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Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.

Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.

'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

Trump is on live TV saying he wants to rig elections so Democrats can’t return to power. The most corrupt, anti-American administration in our history.

We are 36 days into the Trump government shutdown, the longest in American history.

Weird.

It's almost like her current boyfriend, the director of the FBI who flies her around the nation on government jets, might have shared information that would normally be limited to trusted law enforcement circles.

But that can't be right, because that would probably be a *crime*

Another disturbing video out of IL, reported by Block Club Chicago: agents/thugs are seen detaining a man, pressing him to the ground as he gasps, “I can’t breathe.” A crowd quickly forms, begging them to stop.

We are outraged over the use of excessive force in immigration & federal operations.🤬

Art of the Deal.

Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Hurricane Melissa heads toward Cuba as a powerful storm, after hitting Jamaica with historic force Hurricane Melissa came ashore in Jamaica Tuesday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, and it will continue on to hit eastern Cuba as a major hurrican...

Some news sources would hide this from you:
“The warming of the world’s oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa’s wind speed in less than 24 hours over the weekend, climate scientists said Monday.”
~ The Associated Press
#USDemocracy #MomSky

A rising danger in the Arctic As climate change melts permafrost, microbes will emerge. The world isn’t paying enough attention to the potential threat they pose Photo caption - Sunset on the Arctic horizon as captured in the Chukchi Sea during NASA’s 2011 study on Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment. Melt ponds like these that form on sea ice and permafrost are fast developing their own new microbiomes. NASA/Kathryn Hansen

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

🚨 Melt ponds in permafrost are fast developing their own new microbiomes, it is not clear how benign or malign they may become. The conditions that protected the Arctic from many health threats, both local & from the south, are melting away.
👉 thebulletin.org/2024/11/a-ri...

After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.

Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!”

Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.

New: me, for @forbes.com

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"the FBI director used taxpayer funds in a government shutdown to fly his country singer GF to sing at a Hulk Hogan-founded wrestling event aired on Fox Nation" is not the flashiest Trump-era headline but pound for pound it can compete with any contender

Concentration Camps

Bari’s Baier Market Barely a month into her CBS tenure, Bari Weiss is making moves that reveal how she intends to reshape the network—including an eyebrow-raising interest in Fox News anchor Bret Baier.

Bari Weiss has been moving quickly to reshape CBS News. Now @status.news has learned she's privately expressed interest in tapping Fox News anchor Bret Baier to helm the CBS Evening News. The scoop in tonight's newsletter www.status.news/p/bret-baier...

Yes, what the fuck???

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

“.. It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic ..”

@pbsnews.org
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

The Right’s New Grand Unified Theory: Blame Women for Everything Helen Andrews’s latest screed is short on rational facts, long on mushy feelings of misogyny.

"Let's not mince words: This a grotesquely misogynistic screed." @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Helen Andrews's women-are-ruining-everything essay:

Trump Pardoned Him. Now He Won't Have to Pay Back $660 Million Trevor Milton and his wife donated $1.8 million to Trump in 2024.

…and Santos is small change compared to the other pardons:

Trump demanding $230 million from the DOJ, that he controls, is a shakedown of the American taxpayers so that Trump can line his own pockets.

“There’s a government shutdown happening right now across the street, and on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, they’re tearing down the East Wing.”

So I realize I’ve reposted this all day, but I cannot understate the scale of this story. If Anthropic is spending this much on Google Cloud - or even 25% - the costs of running their business are never coming down. It’s a huge scoop, and the first real discussion of the true costs of AI anywhere.

Pro tip: If your response to MILLIONS of people marching in the streets to protest you is a shitty ai video of you essentially doing what everyone is protesting (you shitting all over the country), you've already lost.🤷‍♂️
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#NoKings

It is estimated that early 7 million people took part in demonstrations across more than 2,700 cities and towns making it one of the largest single-day nationwide protests in U.S. history. Scenes from Chicago. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

While people continue to struggle to get FEMA aid approved after their lives were destroyed by natural disasters.

Men whose names appear in the Epstein files. Noam Chomsky ffs.

This is also the message of the Epstein files and the shutdown of the US federal government to prevent their release: it's not just to protect Trump, but also the myriad of men from all walks of life who willingly participated in the systematic exploitation and terrorization of girls and women.

MAGA’s Epstein Fixation Isn’t About Justice, It’s About Revenge House Republicans care less about delivering justice to this sexual predator's underage victims and more about punishing their political enemies

In my latest piece for The Unpopulist, I wrote about the convolutions of the Epstein story and how the throughline is MAGA using children to achieve their political ends.

For MAGA, what's supposed to be about the children is never about the children.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Q: How is this rescue package America first?


TRUMP: It's really meant to help a good financial philosophy where Argentina can be successful again

Which Republican genius came up with the talking point to label millions of ordinary Americans peacefully protesting their government as paid Marxists who hate America?

That’s really what you are going with?

That we hate the United States of America?

Fuck you.