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So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

I am so happy that I will be on an airplane (probably with no internet access) while this is happening because... this is going to be so fucking stupid (starting with the fact that Cruz's report seems to have some difficulty recognizing that someone other than Biden was president from 2018-2020).

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Is Vance cool if he were shown wearing a dunce cap lying on a couch?

Whether it's Matthew Whitaker's bathroom fixtures or Donald Trump's party renovations, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on ballroom innovation.

Imagine being able to afford to live until you’re 91. I’ll be lucky to afford living until I’m 67. After that? It’s off to Carousel for the likes of me. I hope you kids like your Soylent Green in 2035.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

"When reporters feel compelled to add 'experts say' to basic mathematical facts or treat war crimes as matters of legitimate debate, they’re not being neutral — they’re actively misleading their audience into believing basic facts are up for debate among 'experts.'" www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/t...

We talk to a fair number of physicians, both here and in private life. These are people of varying politics and they’d never be so crass as to diagnose someone who is not their patient. But to a man and woman they all unofficially say something is seriously wrong.

Now that @mikiesherrill.bsky.social is going to make Russ Vought pay for cutting tunnel funding, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should REALLY fuck with their brains by accusing Cuomo of being soft on terrorism bc his backer, Donald Trump, just stripped all of NYC's security funding.

Goldman looks at how the economy is relying upon the rich continuing to spend money — and how the rich are relying upon stocks continue to rise.

honest to god i think the only reason the stock market keeps going up is because rich people need the stock market to go up

I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.

"You know, I don't like to say it, I think we all as Americans whatever our politics wish good health for the president, but I think there are some real concerns for him here. I think we have all seen it in our families when a loved one declines mentally and physically ... "

Turn up the volume.

I know, this is illegal and dangerous, but I can't help laughing at it. Anyone who believes a fake pseudotreaty signed by Trump deserves what they'll inevitably get, which is Trump backing out of it because his word is worth less than nothing.

Video: youtu.be/IIF18ZEyKA0?...

Defunding the police is ok when it’s Trumpists doing it.

A big reason why Leo was chosen - why Francis backed him - is that he generally shares Francis's beliefs but is more diplomatic. In general he doesn't speak off the cuff like Francis did. But I think he is so personally offended by what's going on in the United States he can't help it.

There’s a reason I call it Republican SCOTUS. They are corrupt and partisan.

Since Republicans launched the CR focused government shutdown in the 1990s we have had a few. I don’t know why anyone thinks this one will play out any differently than the others. The Democrats have plenty of examples of how this works. This isn’t novel. The wild card is that Trump is a fascist.

The ADL thought it could fall in line with Musk and it would stop his attacks on them. Instead, it just made them complicit, legitimized Musk, and ultimately didn’t actually change him at all. This is how fascists work. Greenblatt tried being transactional: for fascists, it only goes one way.

That’s the same price in the stores. It’s not just for delivery.

How is this sustainable?

Extreme privilege rots and Trump and his progeny are a living, perfect example. Watching this lump of a person “succeed” because his family had wealth and everything was rigged in his favor, to the point he became president and millions want him as dictator is so nauseating I can barely stand it.

I know too much about how LLMs work to ever use it as a search engine. Those Google “AI” summaries are like rolling dice to determine what you get. Maybe it’s true and maybe it’s not, but you won’t know unless you already know the answer.

The Gestapo and Schutzstaffel administrative workers are on furlough. Who is going to process the receiving paperwork at the camps?

The short jacket sleeves really bothers me. He looks like he’s wearing a jacket purchased when he was thirteen.

During 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, he said: "I remember living, naked women being transported by trucks from the barracks to the gas chamber. I still hear their screams in my subconscious when I return in my thoughts to those events." His address: youtu.be/5X2UE8JOyLw

I'll bet that a non insignificant number of USians think that the Democrats control Congress.

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

NEW: California tells the Ninth Circuit, "As long as this Court’s published stay order ... remains in place, [the Trump admin] will be emboldened to press forward with plans to deploy troops for law-enforcement purposes across our Nation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump told the military he plans on using them to fight a war against the people Surviving and defeating a dictatorship is incredibly hard, but it begins with a very simple thing. Listen to the dictator when he tells you what he intends to do jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/listen-to-...

It’s a trap.

Donald Trump basically announces that he is declaring war on anyone he deems a Democrat... and one of the leading Democratic Senators, @blumenthal.senate.gov thinks now is the best time for a bipartisan censorship bill that will let MAGA define what content is allowed on the internet. WTF?

/4 The case number is CV2025-034286. Anyone have an account on the Arizona eAccess site? That seems to be the only way to get it. But a reporter had it, read it, wrote about it, but DIDN'T LINK IT. That makes me stabby.

The merits of this comment aside, to my knowledge, Vladimir Putin and his defense ministers have never staged an event like the one today in Virginia.

Welp, looks like I'm done posting on @bsky.app for the day. I didn't even realize the daily video limit was still a thing. Any help, @support.bsky.team?

Do I have this straight? Donald Trump is threatening to unilaterally cut Social Security and Medicare?

New piece. The data presented by @thejcpa.bsky.social and @counterhate.com about antisemitism on X is stark: it is being spread to hundreds of millions of people. Not just antisemitism, but OVERT antisemitism. And that shift means far more than people realize. It won't be long before it leaves X.

If someone says they are serving in the military, you should not say: "Thank you for your service!!" You should say instead: "Are you willing to obey a direct order to turn your guns on American citizens to squash the political opposition of a fascist?"

Read this.

has he switched from booze to meth? common enough in his class.

If George Washington himself had done this as President, he would have been impeached, removed, prosecuted, and imprisoned. This was one of the greatest fears of the Framers.

“Enemy within” is literally Nazi propaganda used against the Jews.

I have to imagine a non-trivial percentage of the people in that room are thinking seriously about the necessity of a coup

I am going to choose my words carefully here, but I will say that you don't get to general or flag rank without being politically smart and planning for all eventualities.

Been asking this for a while. What will the military do when presented with an undeniably illegal order?