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But this, to Caldwell, is apparently not "social change."

He'd like you to believe it's "back to normal."

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Social change, of course, is the driving purpose of the Trump administration.

End diversity, equity, and inclusion
Promote white masculinity
Send women back to the home
Eliminate black people from the public sphere
Eliminate trans people
Eliminate immigrants
Christianity uber alles!

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The funniest part of that Christopher Caldwell op-ed in the NYT today is

"Mr. Hegseth was there to announce that the Trump administration would no longer use the military’s structures to drive social change."

Mr. Caldwell, of course, is a DEI hire to "balance" conservatism at the Times. 1/

I was in a Kansas bookstore yesterday, and two women in front of me were discussing the Kansas Eisenhower Museum Director who refused to give Trump a sword from the museum and was fired.

They were appalled, and it became a conversation between several others in line. The news is getting out…

BONDI: The National Guard is on the way right now as we speak. You're sitting here grilling me and they're on their way to Chicago to keep your state safe.

DURBIN: It's my job to grill you

I am soooo here for the passive aggression of referring to Oz as a “former talk show host” rather than his current title.

Good piece.

What I just can’t shake these days is the specter of “end times fascism.” The thought that certain oligarchs foresee only crisis with no viable fix. That their abandonment of the future, so stupid by our standards, has a certain rationality for those who can provision some kind of exit.

Kristi Noem is simultaneously claiming she’s in a “war zone” while complaining about the restrooms.

Wow!

Looking at Portland burning to the ground.

What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism The worst excesses seem designed to produce content

I live in Chicago. ICE and its various manifestations is a reckless, inhuman way to "produce content." I'm a 75-year-old white guy who says get the hell out of here. www.economist.com/united-state...

Good. In-group pressure and shame works.

A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one p...

A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings

Congress passed an 1866 law that only deceased people could appear on US currency. Why? To prevent a dictator from putting his face on a coin. 🪙 They saw this day coming.

The House is out for a third straight week. Will the GOP actually return for legislative business on October 14? That's TBD. It's not like there is no work to do. The House still needs to vote on 9 of 12 government funding bills for 2026.

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

That's right, crazy extremist Hung Cao is now Under Secretary of the Navy

Great "timeline" we're living in...

bluevirginia.us/2025/10/mond... h/t @rightwingwatch.bsky.social

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John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn ) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

Before I had Medicare, I had ACA. I had the silver pkg., I paid $247 per month. If it wouldn’t have been for ACA, I would have had to pay $900+ per month. This was in 2013, I was refused insurance until ACA was put into law. Preexisting conditions make you uninsurable.

The rest of the developed world can see were being made into slaves and the wealthy into kings that are above the law. Yet MAGA cheers.

This one is jaw-dropping. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) has a whole lot to explain to her constituents:

A warning for those in Mike Collins' (R-GA) district:

If you live in Rep. Brian Mast's (R-FL) district, buckle up. Your costs are about to skyrocket if Republicans don't extend the health care tax credits.

Here's what costs will look like for constituents of Chip Roy (R-TX):

Brutal. Constituents in Jim Jordan's (R-OH) district would have to fork up an additional $16,846 every year to keep their coverage.

A couple living in Rep. Mike Lawler's (R-NY) district earning $82,800 annually would see an increase in costs of $13,459 every year. 😬

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

How likely is it that Matt Taibbi becomes a correspondent on the Bari Weiss version of 60 Minutes?