The hypocrisy is absolutely mind-bending.

Love the guy, but I’d vote for the Democratic Party candidateeven if the presidential candidate was bozo the clown and the vice presidential candidate was Francis the talking mule

So Trump doesn’t know who he’s pardoning? Sounds like this ought to be a major congressional investigation.

The last time a month was below the 1850-1900 average is now 589 months ago! October 1976 was -0.14°C

It’s Ross Douhat. Why even read it?

Jack DeJohnette, dynamic and instantly recognizable jazz drummer, dies at 83 Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday.

Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday. n.pr/47bWFH8

Trump Is Rewriting History to Justify His Sketchy Pardon of a Crypto King Trump claimed that the Binance founder was “persecuted” by Biden’s Justice Department as part of what the White House called a “war on cryptocurrency.”

“If you consider how seriously the establishment of both political parties takes issues like terrorism, I think a four-month prison sentence is comically inadequate.”

China upgraded missiles using UAE technology, Biden spies said Intelligence sparked intense debate in Washington about its relationship with Gulf state

US spy agencies obtained intelligence in 2022 that the United Arab Emirates gave Huawei technology that they believe China used to extend the range of air-to-air missiles, giving its fighter jets an advantage over American warplanes.
www.ft.com/content/a188...

MAGA Media Keeps Thirsting for Left-Wing Violence . . . even if that means they have to invent it.

Instead of feasting on apocalyptic scenes of chaos and civil disorder, MAGA was left to nibble on the political tapas plates of minor incidents, like that of a protester in Denver stealing a Trump supporter’s glasses.
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...

I fled Putin’s brutal regime, now Trump is deporting me back to Russia Russian dissident fears ‘deadly threat’ upon his return after US rejects his asylum application

Eduard Glezin, a Russian dissident who fled to the US in 2014 after he was arrested for protesting against Vladimir Putin faces being deported to Moscow and near certain death. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Details from the Trump and Vought at Mar-a-Lago narrative account

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

Massive crowds gather across US for ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump Republicans decry demonstrations as ‘anti-American’ as people voice opposition to administration’s hardline policies

Remarkable how British and European papers have no difficulty whatsoever professionally covering the No Kings rallies and drawing conclusions from them. US papers, led by NYT, are scared to death of even touching the subject. And that shows that the "successful intimidation of media" stage is met.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

The United States now has an immigration enforcement apparatus that, if it were its own national military, would be the thirteenth-most-heavily funded military in the world. And the president of the U.S. wants to turn that heavily funded, extramilitary against you. trib.al/iQPunfE

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

As usual, Mark Zuckerberg lies about Facebook's standards and practices. His posture towards Trump is best described as supine dictator coddling.

These are flat-out murders, as George Conway says. But you won't see a US newspaper report them that way. That's because they're afraid of the truth.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

An EPA report found that the forever chemical PFNA interferes with human development and likely causes damage to the liver and male reproductive systems.

The agency has sat on the report for months. “Scientifically, it was done,” said one scientist.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Personally, I’m wondering what it will take for lawmakers to realize this.

Trump's coiffure and face makeup turn him into a natural Marie Antoinette

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They've been a roadmap for the billionaire ever since.

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They've been a roadmap for the billionaire ever since. www.wired.com/story/the-re...

CNN Data Guru Drops Ratings Bomb on Trump’s Insane National Guard Target The president thinks sending troops into American cities is a winning strategy even as the numbers show it’s decidedly not.

Huge majorities of Americans want to see an end to Trump's deployment of troops to big cities, and to his immigration shenanigans as well. They're also not amused by his scheme to invade Venezuela. www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-data-gur...

ICE Agents Held 5-Year-Old Autistic Girl as Bait to Arrest Her Dad Federal immigration agents are turning to increasingly sick tactics to meet the Trump administration’s arrest quota.

What Trump's secret police was up to today: holding a 5 yo autistic girl as bait to catch her father, who's lived in the US for twenty yrs and has an active asylum application. The agents went to his home and kidnapped his daughter. trib.al/VFuC1v3

@timmiller.bsky.social breaks down how you're paying for the dumbest bailout ever!

Wait: so the President of the United States shared a video of a fake news report, rooted in a conspiracy theory, that features an AI-generated version of himself promoting a policy that…doesn’t exist?

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Indeed, it's a hallmark of fascist governance, using all the tools that fascists routinely use.

This is absolutely batshit insane. Corporations are aiding and abetting an authoritarian president and demolishing free speech while that same president and his party hypocritically claim to be free-speech champions. ABC is supine in the face of absurd bullying.