19 - my kids just showed up.

Hanover, NH #NoKings

Trump swore he’d never use the IRS as a political weapon. Now he’s hijacking it to target his enemies. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook: weaponizing the government to destroy dissent.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

Honestly, this ☝️ 100 times over.

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

BREAKING

Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show

Full Story: bit.ly/4nVTRUe

Thank you! It’s too cold in NH to wear just a t-shirt but underneath my puffy coat I’ll be wearing my “Nevertheless she persisted” tee!

Not the most well-designed poster, but I like the message:

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

Can confirm.

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Politico reporting OSC nominee Ingrassia changed TDY reservations so a junior female employee had to share a hotel room with him (big misconduct). Woman filed a complaint but then withdrew fearing retaliation.

OSC is the office that protects whistleblowers

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

Portland is so peaceful Republicans had to go all the way to South America to find photos from years ago for their bad memes.

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

The President of the United States is lying and/or delusional, and it seems like we should be talking about this and nothing else.

“Bathrooms for customers only” sign needed.

Joy Reid and her ancestors arguably built and did more for this country than his:

"the typical black American has much deeper American roots than the typical white American. Trump himself, whose grandparents were all foreign-born, is an excellent example of relatively shallow white American roots."

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Research shows:
More H-1Bs → more patents
Fewer H-1Bs → more offshoring

Your choice, America.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

3 In July Hegseth put Lt Col Stuart Scheller in charge of reviewing how officers get promoted. Scheller was court-martialled in 2021 for attacking leaders over Afghanistan withdrawal. The Marines convicted him. Now he controls the promotion ladder. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-ma...