"We're gonna crash some planes if you don't fund ICE."

Beachfront home of South Carolina judge, ex-senator burned to ground, injuring 3 Ex-senator Arnold Goodstein, along with two additional people, were rescued by several neighbors and paramedics from a marshy, remote area behind the home after jumping from the fist floor.

No indication yet from major media that the FBI has any interest whatsoever in investigating this apparent attempted assassination of a well-known judge openly targeted on social media by the far-right activist—Harmeet Dhillon—currently calling herself Assistant Attorney General of the United States

Doctor: You have cancer, it's early and we can treat it.

You: It's obviously Stage 4 and in my liver, what's the point.

Doctor: It's not that and it's treatable.

You: Why are you so obtuse about what "cancer" means, you heartless quack

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.

its also blatant civil rights violations, arrests made without probable cause

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

"'They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van,' she said..."

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement.

Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.

PART TWO

Once B5 Books closes at the end of this month the only copies of those books that will ever be available are the ones that were published during those 20 years and whatever’s left on the site. Once the company is wrapped up, there will be no more reprints and no new titles. (There’s the --

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation.

This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

wut

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

Oracle is about to own TikTok.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans | TechCrunch The Texas senator blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.

New: Last night in the Senate, Ted Cruz blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.

Trump just summoned 800 generals to a military base. He threatened to fire disloyal commanders, spoke of “domestic enemies,” and floated using troops in U.S. cities. This isn’t about crime control. It’s the playbook of fascism — turning the military inward, demanding loyalty to himself over the Constitution, and preparing for political repression under the guise of order. Fascism doesn’t announce itself. It escalates. Full details: https://socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/podcast-today-was-about-prepping Trump's Shocking Order - Prepare to Fire on Americans

Trump's Shocking Order - Prepare to Fire on Americans: Trump just summoned 800 generals to a military base. He threatened to fire disloyal commanders, spoke of “domestic enemies,” and floated using troops in U.S. cities.
This isn’t about crime control. It’s the playbook of fascism — turning the…

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

We Are in the Worst-Case Scenario The November 2024 version of you would be shocked at what the September 2025 version accepts as reality.

“The illegal strikes on civilian boats off the coast of Venezuela seem designed to test the limits of order-following: When asked to cite which legal authority sanctioned the attacks, no individual within the administration has been able to provide one.”

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

the obvious answer is they think they can retain power indefinitely one way or another. NC republicans created a model to follow, though non zero chance they will try to prevent the 2026 election from being free and fair

That time and place is not when your principled silence means fascists win.

Patel on left-wing groups: "We are properly going to chase them down like the domestic terrorists that they are."

Explicitly targeting opposition speech, the conspiratorial talk of NGOs and foreign agents, the use of tax authority... This is the Putin/Orban playbook, pretty much verbatim.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A264 (25-332) DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. U. REBECCA KELLY SLAUGHTER, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [September 22, 2025] The application for stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is granted. The July 17, 2025 order of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 25-cv-909, ECF Doc. 52, is stayed. The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following ques-tions: (1) Whether the statutory removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission violate the separation of powers and, if so, whether Humphrey's Executor v. United States, 295 U. S. 602 (1935), should be overruled. (2) Whether a federal court may prevent a person's removal from public office, either through relief at equity or at law. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2025 argument session. The stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.

BREAKING: SCOTUS will hear a case over whether it should overrule Humphrey's Executor — in a shadow docket order that also allows Trump's firing of Rebecca Slaughter as an FTC commissioner to take effect while the appeal is considered, which should not be allowed under Humphrey's Executor.

Charlie Kirk said Joe Biden should be executed.

When Democrats defend their vote for a resolution honoring this man, just remember that this is what they voted to honor.

Despotism at the Door The thread that ties John Bolton and Kilmar Abrego Garcia is clear: We have a president who wants to operate outside the law.

"The enemies of a free society—the enemies of limited government and the rule of law, the opponents of political liberty and human equality—don’t sugarcoat what they’re doing. There’s surely no reason we should sugarcoat what we’re seeing."

Jimmy Kimmel Said Nothing Wrong. Mostly Because He Didn’t Say What MAGAs Claim. The Kimmel scandal isn’t about Kimmel—it’s about Trump’s FCC capo Brendan Carr threatening Disney into axing an employee whose conduct Disney had no issue with. But it’s also not about Kimmel’s words.

We have gotten the whole Jimmy Kimmel imbroglio wrong.

Desperately wrong.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.