Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)

Unless you want to to send money to foreign money launderers in which case you can just use the Trump family crypto enterprise and a few anonymous wallets and mixers so that Bessent can track you. (As the UAE did when they transfered money to CZ)

This is an image of a federal agent shooting chemical munitions at a crowd at point blank range in Minneapolis on the day Renee Good was executed Whatever your feelings on law enforcement, understand they don't apply here whatsoever because ICE categorically *has nothing to do with law enforcement*

Morning.

The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”

It is real:

there’s a new ad running at wapo where you can access all of their articles for free without a sub if you read using comet, an ai-powered browser controlled by perplexity perplexity is an amazon-backed ai product i have no other words, really

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

They have tear gassed a parade of trick or treating children. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/26/f...

Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...

About to be 392. At Stanford next week at 10:30pm. Wow

So not about Charlie Kirk then, got it

The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.

Again, my wife lost her excellent job at a nonprofit Seattle hospital because the trump administration simply stopped paying medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year, throwing it into complete financial turmoil the cuts are already here

Domestic terrorism

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

> @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

Here he is today, deeply concerned about economic hardship caused by his tariff scheme.

Send in the clowns…🤡 Folks are sending us signs from protests across the country that say we’ve had ENOUGH of the Trump circus. #handsoff 📷 1. Alan Koppel, Chicago 2. Frederick, MD 3. John Roberts, NYC 4. Jen Wolfe, Atlanta

NC Court of Appeals: Voters get 15 days to prove their vote should count. Voters: How? NC CoA: Show your ID to prove who you are. Voters: I did that when I voted. NC CoA: DO IT AGAIN! Voters: How is that different? NC CoA: IT JUST IS!

NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1. More here:

civil servants matter. state capacity matters.

If you have parking tickets or moving violations, you're going to be renditioned to a slave labor camp in a random foreign country run by a regime-friendly dictator.

Would like to report some gang tattoos.

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

It’s easy to forget that one of the ways that both Musk and Trump got rich was by just not paying their bills

Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it. It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.

the definition of a “competent government” is “one you don’t have to think about all the time”

It's not "politicizing a tragedy" to point out the top levels of the federal government aren't functional—the three key leaders here are drunk rapist TV show host at DoD, reality TV star at DoT, and nobody at FAA—and they're doing squat except spreading the same dysfunction down the ladder.

the verb is "steal" not "reverse"

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2025. May the odds be ever in your favor.

In his opening speech, Speaker Mike Johnson just recited a long prayer attributed to Thomas Jefferson. As @jackjenkins.me and others have pointed out, Jefferson never said any of this: www.monticello.org/research-edu...

Guess how I found out I have Lynch Syndrome? From being in the All of Us study. You should enroll, too!

i must've missed when Trump tried anything other than pretending

Kash Patel apparently runs a "America First" clothing line. "Tired of seeing your money go overseas?" reads a product page. "Support your fellow Americans by purchasing a Protect Our People t-shirt." Shirt appears to be made on Next Level blanks ... which are made in Central America and Haiti.

Putting people in charge of departments they want to destroy is kind of the unwritten subtext of project 2025

UNC professor Barry Popkin fears if Kennedy is confirmed as HHS head, "thousands of children may die of measles and many other infectious diseases for which children have been vaccinated for many decades." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

I feel mislead by all dystopian literature. It's supposed to be a powerful authoritarian government that lords over a cowering population, and and we just need need a few brave acts of heroism to give the people the courage to rise up. Instead it's just half the country being dumb and mean.