thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Video from Trumpland! 🚨

Jack Smith, Trump’s Target, Shifts From Defense to Counterattack

Smith says he has “tons of evidence” that Trump willingly retained the classified documents at his residence in Mar-a-Lago and tried “to obstruct the investigation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Nine Movies That Break Down How Fear Works What to watch to understand your terror

The most effective scary movies tend to do more than just terrify us—they prompt us to question why we’re so afraid in the first place. Here are nine films that do just that:

Exclusive: Trump Administration Threatened Lawsuit Over Ohio Mail-In Ballot Deadline Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration threatened Ohio with “costly litigation” unless it bans the counting of ballots that arrive after Election Day, the state’s top election official revealed in comments to lawmakers. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Neguse: "It is outrageous that the Trump administration can come up with $40 billion to bail out Argentina and refuses to spend the money that Congress has appropriated to feed hungry families in America."

Didn’t expect this story to be this disturbing:

“They say horrible things about me and make everyone hate me and think I’m a bad person,” he said (…) like he was in some kind of trance.
“What did they say about you?” I asked.
He snapped out of it.
“Oh, not me,” he answered. “I meant Donald Trump.”

Besides his own in-laws, this is one of the most un-American and un-patriotic things I’ve ever heard.

Leni Riefenstahl’s Chilling Obsession With Perfect Bodies The director’s collaborations with the Nazi government translated Hitler’s ideas to film, almost verbatim.

Leni Riefenstahl made films for the Nazi government but insisted that she didn’t know about the atrocities it committed. Sally Jenkins writes about a new documentary that examines this claim—and Riefenstahl’s destructive legacy:

Washington Post capitulated.
LA Times capitulated.
ABC capitulated.
CBS capitulated.
CNN capitulated.

Support independent, pro democracy media like @status.news, @thebulwark.com, @crooked.com, @boltsmag.org, @the-downballot.com, @contrariannews.org and, of course, @democracydocket.com.

Trump’s White House Demolition Threatens the American Idea Summarily smashing part of the building without telling people threatens the fundamental idea of the republic.

Summarily smashing part of the White House without announcing it “threatens the fundamental idea of the republic—government by the people and for the people, conducted in public view,” Jake Lundberg argues.

Trump promised to lower costs on “day one.”

Instead, families are paying more for groceries, rent, and health care.

Now Trump’s hiding the jobs numbers.

Release the data, re-open the government, and stop making life harder for American families.

Never imagined our law enforcement would look like this.

They don’t even bother denying the corruption and grift.

Even if this did happen (which, uh...), I don't know if I'd consider it good news that a billionaire is cutting a personal check to pay military salaries. Seems rather... kingly.

Hegseth doesn't dispute the existence of a memo planning for the establishment of a "National Guard response force that's gonna be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by April 2026."

“This country was going to die without you.”

Dark, Unhinged, North Korea-level stuff from Stephen Miller

Whether it’s conservatives complaining about a redesign of Cracker Barrel’s across the country, or liberals complaining about President Trump bulldozing the East Wing of the White House, it’s clear both sides are engaged in a new political battleground over architecture and design

“The Golden Era”

surely just a coincidence.

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

BREAKING: Paul Ingrassia, who was nominated to lead the Office of Special Counsel by Trump, withdraws after offensive text messages were revealed where he claimed he was a Nazi.

Trump hires the “best people”.

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

Q: Was it a mistake for Trump to blanket-pardon all the Jan. 6 rioters, given that one was just arrested for threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries?

Johnson: “The violence on the left is far more prevalent than the violence on the right...”

Opinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance

"Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Trump nominee says MLK Jr. holiday belongs in ‘hell’ and that he has ‘Nazi streak,’ according to texts Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

NEW: Paul Ingrassia, Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be "tossed into the seventh circle of hell" and said he has "a Nazi streak," according to a text chat viewed by POLITICO.

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

These fuckers went from calling us terrorists to calling us bad dancers. Pretty lame downgrade there.