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So You've Decided to Target Random People with Military Force Here's why it's illegal.

ICYMI here is a quick explainer on why the strikes in the Caribbean are illegal and why you should care (hint: you might be next) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

America’s bankers are riding high. Why are they so worried? Their latest earnings do not represent unalloyed good news

The price-to-earnings ratio for the KBW bank index has not often been higher over the past 20 years—except during the 2008 financial crisis and the pandemic, two periods during which earnings collapsed

Brooke Rollins says farmers need a bailout in October 2025 because "the cost of inputs under Joe Biden went up."

Appeals court won’t let Trump deploy National Guard in Illinois for now A federal judge had said Trump could not deploy troops in Illinois.

A federal appeals court said that it would not let President Trump deploy troops in Illinois for now, leaving in place a judge’s ruling that blocked the administration from placing the National Guard in Chicago.

All the Pretty Little Nazis The shape of things to come.

"Trumpism will persist as the dominant feature of Republican politics at least to 2028 and almost certainly to 2032. We’re talking about a full generation of Republicans who *only* understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project."

Wow.

Much worse was the presidential candidate who said “I love the poorly educated” because he thought he could hornswoggle them. Whatever happened to him— … oh wait

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault

Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Spend three days doing a jury trial on a single misdemeanor charge and jury comes back not guilty in two hours. @hipcrimevocab.net - is that as embarrassing as I think it is?

Sounds like it was pretty clear.

It occurs to me Trump is doing something extremely similar to what Sam Bankman-Fried went to prison for.

SBF took funds from customer deposits at his crypto exchange FTX and put them into his other company Alameda Research to keep it solvent.

In a WaPo article by @danlamothe.bsky.social & @taracopp.bsky.social, there's this:

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

Cops are great

Imagine if KJP or Psaki had said this about the Republican base: not just that half of them were “deplorables” but that the GOP’s “main constituency is made up of domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and violent criminals”? The media, not just Fox, would be in meltdown. GOP would be screaming!

Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end

INDICTMENT The Grand Jury for the District of Maryland charges that: GENERAL ALLEGATIONS At all times relevant to this Indictment, unless otherwise indicated: Introduction The defendant, JOHN ROBERT BOLTON, II ("BOLTON"), resided in Montgomery County, Maryland, and, from the 1980s through 2019, served intermittently in a variety of senior U.S. Government positions, including as an Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, an Under Secretary of State in the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and, in his last position of public service, from April 2018 to September 2019, as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, which was commonly known as the National Security Advisor. 2. The role of the National Security Advisor varied by presidential administration, but generally the National Security Advisor assisted the President in managing the National Security Council ("NSC). The National Security Act of 1947, as amended, established the NSC to advise

READ the John Bolton indictment storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Racist Young Republican Chat Leaves GOP Stumbling to Respond Split over whether to discipline the offenders or just ignore the whole affair.

"Jewish conservatives, in particular, have grown less than thrilled to find their gentile compatriots so comfortable with gas chamber jokes and even ironic Hitler praise." And anyone who tries to hold to pre-Trump standards. www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-you...

These days it seems as though every elected official in Washington is on a quest to become a digital influencer or content creator. Even some folks you might not expect.

The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social with reporting by @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/house-sena...

Whenever Democrats are tempted to pull out the old “spirited disagreements but we’re all Americans” bromide, they need to remember this first.

“A House of Dynamite” is all too plausible. I’m a nuke expert - and it scared the heck out of me.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump: "Pergerverious. Pergoverous. And uh -- thatsanisame. Pergoverous. We can't you name them nice simple names?"

We’re making fun of her, but it really is beyond the pale at the White House press secretary would say this in public and it would not be a scandal.

Q: When was the last time you had a one-on-one convo with Mike Johnson?

Jeffries: "We haven't had a formal conversation at all during the shutdown, and in my view, that's because House Republican leadership hasn't been given permission to talk to Democrats by their boss, Donald Trump."

Lawsuit calls on SSA to release records on ‘customer service breakdowns’ Democracy Forward alleges the agency failed to fully respond to multiple FOIA requests.

Millions depend on Social Security to make ends meet, yet the Trump-Vance administration has quietly made access harder — without explanation.

No transparency means no accountability. Americans deserve better, so we're in court demanding answers.

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

Read this and then I think you’ll agree that the monstrous Ghislaine Maxwell should not have one day of peace the rest of her wretched life www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is blatantly unconstitutional and why no Democrat should ever hedge on "well tariffs..."

The President does not have the authority to impose taxes nor does he have the authority to distribute unconstitutionally collected revenue from those taxes.