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Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom… If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance.

The crowd tonight in Norfolk, Virginia for Abigail Spanberger and Barack Obama. LET’S GO!!!

the one part of this awful video I found inspiring is the moment when the cam pans back and you see an array of upstanding Americans with their smartphones out filming these gutter thugs. that's really the symbol of the opposition. the smartphone and its embedded video cam.

Occasionally the Times just totally nails each part

I lost my job, the price of groceries is way up, my gardener was deported, and they canceled funding for the experimental cancer treatment that was my only chance to live another year. But at least my damn neighbor is afraid to wear a keffiyeh now.

She's kinda cool.

Stephen Miller says that he wants to build a fascist totalitarian police state. Democrats agree that this is what he wants to do. The truth is more complicated.

It needed to have been done long ago. For example, you can't square the Dobbs decision with equal protection and anti-discrimination laws. A woman who crosses from a blue state to a red state doesn't have the same rights and liberties as a man.

Lol, well done by Mamdani here.

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

This was a fun show.

Times Square

Look at this turnout in Charlotte! #NoKings (via Marco Foster/Threads)

#NoKings Miami!

It's a reasonable possibility that the Trump administration paid them hush money as a condition of release. These folks are obviously innocent. Trinidad media have been reporting on this incident.

This is it. Right in the (current) epicenter of the fascist takeover. Now, go vote and support all groups within the Dem coalition. Don't let them divide the coalition.

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

#NOKINGS
Alexandria, Virginia

#NOKINGS

New York City, NY

Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris October 13, 2025 I am thankful and deeply encouraged that this ceasefire has brought long-awaited moments of joy and reunion — as 20 Israeli hostages are finally reunited with their loved ones and Palestinian families and the people of Gaza begin to receive desperately needed relief from unimaginable suffering. Through diplomacy and persistence, today is an important first step toward a more hopeful future. I commend the leaders and partners whose efforts made this agreement possible, including the President and his team. There is still much more work to do to secure a lasting peace, ensure the safety and dignity of every innocent life, and build a future where Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in freedom and security.

My statement on the ceasefire in the Middle East.

The Seventh Circuit REFUSES to allow Trump to immediately deploy the National Guard in Chicago, but allows them to be federalized pending appeal.

Same initial ruling as the Ninth Circuit, before oral arguments.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tim Dillon: "Children being zip tied, or a grandmother being zip tied, people who've maybe lived in a community 30 years and they're not committing a crime...showing up to a high school graduation and deporting someone's father, seems to a lot of people to be inhumane."

Pretty good from Jeffries.

Hillary Clinton unloads about RFK Jr. and Donald Trump, warning about the danger they pose to America’s health.

I would disagree. I think Trump persuaded his base that free speech is not necessary and is 'trumped' by Trump speech. The Dems and a plurality of Indies resisted and got a 'win'. The often disparate anti-Trump coalition will have to rally together many more times to beat Trumpism.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Gavin Newsom: "This is a tough time. A lot of anxiety, a lot of stress ... and Democrats frankly have had a difficult time pushing back. There's sort of this weakness that dominates our brand, and I think what people appreciate is that we're willing to fight not only symbolically but substantively"

Gavin Newsom: "It was Hannity, all these guys -- 'Outraged! Offended! Disgusted!' Because we put a mirror up to Trump and the absurdity of what's going on in this country, the absurdity of Donald Trump, the absurdity of these networks playing into it"

Perhaps Brendan Carr, who I do not support, was wrong to pressure Disney, which I do not support, to fire Jimmy Kimmel for his comments on Charlie Kirk, who I do not support. But it wasn't bad as what the M$DNC shitlibs did to me for praising Trump, who I do not support.

by Glenn Greenwald

Imagine saying this in 2023-24. Not saying you're wrong at this point in time, but people generally showed a lack of patience with the fed/administration policy on inflation.