New: "The State Department will issue visas to Flavio Bolsanaro and his family and allow them entry into the United States," per a senior State Department official
For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings.
IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy.
www.propublica.org/article/supr...
The fact that billionaires can just buy an entire film distribution company that has been running and respected for over a decade to kill a documentary about their billionaire friend and nothing can be done about it is just
Fuck man
here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat:
an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on
New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers.
https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff
It is fucking insane that a military contractor (and biggest GOP donor) undermined the performance of services paid for by the DOD, and future GOP Presidential hopefuls are bending over backwards to come up with competing and bizarre excuses for why its all fine, actually.
Trump Called Musk and Asked Him to Lift Ukraine Starlink Restrictions
Military-grade system appeared to be working more normally on Thursday, soon after the call
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
A new data analysis shows that delays resulting from the U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast in rural areas across the country. The rates of primary ballots rejected for arriving late has doubled or tripled in some areas compared to 2022.
Owner of X funding owners of TikTok, CNN, CBS News.
The same guys making a ton of money from government contracts and demanding less regulation also seeking to control the media.
News just broke that Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in the Ellison family's Skydance, which owns CBS and CNN. Anoher step toward right-wing "media capture," as I wrote about recently in my Stop the Presses newsletter.
Elon Musk has already declared war on Democrats and begun fighting it on several fronts.
This fight is happening, whether or not some centrists want it.
There's no real choice now but to make a clear case in the election and then go hard after him when they retake Congress.
not that I don't think they're capable, but Democrats coming to power and immediately holding oligarchs and corporate power meaningfully accountable is a big assumption
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...
White Christianity has nothing to do with the teachings (good or otherwise) of Jesus; it’s about exclusivity, predestined supremacy, goodness achieved without having to pay, forgiveness by proxy, and the eternal punishment of everyone else for the crime of noncompliance.
It’s a spiritual gated HOA.
NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery.
Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units.
The investigation died.
We unearthed it:
www.propublica.org/article/nava...
If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.
JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday.
Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.
Advocates for survivors of domestic violence say they've seen an alarming rise in the number of victims being detained and deported by ICE after calling 911, spurred in part by a Trump order eliminating legal protections for undocumented women reporting such violence
🚨BREAKING: DOJ’s demand that California prevent an unverified list of alleged noncitizens from voting or face legal action “appears to be a plausible threat that DOJ will attempt to engage in warrant-based ballot seizure,” the DNC said in a new court filing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
It would be nice if elected Democrats start speaking up about the regime seeking to nullify the will of hundreds of thousands of voters in the city where masked armed agents did street executions in front of cameras
WSJ: 'The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe'
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior.
Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her.
Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
I'm sorry Dems, but to fix this country you have to be willing to destroy these kinds of institutions. Fox News is poison and it's mission and primary driver is to spread misinformation and propaganda to deceive citizens into voting for their pedophile protecting criminal political arm.
If anything, AI should replace upper management. These sentient toilet papers only job is to hire consulting companies to make the decisions they should have been hired to make then bog down all of their employees with justifying and explaining their work again and again when they could be working
On the shit that actually needs to get done. Only to implement some fuck ass procedure with no accountability only to fail when the upper management eventually leaves along with the consultant company to only do it again at another fucking company.
no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders
The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.
Any Democrat suggesting that there is any political mission other than bringing all elected Republicans to justice for their participation in an insurrectionist hate group needs to be booed and hissed without cease until they can be fired at the next available opportunity
A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.
"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
Brendan Carr is illegally destroying U.S. media consolidation limits so that Trump-friendly local broadcast TV companies (Sinclair, Nexstar, Tegna) can all merge and pummel local TV news consumers with propaganda.
This is even pissing off major cable companies, who say it's unfair to them:
About 60% of people enrolled in the Arkansas Medicaid program that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' ad promoted are white, and about 18% are Black. That didn't stop conservative critics from insisting she was wrong to cast a white man as her Medicaid freeloader.
From @theathletic.com: LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting the Polymarket prediction market as he will from playing basketball. The deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions.
Christopher Rufo is single handedly the reason most white people who never went to law school know that they hate Critical Race Theory even if they'll never be able to define it
A GOP schism over the Texas candidate Bo French’s social-media post reveals the limits of the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues.
TSA says it is removing chairs at document checks in airports, requiring staff to stand for their shift.
TSA explained the reason as twofold: to ensure its employees meet its fitness standards and to create an amiable environment for travelers.
NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit.
The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
Republicans when AI: "Nothing we can do man"
Republicans when women: "We have to institute a national database of pregnant people, also ban all abortion medications, ban abortion itself, and then prosecute women who miscarry."
Rick Scott on AI: "Congress can't regulate this. We can't get election security passed or pass a budget, so we're not gonna be the ones to do it. It's gonna have to be done through the administration with talking to these AI companies."
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data.
The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
They're starting to pull the levers. Make sure you're registered to vote. Check it often, go early vote. Make this a blowout because they will try every ounce of fuckery they can.
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.”
H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply.
If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP.
www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
This is partly a story of personal corruption and government waste but the driving force is consistent with RFK Jr's policy objectives: he is a eugenicist who wants certain groups of people to die.