From Oyster Farming to Running for Senate with Graham Platner Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 09/09/2025 · 51m

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Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Government shutdown threatens WIC funding for families nationwide The ongoing government shutdown is jeopardizing funding for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, potentially leaving millions of families without essential food benefits.

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GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers' The Oregon Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America.T...

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Though this was obvious to anyone actually LIVING in one of these beautiful proud American cities?
They are the ones BRINGING the WAR!!!

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

It’s easy to cast Trump as antidemocratic and hostile to the rule of law. It’s much harder to take on institutions and people such as Weiss who invoke ideas like the “free press” while actually advancing a right-wing agenda.

That's why this kind of conservatism is so dangerous. trib.al/U9kVC5M

According the victim's attorney, body camera footage captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good.”
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“First of all, is there a tape that has audio and video of the transfer of the $50,000?” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse asked Bondi, referencing reports that such a recording indeed exists.

“You would have to talk to Director Patel about that,” Bondi replied.

“No, I’m talking to you.”
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Schools were not forcing kids to have transgender surgery.

Babies were not being aborted after they were born.

Migrants were not crossing the border to vote for Kamala Harris.

Donald Trump is a pathological liar and, if you believed this shit, you are a pathological dumbass.

KKKaroline lies

Saying it's the Democrat shutdown is like saying the Titanic was sunk by the passengers.

Thanks, New Yorker

Humm
It would be funny
BUT? It seems the republicans are really into this particular Christian (🧐) Nationalism and this works for them.
Barefoot and Pregnant ladies!
Didn't work THEN
Won't work NOW

Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities

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Beginning to think that the FAA
May be what breaks the shutdown 🤷‍♀️

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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$400,000: The "Free" Medical Care Kristi Noem's Goons Made Taxpayers Pay - emptywheel After ICE badly broke the leg of a guy detained at a Carson car wash back in August, he's been in the hospital with 24/7 private security guard. Which means taxpayers have already paid around $400,000...

Based off this post, which I updated w/the habeas petition.

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Really looking forward to the @jasonleopold.bsky.social FOIA for the staffer's notes who put this together, DURING a shutdown.

Not least bc (as @whitehouse.senate.gov noted), the Reid Hoffman slur was false.

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As ugly and violent as the 60s and 70s sometimes were, if I could take a way back machine there now I would hop on it in a minute to get the hell out of this fascist travesty.

AOC Roasts the Fuck Out of Pee-Wee German Her Advice for Dealing With GOP Nazi Stephen Miller is Brilliant

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The Hague’s Next VIP Defendant: Why Trump’s War With Venezuelan Fishing Boats Could Land Him in the ICC’s Crosshairs The ICC is considering charging Trump/Hegseth and others with "Extrajudicial Murder" of 21 Venezuelans

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Great list of great voices.
And perfect cartoon! 👏💙

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Chilling. Newsday.com/matt

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Trump isn’t just attacking immigrants — he’s going after the very system that defends them.

Manchildren

Less than 1/3 of Americans voted for Trump.

More than 2/3 did not.

Will be fixed shortly.

Alabama sheriff under fire for Halloween display with ‘ICE’ agents chasing skeletons wearing sombreros The controversial display shows ICE agent skeletons chasing figures in sombreros, which the sheriff's wife defends as "tongue-in-cheek" while citing her own Cuban heritage.

The sheriff in Mobile, Alabama reportedly has a Halloween “display” featuring skeletons dressed like ICE agents chasing skeletons wearing sombreros and serapes. www.al.com/news/2025/10...