Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.
A PSA from Thomas Massie:
CBS is lost. Trump controls it.
REMEMBER WHEN PISSY PAM BONDI TOLD THE EPSTEIN SURVIVORS TO SHUT THE FUCK UP BECAUSE THE DOW WAS AT FIFTY THOUSAND? WELL, NOW ALL OF DONNY'S FLUNKIES ARE DOING IT, AS I EXPLAIN IN TODAY'S VERY ANGRY POST. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4kCcrQF
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Apparently “America First” means promising foreign countries financial assistance from US taxpayers but only if they vote for the incumbent president trailing in the polls.
keep your feet
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. has captured Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country.
Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.
Question: As part of your investigation, did you or anyone from your office tap the phone of Senator Hawley?
Smith: No
Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.
As Zohran Mamdani takes over as mayor of New York City, he joins his new Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice, Julie Su, to talk about building an economy that works for the many — not just a select few.
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Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
And notice: 11 stars—the number of states in the Confederacy. “Americanism” is the new fascism, as predicted.
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In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
Actor Matthew Lillard: “Fuck ICE. In this time, in this city, we need to lead with love. Do not forget that shit in this moment. Not to be political, but to be political as shit. Second of all, vote. Prop 50 — yes to 50”
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
See the difference? 👀
#NoKings
This is an outrageous abuse of power. Exactly what the Founding Fathers had impeachment for.
Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.
Print it.
Put it in a frame.
Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 
amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
Actor Bradley Whitford: “I am living in a world where we have internment camps. Where in my community people are jumping out of vans and people going through a legal asylum process are being taken away without charges. And we’re giving these internment camps funny names? It’s a disgrace.”
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
