Agnieszka Paczynska

Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.

Argentina’s Voters Hand Javier Milei a Crucial Victory in Midterm Election

Does this mean we don’t have to bail them out? Just curious about where my tax $ are going now that it’s obvious it’s not SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/w...

Portland never stops being Portland.

Stephen Miller said last year this was the plan. They said it out loud. Some of us highlighted his remarks at the time and warned how dangerous they were. Most of the media missed them and/or moved on from them. It’s happening:

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Top Brass American Cities Should Be ‘Training Grounds’ for Military

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Top Brass American Cities Should Be ‘Training Grounds’ for Military www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Buttcracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle? - emptywheel I suspect that a big reason Stephen Miller has turned immigration into a losing issue for Donald Trump is because Miller's goons create an endless supply of negative spectacle that goes viral and seed...

Great point from @emptywheel.bsky.social: Trump's sliding approval on immigration is because millions of citizens are bearing witness.

"All of it starts from the people—both private citizens and independent journalists—witnessing, filming, and posting ICE thugs."

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...

Just the paramilitary secret police manhandling an opposition political candidate.

Rep. Moskowitz asks Kash Patel about Trump's claim that his signature was faked in the Epstein Birthday Book: "Will you be opening up an investigation into the Epstein estate for putting out a fake document with the president's signature linking him to the world's largest pedophile ring?"

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”

It existed yesterday and is gone today.

Here is Stephen Miller clearly indicating that we're about to see a McCarthyite campaign of state-sponsored persecution against the liberal-left, all fake-justified by the murder of Charlie Kirk:

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

National Guard collects unfavorable public input on D.C. deployment Internal documents reviewed by The Post reveal, with rare candor, how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ trust in the military.

“If they’re picking up trash, they’re not here for a security emergency. There’s no clearer metric than that.” @jkdemp.bsky.social

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

a paragraph from the attached blog post speculating about how civil war can spiral from deployments of national guard units.

I have made a lot of bad predictions about elections over the past nine years or so, but the effects of elections? Not too shabby, alas.
saideman.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-...
See my scenario for civil war and replace NY/California with Illinois. We may be at the threshold of civil war.

Let's start with the "best" scenario right now: that the US. remains a "competitive authoritarian" system. We have elections that are unfree and unfair, but not total and complete shams.

This means that:

1) it will be difficult — but not impossible — for the opposition to win elections; and

2) if the government overtly steals an election, it can be toppled via widespread popular mobilization *if* the security services split or abandon the regime.

So I imagine that folks who insisted it wasn’t ethnic cleansing, land theft, forced removal are lined up to apologize for insisting that this was just about defeating Hamas fighters and the return of the hostages.

This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

Washington Post photo, captioned "Federal agents patrol the Lincoln Memorial on Friday." It shows 4 armed federal agents 3 with DEA on their vests, standing in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/15/dc-emergency-lawsuit-police-schwalb/

Caption this

Judge Blocks F.T.C. Investigation of Media Matters

“This case presents a straightforward First Amendment violation,” Judge Sooknanan wrote. She added, “It should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...

When tariffs were “maybe,” firms waited. The pause is over, and the tariffs are here. So finally, by August, businesses will be pushed to choose—absorb costs, reprice, or re-source. Expect consumers to really start to see price hikes over the next few months as the fog lifts and the invoices arrive.

Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi This hypocrisy of western media has been laid bare by Israel’s targeting of journalists since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack

“Once Israeli leaders realized that they would face no consequences for killing one of the Arab world’s most prominent journalists, who also happened to be a US citizen, is it surprising they would later conclude that they could get away with killing many more?”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. 

That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

Your weekly roundup of ways to get involved in D.C. How to fight back this month.

Fill up the rest of your August calendar with fundraisers, workshops, bike rides, and more. Don't forget the noise demonstrations! 51st.news/making-some-...

The only place in DC where crime is up is the White House.

This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing. | MSF MSF's frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza, Palestine.

Another humanitarian group – this time, Doctors without Borders – concludes Israel is deliberately killing the very people it has been starving by shooting them as they queue for aid.

Its report is titled: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing." www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...

GMU President Keeps Job Amid Tensions Faculty members feared George Mason’s board would fire its president Friday in the face of ongoing federal investigations they deem politically motivated. The board gave him a raise instead.

GMU President Keeps Job Amid Tensions

Faculty members feared @georgemasonu.bsky.social's board would fire its president Friday in the face of ongoing federal investigations they deem politically motivated. The board gave him a raise instead. bit.ly/3ITdDAp

#HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky

“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out Over the last five years, nearly $90 million has gone to state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. Advocates say cuts to the program would be “devastating.”

NEW: The Preventing Maternal Deaths Act pumped tens of millions of dollars a year into a program to help fund state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes.

It’s now at risk of being cut.

By @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social