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Yeah look, it's a slick move, using WIC, because who hates WIC? But the precedent is:

1. The president can just unilaterally levy tariffs and
2. Use those dollars to fund ANYTHING, circumventing Congress.

Functionally, it is an autocracy.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ , Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson !" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom , Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

Napheesa Collier discussing her recent critiques of the #WNBA today with Kamala Harris. 😳

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

When He’s Not Busy Censoring Comedians, Brendan Carr Is Eliminating Free Wi-Fi For Poor Rural School Kids Brendan Carr has received ample attention for his recent failed attempt to ban a comedian and trample the First Amendment, something he’s facing several fledgling investigations over. But tha…

just a reminder that FCC boss Brendan Carr is constantly doing terrible things that are every bit as bad as censoring comedians yet somehow get a tiny fraction of the attention

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

“California, and the country, cannot await the outcome of the midterms to repel Trump’s siege on democracy. More drastic action is required.”

My piece exploring "soft secession": www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

Sea-HAWKS!!!

An aspiring tyrant in the making…

Stephen Miller was always a POS. Here he is in high school, already looking middle-aged, giving a student government speech:

“Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up our trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?”

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

From the justgalsbeingchicks community on Reddit: Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. In it, she discusses... Explore this post and more from the justgalsbeingchicks community

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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Climate scientists raise a middle finger to Trump's censorship efforts Hundreds are collaborating to make sure accurate data is available to the public.

Researchers across the US and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s budget cuts, firings, and scrubbing of federal websites are launching their own climate information portals.

From our friends at @insideclimatenews.org:

Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.

In Trump’s America, billionaire and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is a kind of shadow president. Meanwhile, the Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.

From the ocean community on Reddit: Wild orcas in Argentina befriend park ranger Roberto Bubas. Jane Goodall offers insights into their relationship Explore this post and more from the ocean community

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ICE Is the pedophile police force

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

I am just so fucking proud of her.

FBI cuts ties with civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center The FBI has cut ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks extremist groups, after conservatives criticized the nonprofit for including slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's organization on its list of hate groups.

“FBI cuts ties with civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center” - 10/3/25 … 1/ www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Elected officials questioning the legality of ICE processes being arrested

like, i don't really know how to adequately express the anger that i feel watching this video. not showing your face, lazily teargassing random people on a neighborhood street without getting out of your car - the image says more about these goons than i could articulate bsky.app/profile/clan...

Honestly I'm tired of unnamed lawyers being upset that their firms capitulated, federal prosecutors concerned about the politicization of DOJ, and reporters dismayed that their media owners are capitulating to Trump.

Either do something or accept that you watched democracy collapse and did nothing.

Photo of Robert Morris, megachurch pastor guilty of child sex abuse

"He also served on a faith advisory council during President Trump’s first term, and he hosted Mr. Trump at Gateway Church in June 2020."

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”

(Pub. Oct. 2024)

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

Number of days without a major distraction from the Epstein files: 0

From the FishingWashington community on Reddit: I made a humor video about salmon fishing season. Hopefully it offends everyone equally. :) Explore this post and more from the FishingWashington community

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The “Department of War” Is Designed to Fight American Citizens How to resolve the tension between "lethal war-fighting warriors" and "no more wars" isolationism.

There is tension between the MAGA obsession with “warriors,” and “war fighting” on one hand, and “no more wars,” America First isolationism on the other.

I can resolve that tension for you. But you aren't going to like it. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-depart...

Isn’t “stop the fascists” okay?