The “I’m not sure what you’re doing here” comment was directed at Michael Froman, the president of CFR, which was literally hosting the event

Trump commutes former Rep. George Santos' prison sentence The former New York congressman had been sentenced to seven years in prison. In a social media post, Trump said his commutation would release Santos from prison "immediately."

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law

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Mike Johnson has spent hours insisting he can swear Grivalja in any time, geez, guys what’s all the fuss about, when he could, you know, just swear her in.

Law-enforcement in both Chicago and L.A. can’t stop attacking journalists

Governing For The Gram Republicans are obsessed with finding non-existent connections between Democrats and "the violent left" Meanwhile...

JD Vance’s unwillingness to condemn the Nazi GOP groupchat provides the press corps yet another opportunity to probe his personal associations, and take note of how the whole administration exists to please them and make sadistic content go viral. www.offmessage.net/p/governing-...

vance to his kids: “it is okay to tell your friends you love hitler as long as you don’t get caught”

Donald Trump’s Dream Palace of Puffery The Pentagon’s ban on real journalism looks to be a preview of where the White House is headed.

What if the Pentagon's ban on journalism wasn't an outlier--but a preview...

my new column on Trump's Kremlinization of the White House press pool, and why it matters: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...

Flight attendants on board ICE Air were instructed to follow strict rules:

Don’t talk to the detainees.

Don’t feed them.

Don’t make eye contact.

“You don’t do nothing. Just sit down in your seats and be quiet.”

(Published April)

Susan Stamberg, pioneering broadcaster at NPR, dies at 87 As a host of “All Things Considered,” she was the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program in the United States.

Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of NPR who helped blaze a trail for women in journalism by becoming the first female anchor of a national nightly news program in the United States, died at 87.

Jeanine Pirro Strikes Out Yet Again In Federal Court Prosecutor Jeanine Pirro failed to secure a felony indictment against the woman three times, then lost a jury trial on a misdemeanor charge. Ouch.

Jeanine Pirro’s office tried three times to indict a woman on bogus felony charges of assaulting an ICE agent. A DC grand jury turned her down each time. So Pirro brought a misdemeanor charge instead. And now a trial jury has acquitted her of that. www.huffpost.com/entry/sidney...

Case 1:25-cr-00244-SLS Document 69 Filed 10/16/25 Page 1 of 2 CO 109A - Rev. 3/2010 UNITED STATES DISTRICT AND BANKRUPTCY COURTS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS. Civil/Criminal No.: 25CR244-SLS SYDNEY LORI REID NOTE FROM JURY Judge, We have reached a verdiet. Date: 10-16-2025 Time: Q1: 35 pm

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA : : : Case No. 25-CR-244 (SLS) .... VERDICT FORM As to the charge of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers, we, the jury in the above-captioned case, unanimously find the defendant, Sydney Reid: X _Not Guilty Guilty Foreperson Signature 10-16-2025 Date

lol.

LMAO, even.

Ukraine likes its latest ally — Trump Relations between the two leaders have warmed since Kyiv learned there could only be “one diva” in the room.

foreign policy media is so insufferable - the quote "since Kyiv learned there could only be 'one diva' in the room" is such an insane way to describe ukraine's leadership trying to get a support for a war brutalizing its civilian population www.politico.eu/article/ukra...

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

My favorite part is when one guy gives an unreserved apology and immediately follows up by suggesting that the texts might be fake. But also the product of extortion.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Pictures of Brussels sprounts, broccoli, kale, cabbage, cauliflower, bok choy, kohlrabi, etc. Text: Brassica oleracea creating new common names to get 1 month free trials.

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
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He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

—Declaration of Independence, 1776

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

“Can you explain this gap in your resume?”

Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: “I was selling drugs… ,uh, to children.”

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

Last time there was a No Kings protest in Minnesota the speaker-emerita, her husband and dog were murdered, a state senator and his wife were shot, the gunman was at large and 25,000 people still showed up. All you fascists are bound to lose.

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

The fact that their ticket was mysteriously canceled the day before and then they were questioned by DHS is both one of the greatest political scandals and crises of my lifetime and just another fucking Thursday in 2025.

I am stunned. Trump’s own antifa round table draws a parallel between antifa and the resistance to the actual Nazi regime.