Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.

The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”

Your attorney general determines whether there is pushback against antitrust conglomeration in your state, whether your state fights back against Trump’s illegal use of the power of the purse, whether your wage laws are enforced.

Everyone in LA better give their dogs an anxiety pill asap.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

First ep of season 2 of fionna and cake is out today ! Honored to have had the opportunity to continue directing on this season, and work with a bunch of insanely inspiring artists to make something really cool! Hope you tune in and enjoy!

Photo showing a section of border wall near Sierra Vista, Ariz. The camera is positioned close to the wall, in its shadow. We see it go off into the distance, towards the base of a large, jagged mountain.

In a move that can only be described as "existentially devastating"...

The Dept. of Homeland Security has waived laws governing federal procurement and contracting for border wall construction in all 9 Border Patrol sectors along the 2,000-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border.

Read on ➡️ bit.ly/47ALeZx

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

A screenshot of the Homeland security account, blocked

Everyone is free to do their own thing, but I went over to the DHS account, used it to find a lot of new government accounts, and blocked them all.

They don’t want dialogue, they’re incapable of shame—they just want to pollute this space. Better to suffocate them into irrelevance.

It’s weird how the “young” Republicans are actually full-grown men and JD Vance treats them as children who shouldn’t face consequences for their racism, misogyny, or xenophobia.

But pregnant 12-year-old little girls are treated as adults and must literally bear the consequences of rape and incest.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

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YouTube video by Adult Swim CHIPS: Chip Joins a Cult | adult swim smalls

Everybody go watch CHIPS. My board partner and good buddy Maddie Brewer made it and it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ojp...

These Charter Superintendents Are Some of the Highest Paid in Texas. Their Districts Are Among the Lowest Performing. Three charter school districts in Texas underreported the compensation paid to their top leaders. The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years.

Three charter school districts’ superintendents are among the highest paid in Texas.

The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years.

With @texastribune.org

Just a reminder that anti-queer and anti-trans policies aren't actually popular.

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference." The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

So by all means, celebrate a burst of collective action that reinstated a TV show host and vote the bums out if you get the chance. But voting won’t be enough, just as canceling the Disney app won’t be enough. When I look at the consumer response to Disney censoring Kimmel, I don’t see an allegory for America’s salvation. I see a threat — that we will see ourselves as the authoritarians see us, users whose only power is in our pocketbook. We can’t just reject the threat. We have to reject the idea that our only, best power is our pocketbooks. That’s a desecration of civics, as corrosive as the idea that debate is the pinnacle of civil discourse. It cheapens our actions by degrading what we believe is possible. Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us. The fusion of corporate control and government power that empowered this administration will need to be unmade. Courts will need to be reconfigured. Market power will need to be subsumed to electoral power. Bureaucratic legitimacy will need to be restored. Information will need to be competitive and available. To achieve any of those goals, we will have to become far less complacent and far less scared. We also will have to organize. Because no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again.

This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

At the very least, read her closing argument:

It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log.

This tells me two things:

1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day.

(212) 486-4430

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings From Montenegro to northern California, the tech elite dream of building cities where they make the rules. Is this, finally, their moment?

The @telliotter.bsky.social network state story is here.

This is a really important concept driving a lot of the thinking coming out of Silicon Valley and influencing the GOP. The characters themselves are also something to behold. Trust me, you gotta check it out: www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

I think it would be helpful if DA Bragg charged a few of these assaults. If the agents think that federal law immunizes them for actions that would result in ordinary New Yorkers being charged, let them litigate it.

Michigan anti-porn would criminalize ASMR, written erotica, and even nonsexual depictions of trans people Under the law, transgender people writing about their gender identity online could face 20 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.

The most insane “anti-porn” bill I’ve seen yet

The “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act” would criminalize visual, audio, or written depictions of “sex acts,” with language broad enough to ban distribution of When Harry Met Sally & romance novels .. and that's not even the worst of it 🧵

100%

I’d love it if people talked this way about anti-trans medical misinformation propaganda too! Just saying! It’s right there and quite easy to do!

Michigan anti-porn would criminalize ASMR, written erotica, and even nonsexual depictions of trans people Under the law, transgender people writing about their gender identity online could face 20 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.

Is that bad

reason.com/2025/09/22/m...

These findings in the new Washington Post poll jump off the page: Trump is underwater by 19 points on his handling of the economy (40/59) and underwater by 30 points on his handling of tariffs.

By contrast, the same poll found him at +14 net approval on the economy in Oct. 2020.

The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education is outraged by UC-Berkeley admin's decision to simply turn over its constituents' personal data to the Trump Department of Ed.

We support our Berkeley colleagues and call on CUNY not to repeat this mistake

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