Diana B. Henriques

There he goes, saying the quiet part out loud.
Someone should ask him why all federal workers would not be treated the same?

She should just show up to the next press conference with a bible.

The President thinks there are no fishing boats in the Caribbean right now - indeed, "there are no boats out there, period."
The President is not well.

It was taxpayers’ money. Did Homan give it back? If he kept it, did he declare it on his taxes?

Then it would behoove the GOP lawmakers to come up with a funding proposal that can get the Democratic votes without which it cannot pass. But instead of working on that, they are (checks notes) talking with Fox News hosts about it.

Yes.
In addition to finding a good therapist. . .

This. Sadly, this.

Sen. Susan Collins criticizes Democrats for shutdown, Trump for layoff threats Maine's Republican senator said Monday that she has asked the Office of Management and Budget not to pursue mass layoffs of federal workers, something the White House has threatened.

Last December, every Maine media outlet dutifully reported that Senator Collins became the VERY powerful Chair of Senate Approps

Nine months later, she's powerless, got rolled by Vought and can only whine about Democrats

Feckless beyond
www.pressherald.com?p=7508324&uu...

Also: "Keep voting for the party that has provoked every extended shutdown, because we will make sure you suffer as much as possible - even if we have to resort to illegal absurdities to do it." This is political malpractice. To whoever showed Johnson that headline: Thank you!

Declaring attempts by the military (and other nonprofits) to reduce bigotry against nonwhites, women and gays excessive is an opinion. But Christopher Caldwell’s assertion that “D.E.I. has wound up…making businesses concerned as much with social justice as with profit” is just factually ludicrous.

@anntelnaes.bsky.social

...And would have argued that the women in uniform should get back to the kitchen and the kids.

Or, put another way, highlighting the wrong research or overstating one’s claims could end up increasing the probability of future violence. This is not just a pedantic argument about the best way to do a poll.

The research on this topic shows that the way pollsters ask about political violence impacts the results they get — and that this can, in turn, actually affect real-world support for violence. That means that covering polls the right way can help decrease long-term political violence in America

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

Thomas B. Edsall is keeping it real in the NYT OpEd section, week after week. He deserves more attention, and the NYT deserves some snaps for letting him do that.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

THIS!!!!

Whatever state you live in, if you vote for a Republican for governor, you’re voting to have your National Guard stolen.

If you truly don't see that diversity is a strength and inequality is the"burden," I don't really care what you think about Pete Hegseth and his "GI Ken" pep talk.

The military wasn't integrated to make it woke. It was integrated to make it WORK for an integrating society. Black soldiers fought abroad for freedoms they didn't have at home. That wasn't sustainable. Women too (including my mom) gave devoted service to the military and earned respect....

To suggest that schools traded the human and economic costs of segregation for the "burdens" of integration is pure blind nonsense. As for the military, it was integrated in 1948 not because of Woke DEI...

I attended segregated schools in the South. Towns with little wealth had to support a skimpy TWO of everything, or deeply shortchange one half of their school system. Most did both, putting black schools last. That was the "overburden" of racial segregation.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

See, this right here gives the game away: "But the military of the 2020s has been as overburdened by the imperatives of progressivism as schools were by the duties of racial integration in the 1970s." First of all...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...

Although border czar Tom Homan has repeatedly said he recused himself from any “involvement, discussion, input, or decision of any future government contracts,” ProPublica obtained records showing he has had at least some involvement in contracting conversations.

Trump to Unveil Farmer Aid as China Shuns U.S. Crops

Tucked into this fine story: Bessent, leading our talks with China over soybeans, owns more than 1,000 acres of soybeans in the Midwest. Who knew? At least his personal interests don't conflict with the US interests...this time.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Definitely worth reading!!

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Hunter Biden had poor judgment, tried to use his connection for personal enrichment
He was prosecuted and his father was relentlessly nagged about his behavior.

Donald Trump Jr is up to his neck in dubious personal enrichment schemes and MAGA thinks he's great.
It was never about Hunter.

Kristi Noem was the governor of South Dakota when Biden was President. Guess what she said regarding Biden potentially federalizing the Guard.

So is anyone else looking at the news this morning and wondering why anyone is writing about ANYTHING but Trump trying to use one state's National Guard - i.e., one state's CITIZENS - to enforce his will in another state, against that state's wishes and in defiance of a court order?