Like seriously, they're seeing the same polls we are, they know they're being blamed and they're thrasing for a message.

Notice how quiet the Vought stuff and punishing people is now.

Surely the fact that JD Vance is the face of this means that they're winning and feel very confident in their position

Trump administration wants to block some public servants from loan forgiveness Those who work with undocumented immigrants, provide gender transition care for minors or publicly protest could be blocked from student loan forgiveness under a new rule.

Under new regulations advanced by the Education Department, employees of nonprofits that work with undocumented immigrants, provide gender transition care for minors or publicly protest could be blocked from student loan forgiveness.

Let the campaigning begin.

Reminder: Republicans are more concerned with protecting pedophiles than protecting the American people.

Day 30 of the shutdown and the pedophile protection party only cares about ensuring the Epstein files are not released.

$360 million.

That's how much Americans who were cheated or scammed could have gotten back.

But Trump is dropping lawsuits that could have put money back in YOUR pocket.

I wrote about what Trump's attacks on the CFPB are costing Americans.

Slap this quote on the side of Air Force One, the White House, your front lawn, everywhere. We should hear this on every media outlet and echoing through the streets.

DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate Amid Threats to Arrest Dems Over ICE Accountability Efforts Read more here.

Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political opponents. This is just the latest example. Everyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law needs to speak out loudly and clearly that this is wrong. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.

"All of this feels tremendously demoralizing. The meaning and power of language is in the process of being flushed away."
~Zhang Yueran on declining readership in China

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Mockler: I’m 23 years old, and Gen Zers have spent all of our formative years living in a political system that’s purely dysfunctional. People in my generation see the president posting memes online rather than actually negotiating with the other side.

Opinion | Trump Lost to China Xi now sees our weakness and will try to exploit it, perhaps leaving America a diminished presence in Asia.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“We Americans may have lost not just a trade war but a chunk of our global credibility and influence for years to come, in ways that would be seen globally as a harbinger of American decline,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.

imagine what could be done with the millions and millions of dollars losers like this spend on campaigns that inevitably lose

Posted by Mike Pence’s former Chief of Staff.

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

No one knows what is or isn't possible politically. Anyone who says they do is lying.

DOJ Scrubs Jan. 6 Attack From Court Record After Suspending Career Prosecutors Read more here.

This is next level authoritarianism.👇

"Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."

Nebraska residents and former inmates are frustrated by plans to turn a Work Ethic Camp into an immigrant detention center called the “Cornhusker Clink.”

“We didn’t ask for this,” said Nate Schneider, McCook’s city manager. https://wapo.st/42VPEHR

Stormy weather, strong winds and erosion caused homes in North Carolina to collapse into the sea along the Outer Banks. It was the second time in two months that a group of houses in Buxton on the barrier islands had been claimed by the ocean. nyti.ms/4hwZZ2R

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.

Exclusive: The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington.

Lol

HUNT: The president is talking about a third term. How seriously do you take that?

GALLEGO: I don't take it seriously because he will be in violation of the Constitution and he should be arrested if he attempts to do that

Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.

Deep literacy is in decline worldwide. Our new issue gathers eight writers from outside the Anglosphere for a forum on global brainrot.
thebaffler.com/salvos/brain-rot-without-borders

HUNT: Dems have argued that the norms of our govt should be that you negotiate policy outside of a shutdown

GALLEGO: You're talking about norms in a time of Donald Trump?

H: But Ds have spent so much time arguing that maintaining norms is incredibly important

G: It's all out the window, Kasie. No

Defendants do wish to correct a factual discrepancy discovered in the course of responding to plaintiffs’ letter. The Cantu declaration, in describing the number of FPS officers deployed in connection with the sustained violence (1 of 2), Page 1 of 2 Case: 25-6268, 10/27/2025, DktEntry: 88.1, Page 1 of 2 2 associated with the protests in Portland, states that FPS Region 10 has been required to deploy “officers from the other FPS Regions” and that “[t]o date, 115 FPS officers have had to deploy to Portland to maintain a 24/7 operational tempo.” We are informed by our clients that this 115 figure was the number of deployments and that some individuals were deployed multiple times. Based on DHS’s review of the deployment data, the number of individual FPS officers deployed during the time period appears to be 86 officers. Relatedly, we stated in our supplemental brief that “it is undisputed that nearly a quarter of the agency’s entire FPS capacity had to be redirected over a relatively short period to a single location in one medium-sized American city due to the unrest there.” ECF No. 69.1 at 30. This statement was incorrect. The statement was intended to reference the percentage of inspectors who had been deployed to Portland during the relevant period, since inspectors are the FPS personnel whose primary mission is to patrol and respond to law enforcement incidents at federal buildings. But in addition to relying on the 115 figure—which as noted above, actually consisted of 86 unique individuals—some of the 86 deployed FPS officials the Cantu declaration intended to encompass are not inspectors. Based on the agency’s records, it appears that 65 of the 86 individuals deployed to Portland were inspectors. The statement should be corrected to reflect that approximately 13.1 percent of the agency’s inspectors had to be redirected to Portland during the period discussed by the Cantu declaration.

Aaaand right on time, the DOJ says that the lies were immaterial, despite the fact that they were repeated 18 times in the panel's opinion. And also, whoopsie doodle, DOJ found a couple more HARMLESS math errors.

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Will 9th Circuit Care That DOJ Lied Its Face Off In Oregon Invasion Case? No mask can hide this BS.

As we wait for the Supreme Court to decide whether it matters that Trump LIED about a non-existent "rebellion" in Illinois, we wonder if the Ninth Circuit will care that Trump told similar LIES in the Oregon nat'l guard case.

with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social

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Has he BEEN to London? C'mon @washingtonpost.com please stop trying to be the wall street journal. If anything killed London it was Brexit...Not Sadiq Khan.

Such bullshit. What crushed the life out of London was Brexit championed by Conservative asshats. The entire financial district fled to the EU. Fckwits.