Charles Rathmann

Bulwark on Sunday: The End of The Republic? Bill Kristol and Michael Wood take on the fears we could be at the end of the republic as we know it.

@timmiller.bsky.social Hey, was going to listen to this podcast as I walk thr little Morkie. Seems some of the audio is missing ... audioboom.com/posts/879610...

The one on the end of my line.

YouTube video by poswoll The Plugz- Hombre Secreto by Eddie Granado

youtu.be/5ypagCzn9Ec?...

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

Or the Gospels.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

Vance Flexes the Marines’ Might as Thousand Protest Trump’s Agenda VP JD Vance’s trips o a military base in California illustrated rising tensions between the federal government and Democratic leaders

This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.

In exchange for getting to house migrants in El Salvador's notorious prison, the Trump administration agreed to give up top MS-13 cooperators, "a key step in hindering an ongoing U.S. investigation" into the Salvadoran government's relationship with the gang.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

So the Louvre was robbed? We need the greatest detective in France. www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Trump Posts Bizarre AI Video in Which He Airdrops Feces On ‘No Kings’ Protesters Trump posted a bizarre AI video to Truth Social, late Saturday, in which he's seen dropping feces on "No Kings" protesters from a fighter jet.

This is super unhealthy.

I take it back. America might have a shot at defeating fascism.

I CONSIDERED hitting a #Nokings rally in Lancaster. INSTEAD I stopped in at the farm open house of a lady with whom I have had many spirited political exchanges with in these interesting times and got stocked up on organic produce. Our nation needs the human bonds that bind us. God bless our nation.

‘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.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

"Do what is just and right. Rescue the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the orphan or the widow."

Jeremiah 22:3

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Oct. 10 YouTube video by Lawfare

Tomorrow at 4pm ET, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, Loren Voss, @annabower.bsky.social, @rparloff.bsky.social, and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social will discuss the legal challenges to the National Guard deployments in Portland and Chicago, the effort to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and more.

Would individuals in her district be able to file a class action lawsuit against Johnson?

Pew chart: 4% say God chose Trump for president in 2024 because God approves of his policies; 2% say Biden won in 2020 because God approved of his policies.

In his Inaugural Address (and since) Donald Trump has claimed that God endorses his presidency and his policies. You might think that his followers agree, n-o-p-e: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor Andrey Lugovoy talks about undermining America and Europe

Meanwhile in Russia: State Duma member Andrey Lugovoy urges Russia to undermine America and Europe by buying journalists and politicians, interfering in elections, infiltrating the opposing parties and amplifying divisions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYgK...

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

That made Mercieca laugh. "What makes you think he's going to stand for being impeached?" But how would he, how could he, resist it? JM: "I don't know. I don't know. He has not allowed anybody to hold him accountable yet. He has prevented every single institution from holding him accountable."

This was me in 2016

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

🧵Coal in the US was mostly dying because of cheap natural gas beginning in the 2000s. Then cheap renewables began to clobber it in the 2010s. It is a filthy power source and horrible emitter of greenhouse gases. There is zero economic justification for this & it will amount to corporate welfare.

World going to hell in a handbasket ... here's my solution... #driftless #fishing #wisconsin