The Department of Homeland Security created a new job — “deputy assistant secretary for elections integrity” — then gave it to a known election denier. We debunk her false claims:

glancing through this, it basically follows that path of ilan wurman's "scholarship," ignoring the actual text and legislative record in favor of the basic assertion that the plain meaning of the text *can't* be true.

Hey, just want to mumble that this is wildly illegal and inappropriate and would prompt impeachment proceedings if we still had a functional Congress instead of one run by a blind, deaf and mute Renfeld wannabe.

This was a piece I needed to read. Maybe you will, too. organizingmythoughts.org/we-have-to-m...

In Les Miserables, Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread to save his sister’s starving son He serves 19 years in jail & emerges the hero The villain? The cop who’s determined to pit him back in jail For the crime of not wanting someone to starve Telling this story for absolutely no reason at all.

American elites have acted with a degree of pathetic servility that I didn't expect even from them. I'm not talking about the fash-adjacent ones, but the ones terrified of losing a bit of social standing, or some small fraction of their comfortable wealth. Just abject cowardice.

Why doesn’t Germany have Hitler statues, Chris Cillizza wonders. The devil has enough advocates and I doubt one that deliberately dumb would be welcome.

You Can Now See the Parthenon Without Scaffolding for the First Time in 200 Years www.openculture.com/2025/10/you-...

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

MAHA’s out here all smug with their lies about vaccines and sat fats while the same administration cuts nutrition benefits for children. Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat. We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.

No justification for this, and harbinger of mischief to come. Justice Department Will Monitor Elections in California and New Jersey www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

A TPM Reader told me to look at the Department of Labor page on Facebook for something called Project Firewall. It's basically their name for cracking down on highly skilled foreigners on H-1B visas. Here's the Dept's description here. www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation. Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Shohei Ohtani hits his first career #WorldSeries home run!

The government is starving the people.

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

An ode to the East Wing, RIP. Written by my friend and colleague (and one time boss) Elisabeth Bumiller. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

And here's a sixth: it will make my day to see you there. playbill.com/article/5-re...

And they called it the the Great Epstein Recess of 2025

The carceral state is generally brutal and evil in the way it treats the human beings it cages, but it’s fine to point out when there are bursts of unusually concentrated or vigorous evil and use it to get people to care.

like a toy chihuahua barking at me from a tiny purse, that’s how much it hurts spotify.link/5CtPfZuWJXb

This is their playbook for the midterms. Intimidation and harassment - if we are lucky it will only be that. Because their full playbook is most likely much worse but this is the warmup act.

Angus: Canada is reconsidering that relationship with China. Why? Because we can no longer trust the US. And we know that we have 150, maybe more, Canadians in custody at ICE detention centers. We had two Canadians under Chinese custody and it caused a huge outcry. We now have over 150 in the US.

These stops are not "at odds with the mission." The mission is to meet Miller's arrest quotas, to show that the administration can and will exact revenge on regions that do not comply in advance, and to create chaos to be used to justify stripping rights. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/24/f...

The company brought Junior in right after the election as part owner. They just won the largest drone motor contract awarded by the Pentagon.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

“Don’t want to lose SNAP? Tell the Dems to reopen the government!” SNAP assistance gets cut in the big beautiful bill too. Healthcare is slashed as well. They’re withholding food for 40 million Americans to try and force the Dems to sign off on cutting food AND healthcare!

In a stunningly anti-veteran move, the Trump admin tried to use the government shutdown as an excuse to halt nearly all court rulings on veterans' disability benefits. A 9-0 court—led by a Trump appointee—rejected their "extreme request," calling it unconscionable.

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

You know things are utterly FUBAR in the US when @bellingcat.com is doing satellite imagery analysis of the White House.

I think you are underestimating the degree to which people have a picture of what the white house has looked like their whole lives and now it doesn't look like that anymore.

Sort of an unexpectedly mournful energy to this ad today

Seven percent? LUXURY (It was between 10 and 8 percent the year I graduated from college.) Why are people invested in narratives like "the economy is crashing" when it's more to the point to say that "Trump's tariffs are damaging the economy"

They know the East Wing demolition is bad optics for them that’s why so many have suddenly “come to life” on this platform today armed w/inaccurate talking points about earlier renovations at the WH.

when all this is over we need to have a pretty serious conversation about the utter moral failure of the elite of this country

Unimaginable headline in the morning paper

Wolff knows how to play this game because he doesn't fall that far from the Trump tree. But the courts are, for the moment, there for everyone. And activists and elected officials shld be doing lots of this stuff. And not just on speech grounds but tying the TW/Skydance deal up in courts

Jeffries: "He's found time to demolish the East Wing in the most horrific way possible bc he wants to erect a ballroom so he can be celebrated like a king. He's found time for all of these different things, but somehow can't be bothered to find a dime to extend the ACA tax credits."

im sorry but if you think “normies” dont care about the white house being demolished for a half billion dollar golden vanity ballroom as the economy implodes then you just arent as plugged in as you think you are

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

"Magda Goebbels made a great strudel"

Note how the Right does not deny their own agency to make normies care about things. Abortion. Immigration. "Woke." They manufactured public sentiment on all of these things. And they've relied on sophisticated strategies to do it.

Only 24% approve, and less than half of Republicans, of demolition at White House

Democrats could be standing in front of the White House rubble every day as the site for daily government shutdown updates or they could 🤷‍♀️

approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...

Exactly what all DC Dems should be doing