they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.

Worth the subscription. @katmabu.bsky.social is bringing the fight that the incumbents don't have in them. We need more like her.

"She's betting that voters, above all else, want a brawler."

Yes.

www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

SPANBERGER: “She doesn’t think gay couples should be allowed to marry.”

WINSOME EARLE-SEARS: “That’s not discrimination.” 🤔

SPANBERGER: “She thinks you can fire someone for being gay.”

EARLE-SEARS: “That’s not discrimination.” 🤔🤔 #VAGov

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

So they’re keeping the House in recess for another week (see his follow up)?

To delay the Epstein Files and, I guess, avoid the No Kings rally on 10/18?

They are in full blown pants pissing panic

Finally, Pritzker says more Dems must sound the alarm, though he notes some exceptions (like Chris Murphy).

"I am surprised that more leaders have not stood up," he says.

He urges people to join No Kings protests to let the country know something's wrong. 5/5

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do.

Looking at you, all major news orgs.

The racism is of course the point. But it’s also Trump’s quest for mediocrity. The white people he hires are universally 3rd rate talents whose only qualification is that they’ll do as their told. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Yuh-huh.

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

So, gender neutral bathrooms are no go but gender neutral hotel rooms are acceptable? Why didn't Ingrassia give his room to the female colleague and bunk with another man on the trip? None of this makes any sense. It is all just Icky.

The Boat Strikes Are Just the Beginning What the Trump administration is portraying as a drug mission may be about a lot more.

Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island told us in a statement that “every American should be alarmed that their President has decided he can wage secret wars against anyone he calls an enemy.”

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Those efforts have been complicated by the fact that major hedge funds, including those led by friends of Mr. Bessent, stand to benefit financially from an Argentina economic lifeline. Funds at investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina, as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone, both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent when he was an investor for George Soros.

NYT adds to @juddlegum.bsky.social's reporting about the billionaires that Scott Bessent is bailing out by propping up Javier Milei.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

"Couch?" Wow. Schumer is upping his game. Probably too little too late but I appreciate the effort.

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

What is a "Democrat program?"

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

A federal judge just asked the government if they're the cause of the violence in Chicago - whether this is of their own making.

If Luigi walks oh my goodness

Rebecca has 92K followers including Gaetz, Loomer, Massie, D’Souza, Sen Schmitt, Rep. Cloud. Broke with Trump over Epstein.

VIRGINIA CALLER: “As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party, and I'm very disappointed in you… I am begging you to pass this legislation. My kids could die... the audacity of someone who makes 6 figures a year to do this to military families is insane.” #TrumpShutdown

One of the things that's terrifying about what's happening now is the number of Republicans who won't stand up to Trump because they're cowards who are terrified of backlash. MGT strikes me as just unhinged enough to not be sensitive to that, which turns out to be a liability for them.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."