Garrett Rice

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

more of this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

“Alito has the opinion”

Bullshit.

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

Jeffries on Fox News Sunday: "My friends on other aisle seem to think believe healthcare is an extraneous issue. We don't believe it's an extraneous issue. It's a central issue...the states most affected are all ones Trump won...so this is not a partisan fight. We're fighting for everyday Americans"

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

Government workers who are being illegally fired by the thousands are being told that their work does not align with the President's priorities. But the President's obligation is to execute the law, not to impose his own agenda on the country. The word for what Trump is doing is tyranny.

JD Vance swore an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same”

So … lock him up?

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

I voted for fetterman in the primary because I thought he was to the left of Connor Lamb.

And it turns out that fetterman is a republican.

I have regrets.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

"This is the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of my ire, because "we are going to have to live here with each other" is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree with any of us about, and . . . Klein . . .
excises this reality entirely."

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Military/Paramilitary forces vary in their professionalism. Some, like the FBI and DOD have high professionalism and high commitment to rule of law. Some, like ICE, don't. So Trump is purging DOD/FBI in the hope that leaders will become more like ICE.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

The One Big Beautiful Bill cut a trillion dollars from healthcare, Schoolmarm Johnson

Purge, Merge, and Surge Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown More than 4,000 positions will be eliminated across agencies, the government told a court Friday night.

This shutdown feels different.

States will soon reach a breaking point and millions could see disruptions to food assistance.

Now, thousands are being fired from their jobs. We deserve better. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

a russ vought special

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

Colorado AG Phil Weiser (D) is calling on Coloradans to turn out en masse for Oct 18 demonstrations against President Trump’s use of the military in American cities. “Don’t be afraid,” Weiser said. “Don’t be afraid to show up.” #copolitics

What happened at WaPo matters because it captures a broader rightward shift in elite business and media circles - a pervasive tendency of civic institutions to accommodate and acquiesce the regime, to choose appeasement and even active complicity.

That is how authoritarian rule is consolidated.

I guess the one positive effect here is that, as more people realize what WaPo is now, it will hopefully become more difficult for Thiessen to fulfill his mission of laundering reactionary talking points for a mainstream audience.

But overall, this is such an ominous sign of where America is going.

Both the more long-term rot and the very recent decay, perfectly captured: Thiessen has been producing disingenuous reactionary garbage for years at WaPo - that, in fact, was his entire mission. But until recently, excellent people were also writing opinions for them. They're gone. His ilk is left.

“Put every Philly jawn in one headline…”

This is good, actually. This is the kind of thing we need to build a pro-court expansion majority.