Mac Knowles

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

"Dave? Dave's not here, man."
Musical guys in charge is gonna piss off the Judge.

Trump admin asks SCOTUS for an order allowing it to deploy troops in Chicago immediately Four judges — two Republican and two Democratic appointees — have rejected the Trump administration's arguments in the Illinois case. So, DOJ ran to the justices on Friday.

Trump wants to play army in US cities.
Court after court has said, “dafuq you think you’re doing???”
DOJ begs SCOTUS on Friday afternoon….
On Ribbit Eve!
To stay the lower courts so they can deploy.
Response due Monday PM.

Chris Geidner

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Headline sounds like a downer, but....
It's a long list of for-now wins in court.

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To the University of Virginia community: On Monday of last week, Rector Rachel Sheridan and I shared a message with the community regarding the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. We were asked to provide comments on the proposal no later than October 20. Today, I sent the letter below to the Secretary of Education and to White House officials. The letter confirms our core values and commitments while expressing our view that federal research funding should be based on merit. I want to thank personally the Faculty Senate, Staff Senate, Student Council, and many other members of our community who expressed their opinions on the proposed Compact, through the online form we provided and other means. Your thoughtful feedback shows a profound care for the University and a strong commitment to its future. We will continue to work to strengthen free expression and free inquiry, protect academic freedom, ensure affordability , promote intellectual pluralism, and maintain institutional neutrality in an increasingly polarized world. I am grateful for your continued dedication to the University and I look forward to working with you on these vital projects. Paul Mahoney Interim President University of Virginia

October 17, 2025 The United States Department of Education Washington, DC 20202 Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley, Thank you for your letter inviting comment on the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. We wholeheartedly agree that “American higher education is the envy of the world.” We also agree with many of the principles outlined in the Compact, including a fair and unbiased admissions process, an affordable and academically rigorous education, a thriving marketplace of ideas, institutional neutrality, and equal treatment of students, faculty, and staff in all aspects of university operations. Indeed, the University of Virginia leads in several of these areas and is committed to continuous improvement in all of them. We seek no special treatment in exchange for our pursuit of those foundational goals. The integrity of science and other academic work requires merit-based assessment of research and scholarship. A contractual arrangement predicating assessment on anything other than merit will undermine the integrity of vital, sometimes lifesaving, research and further erode confidence in American higher education. Higher education faces significant challenges and has not always lived up to its highest ideals. We believe that the best path toward real and durable progress lies in an open and collaborative conversation. We look forward to working together to develop alternative, lasting approaches to improving higher education. Sincerely yours, Paul Mahoney Interim President University of Virginia

UVA says no to the compact

No Kings, no dictators, no tyrants
This is the only anti-democracy crowd:
The Hate the American Constitution Crowd
Ann Telnaes 2/2

No Kings, no dictators, no tyrants This is the only anti-democracy crowd

This is the only anti-democracy crowd:
The Hate the American Constitution Crowd
Ann Telnaes 1/2 for the image
No Kings, no dictators, no tyrants
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Tunnel????
So the caribou can migrate?
Absolutely bonkers.

Petition gains steam to change Levi's Stadium Super Bowl halftime show Conservatives have launched a petition to replace Bad Bunny as headliner.

I am make the amused.
Super Bowl is all about making money.
Bad Bunny is a good draw.
But, but, American values, sputter.
A petition grows on Change Org.
I'm too lazy to look up George Strait...but he's vanilla.
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

shh! don’t wake the elderly golfer. his own press conferences put him to sleep. scenes from another batshit presser

It’s bedtime for Bonzo at every meeting.
[a nod to Reagan who slept in his mtgs]

Math! How does it work! with The Medical Wizard of Oz

Our parents aren’t having children with Roadkill Bobby.

Democrats are vewy, vewy scahwy with Karoline Leavitt.

Jeff Tiedrich
www.jefftiedrich.com/p/shh-dont-w...

Justice for Just Us
by Mike Luckovich on daily kos
trump and friends get parachutes,
Comey, Bolton, James get skewered.

The unhinged attacks on No Kings The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” On Saturday, October 18, millions of Ame...

They said, “They’re eating the dawgs!”
Now Mike Johnson says, “those attending would be antifa people”.
Yes, absolute truth. Fascism sucks.

Indivisible states, “A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action.”

post by Judd Legum

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"Look what they made me do!" - Mike Johnson who closed the House for more than 70 days.

50 years ago, School House Rock debuted “No More King” to teach kids why America has no king. 📺

Tomorrow, we reinforce that in the USA, there are still “No Kings” & we're united against any emerging. Stand with us at your event: https://nokings.org

🧵Lies, damn lies, and Average Intelligence

(242-10)/242 * 100

Future History Text Books:

During WW 3 China made a glaring error in accidentally hitting the ChatGPT data centers and thus drastically improving Americas tactical capabilities.

#NoKingsDay
#Oct18th

‘I’m Fat and I’m Going to Hell.’ - DONALD J. TRUMP

Happy Friday on Ribbit Eve. October 18 is a fine day for a walk.

“Ask not what your country can do for you.”

‘I’m fat and I’m going to hell.’

That’s where we are now. The great American canon. From Lincoln’s poetry to a cheeseburger confession. - Jojo from Jerz

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Federal judge demands answers from Trump admin on following order to avoid violent encounters with Chicago protesters | CNN A judge in Illinois said she has “serious concerns” over whether federal law enforcement agents are following her order to avoid violent encounters with protesters and journalists in Chicago.

“You can’t shoot ‘em in the head (with pepper balls),” the judge said. “You can’t deploy tear gas. You can’t use flash-bang grenades. You can’t drive a car through a crowd.”

www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/u...

‪AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals
You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing.
There's no both sides to this, Republicans are actively voting against working class interests.

The Trump regime’s constant onslaught of cruelty and mounting threats can be scary and demoralizing. That’s their intent.

But the people won’t bow down. On Saturday, we’re gonna speak out on a grander scale than Trump has ever seen. Find a peaceful protest: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

And there you have it. These strikes are clearly not legal. Pete will push commanders aside until he finds one who won’t question these extrajudicial killings. #SOUTHCOM

This One Matters: A "No Kings" Protest Guide — Psycho Pete Post by Psycho Pete

I’ve compiled what people attending No Kings need to know. This version is updated (and you will find our big boycott guide posted here, too). buymeacoffee.com/psychopete/this-one-matters

Indicting Political Enemies I started writing my book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable, around the time of Donald Trump’s second inauguration.

The daily torrent feels overwhelming but Joyce Vance includes a list.
“Here is the most important part, what we can do:”
No Kings is on the list. Please attend October 18 if you can.

Indicting Political Enemies
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see Mitch McConnell just falls down all the time it’s fine right

View From My Window
cybertruck printed:
Turn Up The Hustle
He was getting an oil change at BuzzClub

DOJ, Now Trump’s Tool of Personal Retribution, Indicts John Bolton Read more here.

"The indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for Maryland charges Bolton with 18 counts under the Espionage Act — eight for transmitting national defense information and ten for retaining it"
Yeah, yeah. Rule is: In the loo with chandelier.

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