Recall when we had a president who was a decent human being? Seems so remote and novel now.

Women are being erased at the Pentagon. Women are being erased from history. And now a woman has been erased from the desecrated White House.

Lindsey Halligan is no Pat Fitzgerald. The attempt to besmirch Fitzgerald’s reputation was a cheap shot, and one that will undoubtedly misfire. She’s no match for what she’s up against—the rule of law & lawyers who care about it.

Imagine thinking they ever cared about debt, fraud, waste, abuse, or anything of the sort. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Remember how MAGA told us Javier Milei would fix Argentina's economy with his right-wing policies?

And now we are bailing out Argentina with billions.

Remember how MAGA told us Donald Trump would save US farmers with his right-wing policies?

And now we are bailing them out with billions also.

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

Baseball Will Break Your Heart But, even though it doesn't always feel that way, its real design is to make you believe again.

“‘It breaks your heart,’ Bart Giamatti said. ‘It is designed to break your heart.’ I love that quote, but I’ve never really believed it. Yes, baseball will break your heart — but baseball is designed to give you hope.  Spring training will come again.”

www.joeposnanski.com/p/baseball-w...

Be safe and keep up the good work

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

Justice Dept has 10 days left to respond to civil lawsuit filed by Jan 6 police responders who are seeking court order to require display of Jan 6 law enforcement honorary plaque at US Capitol

Plaque was required to be hung by 2023 under federal law

It hasn’t been hung

I wouldn’t advise anyone in Portland to walk your dog near this building.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

JD Vance attacks new Haitian immigrants working hard to succeed in the United States. Then he attacks the daughter of an immigrant for being successful in the United States.

The bigotry runs deep, as does the bitterness and resentment—which I guess must stem from some strange distemper of the soul.

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

So very sorry to hear that the lovely Dame Jane Goodall has died. She was a charming, hugely intelligent person who achieved so much both in science and in teaching us to think about our world. A sad, sad loss.

Can we call Trump a pharma shill now?

Signed,

Every scientist and clinician accused of being a shill while fact-checking health disinformation *for free*

Exactly — my question is why be this rich and still be an unctuous toady?

shameless lying like this is why I wrote a post last May entitled "elderly golfer shits pants, blames Joe Biden."
you're welcome: www.jefftiedrich.com/p/elderly-go...

The fetid penny drops for those powerful folks in tech who ignored this for far too long, but then they have to audacity to politely ask and expect the unrepentant arsonist to tamp down the conflagration.

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢

The “Department of War” Is Designed to Fight American Citizens How to resolve the tension between "lethal war-fighting warriors" and "no more wars" isolationism.

“America should probably be looking to leapfrog the Chinese using drone advances. Instead, we are coming late to the party with a design named for Trump, while talking about battleships and PT routines for senior officers. Decline is a choice. And we have made it.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-depart...

No Wonder We Have a Shutdown Trump's abject ignorance and narcissism made this inevitable

Aided and abetted by MAGA Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (who sent his members out of town rather than risk swearing in the new Democratic representative…who would be 218th vote Epstein discharge), Trump made no effort to keep the government open.

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The very botched Comey indictment The case so far is so sloppy, it might never get to a jury.

The very botched Comey indictment.. solid takedown from someone who was a competent fed prosecutor (which none of the people in pix below are)
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Swear her in.

I grieve the passing of Jane Goodall. As a child went to hear her speak and was so mezmerized and enchanted by her humility, purposefulness, and love of our closest animal relatives. Her work was extraordinary, her life an example. RIP

I want people in public office to not be stupid and not be liars.