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The bar was subterranean, and clearing it doesn’t warrant applause. Let’s not confuse motion with momentum or proximity to a microphone with leadership.

2/2 #LeadersWeDeserve

Come on Molly. “Credit where credit is due”? That’s generous to the point of parody. If Schumer “kicked it up a notch,” it was into the same ditch he’s been circling for years, performative gestures, procedural fog, and a knack for mistaking inertia for strategy.

1/2 #LeadersWeDeserve

Fugitive Womb Act

How long before the U.S. seeks to make the number “34” illegal because it is the number of a leader’s felony convictions?

Once again @nytimes.com heds and subheds are failing to convey to readers what is actually happening. The casual reader will come away with the impression that this is a genuinely held rationale on Trump's part, rather than a corrupt pretext for lawless, authoritarian threats.

Correct.

He’s staging “left-wing” attacks—or more accurately, trying to provoke them—to give him an excuse to use violence against his opposition.

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

"The Federal Protective Service reports — which are prepared each day for law enforcement partners — offered no indication of a dangerous escalation of tensions, or unusual levels of protest activity that would prompt the level of alarm expressed by Trump..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Jane Goodall’s influence behind bars: The legendary primatologist Jane Goodall, who died last week at 91, helped inspire incarcerated people to learn more about wildlife and the environment by opening Roots & Shoots chapters inside jails in the U.S. and Italy, with some participants going on to launch careers in conservation post-incarceration. In 2015, Bolts' Alex Burness spent a day with her at the county jail in Boulder, Colorado, where she spoke to folks held there about all that people can learn from animals.

something i learned this week! mailchi.mp/boltsmag/new...

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters (1) A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/g...

Fact-check: true

a tidbit in our newsletter this week: how Jane Goodall was connected to criminal legal reform and U.S. jails.

if you're not already signed-up for it, what can i say! do it now!
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This year’s flu vaccine - about 50% effective
AND may cut healthcare visits & hospitalizations in HALF 🤯
(That’s HUGE! ’specially for those with chronic diseases or older than 65yo.)

#Altcomms 🔗 bsky.app/profile/altc...

(Can you tell we love this campgin & really miss our CDC comms ppl?!)

Gov. Pritzker after Trump calls for him to be jailed: “I will not back down… what else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

@johnsipher.bsky.social
The one unquestioned expert on🇺🇦, historian Timothy Snyder, has repeatedly explained🇺🇦can win. The analytic community needs to come to terms with its shortcomings & improve its tradecraft. Misjudging the strength of 🇨🇳 & 🇹🇼 could lead to disaster.

The Harping On Ukrainian Manpower Shows How Little Analysts Understand War Packing the front line with more infantry over the last two years would have made little difference and could have weakened Ukraine

Why does the media keep talking to failed analysts?

open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

This is a moral crime of the first order. If there's a hell, Elon Musk would burn in it

“Miller is working overtime to polarize the public debate about Trump's increasingly dictatorial abuses of power…He relentlessly depicts Democrats as allied with a vast, inchoate class of violent criminals and insurrectionists…” sharp read of what Stephen Miller wants from @gregsargent.bsky.social

Air Travel During the Shutdown. Do I Need to Worry? Yes, but not about immediate safety risks.

Important, thoughtful @jfallows.bsky.social
We know where pressure is building up in commercial aviation. Too few controllers, under too much stress…too much scheduling & financial pressure…
The system’s had too many close calls…Something will have to give”
fallows.substack.com/p/air-travel...

There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

@vermontgmg.bsky.social
We’re experiencing a “Constitutional crash—not in the plane crash sense, but in the medical sense—the sudden, ER-style flatlining of the healthy biorhythms of our 249-yr-old constitutional order…in a single blink of the historical eye“
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

Keep calling about this!

Ted Budd 202-224-3154

Thom Tillis 202-224-6342

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Epstein Shutdown.

Tommy Tuberville on the 2020 census: "The Democrats were letting illegals come in for a different count. They obviously had a census going that was all rigged. The 2020 election basically was rigged."

(Believe it or not, Donald Trump was president in 2020.)

Interesting to note that in 2013 the House voted unanimously, 407-0, to provide back pay for furloughed workers.

UA Faculty Senate votes against proposed compact In its Oct. 6 faculty senate meeting, faculty voted in favor of a resolution calling upon UA President Suresh Garimella and the Arizona Board of Regents to reject the proposed contract and any similar proposals "compromising the mission, values and independence of the University." The vote passed 40-8, with one abstention. Faculty members raised several questions about how the university can find a path forward, whether leaders choose to sign the compact or not.

U Ariz faculty senate approves resolution asking university NOT to sign compact. Paywalled,...

www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Senator Jim Banks V @SenatorBanks Follow g.. The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states. It included illegal immigrants and handed Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it. Zinited Statcs SScnate MASHNORON DEYNN October 6, 2025 an. Thow arewutn Socretary U.S. Department of Commerce Washington, DXC 20230 Dear Secretary Lutaick: I urge you to investigate and correct erroes from the 2020 Census that handed disproportionntd political power to Democrats and illogal alicns. The Census Burcau adoptod a now and opaque voting districts. As preparod by the Biden administration, the 2020 Censas roports miscountod the population of fourteen states, ' wrongly allocating six congressional scats aod Electoral xx conwuu tmora uy, toc taroro tu mot đoo tnn Cunu lc pung t imber of votine districts. And the reoorts de aniovety inchaded ilecnl nhens widhout track those aliens' citiz enship status, If left uncorrected, these erroes will coetinue diluting the political power of American citizens. Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding Under the Constitution, cach state gets Congressional represcotutives and Electoeal College votes- based on "the whole number of persons" within the state." The number of persoes is in tum clabaabod by a consttubocalty-mandalcd dcccacaal ccavas. Pcual agcco nely on census data to allocate billions of dollars in federal funding, much of which hinges ee opulation. And states use consus data to deaw congrossicnal and voting districts, »hich the The it eiy of tie soaren alie n tor dur at ce hor inc ae oam toy ee n nght wilbout statsica ly signilicant ciroo. Diffcrcntial privacy is opaque and liable to mistakcn count totals. Sure cnough, the 2020 Ccnsus ovarocunted the noculation in cicht states and undercounted it in six." Tihe most extrcmi andercount was Arkansas, at 5.04%, and the larg…

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

Draw on your own experience:

Is there any situation you've ever been part of, with you or anyone else in the hot seat, in which a person who does NOT have something to hide, reacts the way Bondi does?

I've been on trial juries that concluded "we can't trust that witness," after evasions like this

We’re getting very used to this but the statement is unusually unhinged.

also heartening that Pritzker's chief of staff confirmed that this is their theory of the case and urged other Dems to think this way:
bsky.app/profile/anne...