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Trump’s Son Is Poised to Profit From Pentagon Drone Proposal

A level of corruption in the Trump-Vance administration that would embarrass Boss Tweed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

As the government shutdown drags on, Trump is using his leverage to shape it - The Boston Globe President Trump and his top budget official, Russell Vought, are using their authority to inflict or spare pain where they deem appropriate.

"We are closing up Democrat programs that we disagree with, and they’re never going to open again.”

No, these are not Democratic or Republican programs—these are life-saving resources that help families make ends meet.

This is illegal & everyone will be harmed.

“Fastest accumulation of $1 Trillion in debt outside of the pandemic…”

But at least the rich got their tax cuts, right @MarshaBlackburn? With Inequality at gilded age levels.

PSA: They don’t care about the debt and never did.

Male nurses make more money on average than female nurses. “Saving (white) men” always tends to disadvantage those already more disadvantaged. But I’m up for any marketing message that delivers better pay to those working in positions that benefit society.

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.

Trump’s popularity among Hispanic adults slips A new poll finds the president’s favorability among the demographic has slipped nearly 20 points since taking office.

Trump’s popularity among Hispanic adults has fallen dramatically since his inauguration in January, according to a new poll.

#ProudBlue

Tough guys wearing masks bullying a woman 😡

What country were you born in?
Were you born here?

It’s none of your fucking business where she was born 😡

#FuckIce

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Once upon a time, if a president head lied this brazenly, it would be considered a disgrace by both political parties

People keep asking “What can we do?” Our podcast guest, Hardy Merriman, studies resistance movements and has many suggestions.

Down a rabbit hole now because I devoured Jean Craighead George’s books as a kid.

Almost worse because of how obvious it was the whole time

My floor speech yesterday:

1/ The rules change Republicans are pushing through the Senate - to confirm dozens of Trump nominees with one vote - is another sign of our vanishing democracy, as the legislative branch voluntarily bends the knee to the executive.

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

“At least 6 Historically Black colleges have issued alerts and halted classes after receiving threats…”

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A word to my brethren in the press corps:

Please notice that nearly all Democrats condemn violence while very few Republicans condemn violence, and please please please do not make these two unequal facts equal.

Sally Mann on the Crushing, Lifelong Reality of Artistic Rejection Once I decided, at the age of seventeen, that I would try to make a career as an artist, it took me almost no time at all to realize how miserable it was going to be. I had just mastered the ironic…

“Just my life’s work there that you’re tossing around like scrap paper.” Sally Mann meditates on the crushing reality of artistic rejection.

The Sooknanan Monologue The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend until Judge Sooknanan entered an order to stop it.

NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...

Woke up a bit before sunrise.

📌 45 Acts of Non-Compliance for Ordinary People Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

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Bet the owners didn’t like it. Let one of the streaming services pick it up. It will be better served.

Read the final message sent by murdered Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif. On Sunday night, the Israel Defense Forces bombed a journalists’ tent outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The strike killed seven people, including Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif a…

“If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.”

Bystanders need to bring this challenging energy to every damn encounter with these despicable so-called federal agents who are nothing but out-of-control vigilante thugs. #FuckTrump

This woman is bravery incarnate!

We can all learn something from her. And – as a friend posted earlier – these questions need to be asked of every ‘representative’ at every town hall.

We’ll see how long it lasts….

He’s putting the Epstein files up there where no one can reach them

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …

"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."