The day clownish Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files a ridiculous, performative lawsuit against Tylenol seems a good day to re-post this:

Very Brave.

Walk & Talk - An anonymous Senate Dem, John Fetterman or Angus King, or one or two others, are throwing shade on the No Kings rally Saturday; why these people are in Congress is beyond me, they run when everything in the world says to fight like hell youtu.be/699nPSQFDGU?...

Trump tears down the White House literally - as he values nothing and destroys everything this Nation took so long to build, its buildings and its principles.

From the Roosevelts to the Kennedys: A Look Back at the White House East Wing

The heart beat of a nation stilled by a man child who knows nothing of history, art or class - www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

NEW: Republican Kansas State Rep Mark Schreiber is BLOCKING his party's efforts to gerrymander Kansas for Trump, because it's unconstitutional. 👏 THANK YOU Rep Schreiber.

BREAKING: New research shows cervical cancer is on its way to being completely ELIMINATED. ✅ Not because of school prayer, not because o seed oil bans, not because people stopped taking Tylenol. It was a vaccine.

Trump’s MAGA makeover of the Third Circuit is complete | Opinion Two right-wing loyalists give the federal appeals court an 8-6 conservative majority.

OPINION: "Less than a year into his second term, Trump has finished what he started in his first ... The people of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, and perhaps the country as a whole, will be living with its consequences for decades to come." — John P. Collins Jr.

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Drop ICE ADS NOW! No ICE Ads on our Streaming Platforms boycottspotify.com

Spotify is running ICE advertisements and refuses to address it. Might be because their founder is basically another Elon Musk.

It’s time to cancel your subscription, and we made it easy for you—just go to BoycottSpotify.com.

The wealthy have done what they can to make US citizens distrust unions, they have purchased the minds of so many people. I desperately want a union but live in a "right to work" state, so unions won't even talk to us.

It is time.

Whenever you see an apocalypse movie, often the White House is being destroyed by some alien enemy. In real life, it's being done by our president, which is even a greater horror.

As we are seeing up close & personal.

“There is such a thing as too much money. It’s bad for the world for sure, but it’s also bad for the people who own it. . . . It is painful, soul-crushing, alienating, and morally corrosive for the people who own it.”

Trump has transformed the presidency into a massive "Bribe Delivery System"

-- @gregsargent.bsky.social

Truer words were never spoken

Trump Is Screwing His Voters So Badly That It Shocked This MAGA Farmer As Trump’s bizarre idea to control soaring prices backfires with farmers, a Democratic organizer in rural areas explains how badly Trump is hammering his own supporters—and why it gives Democrats an o...

Trump is screwing his voters so badly:

*tariffs wrecking soybean markets abroad
*Medicaid cuts killing rural hospitals
*ACA subsidies lapsing for working class
*ICE decimating ag workforce
*farmers furious at Argentine beef imports

On the pod, we dig into all of it:
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ICE would need more money to expand use of bodycams in Chicago crackdown, official says ICE's deputy field office director said ICE agents have worn no cameras working at a facility in Broadview that has been the site of protests.

So let me get this right. ICE got a bajillion dollars in the OBBBA to hire hundreds of thousands of agents, which they're behind on actually doing, but they're too poor to afford a couple of bodycams. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

'Our hands are tied': Can anyone stop Trump's tear-down of the East Wing? Many preservationists fear the answer is no. A pro-Trump review board is expected to approve the president's planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom, too. Today at 2:49 p.m. EDT

Bullshit. Congress can stop this any time it wants, but it’s controlled by cowards whose slogan is YES KING.
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Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they’ll begin to arrive Thursday.

Looks like we are about to see a significant increase in snatch-and-grab operations around the Bay Area

408-290-1144 is the hotline for the Palo Alto/Mountain View area

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Really appreciate you sharing this bit as the journalist who spent hours researching and analyzing the info it would be great if you could link back to the original work:

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Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...

A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.

(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

An amazing story of this decade was the ADL turning all its fire on Israel critics while tech companies dismantled their censors and Hitler-lovers came roaring back.

Justice Eddins went even further in a concurrence joined by two other justices. He flamed the U.S. Supreme Court for choosing to "steamroll" the First Amendment's separation of church and state by mandating government support of religion. He wrote: The federal wall cracks. The Supreme Court's recent religious clause cases wreck the relationship between free exercise and non-establishment.... The Roberts Court casually dismisses the lessons of American and world history, the warnings of prominent early Americans, and the judiciary's storied legal minds. Bad things happen unless government and religion are completely separated. Justice Eddins also wrote about something you and I have been talking about for a long time, which is the conservative supermajority making up facts. He called out Kennedy v. Bremerton, the notorious "praying coach" case, writing: "As it often does, the Court repackaged and whitewashed facts to achieve a desired outcome." This is the same point that Sherrilyn Ifill has made on the show about how the record in that case, and so many others, is ignored.

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court.

He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

““Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Dr. Kornbluth wrote.”
Love the leadership by MIT here
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Ring founder 'backs the blue,' says AI is helping Amazon-owned doorbell unit fight crime Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to the company he founded in April to lead the business, which is part of Amazon's devices division.

Ring founder: “I’m focused on: How can I get the highest density of camera coverage in a neighborhood matched with AI to make neighborhoods safer?…It’s not just hard crime.”

Just put this guy and the Flock guy on a deserted island together so they can surveill each other until the end times.