Caleb Barrett

Yes he came back from the adversity of *checks notes* being credibly accused of sexual assault by scores of women

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

We published this story late Friday afternoon amid an avalanche of news so I’m reposting it now because Kohen Wiley’s life mattered more than a box of diapers.

I’m glad Congress isn’t alive to see this.

no amnesty

Trump’s DOJ is indicting and arresting his political enemies. His DHS raided the home of a sitting Congresswoman. His armed ICE thugs are going door to door harassing people under the pretext of finding non-citizen voting. If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

These Republicans are cheaters and liars. It baffles me that’s many people who claim to follow Jesus support these people.

We are seeing a hunger disaster unrolling before our eyes. Since Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill, 2 million kids have lost food assistance. These are by far the deepest SNAP cuts in history, and each month, we find out it’s even worse than we thought. The worst is yet to come.

Senator who made millions from his family’s coal business while using his power to kill climate policies that threatened the coal industry flies in to support a Senator who allegedly gave millions in contracts to a defense contractor in exchange for illegal campaign donations

A woman went to jail because someone used her stolen SSN/personal details to open a Cash App account. That scammer then committed fraud using that account, so she's been blamed for it. The woman can't get details from Cash App bc they say the account isn't hers www.404media.co/amanda-smith...

🚨 “Armed and in uniform, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security have been knocking on doors in several states to ask residents about their immigration status—and to inquire if they have registered to vote or cast votes in past elections” 🚨

A woman in Arkansas was seeking care for a life-threatening miscarriage. Under the state’s strict abortion ban, no doctor would treat her. “Our hands are tied behind our backs,” one doctor told her. “Tell your friends to vote differently.” (Published May)

Your all-too-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress think this is just fine.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

IMHO, the reason RFK Jr gave Danish researchers $1.6M to do a study of withholding the hep B vaccine birth dose in Guinea-Bissau is because he wants to kill the birth dose here in the US (his team of anti-vaxx ACIP advisers is helping him with that), & he thinks the trial will help his cause

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

You heard the man, ppl. He’s telling you it’s really important to vote. You should respect his anti-Trump GOTV efforts and vote. (I mailed my ballot in today, apparently in his honor.)

Damn. Tommy was taken to a school that more people in this country should attend.

the group chat included "numerous uses of the 'n-word' related to use of force and discharging firearms at black residents," and a competition to see who could arrest the most black people. In one text, an officer said, "Our texts sound like a clan [sic] rally." reason.com/2026/10/15/3...

Never been a clearer grift www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... bsky.app/profile/atru...

❗️Zelensky says Starlink restrictions remain active in Ukraine, cutting connections above 161 km/h and preventing interceptor drones from working. He says tests in the EU showed the same terminals working above 180 km/h, leading Kyiv to conclude the restriction is deliberate. #Ukraine

I swear to god the administration is going down the list of reasons pundits said it wasn’t fascism and doing them all one by one

The murder happened in March. Campus sexual violence is literally a daily occurrence in the US. It isn’t limited to rape. It is lethal for victims more often than any of us were led to believe.

In 2026, the Supreme Court essentially gutted the Voting Rights Act, giving Republican-controlled legislatures a green light to redraw congressional districts ahead of the midterms. This week on Reveal, come with us to Louisiana to hear what this means for the state and the rest of the South.

Being Black in America like being on The Truman Show...

Israeli settlers attacked a Jewish American journalist in broad daylight, and Israeli soldiers did nothing. She said from her hospital bed, "Sadly, none of them will be prosecuted. I am sure of it.” @premthakker.bsky.social asks, "Are we going to let her be right?"

Note that she’s clearly identified as press.

New from me: For the Liberalism.org site, I wrote about the 30th anniversary of AEDPA, the worst criminal justice law passed in my lifetime. www.liberalism.org/p/how-the-an...

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this is beautiful

A Republican senator warned that degrading Ukraine’s defenses might be “aiding and abetting a mass murderer.” Musk blames Trump, the White House blames Musk, and Ukraine counts the cost. My write-up in the link in the comments.

Morning on the Seine - 1893 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10524

Did ya know Marco Rubio's brother-in-law had a $75M drug ring? And now— "Rubio is helping carry the torch for a now decades-old U.S. foreign policy: claiming to fight drug trafficking while in fact tolerating, protecting, or even cooperating with…the criminality Rubio purports to be concerned with."

benjaminrcremer.substack.com/p/they-shout...

This is a sitting member of Congress who called for immigrants to be executed by throwing them to their deaths out of helicopters. Mike Collins personally amplified neo-Nazi propaganda online. It's disqualifying for a member of Congress and for a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

Either way seems immoral.

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

"[M]ore immigrant survivors are feeling like the violence and abuse they experience behind the closed door is ... more tolerable than the violence and abuse they could experience if they tried to leave[.]"

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery.