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Writer. WGA(E). Dramatists Guild. I block pulchritudinous bots and crypto hustlers, and don't follow back dubious Go Fund Me cases, lottery winners, bothsidesist trolls.

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What we learned today from the Bondi hearings; Tom Homan kept the $50,000 bribe and Donald Trump is in the Epstein files with half-naked women.

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My absolute favorite capture in social media - of the week, month, year.

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My absolute favorite capture in social media: of the week, month, year.

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Thank you. I never go there, loathe to attach ageist readings to behavior of the accomplished, but I was disturbed by Durbin and company, hovering over fully composed questions (they apparently hadn't practiced aloud), stumbling. I thought, "Imagine Jon Ossoff taking on Bondi." Seriously.

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Dirty little secret about today’s hearing: Pam Bondi almost won. The Democrats, to a person, were blindsided by Bondi’s cheap theatrics and got flustered and tongue tied. Only Schiff came close to taking her on. Why is everyone so goddamned tentative. Bravo, Senator Schiff. The rest, sharpen TF up.

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Most important commentary on the coverage. The Post - my first paper as a kid - is a shadow of its former self. We didn't discontinue our subscriptions without cause.

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Remember, it was the Washington Post who gave Bondi a thumbs up to be confirmed. Democracy Docket made clear from day one that she was an election denying sycophant.

No surprise at their coverage of today. Support independent, pro-democracy media today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

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The Guard arrives in Chicago. Among other issues, they seem to be, um, the target audience in Jack LaHegseth's stout-hearted men address.

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www.dailykos.com Country star's anti-ICE ballad has MAGA singing the blues

Country star's anti-ICE ballad has MAGA singing the blues

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It would be useful if Durbin read this as if he wrote it - and genuinely meant it. Imagine the minimum performance requirements: looking up, staring her down, volume raised for emphasis and focus, slowly but forcefully issuing the same statement with something akin to passion.

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It would be useful if Durbin read that as if he genuinely meant it. A pitiful illustration of public speaking for a career pol. Imagine the minimum performance requirements: looking up, staring her down, volume raised, slowly but forcefully issuing the same statement with something akin to passion.

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5) Viewing core identity as a "culture issue," a programmed remake of society via the erasure of science, history, and knowledge itself was always the Project 2025 goal. Already embattled, we must fight harder than we ever imagined ourselves capable. The stakes couldn't be higher.

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4) An America wherein anyone's innate identity is viewed as mutable by external forces: homophobic political indoctrination or antediluvian religious tenets and the hatred they unleash. Yet another reminder: 2024 was never about "kitchen table" concerns.

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3) As we witnessed last week at the Quantico Burlesque, this regime won't stop at celebrating rigid gender roles - shaping progressively evolved institutions into bastions of butchness - it's hellbent on recreating a world defined by structural heterosexuality.

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2) ... and enable Marcus Bachmann-styled quackery to reassert itself, tragic impact on our vulnerable children be damned. They stripped LGBTQ+ issues from the suicide hotline's targeted counseling for a reason. To alienate, disenfranchise, and we know from statistics, enable something far worse.

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1) Make America 1959 again: Allow a posse of right wing zealots in black robes to exonerate "optional" medical therapies outside their expertise. To ignore a century of psychiatric scholarship, the pathologization of sexual orientation no longer allowed in diagnostics.

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The nation faces military occupation of its cities, a historic descent into full authoritarian control, and the NY Times characterizes the crisis via culpability-denying, β€œ2 states claim” and use of quotation marks around invasion. Same paper that used a full page header about Clinton’s emails.

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Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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The nation faces military occupation of its cities, a historic descent into full authoritarian control, and the NY Times characterizes the crisis via culpability-denying, β€œ2 states claim” and use of quotation marks around invasion. Same paper that used a full page header about Clinton’s emails.

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Lawrence O'Donnell Destroys Jake Tapper MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell never used CNN's Jake Tapper's name, but he made it very clear who he was talking about as he ripped a reporter for interviewing Trump by text.

www.politicususa.com/p/lawrence-o...

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May 1970 and September 2025: if you don't see the parallel, and escalation, you haven't been paying attention.

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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home." Eleanor Roosevelt

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My generation remembers Kent State. We've dreaded the replication of that horror. And it's here. Outside the Broadview ICE facility, Rev. David Black, Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was sprayed in the face by a masked ICE agent during a peaceful protest.

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Lawrence O’Donnell is taking down the self-promoting fraud known as Jake Tapper and I’m totally here for it. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

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Maddow tonight. Unmissable.
@maddow.msnbc.com

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Immediate follow.

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