Trump’s military takeover of US cities has already cost taxpayers nearly $500M

Trump’s military takeover of US cities has already cost taxpayers nearly $500M

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

I wish I could show you all the joyous photos and videos being shared on Muslim and South Asian WhatsApp right now with people reacting to Mamdani's victory.

It's really beautiful and cathartic.

So many years of anti-Muslim bigotry, racism & hate.

And all those tears are now sugar for our chai.

If I had the opportunity, says Judge Michael Luttig; "I would tell the Chief Justice that he is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America. That's what he is doing."

For anyone concerned with what remains of US democracy, this is a must listen podcast.

Serial liars claiming the power to kill anyone they say is “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist” groups are asserting that they have a right to kill anyone they feel like, since they have repeatedly been caught lying about exactly that (such as false accusations against Kilmar Abrego Garcia).

Kevin Roberts wants to normalize little Nazi lovers like Nick Fuentes, but also wants to destroy Harvard and other universities on Trumped up charges of antisemitism.🙄

The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition

www.vox.com/politics/466...

I wrote about this problem a while ago, too. Two relevant sections of this piece:

- "Media incentives for normalizing lies"
- "Democracy requires us to live in a shared reality"

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-white-...

#Thugs

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on AI with little to show, and are now turning to complex financial vehicles to sustain their spending. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how it could all come crashing down:

One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes on Monday, sitting politely as Fuentes criticized the power of “organized Jewry in America.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...

Not too sure MAGA Mike is going to like this new national ad buy from the DCCC

Greg Bovino's "performative horsesh*t" is absurd and laughable, but it's achieving its purpose - playacting for Donald Trump, and signaling to the people of Chicago that he's an occupier, not a law enforcer.

Read about it in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/this-man-i...

YouTube video by Jim Acosta 67-Year-Old BRUTALIZED by ICE at Roadblock - 6 Ribs BROKEN! We're on the scene with Nick Valencia

@jimacosta.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhO_...

ICE Wants to Build a Shadow Deportation Network in Texas A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

🚨 ICE is exploring plans to launch a privately-run, statewide transportation system in Texas, envisioning a nonstop operation that funnels immigrants detained in 254 counties into ICE facilities and staging locations across the state

www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others now live on military bases. Read The Atlantic’s reporting on how Generals’ Row became MAGA Avenue: https://theatln.tc/vj8DMBoz

The triumph of bullshit Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.

New in PN: The triumph of bullshit

"We’re a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital.

"I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!"

The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck.

Houston, Texas.

Screenshot of headline reading: Measles spreading beyond the center of the Utah-Arizona outbreak Cases are now popping up in more touristy areas of Utah, according to a health official.

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.

RFK Jr. must resign.

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

This is insane

Yep, it’s the food stamps.

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

6/ Contraception is also under assault. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Trump Is Wasting No Time in Tearing Down the East Wing

Just nauseating. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Were there tears in his eyes when he wrote the check?

Armored Republic has been included on the list of organizations that partner with “New Founding”, which is building Christian communities in Appalachia. Per Forbes, New Founding is backed by tech investor *Marc Andreeessen*, a close ally of Peter Thiel, JD Vance, & Trump. SOUND ON. 1/

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

*to bulldoze the White House and build a gaudy monument to Dear Leader @schatz.bsky.social