Absolutely outrageous!! 😡

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

That’s not how I expected the second half of this headline to go. “Part of White House Reduced to Rubble” should be followed by “What the Fuck.”

In the real America, criminal suspects are arrested and tried, with evidence being presented to a jury who then deliberate to a verdict. We don't just drop bombs on suspects and blow them up. This is insane. And illegal.

52 new projects — including the next Jumanji movie, Michael Mann's followup to Heat, and the next film by the directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once — just received the latest round of California Film & TV Tax Credits.

It means $1.4B for our economy and thousands of new jobs.

This year:

How many people have died in ICE custody?
How many people have they killed?
How many have they shot and wounded?
How many have they assaulted, and inflicted bodily harm upon?

Who is keeping ICE crime stats?

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

Everything he's touched needs to be sandblasted, steam cleaned, exorcised, and fumigated

You seem to have missed Trump doing all kinds of illegal 💩. Laws of any kind don't help unless you have the means to enforce them. If you have a bunch of people who act in bad faith and are incentivized to keep doing so, this is what happens. WE NEED TO CHANGE THE INCENTIVES.

I agree. If we ever get this government back, we should raze the ballroom and rebuild the East Wing. We should also tear up the paving and recreate the Rose Garden. Finally, looks like we need some legislation on when and if Presidents can alter or destroy national monuments.

I’m disgusted by the photos of Ttump’s demolition at the East Wing, but I’m even more sickened by the renderings of his mar-a-lago ballroom dwarfing our White House. Once we’re rid of this despicable man, that ballroom must also be removed.

Jeffries on reoffending January 6 criminals who Trump pardoned: "There is pain being visited upon the American people because of actions taken by Donald Trump, supported by Republicans, on day one of this presidency."

I’m proud to endorse @mikiesherrill.bsky.social for Governor of New Jersey. Congresswoman Sherrill’s life & career have been all about service to our country and to NJ. Mikie will make an excellent Gov. who will fight for our kids’ future, stand up for the people & make NJ more affordable and safe.

Contraception is a fundamental part of reproductive healthcare — yet my opponent voted against protecting the right to birth control.

Virginia — as Governor, I will sign the Right to Contraception Act into law.

Local activists and organizers were the beating heart of No Kings Day — and they will keep leading the fight on the ground in your community. Use our map to see what groups are near you and get in touch with your local Indivisibles: indivisible.org/groups

When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead | Artnet News Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'

Did the same in NYC. When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead share.google/xr2MMvoFOIMh...

Raskin: I heard speaker Mike Johnson refer to a hate America rally, but that one already happened on January 6th, 2021

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

Making Argentina Great Again

Breathtaking incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery shell exploded prematurely over California freeway during marines celebration Shrapnel fragments rained on vehicles parked on Interstate 5 including highway patrol and JD Vance’s detail

Holy shit it’s real: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If I told you that the Vice President of the United States ordered an IED attack on a California highway adjacent to a Marine base, you'd probably think I was kidding.

The economy is going to come crashing down. Ordinary folks can't take all these double-digit price increases his tariffs are causing, especially for us who are on fixed incomes.

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: A NYC reckoning/election is coming closer Eric Lach/ The New Yorker: What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor? New ...

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: A NYC reckoning/election is coming closer
by Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social

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I might (only might), reluctantly, consider corporations are people the day Texas executes one.

“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.” ― Bell Hooks

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#MusicChallenge

Shelby Lynne - You Don't Have A Heart

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We currently have a president who is so childishly crude and grotesque that newspapers consider it indecent to accurately describe the video he recently posted, and TV shows think it is indecent to show it.

But many Americans are OK that the Oval Office is home to the nation's crassest toddler.

Trump is now planning to occupy San Francisco. He must be upset about the messages they’ve been making on Ocean Beach.

Boarding foreign vessels in your country's waters is standard practice. It is not standard practice to do so in international waters or in the waters of other countries. Bombing vessels and killing those on board in international waters, or the waters of other countries is an act of war. /1