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NEWS: Trump Suggests Only Federal Employees Loyal to Him Will Receive Back Pay Trump suggests only giving loyal federal workers back pay after shutdown, FAA notes major shortages at airports across the country, Pam Bondi refuses to answer Epstein questions, and more.

This is GOP #Corruption! Under the law, federal employees are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not some to-bit demented despot. aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump...

I cannot stress enough that the #1 rule of firearm training is you do not point your weapon at anything you do not fully intend to shoot.

These untrained fools need to be prosecuted when this is all done

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

New MSS front company just dropped

Since the election, Republicans refused to negotiate at all with Democrats - on anything. But now we are told that the Democrats should give in negotiate in good faith.

US military action is done with the American people’s money in the American people’s name, as is DOJ. The people’s elected representatives in Congress have oversight authority. They are 100% entitled to this info.

You know who doesn’t have to disclose legal advice? Personal attorneys and advisors.

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety.

Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...

There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

How do you find a compromise budget that reflects the priorities of 535 members of the House and Senate when Trump will just withhold any money he doesn't want to spend? A representative democracy cannot function as Trump has broken the US system this year. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

We’re getting very used to this but the statement is unusually unhinged.

YouTube video by Perun "Game Changers" in Ukraine (2025) - Evaluating Effective, Disappointing and Weird Systems

Excited to check this out. Speaking of game changers did you see perun’s latest on this topic?

youtu.be/DfCspYYPi5I

Once again "imminence." Once again, an unaccountable expansion of Presidential power to deploy force. As I told @npr.org last week, this has the potential to be another forever war, any group can end up being treated in the same manner.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction is to begin Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings.

The Bob Ross Estate has agreed to sell 30 of his paintings at auction, with all proceeds going to local public television stations. [AP]

"Are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?"

"You're a poopyhead"

"I repeat, are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?"

Silence.

Bondi ain't defending Trump on this one.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones  | TechCrunch The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.

NEW: ICE purchased custom-made vans from a company called TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV) that are equipped with fake cellphone towers designed to spy on phones.

TOSV president said the company integrates the cell-site simulators into their vans, but does not manufacture the surveillance tool.

At some point, we're going to have a bunch of people claiming they never voted for Trump to try to distance themselves from this administration when they clearly did vote for him.

Trump’s State Department Wants to Use Tech Policy to Remake Europe In Its Image | TechPolicy.Press Tech policy is a key part of the Trump administration's dramatic project to replace the US's traditional European alliances, Dean Jackson writes.

A secret meeting with X. A senior State Dept. advisor just out of college. The VP's speech in Munich. Pressure on European regulators.

What do they share? They're all part of an agenda to turn the transatlantic alliance into a far right international:

www.techpolicy.press/trumps-state...

If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no.

Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.

"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation.
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

This jibes with @abenewman.bsky.social and my writing, but goes much, much deeper than we have done on the bureaucratic transformation of State.

Trump’s State Department Wants to Use Tech Policy to Remake Europe In Its Image | TechPolicy.Press Tech policy is a key part of the Trump administration's dramatic project to replace the US's traditional European alliances, Dean Jackson writes.

Trump’s State Department Wants to Use Tech Policy to Remake Europe In Its Image www.techpolicy.press/trumps-state...

The Stunning Corruption In The White House It’s a feature of Trump.

The firehose of corruption makes the reality of it staggering. And that’s the point.

open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

tl;dr: The US is treating Europe as its main adversary

The Trump regime’s desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, but its capacity is very much not.

Just to be super clear here also. The photographs in question here have been described as 2 topless teenage girls pointing and laughing at trump who has a stain on his pants. No fucking wonder they won’t let that see the light of day.

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

Typically, federal government shutdowns don't have much macroeconomic impact because all the workers receive backpay after they return. If they never get paid at all, that changes things quite a bit. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Team Trump has been announcing since Biden was president that this current president if he were elected in 2024 would invoke the insurrection act just if he felt like it, so yes, that seems like where this is headed