I joined @sranderson.bsky.social and @alanrozenshtein.com to talk about the Comey indictment, the California law limiting ICE’s use of face masks, and more. Give it a listen!

why does this four burner stove have seven knobs oh yeah barro uses garbage "A.i."

Amid attacks on public media, there’s a bright spot: Reading Rainbow is returning! The beloved show that inspired generations will now stream on KidZuko, carrying forward its mission to celebrate reading and literacy for our children. This is POWERFUL news! 📚

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Any 22 year old afraid of metro center or the convention center station, where the national guard is, should move back in with mom.

Four Portland siblings now live with family friends after their parents were taken to a detention facility, leaving them to communicate through glass barriers.

@davidasuper.bsky.social has an interesting piece up on Balkinization, at the end of which he makes the point that because the administration is breaking the law so much of late, journalists are starting to be less interested in even reporting what the law is— balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/shut...

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

Prosecutors looking to be less carceral in their policies have been pretty consistent electoral winners at the municipal level with resilient support in communities most affected by crime. Naturally, our press, which is obsessed with authenticity and “real” Americans, is less than interested in that

people talk like this to get around censors. we did an episode of my podcast about how tech platforms and payment processors are censoring NSFW content. we used corn as a workaround from the censors and the algorithm for our channel has sucked shit ever since.

Recognized the woman in the photo instantly. She once had to hear her mother talk on camera abt driving them both off of George Washington Bridge. That talk—abt taking yr child’s life& yours—was in a video made by autism org that worked to demonize autistic ppl. Ghorayshi is a straight line from it

JUST IN: American Oversight asks the 11th Circuit to vacate Judge Cannon's blockade of the special counsel Jack Smith's report on Trump's handling of classified material. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

To explain: At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?” Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

Kavanaugh stop

USAGM informs hundreds of VOA staffers who were to be fired today that it is complying with a federal judge's order not to implement the terminations and the reduction-in-force proceedings "are currently on hold." #SaveVOA

Maybe someone should tell Pete Hegseth he’s not actually a villain from True Blood or The Boys. He’s too committed to the bit.

it’s journalistic malpractice

oh come on read the room, covid

Pay close attention to who wants you to do The Reading and who only wants you to read their interpretation

I wrote about that exact dynamic in 2019 during his first impeachment! It is exhausting to have this conversation this many times! “It is the legacy of white suffrage to ensure its own primacy, even—or especially—at the expense of representative government itself.”

I reference this early in The Originalism Trap's chapter on elections bc it perfectly illustrates the dynamic we're still dealing with today as some white people thought no education was preferable to integrated schools, some white people think no democracy is preferable to an integrated electorate

Case in point

The government shutdown would furlough about 750,000 federal workers, according to CBO analysis - story @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/g...

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine. buff.ly/8epl2QS

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Now is the time to be brave. Republicans in Georgia have controlled our state for over 20 years leading to underfunded schools, closing hospitals, & low wages stuck at $5.15. I'm running for Governor to change that.

if you go to Oak Ridge, the public pools they built for the bomb and closed rather than integrate are still sitting there empty.

BREAKING: The full Fifth Circuit will be rehearing the challenge to Trump’s Alien Enemies Act out of the Northern District of Texas known as W.M.M. v. Trump en banc — putting off Supreme Court review. Previous discussion at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/bondi-doj-...

Because of SCOTUS’s earlier order in this case, AEA-based removals from the Northern District of Texas remain blocked during this rehearing. Here is the order, with a little back-and forth from Judge ho and Southwick, who were on the three-judge panel: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

lmfao

facts

(Sorry this was a bit jumbled; I was walking and typing. You get the point.)

Now if you want to know if Trump is losing his mind you'll have to resort to older technology, like listening to him talk.

"Wake up, babe, new @nicholasbednar.bsky.social article just dropped." [Genuinely me this morning.]

OK y'all. Democrats are holding strong and now IT'S OUR JOB TO HAVE THEIR BACKS and demand Republicans stop the Trump shutdown. Start here: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

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.

Yes. (And still getting "standoff" BS and "who will blink first" and "who will voters blame" from news.) Trump and MAGA control the *entire* government. It's a simple fact: - White House - Senate - House - Scotus - OMB (to the hilt) - Every regulatory agency They're in command. It's on them.

The people who were very temporarily opposed to violence last week are back to celebrating mass murder for its own sake with a zeal that can only be described as “outlandishly horny.”

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Out of curiosity, I went to a federal website just now (hud.gov) and this is what it shows.

No he told the truth about his party's priorities

CHICAGO / SUBURBS If you want to know what it's looked like at the ICE facility in Broadview (Chicago), this brilliant photo essay from @almacampos.bsky.social & @pgoyette.bsky.social at @southsideweekly.bsky.social is a very good place to start.

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open" That's it. That's the whole story.

"we nominated you for the extreme racism but it turns out the pocket watch is a thing you wear all the time and you smell like cheese, so we'll be seeking other candidates for this position"

Seeing King and CCM fall in line (Fetterman was already there) means that Thune doesn't have to flip all that many more. You can only yell so much at the leadership when the rank and file doesn't have the stomach for protecting their own institutional power.

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

so the landed gentry get to rule

This is a rapist telling the military that rape of military women is now permitted, as a policy