Sean “TheOrange” Corse

You’re the first commenter I’ve seen who’s not called this a “very serious case”. I’m loathe to give this administration any leeway on doing the right thing, and the consensus so far seems to be “Yeah, it’s clearly political retribution, but perhaps in this case he deserves it…” Love to hear more.

When you agree with MTG…

Mamdani: "We will make buses free by replacing the revenue that the MTA currently gets from buses. This is revenue that's around $700 million or so. That's less money than Andrew Cuomo gave to Elon Musk in $959 million in tax credits when he was the governor."

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

Is this for when he rolls into DC with tanks, we think of Paris?

Mayne not the comparison he wants to go for. Or maybe exactly the comparison he wants.

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
-Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution

Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.

“Basket of deplorables” was too kind.

Kavanaugh stops 💀

I endorse continuing to call them that.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

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by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

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. 

It’s a start: bsky.app/profile/greg...

It would be my hope the main point of this is to disincentivize against shutdowns, and if it does happen then the gridlock ends as a consequence, but apart from edge cases (e.g. happening within striking distance of a regular election) I fear that like anything this could be weaponized politically.

New constitutional amendment: if the government shuts down, it triggers new House elections — and maybe some Senate ones too. Everyone’s term ends X days after the shutdown, and the newly-elected reps serve out the remainder of the existing session.

Some of their voters feel that way too.

I was like “Oh…” and then I was like “OH”.

This entire thread explains why Trump's money laundering to pay the troops is a crime.

Here's the key bit.

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

(My initial reaction was a back-handed compliment, and I gotta stop that.)

Hearing this makes me happy! More of this, please! Seems like a great plan, best one I’ve heard so far.

Those who have received RIF notices cannot prepare for their upcoming terminations because the human resources staff who would typically assist them are also furloughed. One union president representing workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described how human resources staff were brought back into the office last weekend to work on issuing RIF notices, and then, once they had completed this work, were told “to issue RIF notices to themselves.”2 Dkt. No. 47-3 (“Jacobs Decl.”) ¶¶ 2, 7. Unions are hearing from members who have serious health conditions or are in the late stages of pregnancy, and who worry that their health insurance will be impacted by the RIFs, but there is no one in the office who can answer their questions during the shutdown. Id. ¶¶ 9, 14; Gittleman Decl. ¶ 16; Robinson Decl. ¶¶ 6, 12. It is also far from normal for an administration to fire line-level civilian employees during a government shutdown as a way to punish the opposing political party. But this is precisely what President Trump has announced he is doing, by taking to social media on the second day of the shutdown to post: “I have a meeting today with Russ Vought,[3] he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity.” Dkt. No. 15 (“Am. Compl.”) ¶ 176; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), Truth Social (Oct. 2, 2025, at 4:59 a.m.), https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115304455138824245 (last visited Oct. 15, 2025). The memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget that appears to have initiated the shutdown RIFs says the same. See Dkt. No. 15-1, Am. Compl., Ex. A (“OMB Lapse Mem.”) (directing agencies to “use this opportunity” of the shutdown to consider RIF notices, including in those areas that are “not consistent with the Pr…

Judge Illston’s temporary restraining order against the shutdown layoffs is scathing.

“It is also far from normal for an administration to fire line-level civilian employees during a government shutdown as a way to punish the opposing political party …” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

(Maybe the right move was to sign it and then break it when they saw what was going down.)

I’m sure this was the plan all along: almost no one would sign the pledge, and whoever did wouldn’t have been allowed to report on what they saw. The only thing on the line was the integrity of the news outlet.

The fact that he’s treating the whole thing as if the outcome rests solely on the racial makeup of Congress is probably all you need go know about what’s motivating his position. “It’s racist to say that Black voters would vote for more Black candidates!” No one is saying that but you, my guy.

Listening to the lawyer who insists that Black and white voters don’t really vote any differently — i.e. don’t tend to vote for Black candidates — and I’m like… dude, that is so not the point. The point is that Black VOTERS have a chance to exercise their political power, no matter who they elect.

Because the media only parrots the press releases of a lying administration without any further inspection.

Zohran Mamdani Is Threading One of the Trickiest Needles in Politics For the general election, Mamdani has managed to expand his base while staying basically true to his primary-season beliefs. There’s a lesson in there for all Democrats.

Mamdani's primary campaign was brilliant and exciting. His general election campaign has been less exciting but equally savvy. He 1. broadened his voting base and 2. courted the Dem establishment without 3. sacrificing any parts of his very-progressive platform.
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John Oliver Destroys Bari Weiss In Defense Of Transgender People The right-wing commentator is now the head of CBS.

1. Last night, John Oliver destroyed Bari Weiss and specifically called out her inaccurate and targeted coverage of transgender people.

It's the latest of several shows Oliver has done in defense of trans people.

Weiss at CBS is a disaster for trans people.

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Lead poisoning makes too much sense, unfortunately.

Woah!

Anyone in Wisconsin listening?