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Primarying Fetterman is not going to tear apart the PA Democratic Party. We Dems are united in wanting him GONE.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

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Federal judge in Chicago demands testimony on whether ICE immediately violated her order 🔽

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Ahead of No Kings events, Republicans’ anti-protest rhetoric takes an ugly turn GOP leaders appear so concerned about a scheduled protest that they're falsely labeling a No Kings gathering as a “hate-America rally.”

Republicans' shared talking points prove: they're terrified that millions of Americans will stand up for the next "No Kings" protest on Saturday (Oct. 18). We love America and its constitution.

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.

ICYMI — PELOSI: “Shut up. I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn’t send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?”

(The unserious questioner is Alison Steinberg, who works for Mike Lindell — the my pillow guy)

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

We’ve known for forever that they don’t think gendered violence is a really serious thing but it’s still wild to hear them say it so plainly.

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This guy was a clerk for Justice Gorsuch. Anyone want to argue this is not a racist (and damn stupid) taunt?

hey this is fun

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

Please notify President Trump and Vice-President Vance immediately. Isn’t this a mandatory one-year jail sentence—or is this a kind of flag desecration they have no problem with?

You guys are really bad at this.

“President Trump violates the constitution in order to lessen the effects of the government shutdown which was caused by his party”

It’s really inspiring that you can work for the New York Times after having slept through middle school civics and even a couple schoolhouse rock episodes about the branches of government.

"I hearby give myself authority to do what I don't have authority to do" is Fascism 101.

Why would @nytimes.com give Trump any presumption of legitimate authority here?

Trump has no authority to “expand”
He has zero authority

See article 1.9.7
And the anti-deficiency act

NYT misspelling “Trump made another illegal power grab to steal responsibilities the Constitution reserves for Congress and to install himself as dictator.”

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’ The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

GOP gave $20 billion to Argentina yesterday

Jeffries: "The effort to mischaracterize the rallies that are gonna take place all across the country is part of the continued right-wing disinformation machine that is failing to persuade the American people."

How journalists covered Trump's first 100 days Trans perspectives were rarely present in articles about the consequences federal actions would have on their lives, according to an analysis conducted by Berkeley Media Studies Group in partnership w...

What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days.

Big takeway: based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of news stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote a single trans person.

bit.ly/TJA_visible

Elise Stefanik is scrubbing photos of herself accepting awards from the vile Young Republicans caught in the Politico group chat. She supported every single one of them in New York State.