If you missed: My essay looking at terms of the settlement Paramount finagled to allow its mega merger with Warner Bros Discovery, in which I conclude every major institution that was supposed to protect the public failed us. READ: https://loom.ly/f2GO8no

Surprise...Surprise... Texas DPS failed to send voter registration applications to county election officials. It’s not known how many applications have been unprocessed. Counties will receive a backlogged surge less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 deadline. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...

DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties

It’s not known how many applications have been unprocessed. Counties will receive a backlogged surge less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 deadline to register for the Nov. 3 election.

texastribune.org

I had Tricare back in the 90s. It sucked so bad. I usually got our insurance through my employer. Back then, you got assigned a clinic and never the same doctor. I had to spell one of my conditions for one doctor. I'm not shocked that they would still be run like a band of idiots.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 10h ago

If you are a Tricare beneficiary, provider, contractor or employee dealing with denied claims, delayed reimbursements or other issues, we would like to hear from you.

This alone should have everyone voting for Democrats in November.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h ago

Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

Remember, Elon's celebrity lawyer, Alex Spiro, *admits* to the "space lasers" (for transferring data) in his cease & desist letter to Alex Gibney, effectively admitting the one thing that he claimed was defamatory. www.techdirt.com/2026/09/14/e...

Elon Musk’s SLAPP Threat Over ‘Space Lasers’ Doc Sort Of Admits The ‘Space Lasers’ Part

By now, calling Elon Musk a "free speech absolutist" is a joke. We have so many stories of him suppressing speech, or threatening, or suing people for their speech. At this point, anyone who still claims that Musk supports free speech is either (1) lying, (2) stupid, or (3) employed by him. So, it's little...

techdirt.com

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 13h ago

surprise! there really IS a sinister and deeply evil ultra-rich entity manipulating US politics with space lasers, and it’s not the Jews, it’s Elon Musk.

Quite the shot of Trump disembarking from Marine One last night. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

Perfect.

Jon Passantino@passantino.bsky.social · 9h ago

Semafor reports David Ellison’s Paramount is looking for cash from Elon Musk as it takes over Warners www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

How pathetic is this?!!!! IMPEACH Grandpa and WORMBRAIN!!!

Why is ICE purposefully hiding where it is holding people? ICE erased detainees slated for deportation from its online locator and barred ICE officers from telling their families and attorneys where they are being held.

Don't download the Trump app. Everything he does is underhanded and dishonest.

Yes, the turd who said it was 'okay to lie' when the 'eating the cats and dogs' thing was going around is the source of truth for this. I wonder if he's called his new baby names like his other kids yet? You have nothing left to campaign on when you're just making up lies.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 8h ago

J.D. Vance claims that James Talarico has "a weird obsession with children in drag": "Very often, you peel back the onion and those people I think have some pretty sick sexual fetishes."

A propos the effort of David Sachs to kill us all with totally unregulated AI, I repost this from two years ago. snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...

Oligarchs' Island

A Sitcom Pitch in a Tragic Moment

snyder.substack.com

Well done Cuba….🇨🇺

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration will start using passport records as it hunts for noncitizens on the voter registration rolls, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a filing Tuesday evening. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump administration will use passport data for voter citizenship checks, court filing reveals

The State Department records the administration intends to share include the private identifiable data of everyone who has ever applied for a U.S. passport.

democracydocket.com

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I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h ago

“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

@governor.pa.gov

NPR@npr.org · 13h ago

Buried in the paperwork for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's expansion in Pennsylvania is a document requesting "mobile detention facilities." n.pr/3VK3Jam

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ken-shabby@ken-shabby.bsky.social · 14h ago

"What these tools are fundamentally are authoritarian tools. They support those that are in power." How Big Tech Built China's Surveillance State (And Brought It Home)

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 2d ago

Himmler dreamed of having 5 men to track every single suspect. Today, big tech and wannabe dictators (redundant) have eyes everywhere. In the latest Next Comes What, Andrea explores how modern privacy nightmares—from smart TVs to AI agents—fit into the dim history of political surveillance.

Hey! Did you see this?

Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta@malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 3w ago

Grab a limited-edition shirt and let’s elect Democrats who actually want to fight for their neighbors, this November and beyond. store.malcolmkenyatta.com

Zelenskyy's face is the most "JFC" I've ever seen on a person. (I don't know how he kept it together sitting next to that.)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Trump: "I wish we had the ballroom" (look at Zelenskyy's face)

Well, this is heartbreaking, but not unexpected. Renee Good's mom voted for Trump.

Democrat House Committees (mirror)@demhousecomms.govpeeps.us · yesterday

Oversight Dems Retweeted Acyn: Mrs. Donna Ganger, mother of Renee Good: I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect…

"Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica."

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2d ago

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

Will somebody please turn this into an ad?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

JD Vance: "The message is don't give power to the crazy people who started these problems in the first place. If you're frustrated about high prices, you have every reason to be."

Agree! Seems like we should do everything we can to stop media companies from being controlled by his cronies!

Governor Gavin Newsom@governor.ca.gov · 2d ago

First, Trump banned independent news from the White House. Now, he's launching what is quite literally state-run TV to try drowning out the fact that he and his corrupt administration are failing the American people. This is truly autocratic behavior from a failed President.

Fantastic...a breakthrough that may help all of us neuromuscular degenerative patients. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Despite admitting to a “component issue,” the company refuses to say what went wrong, how many units are affected in how many countries, and why it won't recall its $500 AI toothbrush. www.wired.com/story/dyson-...

Dyson Won't Say What's Wrong With Its CameraJet Toothbrush

Despite admitting to a “component issue,” the company refuses to say what went wrong, how many units are affected in how many countries, and why it won't recall its $500 AI toothbrush.

wired.com

And that alone should be enough to tell you to vote for Sherrod Brown.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2d ago

Crypto is going to dump $30 million to sink Sherrod Brown, per: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...

I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.

Here’s the article about Russell Vought, Director OMB, and architect of Project 2025, the blueprint being followed by the Trump regime to destroy American democracy. www.propublica.org/article/russ...

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

propublica.org