Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

It’s a “fact” through the sheer Triumph of the Will.

i guess we will never know if they were ICE or not

Are Democrats blowing it in Virginia? The Jay Jones saga, explained CHRIS CILLIZZA OCT 06, 2025 • PAID

UPDATE: No.

They aren't really targeting professors in Texas, are they?

Me:

Laws are not self-executing. Is this an obvious Hatch Act violation? Of course. But without good men and women in government faithfully executing the laws, it doesn't matter.

When this is all over, assuming we still have a constitutional government, there needs to be an accounting.

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?

You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?

Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

Wait so we’re also in an armed conflict against a completely different group? Sure yeah why not

Oh wow

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do.

It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.

Always punching down

Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response.

@wired.com @leahfeiger.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/govern...

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." - Samuel Johnson

These people are abdicating their essential humanity because they consider it a burden.

/3 The gulf is between people who see this as brutal and inhuman, and people who see the victims of this as inhuman. The gulf is between people who speak our opposition and people who think that makes us unpatriotic, unreliable, someone to be mocked with sombrero videos.

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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🕊️ The world has lost a revered conservationist -- a colossal power for what is truly good.

🕊️ Jane Goodall is a legend who helped open the door to science to the best humans among us: woman.

🕊️ She was brave, brilliant and introduced us to the best things among us: animals.

🕊️ I grieve her passing.

The history books written about organizing from 2008 through 2025 are going to be illuminating because a lot of people are CLUELESS.

Pretty fucking sure there’s a word in Arabic that means submission, lol. It’s a famous one. I bet you know it.

The Age of Corporate Capitulation Won’t Work Donald Trump came for Jimmy Kimmel. Disney folded immediately. It’s not just bad morals. It’s bad business.

www.theringer.com/2025/09/19/p...

I would watch the hell out of a straight to Netflix ”Kash and Dan investigate” starring, let’s say, Kal Penn and Jesse Plemons portraying the hijinks of two totally unprepared meatheads running an investigation in Utah and getting into zany adventures

We are in a very dark place. Will we find a way forward or continue the downward spiral?

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“It could happen at any time”

That… is the entire point of the Federal Reserve.

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict

Video shows the family fleeing after masked and unidentified men attempted to detain them and firing three gun shots at the passenger side door behind where the son was sitting.

lataco.com/agents-shoot...

By @afroxander.bsky.social
Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social

For real, though, imagine if Obama had promised to end an invasion in 24 hours, flailed for six months and then, after a failed summit, Michelle had sent the aggressor a letter saying “pretty please.”

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear

Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

Do you know how you counter a powerful bully? You bring all your friends!

NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency they’re from and using profanity with any press & public nearby.

This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday).

What the hell is happening to the US?

(🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)

📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs.

Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.