This has a whole lot of “OJ looking for the real killer” energy

Uhhhh

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

You were betrayed, José.

“Over the past 48 hours alone, the Daily Beast has counted at least a dozen times when Trump has either confused names and dates, mixed up facts, or even appeared to drift off in public, prompting the obvious question: Is the president OK?” www.thedailybeast.com/12-reasons-w...

"The MRI was not disclosed in the report of the president’s latest visit to the Walter Reed Medical Center … Asked about this by the Daily Beast on Friday, along with a request for an update on the president’s health given this week’s events, the White House declined to answer.”

Democrats asked for ONE THING today to reopen the govt: Keep health insurance subsidies where they are at now for one year. That is IT. Nothing else. Republicans said no. So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS. Republicans OWN this shutdown.

If you’re a Virginian, you know or are related to or are impacted by DOGE cuts, RIFs, shutdown or forced retirements in some way. Today, Virginians clapped back at 🐂 💩. Hearing Spanberger speak about public service. Hearing Sherrill speak about the Statue of Liberty. I earned a little hope today.

“Wicked” star Jonathan Bailey is People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2025. The magazine's pick was announced Monday night on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Bailey takes the mantle from “The Office” and “Jack Ryan” star John Krasinski, who was the 2024 selection.

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

Under McMahon, ED Is Diminished but Not Dead, Experts Say Inside Higher Ed spoke with more than a dozen politicians, higher education experts and former department employees; their thoughts on the agency’s status varied, but many tried to remain hopeful. https://bit.ly/3WDv9w1

ICYMI: I asked more than a dozen higher ed experts, how dead is the Dept. of Ed? Some tried to stay optimistic, describing the agency as diminished not dead. Others feared the damage has already been done. But across the board, most say ED is in critical condition.

Welcome to Halloween Town 2025! Jack Skellington (me) for our Halloween Skull de Sac party. With Zero.

It's been 15 years and nobody's leaked a single bit of this plan, my man

And there it is... Announcement is made that the US House will be out of session again next week They haven't voted since mid-September

Ffs

Some of my thoughts on what is happening to education during Trump 2.0. #education #highered

👇🎯 It's incredible how THE explanation for Why Democrats Lost in 2024 - the one the pundits were certain about (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) a year ago, & which was the nonstop centerpiece of the National Conversation™️ for <3 straight years> - has now been completely cast aside as if it never happened.

Trump’s Layoffs Gut Office of Postsecondary Ed College-access advocates say that TRIO and other student support services will face major disruptions as a result. https://bit.ly/4qetVVm #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives' a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not' so the funding disappeared?? and people are dying??

This can impact the image folks have of a person. They should sue.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Nexstar and Sinclair, which own a combined 20% of local ABC affiliates, will still not broadcast Jimmy Kimmel. Sinclair is a conservative company that donates to and supports right-wing causes.

The man is losing it.

MAGA now celebrates cancel culture, promotes safe spaces for conservatives, believes free speech should be curtailed, and thinks words encourage violence. Exact opposite of all their positions. Its almost as if they're bad faith hypocrites who want power by any means necessary.

HAPPY GOLDEN GIRLS DAY

More than 40% of arrests in Trump's D.C. law enforcement surge are immigration-related, AP analysis finds.

Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.

"Loomer falsely suggested that Paul Pelosi and his assailant were lovers, calling the brutal assault on the octogenarian a “booty call gone wrong.” Speaking to a television audience a few days after the attack, a grinning Kirk called for the intruder to be sprung from jail."

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

This whole scene is creepy.

HE FUCKING TURNED HIMSELF IN.

Remember when Bill Clinton was with Loretta Lynch for like 5 minutes on the tarmac of an airport and the right lost their shit?!

And, what happens when they have a suspect? They use the President’s words at trial.

💔 Fred Guttenberg whose daughter died in the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

I have serious doubts as to whether, after all of its politically-motivated firings, the FBI has the capacity and expertise to actually investigate Kirk’s murder. The lawsuit filed today against Patel and the Bureau describes a complete clown show that leaves all of us less safe

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

The narrative is that shooting at Trump and Kirk is political violence while January 6 and Gaza don't exist and ICE abuses are the normal course of business

BREAKING A suspect in the shooting of Charlie Kirk is NOT in custody, per the University to multiple outlets. So the shooter, who reportedly shot Kirk from 200 yards away, is at large.

Eliminating these programs is going to harm all students at these institutions. These programs are designed to support institutions with high populations of needy students and low core expenses per student. Taking this money away is going to eliminate tutoring, advising, library funds, endowment…

it took the president more than 12 hours to come up with this

Yeah, @jaywillis.net nails it: "One possible reason the conservative justices usually don’t explain their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions: Their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions might read like this."

NEW: On a 2-1 vote, the D.C. Circuit motions panel this morning ordered that the Trump administration stop trying to execute Trump's firing of Shira Perlmutter as Register of Copyrights and head of the U.S. Copyright Office for now as her case proceeds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The VA-11 special election will be at ~150,000+ votes when all are counted, solid turnout — and James Walkinshaw will win by 50 points in a district Harris won by 34. Dems have now overperformed 2024 results by 15+ points in all three House special elections this year

MAGA disinfo machine is as bad as I've ever seen it: *jobs numbers are fake *falling crime stats are bogus *tariff fiasco is actually wild success *Trump signature on Epstein letter forged On the pod, @stevebenen.com is great on big picture behind WH's Epstein spin: newrepublic.com/article/2002...