How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

Tell Congress: Demand answers about Trump’s visibly deteriorating health Contact Congress today!

So #TrumpShutUSDown, but he’s afraid to show his hands in public? Sure that makes sense…

Wait, no it doesn’t! Tell Congress we need answers about Trumps clearly deteriorating health!

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Jimmy Kimmel put together an amazing compilation of Donald Trump saying all the words from the birthday letter he wrote to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein

oh so now the Democrat Party wants to make it illegal to enjoy Cava

It took me a second to figure out the person on trial is the victim of the shooting and not the ice agent who shot somebody

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

Letter to the editor by Nancy Atherton

Congratulations, Nancy Atherton, on your excellent Letter to the Editor of the Arizona Daily Star today, on "Trump and his minions." Indeed the Trump admin is completely out of touch with reality, and Congress refuses to exercise any authority whatsoever.

The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) on Threads History won’t praise Democrats for playing by the rules if it’s the reason we lose our country.

Word.

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

A Ridiculous Attorney General Bondi’s smug evasions revealed volumes about the Administration

"Bondi is a patent lightweight & essentially a programmed attack dog for Trump. She is destined to be remembered as a consummate traitor to the DOJ mission,her portrait gathering dust in the basement. But her service to Trump captures the admin's great contempt..."

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

For the record, he has a JD, was a constitutional lawyer for the ADF (rightwing group behind 303 Creative, the Colorado gay cake case, and current conversion therapy one), and was even dean of a law school that never opened (shady).

But also? Claims to have no idea how laws or constitutions work.

James Comey’s trial date is set for Monday January 5, 2026 meaning….. Comey will be on trial for bogus charges unleashed by 34x convicted felon, Donald Trump on the fifth anniversary of his own insurrection January 6, 2021.

Full circle.

JB Pritzker's forceful, defiant response to Trump's threat to jail him confirms the points I tried to make in the piece and thread below about the role of conflict and attention in the public battle over Trump's authoritarian takeover:

On ICE raids and attacks in Chicago, local reporters have consistently shown up the national outlets attempting to report remotely.

Locals continue to break story after story even as the nationals are summarizing govt press releases. They've shown physical bravery in very dangerous circumstances.

Letters on an overpass spelling Trump Declares War on Americans

#Seattle Washington
#VisibilityBrigade

"Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies."

👇👇

Country Star Zach Bryan Sparks MAGA Outrage After Bashing ICE In Teaser For New Song

Cry more, MAGA.

there is a government shutdown with no end in sight and it’s not even really the lead story rn because the president can’t stop invading American cities for no reason other than spite

Join a NO KINGS event near you on Oct. 18th!
No Kings, No Clowns!!

Nonviolence is still our best chance until it isn’t. But that doesn’t mean “emptying the streets” or being passive. It means we may have to resist by putting ourselves in harms way. A few of us may die. If we resist violently and with weapons, a lot of us will die.

Hist. Erica Chenworth says that nonviolent resistance movements succeed in most cases when critical mass show up consistently, grassroots folks are organised, and women are at the forefront of the movement.

Ari Melber: Over the past three decades, far-right extremists led 220 attacks, compared to far-left extremists leading 42 attacks. That's roughly five times [more]

If you look at the body count... far-right extremist violence led ~520 deaths, the left-wing attacks resulted in the death of about 78.

If someone told you a year ago this would be a headline in 2025, you wouldn't have believed them.

Authoritarianism has taken over our country.

Can confirm that they have not.