Politico’s piece explains why, even with tariffs, US manufacturing capex expectations are near multi-year lows. @politico.com 🤡 www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

“First Ford, Now Jeep. Automakers Are Hit by Lack of Parts - Supply-chain snafus for rare-earth minerals, aluminum and semiconductors have hit carmakers simultaneously. Tariffs have cost the auto industry more than $12 billion and affected production.” www.wsj.com/business/aut...

A mere 19 months ago, Trump’s net worth was $2.6B, and he owed hundreds of millions in civil penalties. Today, Trump is worth $7.1B, and most of the civil penalties have been tossed out. Presidential politics is by far the most lucrative business venture of Trump’s career. trib.al/XjAdogE

Chicago Tribune adding to the number of excellent pieces about the South Shore raid - noting that not a single criminal charge has been laid as a result of the raid: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/i...

Welp.

"During Friday’s meeting, Trump appeared to have adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own recent statements about Russia’s weaknesses, said European officials briefed on the meeting." -- www.ft.com/content/7960...

"Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia: US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting" -- www.ft.com/content/7960...

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

Weird they didn’t think of this before the tariffs

A Border Patrol agent in Round Lake Beach on the morning of Friday 10/18 tells the person filming his license plate, "we change plates out every day."

“Supercharging this law enforcement agency and at the same time you have oversight being eliminated?…This is very scary.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

At a recent SASC hearing, Senator Reed asked a DoD official why the US was bombing boats in the Caribbean if fentanyl was actually entering the US from Mexico. The response: "Sir, we're conducting those attacks because the President of the United States directed that we conduct those attacks."

“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”

Just jaw dropping treachery.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

They have been doing the Soros-paid protestors thing for decades, the difference is that now an obvious lie will be used as a pretext for an authoritarian to threaten civil society. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Very predictable (and understandable).

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country

Geography. Don’t skip it in school.

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack. This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Trump is treating the military like a “private army,” political scientist @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social warns. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/15/t...

The most upsetting part of this story to me is the line where the Times says it is “unclear” where the money came from. Under our constitution, it is either extremely clear where money comes from - a congressional appropriation - or an illegal channel. So so, @nytimes.com

This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.

Be sure to read this. It demonstrates that Rubio is not a diplomat or even a politician guided by some modicum of principle. He is a morally depraved creature whose tenure at DOS is likely to be viewed by historians as an institutional low point. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Why Americans should be concerned about Trump's project to remake the armed forces of the United States into a private militia which swears the Führereid and is deployed principally against his domestic political enemies. This is the essence of fascism. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/15/t...

President Trump is dehumanizing and demonizing his opponents using totalitarian language seen in the worst governments around the world. This essential @danvock.bsky.social report breaks down its dark meaning. No place getting it worse than Chicago. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/t...

in 40 years of covering politics and government, i've never encountered anyone as sinister as Stephen Miller my @zeteo_news column please read, share and subscribe zeteo.com/p/who-is-ste...

“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline

Hegseth wants to make his "Christian Nationalist" church the sole church recognized by the Pentagon, and he is terminating chaplaincy contracts with Catholics and mainstream protestants. This is what "freedom of religion" means to Trump.

Mike Johnson: "We're fighting for healthcare as well. Not just in word but in deed. We put in the one big beautiful bill, real reforms to Medicaid to make it work better." (The bill in fact cuts nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid.)

If No Kings were a state, it’d have more people than Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, or 30 other states

The administration simultaneously says it needs to lay off employees because it is out of money and also that Kristi Noem needs two private jets because it is not safe for her to travel through the airports where her propaganda is running 24/7

If you make more than $360,000 annually, congratulations. The GOP has given you a tax cut. If you make less than that amount, tough luck for you.

In exchange for getting to house migrants in El Salvador's notorious prison, the Trump administration agreed to give up top MS-13 cooperators, "a key step in hindering an ongoing U.S. investigation" into the Salvadoran government's relationship with the gang. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Many soccer fans were excited that the men's World Cup would be coming to the U.S. next year — until they discovered how much FIFA is charging for tickets.

2 AMERICAS: “The top 10% now account for nearly half of all spending — highest since the late 1980s. Consumer sentiment has climbed among high earners but fallen for other groups.” Again: Trump & @MarshaBlackburn & the GOP only care about the rich. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

“If you are a head of state, it is in your direct political interest to buy Mr. Trump’s tokens or invest in one of his crypto ventures.”

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs “The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

Every Republican on the Sunday shows should be forced to comment on this. Show them. Make them watch That won't happen. But should

Imagine thinking they ever cared about debt, fraud, waste, abuse, or anything of the sort. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

At least 29 people—whose guilt or innocence we'll never know—would surely have preferred to have been repatriated, or even “prosecuted or held in military detention.” But instead, they were killed by this administration and its _Defense_ Department. See adamisacson.com/boat-strikes

World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide www.theguardian.com/environment/...