early voting period has been named to a key post helping to run the state’s elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

New on MSNBC: According to the court transcript, only 14 of the 23 grand jurors voted in favor of indicting James Comey on the two counts that went forward.

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

Rivers are heating up faster than the Air − that’s a Problem for aquatic Life and People

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

"The point of this kind of flex isn’t Jim Comey any more than it’s Tish James or the New York Times. The point is that after he comes for them, he can come for you. That’s how authoritarians work, how they have always worked, and it’s why it’s useful to read the Niemöller poem backward."

Yet another US Attorney fired — this time in California, for… telling people to abide by a court order. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Huh https://www.levernews.com/content/files/2025/01/1985RobertsMemo-Budget.pdf

New from me: In May, the United Arab Emirates’ state-backed investment firm MGX deposited $2 billion into the Trump family crypto venture. Now, it's set to get a big chunk of the TikTok U.S. deal negotiated by the Trump White House www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Feel like if this is how the law works, there’s no reason to make a budget deal because there’s no reason to believe anything that you win via Congress will actually happen anyway.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results. So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

"At one point you can hear the man on the ground yell 'I live in America! I love you America!' ... When one witness asks why the man was arrested, the officer shouts 'Because he’s a criminal, how bout that?' He justifies his actions by telling witnesses 'I have to protect my people.'”

I'll never forget the abuse piled on public health workers like me by Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, and Prasad. Fact is, they won the pandemic, and the mindset that allowed them to do so is tearing our country apart.

Excellent piece on the way Connecticut utilities drove one of the nation's best utility regulators out of office through a campaign of slander, lawfare, & intimidation. If the clean energy world were organized worth a flying fuck, it would have made this a high-profile national fight.

New: Ahead of an anticipated federal report that will "answer" autism, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has hired a new senior adviser to the CDC. Meet Mark Blaxill, an OG anti-vaccine autism activist who claims every single vaccinated child is injured. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

The richest people in your town that you have no idea why they're rich are the beverage distributors. The most spoiled kids I knew growing up in the most spoiled school districts were the distributor heirs.

There is literally nothing any American can do to make Donald Trump happy or satisfied. His entire life is an ongoing crisis of his own making. As well as constant anger at any attempts to hold him to account. Personal chaos transferred to a nation.

Unburned: An Investigation: To protect the Plumas National Forest and its communities from the next megafire, the Forest Service plans to burn it—intentionally. Can $274 million do the job? #cawater baynature.org/article/unbu...

The administration stopped publishing an important inflation report until further notice and without explanation. Which is exactly what you'd do if inflation was falling.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski cast the deciding vote to keep the Epstein files sealed. We dug into why—and uncovered a tangled web linking her to Ghislaine Maxwell, her husband, a powerful donor, and big money in Alaska. Go to the LINK in BIO to read the full investigation.

From LA to Chicago, the feds continue their horrid practice of aiming high and directly at press. When these agencies get to uncritically claim that videotaping is violence, this is the outcome: reporters getting hit in the face with “less lethals.” Unconscionable.

Fired for comments he made 8 years ago on social media when he was in private practice & had a perfect 1st Amendment right to do so. Welcome to the Trump-loyalty corps at the Justice Department. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.

Among the Post Office's duties should be to build and manage ISP infrastructure as a nonprofit utility service provided to Americans at or below cost. Keeping the flow of information open and available to all is their original mission, let it evolve with new technology.

Read this. Seriously, read it. The Trump regime is declaring open season on its critics - NGOs, philanthropists, activists. They will be harassed, arrested, jailed. The silencing effect on others who might speak out will be huge. This is authoritarianism. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...