#selltheteamjerry

Ezra Klein is still talking about it.

As always @katelynburns.com was there to listen to me hem and haw for TWO AND A HALF YEARS about how I didn’t like my gender and didn’t feel like a guy but wasn’t trans until I finally came out and admitted I was. She’s a real one.

7th Circuit denies Trump admin request to stay district court's block of the Guard deployment: "The facts do not justify the President’s actions in Illinois under § 12406, even giving substantial deference to his assertions"

News Flash: Friday is release day for the 10-inch orange vinyl pressing of the Radio Free Europe 2025 benefit EP. Proceeds from all vinyl sales will go to @rferl.org.web.brid.gy Pick up a copy at your local indie record store or order vinyl:
ffm.to/remrfe2025

In a memo to employees today, Ilitch Companies announce paid maternity leave effective Jan 2026, including 12 weeks for birthing parents and 2 weeks for secondary caregivers. The Athletic reported last month the Detroit Tigers were one of just 3 MLB teams without fully paid leave

Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35.

Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:

anyway welcome to bluesky, I know twitter was once fun but now that you’ve left you don’t have to be the Hell Correspondent for everyone in your life

Venture Capitalist Resigns From Salesforce Foundation Over Benioff Comments

More loud and public disagreements among the powerful like this, please! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

In Oval Office Screed, Trump Shows Who’s Really Running DOJ DOJ Officials ‘Smiled, Nodded and Shuffled’ One of the many challenges of...

In an Oval Office event ostensibly focused on combatting violent crime, President Trump’s lawless abuse of the Justice Department was on full display in the immediate presence of the attorney general, deputy attorney general, and FBI director.
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"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump Our unofficial estimate is that around 4-6 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

We (me + @alexip718.com) will be running a crowdsourced total crowd estimator for this weekend's No Kings protests, very similar to the one we did for June (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...). Look for a spreadsheet or entry form from us by Saturday, and a preliminary estimate Sunday morning

Look for the helpers: Here's how Chicagoans are supporting their neighbors amid ICE raids.

In collaboration w/ @citybureau.bsky.social: blockclubchi.co/3WcaPl8

Podcasts Are Not Television | Defector In the latest move to consolidate the entirety of human expression onto a single screen, Netflix and Spotify have announced a partnership that will bring 16 of The Ringer’s video podcasts to the…

Podcasts are not television: defector.com/podcasts-are...

That’s wild. Fascinating.

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

The DIY and IRL energy of punk rock mutual aid Bands like Ekko Astral are bringing the urgency of online solidarity into the mosh pit.

Good morning I’m in @theverge.com profiling @ekkoastral.bsky.social @jael.bsky.social and some other cool trans musicians who are bringing the organizing energy they learned from being trans online to music venues across the country. These musicians are meeting the moment.

We can't allow Trump's violations of the country's laws over who controls spending to become old news just because he keeps doing it. It is still one of the biggest stories of this era.

If the United States refuses to bail out my government, I’m going to become an even bigger libertarian.

Dog bites man.

Shutdown America and then turn it back on? Let’s see if that works, worth a shot.

I am “when I hear or read ‘Ernie Clement,’ I think of Ernie Whitt” years old.

I also feel like he could be a baddie in an Austin Powers movie.

this guy is functionally unemployed so he shitposts all day bsky.app/profile/atru...

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

hey this is fun

Oh Lord. JD Vance is defending violent, white supremacist language again. Calls it "pearl clutching." Only real men praise Hitler, according to little JD. Have mercy...... his kids are going to need so much therapy. Sad, truly.

Obama: "Watch these Tea Party protests, see who shows up at them. I bet you'll see nazis, gun nuts, religious fundies who beat their kids. I bet you'll see failsons & wannabe cops on full display, weirdos who couldn't understand America's founding principles if they were illustrated in crayon."

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Brett Kavanaugh is basically arguing tha there have been "sufficient remedies" for racism.

This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...