Douglas Moser

CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.

Three Days In Chicago: A City on the Brink Groups are finding new ways to stand up to ICE in Chicago. Here are their stories.

"My reason for being there wasn’t just to see them confront ICE: It was to better understand how a community defends its vulnerable neighbors, parents of schoolchildren, and fellow churchgoers." @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social on the ground in Chicago: www.thebulwark.com/p/three-days...

Feb. 20, 1944.

Corporate media is in a bad place.

the american financial elite, all at once, had abandoned capitalism in an attempt to purchase the power of the state.

what we are seeing is a revealed preference by the bosses (per this paper) for workers who signal H and provide L rather than workers who signal L and provide H. this is the reason for the RTO crusade despite literally no emprical evidence that WFH was harmful.
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The same Grok that referred to itself as MechaHitler and which Elon himself said naturally tended towards extreme fascism any time he tried to de-wokify his little chatbot? That Grok?

When Trump goes after big targets, the smaller ones often make consequential, silent choices. This is the chilling effect in action.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

My cab driver in Arkansas was a Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump-Trump voter. He said he hadn't given much thought to the 2028 election, but that if Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor of New York, the Democrats can kiss his vote goodbye.

Important and correct analysis of our present situation. We have to keep seeing the big picture and not be distracted by the differences in the pretexts. The pretexts all lead to a common goal.

I follow this account for for little timeline cleansers throughout the day.

@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

More of this. All the time. Every time they appear. Constantly. Fuck ICE.

Man dies in crash on Virginia’s I-264 highway while fleeing ICE agents A Honduran man was hit by a pickup truck as he tried to cross the highway after being stopped by ICE agents, DHS and Virginia State Police said.

A man was killed on a busy Virginia highway this week after running into the road while fleeing ICE agents, officials said.

The police identified the man as Jose Castro-Rivera, a 24-year-old from Honduras.

A septic tank if we win this.

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

… Oh I just learned that Mellon’s legendarily grotesque book supposedly outlining his views on blacks, unions, the working class, etc — a work so offensive that the Mellon family disappeared it — was re-published by RFK Jr’s people last year. Can’t wait for that to recirculate now.

I dunno, I thought that a fucking Nazi tattoo was something at least non-Republicans could agree was bad, but apparently not if the Nazi tat guy makes you feel all manly and anti-woke.

Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation.

Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

If he were right, the import price index (which measures pre-tariff prices) would have fallen by enough to offset the sharp tariff hike. It didn't.

Who was president in 2020 is the question of our day.

And this is why you can’t just palm any candidate off on Dem voters. When it comes to the Senate we all suffer.

Vet them.

You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?

THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.

“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

Total banger.

Petulant. Reckless. Embarrassing. Deeply damaging.

The investment in climate change denialism has visible returns

Of Kings and Palaces Why Democrats should commit—right now—to restoring the old East Wing of the White House.

The same people who lost their minds over the redesign of the Cracker Barrel logo love the demolition of the White House because reasons. www.thebulwark.com/p/of-kings-a...

Die Neue Reichskanzlei ("New Reich Chancellery"), Berlin, c. 1939: (1) reception hall; (2) main dining hall; (3) entrance to the office of the Führer, with SS guards; (4) office of the Führer.

I love this story. We’ll see more of this kind of thing. Remember it and encourage it.