Petter Häggholm

Didn’t someone, somewhere, once complain about taxation without representation?

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

AXIOS HEADLINE with Mike Johnson reading a folder: "Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown Kate Santaliz,Andrew Solender "

At this point Democrats in Congress shouldn't concede an inch unless Johnson and Thune meet all their demands.

Republican rank and file members know it - majority of public are siding with Dems over healthcare and tired of giving Trump blank checks. www.axios.com/2025/10/08/m...

Next up: Asking for permission to come inside would ‘kill’ the burglary industry

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

I think there was a mishearing when Trump claimed to be a president of peace and against warmongering. His real goal was always to bury the Hatch Act.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

There are only a few animals whose consumption I consider worse than cannibalism, but whales are on the list. Be better, eat humans, there are too many anyway.

I notice that the threat to take away your power and your money and force you into exile is not even nominally conditional on breaking the law. Those are just for being a political opponent of the ruling junta.

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

In the last 2 weeks MAGA aligned people have done 2 attempted mass shootings of a gay bar and pride center in Arizona and Texas, murdered 2 teenage girls for mocking Charlie Kirk, and torched a judge's home.

Meanwhile, the government mobilized the military to go after the left.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate. We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops. I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation. The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025

Judge's house on fire

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

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The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Tooth fairies: somewhere between undead and golems, spirits of children who died knocking their teeth out, they fashion their bodies from discarded teeth and ever collect more to repair their bodies, paying with change they pick up as they wander house to house on dark nights.

At some point a governor has to mobilize the national guard against participation in Trump's ICE raids & disappearances; SCOTUS will grant Trump the win but calling the question on the state of the exception means contesting his authority anyway. We don't have a constitution while Trump can do this

If (counterfactually) they'd started with true conviction to do what they said, then presumably longtermism would have to emerge pragmatically. Impatient 'altruism' doesn't strike me as *effective*.

It's such a weird thing to go toxic. The basic idea seems sound and positive. Prioritise bang for the humanitarian buck, mosquito nets make sense, clean wells and women's education and the sci fi version of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and wait when did this go off the rails

Chicago, Portland, and everywhere else. This is how it's going to work now: ICE raids, National Guard occupation, far-right militias, spree shooters, and constant digital static. It's not a question of if the Trump meat grinder will come to town, it's when.
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Remember when it was a national scandal on the right that the White House pushed to take down a few tweets?

Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources."

Oracle is about to own TikTok.

I think Hegseth’s own intelligence is simply inadequate to simultaneously evaluate an idea and the concept of doubting it.

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.

"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/

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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

A political media apparatus either full of suckers or accomplices willing to gobble up absolute garbage about Trump “distancing himself from” Project 2025.

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.

Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

Some fucknugget will misread an old-timey font (the same way we get ye from þe, or people who think long ſ is an f) and there will be a stupid angry campaign against the Wokeness of the Whale.