This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

After mass firings—and un-firings—current and former CDC officials said they are feeling demoralized. Half a dozen current and former workers spoke with Tom Bartlett about the botched downsizing.

I’ve been sitting with this the last few hours. It’s really hitting me just how fucking depraved you have to be to respond to an inquiry about an abducted child with a screenshot of a post on elon musk’s hellsite smearing this kid who has no ability to defend himself. It’s unfathomable.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

oh. right. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..." www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster. newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...

She probably should have impressed this upon Kavanaugh before he issued an opinion endorsing what are now known as “Kavanaugh stops.”

DANIELS: Should the next Democratic president be a little bit more involved with the DOJ than Democrats have been in the past? KAMALA HARRIS: No president should think of the DOJ as being their personal attorney

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?" A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

“.. the self-proclaimed frog brigade — three adults in inflatable amphibian costumes — posed for photos .. “.. A small group of counterprotesters nearby shouted, “We love you, ICE!” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.’s longest-standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction.

Separate campus shootings here in Mississippi this evening: Authorities say one person is dead and two others wounded at Alcorn State University. Meanwhile, about 70 miles northeast of that incident, a child has been hit by gunfire in the tailgate section of Jackson State University stadium.

Tim Dillon: "Children being zip tied, or a grandmother being zip tied, people who've maybe lived in a community 30 years and they're not committing a crime...showing up to a high school graduation and deporting someone's father, seems to a lot of people to be inhumane."

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

IRS layoffs are costly for the U.S., redistributing wealth to the top 1% (who lie on their taxes at jaw-dropping rates). The bottom 99% generally pay their taxes. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

How many times have I watched that DAAAAAA Yankees Lose clip over the past 3 days

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come." @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

Nine months in, the oldest president ever is showing his age—and quietly taking a second “yearly” physical.

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects. In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live. And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

WATCH- @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "incredibly dishonest and downright dangerous new talking point being pushed by MAGA:" “Republicans on Capitol Hill are claiming that peaceful protesters are part of a terrorist network hell bent on destroying America.”

One Battle After Another

"As of the end of August, preliminary data from the CPD shows 278 homicides so far this year, down by a nearly a third on the same period last year."

"Republicans blocked paying the troops during the shutdown but found $20 billion to bail out Argentina's bad crypto investments" should be the sort of thing that leads every local newscast, but...

MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: Criminal charges against Bolton expected as early as next week.

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.” 🇦🇷 🇺🇸

Is America feeling safer yet? www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning. A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists. Seems bad?

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Steve Liesman joins @stephruhle.bsky.social as Trump's White House buys stakes in more companies: "It creates winners and losers by the government."

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

FULL INTERVIEW: Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries joins Chris Hayes to discuss the indictment of NY attorney general Tish James on charges sought by Trump, the ongoing healthcare fight amid the government shutdown, the GOP delay of the Epstein files vote, and more.

“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.