For some context, we could have made the monthly child tax credit that cut child poverty by 40% permanent for $100 billion a year. The return on investment would have been $15 per $1.

ZUCKERBERG: “If we end up misspending a couple of hundred billion dollars, I think that that is going to be very unfortunate, obviously. .. But what I’d say is I actually think the risk is higher on the other side.” $META youtu.be/23FyskyFoP8?...

In July, reports emerged that Blair’s thinktank worked on developing a postwar Gaza plan that included creation of “Trump Riviera” and a manufacturing zone named after Elon Musk. The project was led by Israeli business people using financial models developed by Boston Consulting Group

Been trying to explain why economy increasingly feels like it's running wholly on rich people passing each other same bag of money - innovation is stalled, unemployment is rising, but stock tickers are still somehow going up. This example captures the current state of our economy perfectly.

When the drunk Fox News guy calls me a "pussy" repeatedly for an hour

honestly cannot imagine doing everything required to rise to the very top of the US military brass and then having to fly halfway across the globe to listen to this dipshit lecture you on “the warrior ethos” or whatever the fuck

This global meeting of generals could have been an email

You all have to know Trump is going to do a guest appearance. He will say "my generals" a lot. Steven Miller will be watching on closed circuit TV to see which flag officers are not sufficiently clapping. Those that aren't will be fired. This shit is right out of the Authoritarian Playbook.

wait so the critical military brass meeting hegseth called was just for him to just strut around talking about how important he was ?

"Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say" gizmodo.com/cracker-barr...

Hi, just a note— The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

Tapping the sign again: acasignups.net/25/07/30/hea...

There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it” It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.

ICE agents have detained Des Moines Public School District superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts on Friday, according to school board chair Jackie Norris. There is no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or what the next potential steps will be. #FuckICE #ICEGestapo

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

If we're finally going to crack down about lying to Congress under oath, I think there are several Cabinet members and a few Supreme Court justices whose testimonies might need revisiting.

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

Absolutely! Shop local. Shop small business. Shop vendor malls & flea markets. Shop handmade markets, consignment shops, & antique fairs. Plenty of gifts at all these places & most owners haven't been impacted by tariffs. Pass it on!

Christmas is coming. Remember how we pressured ABC to put Kimmel back on with our wallets? Well, many of the fascist oligarchs make a lot of money off of us at Christmas time. Maybe this year, we ignore the big stores and buy local, modest gifts. It's not supposed to be about money anyway.

If we pretend trans people don't exist, they will still exist.

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BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

So the crazies are just gonna use any news report to blame dems and immigrants. Fantastic. 🙄

Yeah anyways this whole thing was a hoax and right-wingers are deleting their viral posts about it from earlier today. Completely made up. Rinse repeat with a new one tomorrow.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

New from me: Russ Vought is using federal employees as hostages in federal shutdown negotiations, threatening mass firings if Dems do not accept Trump's terms. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just allowed Vought to impose a de facto impoundment of foreign aid. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...

People who are flailing can do a lot of damage, but I think it’s important to understand that they’re not in control (of themselves or anyone else)

There’s a lot going on, as always, but Tylenol hysteria + impulsive tariffs + meeting of the generals + trying to make escalatorgate a thing … the word that comes to mind is “flailing”

but...that's not really the job now. the job is to inspire resistance and try to save democracy. and that means messaging on more than one thing, and having a strategy to deal with more than one crisis.

I mean, obviously this is a choice. jeffries wants to frame the shutdown as about healthcare; he sees his job as focusing solely on what's happening in congress. 2

health care costs are important; message discipline is often a good thing... but...if you're the head of the opposition party during a fascist takeover, this is just not the approach that meets the moment. 1

Curious, I was told this was a movement of “politics done the right way”?

I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

for those coming at me with questions, this is literally the post right before the one you are responding to in my timeline. bsky.app/profile/hunt...

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

The Daily Caller has put this disclaimer on the article, which I strongly recommend you read just to see how sadistic it is. Needless to say, the Daily Caller Editor's Note is bullshit. dailycaller.com/2025/09/26/i...

Ezra Klein explains why he is against the “oppositional” approach of Dems. One example he gives is blatantly false: immigration. But more important: Klein shows how folks like him almost always casually throw vulnerable people under the bus in the name of “practicality.”

Justice Kagan dissents from today's SCOTUS shadow docket decision allowing the President to withhold billions in foreign aid funding, showing how topsy-turvy the Court's shadow docket jurisprudence has become... @brennancenter.org

Post the wins. Think about how consumers and market forces made these giant powerful companies change course and — here’s the important part — defy Trump. Now consider doing it for something bigger than Jimmy Kimmel.

Trump got his Comey indictment Thursday and issued a memo directing "domestic terrorism" investigations. And yet, both provided more evidence that Trump is losing. On Thursday’s lashing out from Trump the tyrant, at Law Dork:

Elon Musk went to Pedophile Island www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Trump demands that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco. Anybody from the party of small government have an issue with this or nah?

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

reupping this great piece by an authority on constitutional law

Has Roberts switched to the official White House payroll yet?