Jimmy Kimmel more popular than Trump after show suspension, poll finds Economist and YouGov poll finds president had a 16-point deficit in terms of popularity compared with late-night host

I'm sure he'll take this normally.

can u imagine how hard the white house staff is working to desperately hide this news from trump right now lol

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...

update: "video appears to contradict the government’s allegation that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire on her"
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

“When politics can't reach people, the culture always does”: Hosts praise Bad Bunny's SNL monologue

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

MAGA Turns on Trump’s Top Lawyer Todd Blanche discovers that your place is never totally secure in the modern conservative movement.

Deputy AG Todd Blanche is a Trump loyalist. But now right-wing media is turning on him, after they say he quashed an elaborate scheme to rescue a prominent 2020 election denier from her prison cell.

My new False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-turns...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker explains what he believes is Donald Trump's real goal in normalizing a military presence in U.S. cities by dressing ICE and Border Patrol agents in military gear.

Watch:

PS: @asharangappa.bsky.social points out this story from CNN

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

This is so Bizarre. I’ve had multiple conversations this week with several people about Ellis. He’s the guy that stashed the perfect phone call transcript in a code word classified system. And took over prepub review of Bolton’s book. Now this. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

yet the airport is still operating. i did not know you could…do that.

Lucy is promising that this time she will definitely hold the football.

In Testimony, Top Texas Republican Remembers Another Conversation With GOP Mapmaker Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A top Texas Republican revealed in federal court Monday he didn’t tell legislators about a phone call with the national GOP operative who drew the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A lie. The truth: A Cuomo win would amount to a Trump take over of NYC. He is the Trump candidate.

Maybe start a separate association of just blue-state governors. A sort of Union, if you will.

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

Seems like a classic "damned if he does, damned if he doesn't" scenario, which I love for him.

Pro-tip: the people zip-tying kids or shoving the elderly down stairs are never the good guys.

What is it about Colorado that specifically allows for all these made up cases. Like the wedding website designer who had never done it but wanted to be "proactively" prepared to discriminate.

From the people who brought you a fake case in 303 Creative and still got the justices to bulldoze protections for queer people………

👀 Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with Republicans on Obamacare funding, saying she’s not a fan of the law but demands action to prevent a premium hike. “I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.” She says GOP leaders don’t have a plan.

“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS i...

The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”

(Published April 2025)

But I thought if you smeared someone and they were then the victim of violence, that meant you had to be fired from your job.

Or does Fox News only think that applies to teachers?

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

They really don't want to release the Epstein Files, huh.

DOJ gives a Trump-like answer as to the claim of what's going on, with stark violence and such.

Ellis: "I think we have a different idea of what's going on in Chicago."

Plaintiffs lawyer responds in agreement, saying that it's primarily soccer moms and skinny kids yelling at ICE agents.

DOJ argues about ICE officers being doxxed.

Ellis responds at length, discussing doxxing and threats faced by judges and acknowledging how horrible it is, but says "that doesn't mean that you then get to do this job and be anonymous. ... Under the rule of law, it is important to be transparent."

I’ve long assumed Trump would try to do stimulus checks before the midterms. What I didn’t predict was Democrats trying to help Trump do stimulus checks before the midterms.

Courts Keep Smacking Down Trump’s Lawless Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship But he keeps plugging away—believing his allies on the Supreme Court will ultimately side with him.

Why are the courts having to slog through so much federal litigation over Trump’s executive order? Because the far-right majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to shut it down. www.thebulwark.com/p/first-circ...

The supposedly truth telling "independent journalists" Leavitt is referring to are veteran far right activists/influencers, several of whom have ties to the Proud Boys or were involved with January 6. These "journalists" are basically the media arm of the MAGA movement.

Tonight!

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker will be Rachel Maddow's guest.

9pmET on MSNBC