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The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

A reader recently emailed me a question I've been asked 100 times: How do we—the little guys—turn the tide. It got me thinking about a related but in some sense more challenging question: What would a national resistance that we could place our faith in look like? www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

Once again, I ask, has everyone in the media lost their damn mind?

What the fuck!?

Illinois and Chicago filed suit against Trump while I was in court.

Complaint below.

Here is the TRO motion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

And legal arguments: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A hearing before Judge April Perry, a Biden appointee, is set for 2p CT.

It’s time for soft secession How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

From vicious immigration raids to the withholding of federal aid after wildfires, Trump's direct assaults on blue states are escalating every day.

But waiting until the midterms to repel Trump's siege on democracy, @clarajeffery.bsky.social warns, is too late. It's time to break glass.

Within 24 hours of the Kirk shooting, top Trump officials and administration lawyers were drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for possible executive actions and prioritizing which liberal organizations and strongholds of the left needed targeting.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Where Is the Line? On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

"The idea that if a political movement garners mass support, it can’t possibly be extremism...is utterly implausible and historically illiterate." That's @thomaszimmer.bsky.social talking good sense, as always. I subscribed (on Steady, not Substack). You should too! steady.page/en/democracy...

When this all ends, and it will, there can’t be any olive branches extended, especially for ICE. Accountability, punishment, defunding, and ridicule are the only things that need to be on the menu.

Serious question: has the Fed govt ever arrested so many elected officials in such a short period of time, across multiple cities, and not for legit corruption reasons?

This seems like a distinct degree of anti-democratic escalation.

Here’s How Trump Loses the Shutdown God help us but Gavin Newsom is the only Democrat who understands power.

"In a normal political moment, Dems would be right to focus on policies that make people’s lives better. But this isn’t an ordinary moment. For the love of God, it was days ago that Trump put every officer in the armed forces in a room & told them he plans to use soldiers against American citizens."

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?

imagine flying halfway around the world for a meeting that could’ve been an email and some guy with a hangover is just shouting at you that it’s against the rules to be fat or gay

Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" from 'Fever' hit #1 on the UK singles chart 24 years ago on September 29, 2001

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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

They're going to try to overturn Obergefell and end marriage equality. Eyes wide open, folks.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Eric Adams surrounded by members of the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation. He is wearing a blue velvet jacket that is embroidered with gold Magen David’s and other Jewish seeming patterns, including multiple menorahs. Everyone else is just in button down shirts or normal suits. He is not blending in.

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

Democrats *cracking knuckles*: “Okay, bozos, step back. We got this.”

*the Dems pratfall their way through disaster, resulting in the destruction of their own agenda, the Great Society, and the Constitution*

*two months pass*

Democrats *cracking knuckles*: “Okay, bozos, step back. We got this.”

Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Jimmy Kimmel is Back! Jimmy Kimmel returns to the air and talks about all of the people who have reached out over the last six days including fellow late night talk show hosts, fans of the show, and those who don’t support what he believes but support his right to share those beliefs anyway, and he expresses that it was never his intention to make light of the murder of a young man, how important it is to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this, the Chairman of the FCC Brendan Carr telling an American company that “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Trump saying he has no talent and no ratings, being fortunate to work at a company that has allowed us to do the show we want to do for almost 23 years, not agreeing with the decision to have our show pulled off the air last Wednesday, Trump making it very clear he wants to see Jimmy and other late night hosts fired, and solidarity from the right, left and those in the middle. Then Jimmy talks to the new FCC Chairman (Robert De Niro), and gets into Trump’s day addressing the United Nations, the escalator breaking, having trouble with the teleprompter, and the headache he’s creating with his buddy RFK over Tylenol. SUBSCRIBE to get the latest #Kimmel: http://bit.ly/JKLSubscribe Follow Jimmy Kimmel on Instagram: https://bit.ly/KimmelInstagram Follow Jimmy Kimmel Live on Instagram: http://bit.ly/JKLInstagram Follow Jimmy Kimmel Live on TikTok: https://bit.ly/JKLTikTok Like Jimmy Kimmel on Facebook: http://bit.ly/KimmelFB Like Jimmy Kimmel Live on Facebook: http://bit.ly/JKLFacebook Visit the Jimmy Kimmel Live Website : http://bit.ly/JKLWebsite About Jimmy Kimmel Live: Jimmy Kimmel serves as host and executive producer of Emmy® nominated “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” ABC’s late-night talk show. “Jimmy Kimmel Live” is well known for its viral video successes, with over 16 billion views and more than 19 million subscribers on the show’s YouTube channel. Some of Kimmel’s most popular comedy bits include Celebrities Read Mean Tweets, Lie Witness News, Halloween Candy YouTube Challenge, Jimmy and Cousin Sal pranking Aunt Chippy and music stars like Rihanna and Dua Lipa surprising Jimmy in the middle of the night.

Here is Jimmy Kimmel’s full monologue from tonight.

Jokes on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, Trump, Tylenol, etc.

Kimmel: "He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now."

Trump does a great job at undermining the agreed line his minions peddled “well well well…if Trump is such an autocrat and the FCC forced Disney/ABC, why did Disney restore Kimmel? See…it was always a business decision”

If it was a “business decision”…why would ABC be telling the White House?

Nope, sadly nobody was Velociraptured.

This speech reminds me of when, in 2009, Muammar Gaddafi gave his only speech to the UN and he went on a 90 minute rant, blasted everyone and talked about the most random shit. The difference being Gaddafi was ignored by many delegates, Trump sadly cannot be.

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.