Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

Across a series of events last week, President Trump appeared with discoloration or light bruising on the back of his left hand, in addition to the more persistent bruise on his right hand that has been visible for months.
https://cnn.it/3YQCdq1

At year end, the dividing line in politics today is defined by dignity. Dignity is something that can't be taken away. It can only be surrendered voluntarily. We saw the most powerful business leaders willing to surrender dignity while everyday Americans stood tall.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

But Fox News said...

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

Yeah, agreed but it was lame as shit you wouldn’t endorse Mamdani

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

Yeah. It’s Climate Change. In the last 45 years the most extreme Atlantic hurricanes have nearly doubled and extreme rapid intensification has increased by 6X!! #climatechange #melissa #hurricane #fyp #florida

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.

California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.

Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

The president had a MRI but won't say why.

He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.

He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.

He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.

How is any of this ok?

I Politics Subscribe POLITICS • 2 MIN READ Prosecutor who resisted bringing charges against NY AG was fired after allegations she sent case info to her personal email UPDATED 9 HR AGO V By Hannah Rabinowitz

Imagine being this credulous more than 10 months into this administration.

(CBS News) - A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...

UN pushes for worldwide disaster alerts as extreme weather ‘spirals’ Climate-related hazards have killed more than 2 million people in 50 years, said the UN meteorological agency.

Climate-related hazards have killed more than 2 million people in 50 years, said the UN meteorological agency.

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.

Trump's assault "would not have been possible without the thousands of consultants, aides, and politicos working behind the scenes to fully execute their systematic dismantling of American democratic norms."

Miles Bruner on leaving the Republican party: www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

Money, Women and Taxes: Jeffrey Epstein’s Fiery Friendship with a Wall Street Titan

Just re-upping this. Billionaire Leon Black, along with billionare Leslie Wexner, are both still alive. Both gave MILLIONS to Epstein. We really don't know why. (Oh, we know.)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...

Try to imagine the media reaction in 2009 had Barack Obama done something like this for the Tea Party protests. David Gergen's face would have melted. Maureen Dowd would need a fainting couch.

Let's never treat this debased crap as normal or acceptable.

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

“But how do we inspire trust in journalism”

And yeah it’s telling that multiple articles about the Black vote and Mamdani never brought this up

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

A good piece, with a couple of examples of bad NYT headlines undermining good reporting as a bonus.

The MAGA “influencers” accompanying Noem, & the administration itself, are lying.

Not living in a different reality or having a different view of the facts. Intentionally lying.

Propaganda.

According the victim's attorney, body camera footage showed the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good.”
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THESE FUCKING MAGAT'S ARE WORKING OVERTIME TO BREAK AMERICA.

EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES TURNS TO SHIT.

AMERICANS WILL DIE BECAUSE THEY VOTED FOR THIS.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it