⚠️ HEADS UP MAGA trolls will be incoming. The White House and DHS both just announced on X that they’ve joined Bluesky. These are their accounts:

The White House has joined BlueSky. Other agencies like the Department of Education, Department of Homeland Security, etc. have also joined BlueSky.

Here’s a block list for those interested:

Game recognizes game

This isn’t an “of course” situation. Trump has allowed Santos to spend three months in prison and has never expressed concern for him. And not cause he’s gay. MTG has been pushing publicly for clemency but she’s on the outs with Trump. Santos wrote this to Trump two days ago pleading for clemency

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Virtual No Kings rally: #NoKings

If I wanted to disrupt a protest, I'd start a rumor that the regime was going to send agitators to infilitrate the protest and act up. Then I'd sit back and watch them all act like cops and turn on each other. We go through this every 3 years and it works every time.

BREAKING: Prince Andrew is giving up all royal titles, including the 'Earl of Inverness' after discussion with the King It comes days before the publication of a book by Andrew’s late alleged victim, Virginia Giuffre

⚠️ Senators Move to Force Vote to Bar Ground Strikes in Venezuela Senators Kaine, Schiff, and Paul are forcing a vote because they’re worried “the Trump administration’s order of covert C.I.A. action in Venezuela could be the first step toward an all-out war” and want to go on record. Gift link:

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

Greenblatt with kinder words for Republicans who are affiliated with actual Hitler Youth than what he says about Zohran Mamdani

#2 is my question also.

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2018...

People should be very alarmed about Trump's move this week revoking 6 visas for posting about Charlie Kirk. These weren't random. They were all prominent people in the arts, with business visas. One is German filmmaker Mario Sixtus, whose new documentary criticizes AI and US tech firms. 1/

Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts | #ksleg via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/10/15/j...

Politico received an initial tip that a Taylor staffer had a swastika neatly pinned to his cubicle during a zoom call. When confronted, the congressman’s press office pretty implausibly sought to present the situation as a police matter, and Politico went along with that in its headline and lede.

It turns out that making things more expensive makes them more expensive.

BREAKING “The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits. I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Kansas Young Republicans shut down after Politico report on racist, violent encrypted chat | #ksleg via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/10/14/k...

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Blue no matter my ass.

These aren’t kids, btw. The story involves young adults, most of whom are employed and some of whom are married. Some are in elected positions. Some work on the Hill. At least one works in the Trump administration.

when you tie a tie, try to put in a dimple, like so

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined other media organizations in refusing to sign onto the Pentagon’s new press requirements.

She could endorse and campaign for Platner…but instead nope, gotta add another old fart to the congressional nursing home..

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing. Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

The Dem establishment appears to be putting its thumb hard on the scales against Graham Platner: The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has formed a joint fundraising committee with the campaign of Janet Mills. It’s called “Maine Senate Victory 2026”: docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

The latest hasbara false narrative on X is a claim that there were no female hostages released today because Hamas killed them all. It is even being spread by Katie Miller, the wife of White House CoS Stephen Miller. The reality is female hostages were released under previous ceasefire agreements.

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Portland independent journalist:

Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 email: “I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!” Release the Epstein files. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

A 15-year-old autistic, intellectually disabled, and often non-verbal boy in Houston has been held in ICE custody for the past week without his family knowing where he was. I confirmed this video is real with local news reports:

ICE hovering over my kid's elementary school is some bullshit. But we will show up everyday until THEY get tired.

Lyon County WIC office closes amid federal government shutdown www.wibw.com/2025/10/09/l... This sucks. Emporia has lost a lot of jobs this year.

At the age of 77, you could be doing so many other things with the end of your life as you march towards cognitive dysfunction. Not in the US. We’re running for Senate 😎

There is also a safety training scheduled in advance of the No Kings protests: act.aclu.org/a/no-kings-k...

Here’s how to find a No Kings protest near you:

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Melania has denied reports Barron is autistic, but, if he were autistic, that would help explain some of Trump’s fixations on maternal blame and finding environmental rather than genetic causes for autism. (Interestingly, one of the larger correlations that has been found is advanced paternal age…)

“No Kings” organizers in FL got a visit from investigators with the criminal division of the state’s Department of Financial Services because of a postcard they sent to FL state CFO Blaise Ingoglia that said “You lack values.”

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year: Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.