Kennedy timed his retirement to make sure Trump got an extra pick on the court. It is not "partisanship" that is threatening American democracy. It is people who do not believe in democracy.

This. It fried people's brains.

Kennedy contributed more towards the current state of the nation than 99.9999% of the population. This is the America he worked for decades to create.

The stark contrast between Trump's description of Portland and the reality reported by local officials has raised questions about the true motivation behind the surprise deployment announcement.

Feds just arrested a reporter at the ICE facility outside Chicago

Agents are policing the crowd from the bed of a pickup truck at the Broadview ICE detention center. ATF is with them on the ground.

this is the housing market but at least we're investigating what happened to amelia earhart

the Starbucks locations in my county that are closing are all union stores

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff. “This place is built to break us”

NPR is suing, to put this in context. See the thread.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous. Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos. Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.

In my opinion, the 2nd most important election this November (after CA Redistricting) is the trio of Pennsylvania State Supreme Court retention elections. Many in PA are unaware, and we need to fix that. All 3 Justices MUST be retained. GIFT ARTICLE to read/share. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

As you think about how to respond to Portland news, maybe think about dif between rhetoric of Newsom & Pritzker. Newsom mirrored; Pritzker spoke clearly about just how dangerous the moment it is. Do you want to be glib? My argument is that the main agency we have now is precision of language. 1/

Just to be clear, fully endorse the idea that more people need to internalize the fact that Trump is a failing, widely despised figure...that's part of what I'm trying to do too

Serious question: what does it matter that Trump is polling in the 30s unless and until an organized and mobilized opposition prevails in free and fair elections?

kudos to @adamserwer.bsky.social who wrote the piece that gets at the core of what's been happening over the last ten months. regular people are standing up, at real risk. elites are folding like cheap umbrellas www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

The capitalistic destruction of art and the artist has been going on for forever, but we’ve reached the point where fascists and corporations control our imaginations, which is central to controlling reality. It’s an invisible prison and it’s virtually undiscussed.

Clear grounds for removing Trump from office. He’s sending America’s military against a domestic terror organization that does not exist fighting a war that is not happening. He’s gone completely and dangerously mad.

Get ready all cities he has already told us he’s going into. They have been doing advance work on this since January. They’ve been making test incursions and militarizing the police.

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

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 is massively unpopular. Most Americans don’t want this. “In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed.”

281 US children died from the flu in the 2024-25 season. Vaccination saves lives. 👇

“Doctors from abroad make up nearly one quarter of the physician work force in the United States. They provide much of the staffing in rural and underserved areas of the country, and many fill positions in important areas of medicine that are often shunned by U.S.-trained physicians”

Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me. But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)

"Speech by speech, step by step, transgression by transgression, the world is grasping the scale of over-reach & unfettered behavior the White House occupant is pursuing...I feel a growing sense of relief that those of us who grasp the insanity are not alone." www.americaamerica.news/p/to-feel-le...

Do not bow down to these people. Do not allow them to convince you that you must. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE ON TIK TOK, FACEBOOK, X and ALL NEWS STATIONS EXPLAINING THIS INFO TO THE COUNTRY. THE REPUBLICANS AND PREZ ARE LYING TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT THE SHUTDOWN IS ABOUT.

The Russian spy ship stalking Europe’s subsea cables on.ft.com/4nOeeCn

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

Half the states don’t have enough money to cover all their bills, report finds

<popcorn eating dot gif>

Math isn't Republicans strong point.

US marketing companies are helping to rebrand the genocide in Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi

I wrote about one of the most terrifying days of my life. www.pbump.net/o/taking-tyl...

"If our judicial officers are not making decisions based on the law and the facts in a case before them, but instead are making decisions based out of fear for their family's safety, that means our entire judicial system is going to start to unravel."

U.S. intelligence officials have published a document every four years that predicts what challenges the country and the world will face. Past editions warned of threats that came to pass, including the risk of a pandemic. Tulsi Gabbard’s office is eliminating the group that compiles the report.

Chicago just went all in on renewable energy and is demonstrating that it works. Chicago now powers EVERY city-owned building – from airports to police stations – with renewable energy. That includes O’Hare airport.

Talisman said he has flagged this Hyattsville, MD ICE incident to his representatives, including Democratic senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks, as well as the Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrest-g...

The video is... something else. This ICE agent has zero training. Stuffing the gun in his belt, so of course it falls out? What restraining hold was he even trying to do? Why did he point the gun at the crowd? Everyone who played a role in putting this guy on the street needs to be fired.

If you are in the US military, this is your reminder that it is illegal to follow an unlawful order.

High-resolution satellite view capturing the eye of Typhoon #Ragasa. The image reveals a sharply defined eye surrounded by towering convective clouds and a tightly organized eyewall, offering a rare close-up look at the cyclone’s inner dynamics.🌀🌪☁️ H/t: @BackpirchCrew 📸

The gutting thing is when I speak to anybody under 25 or so, and they… don’t know this is unusual. The only America they’ve ever known is this openly corrupt, broken one.

you are about to see the nation’s beer distributors—aka “the toughest lobby you’ve never heard of”—lose their fucking minds

ICE themselves believe that they are terrifying secret police "With the suspect in custody, the ICE agent wearing a balaclava walked toward the group of onlookers and appeared to ask, 'Want to be next?'"

Damn this is good. History, politics, emotion, hope, CHANGE.

are democrats going to fight to make the enhanced tax credits permanent or just push them out to past the midterms