Everyone sing along!

🎶Don’t cry for us, Argentina.
We’re like Canada, only much meaner.
And we gave up healthcare,
For your peso to be finer,
So you could steal our soybean exports.
That went to China.🎶

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

NEW: From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russ Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term.

Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”

@andykroll.bsky.social w/ @newyorker.com

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

SOYBEAN FARMER SOUNDS OFF: Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers. Now Trump is giving $20B to Argentina—the same country taking much of America’s soybean market.

Soybeans are the no. 1 cash crop in Tennessee.

Via @pulsereportnow on IG

Why can’t we have nice things, too, instead of more spread of preventable diseases?

Dem Says Mike Johnson Is Delaying Her Swearing-In to Prevent Epstein Vote Newly elected Arizona Rep. Adelita Grijalva says her swearing in ceremony has been delayed over her support for a petition to release Epstein files.

This is yet another affront to our democracy in the name of advancing Trump's corrupt, pro-billionaire agenda. Shame on Speaker Johnson for denying the working families of #AZ07 the representation they deserve.

Project 2025 referenced shrinking farmers access to foreign markets, restricting growth opportunities for
producers. (p. 307)

A series of posts on X and an article preview. The first post by Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer ) from 3 hours ago states, "No. COVID jabs kill. You wish." This is a reply to a post by Governor Newsom Press Office (@CAgovernor ) from 7 hours ago, responding to @LauraLoomer and @LoomerUnleashed with "vaxxed?" followed by a second reply 29 minutes ago saying, "maybe the dog food made you sick again?" The conversation includes 219 replies, 253 retweets, 1.8K likes, and 122K impressions. Below is a preview of an Independent article by Ariana Baio, dated September 20, 2024, at 4:05 AM PDT, titled "Inside the pro-MAGA pet company that convinced Laura Loomer to eat dog food," with a 3-minute read time and 14 comments. The article image shows a person holding food near their mouth in a room with shelves and decorations.

Pro-tip: Don’t try to take on Gavin Newsom’s press team. Especially if you’re a dumb dumb.

NEW YORK… ICE puts a photographer in the hospital…

Completely out of control

Filterless options.... Eeeegad.

Robert Reich The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)

Just five media companies control 90% of our media market.

But it’s not just media. In 75% of U.S. industries, fewer companies now control more of their markets than they did 20 years ago – leaving us vulnerable to higher prices and lower wages.

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.

🔥 @adammockler.com : “Every time one of these tragic shootings happens everybody’s at each other’s throats about which side did it but we’re missing a broader pattern in 🇺🇸— this was another white young white dude in his 20’s… an acceleration of radicalization of young men…”

It’s amazing that she thinks anyone is buying this

Thoughts on the looming shut down.

CNN: “Top congressional Republicans and White House allies are working behind the scenes to prevent a politically charged floor vote to release the Epstein case files next month...” www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

We are sensing a theme

Ice agents held a child hostage... Hate is not a strong enough word for how I feel towards every single member of the republican party

@titaq.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/pissedof...

800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database.

Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away.

The cruelty is the point.

The IRS Says Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates. That Could Give Texas Pastors More Power Than Ever. While the IRS move applies across the country, Texas -- with more than 200 megachurches -- will be the epicenter for pastors and congregations to test out their new influence, one expert said.

Texas is expected to be where IRS’ new stance on religious leaders endorsing candidates will matter most, one expert said. More than 200 megachurches call Texas home.

“Texas will be the epicenter for testing all these ideas out,” the expert said.

W/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social & @texastribune.org

Seattle PBS firing large portion of local team due to federal cuts.
Even rich blue cities folks...

😕

In case you missed it: Grindr goes down in Phoenix during Charlie Kirk’s memorial. Hey, gurl, hey. 👋🏾

💙🤍🖤 Mon, Sep 22
Yesterday, on their 9th day inland Puget Sound, J pod exited Admiralty Inlet & ended their day off the west side of San Juan Island. The J16s were w/the others.

Today, a humpback reported in the Gig Harbor area.

📸 Breaching J pod member off Fox Island by Izzy Edwards 9/20.

#psws

There are 340 MILLION OF US.

Don’t you dare get despondent.

STAND UP.

And go GET YOUR COUNTRY BACK.

Please.

Let us not cower. This is all absolutely ridiculous.

Come on now.

A bit of James Baldwin today:
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

On October 18, we rise! Not to defend broken systems, but to defend each other! Because our communities deserve more than fear, silence, and billion-dollar bailouts for the powerful.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

FIND or HOST a 10/18 action at www.FiftyFifty.one

#NoKings #Oct18 #50501Movement