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They've all gone insane.

I mean, it seems like a bad idea to stiff hundreds of thousands of your own voters and turn them against you but what do I know

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Take it from a plane: You probably shouldn't fly by next week. The sickouts are going to cripple air traffic and it's going to get gnarly at airports.

Absolutely ridiculous.

We must guarantee back pay after this shutdown that Trump and Republicans led us into.

Our federal workers rely on their paychecks to pay rent, support their families, and feed their kids, just like the rest of us. They deserve better.

Trump Now Claims an Insurrection Is Underway in Dark March to Martial Law The president has said he’s willing to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy U.S. soldiers in American cities.

He's a liar, his team are liars, his whole faction of MAGAts are liars, his GQP are liars, his Faux News are liars.
Any questions??? 🎈🤡🎪

www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

it's pretty plain. The national media is ignoring it. The local media in Chicago and Portland are much better but they don't have a very big reach.

In the last few weeks we’ve watched ICE:

Pepper spray the Portland frog
Tear gas members of Chicago PD
Zip tie children
Grab Chicagoans from their beds in dead of the night
Open fire on a civilian in her car

Yet they say immigrants are the threat.

Protesters are the threat.

We know better.

"The reason it is important to correct the record here is that misperceptions about support for violence could actually raise support for violence...political violence is a psychological arms race...No side wants to be caught flat-footed against an opponent [they perceive] wants to murder them."

This image displays a feed of independent journalism archived by Harms Committed under #USA. The top of the image includes a back button, a share button, and '#usa From @harmscommitted.bsky.social.' There are two tabs to sort the archived articles, 'Top' and 'Latest.' The 'Latest' tab is highlighted, having been selected. Below these tabs is a representative post, featuring 2 quotes from the article and relevant hashtags. The article's title is "The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago." Description of photo: "Masked federal agents at an October 4 protest at the ICE detention center in Broadview, Illinois. STEEL BROOKS." The post's text reads as follows: "If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world." "This is what happens when a sitting president wages war on an American city." #Illinois #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

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I archived 16 new works of independent journalism today under #USA.

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Words & Phrases We Could Do Without ‘Armed Conflict’? Trump declares war on all of us

Trump’s warped language may be aimed at domestic, use of force. If, say, Chicago drug dealers getting shipments from overseas were part of an “armed conflict” can Trump summarily execute a suspected drug dealer? Liberal protesters he claims have ties to ANTIFA? open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

It's amazing to think about how we got here: The delusional mad king was watching Fox News b-roll, thought it was a current event, and decided to invade Portland--and now the entire MAGA movement is trying to turn Trump's delusions into reality.

ICE spraying priest while armored up

Airborne troops boarding plane for D-Day.

Just saw this infamous ICE pic again today, and it struck me: it’s stunning the extent to which the ICE cops snatching day laborers outside Home Depot and spraying unarmed priests w chemicals fitted out EXACTLY like … paratroopers jumping into Nazi-occupied France on D-Day.

Couldn’t agree more! #Pinks

Nick Fuentes: “Let's get all the towel heads on one side. We'll get all the tiny hats on the other. ... And we can send them all right back to the Middle East.”

This is the guy Glenn Greenwald and Patrick Bet-David have been trying to rehabilitate and portray as not too bad and misunderstood.

www.mediamatters.org/white-nation...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there. Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

The dual state, invented to describe the Nazis, is two-faced twice over: It is characterized by a bifurcation in the law, but also by the facade of normalcy, obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

This term, the Supreme Court could take us right there.

ATLANTIC: “Miller, like Trump, appears to believe his side stands for what is right and good, and his opponents stand for what is evil. Any methods used by Trump are ipso facto justified, and any methods used against him illegitimate.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

New Orleans May Hand Its Police Live Facial Recognition Tech. Critics Warn It’ll Help ICE. The city says it won’t lend this tool to ICE for surveillance. But a state law requires that local officials assist ICE, and New Orleans also wants to end a court order restricting compliance.

ICE is seeking increasing amounts of data from localities. “We’re seeing more and more signs, especially in ‘sanctuary cities,’ where the federal government’s requests are getting bigger and bigger,” says an immigration law expert.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Government shutdown threatens food aid program relied on by millions of families Experts say a food aid program that helps 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money unless the government shutdown ends within two weeks.

WIC funds are about to run out and thousands could miss paychecks this week because Republicans still refuse to negotiate.

This is the GOP's shutdown. They set the deadline, made no effort to avoid it, & would rather let kids go hungry & families go without pay than back off their health care cuts.

Parents, teachers upset after school district removes dystopian book from curriculum Parents and teachers voiced concerns at Monday's school board meeting about the removal of "Ponies," a 2010 Nebula Award-winning story about authoritarianism.

Administration pulled "Ponies" by Kij Johnson from curriculum at Otsego Public Schools (MI). They gave no reason why the story that's been used for years and years was suddenly pulled...but given it's a story about authoritarianism, we know damn well why.

www.mlive.com/news/kalamaz...

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The spin here is also unnecessary unless they know how unpopular their position is. You can kinda always tell when this admin realizes that they're on the wrong side of something (not that they'd actually change behavior)

I literally sat in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles and listened to the DOJ make the case for racial profiling...to a federal judge. I heard it with my own two ears, man! They appealed it all the way to the Supreme Court!

The spin here is amazing

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“.. The referrals did not come from the OIG,” one of these people said, using shorthand for the office of the inspector general. “It took people there by surprise.”

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Trump Crazy: There Is No Tariff Shelf, the Treasury Knows Exactly Where Its Taxes Come From Trump’s pattern of baseless claims—from Obama’s birthplace to tariff revenue myths—shows his ongoing detachment from reality.

Trump Crazy #56, 474. There is no "tariff shelf," Treasury knows exactly where its revenue is coming from all the time, including Trump's huge import taxes cepr.net/publications...

This!