Adele M. Stan

Screen shot of lead paragraph of New York Times article by Chris Cameron: "Stephen K. Bannon, the pro-Trump podcaster and convicted fraudster who briefly served as President Trump’s White House chief strategist in his first term, publicly threw his support behind the president’s talk of seeking a third term, in defiance of a constitutionally-mandated two-term limit."

Now, here's how you write a lede. From "Bannon Claims ‘There Is a Plan’ For Trump to Run for a Third Term" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Angus: Canada is reconsidering that relationship with China. Why? Because we can no longer trust the US.

And we know that we have 150, maybe more, Canadians in custody at ICE detention centers. We had two Canadians under Chinese custody and it caused a huge outcry. We now have over 150 in the US.

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

U.S. politics inches closer to the point of being determined by those most willing and able to use armed force

The government shutdown feels a bit like a decapitation strike aimed at the entire legislative branch.

The administration can’t keep the government shutdown forever, but I could easily see them using the plenary executive theory to circumvent congressional appropriations authority, for example.

tweet from matty that reads "I'm honestly still not 100% sure how you're supposed to tell if a given skull insignia is specifically a nazi skull"

oh so now suddenly these guys can't do phrenology

Why are there stories analyzing Reagans tariff speech? The STORY is "Manbaby President Threw a Hissy Fit Because of an Ad Quoting Ronald Reagan"

UC must publicly release Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement. UCLA is required to share the document...

BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

This realization hit me about an hour ago. They’re “buying” our military.

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Went to see about signing up as a poll worker for the Nov election & LA county only needs bilingual poll workers

So, if you’re fluent in English & Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Tagalog/Filipino, Thai, or Vietnamese pls consider

Professor Stephen Macedo: How Does it Feel to Have Elevated MAGA/MAHA Propagandists? The fault is not yours alone. You were just a bit player in a larger misinformation media ecosystem that was devoted to rewriting the history of the pandemic, numbing people to the grave risk We Want

It *may* be dawning on the author of “In COVIDs Wake” that he’s done nothing but elevate MAHA/MAGA propaganda while faking being a “progressive.”

This is also true for every credulous news organization that platformed his revisionist history.

My latest.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/professor-st...

DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wildly outside the scope" of DHS' authority.

The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law

www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...

"Dept of War"

"The Peace President"

"The No Wars President"

A tweet from No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen says, “This is not satire, by the way.” It quotes an earlier tweet from the same account that claims, “The Pentagon announces they are replacing The New York Times’ press credentials with the MyPillow guy’s media outlet.” Below are three images: a serious portrait of a man in a suit, The New York Times logo, and Mike Lindell (the MyPillow founder) holding one of his pillows and smiling.

We’ve become a bad joke.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Trump Called a Canadian Ad Fake. It Faithfully Reproduces Reagan’s Words.

Really important context here. Excellent reporting by Lynsey Chutel and Ana Swanson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

GOP:

Confederate statues are sacred and cannot ever be removed.

Also GOP:

Go ahead – demolish the White House. Obama built a basketball court.

If you haven’t signed up to phone bank or door knock please consider writing a dear neighbor letter and emailing your friends. We cannot take a Zohran win as a given.

"nearly half..." ???

it's an open book test.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

I DO mean the competition for the candidate’s attention! How do the contenders get before the candidate? By plugging themselves for the role by various means—media appearances, buttonholing people close to her, etc.

NEW: Trump just said he called off deploying federal immigration agents to San Francisco.

A woman with grey hair and a red jacket holds a voluminous palm tree in a black trash bag on the Chicago transit bus seat with her, notably leaving the seat next to her empty for other patrons like a true boss

Hell yeah to the woman who just brought a tree on the bus
#TransitOrientedGreenery #transitisessential

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has issued a warning about license plate tampering and has launched a reporting hotline to address the issue.

The contenders compete for the opportunity to fill that weakness. If you don't think there's a contest within the party for that spot, you may misunderstand human nature.

When the pitchforks show up at the gates, I won’t be surprised when they project this clip on the remaining side of the WH

People move to France for the lifestyle: coffee, cigarettes, doing heists

So the US media has just decided not to cover the virulently racist Cuomo AI ad?

Wow.