The horrifying legacy of ICE will be that it taught Americans to do nothing while an innocent person is attacked and kidnapped right in front of them.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h ago

Marta Brizeyda Renderos Leiva's arrest at Salt Lake City International Airport captured a disturbing moment: a mother of four screaming, "Help me, please! I have my papers!"

Radical religious jingoism is the same the world over. And here it’s ISIS who is horrified to realize they are like the US and not the other way around.

DJ@darnich.bsky.social · yesterday

Cartoon of the week

Ukraine got rid of the MAGA Bots & the Misinformation Bots when they hit a data center in Russia. So Russia was behind most of the garbage that was being spread on the Internet about the Democrats.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol · 21h ago

Ukraine just did more to clean up American elections than Congress has done in twenty years.

“How much more evidence is necessary to assess that Trump has undermined U.S. national security and is working for Russia? And how much longer will Republicans in Congress continue to protect him as he does it?” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 10, 2026

So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S.

open.substack.com

“No unauthorized access” + “Claude AI submitted a false report” means police granted Claude AI access to this sensitive system. What are police using Claude AI for here? The public deserves transparency in how government uses AI. There should be a law.

Euronews@euronews.com · 2d ago

The US police called the delay in detecting and reporting the incident “unacceptable”, but said there was no indication of unauthorised access to their systems or compromised data. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/freh

Ya know, until news media isn’t under the thumb of billionaires, you’re not going to get the whole story You’re going to get the billionaire’s story

These National Guardsmen aren’t guarding the ballot drop box. They’re blocking access to it. A voter shouldn’t have to push through a line of soldiers to vote.

DC Council@councilofdc.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is clearly not acceptable

Another ‘f* you’ from Trump to Congress which explicitly established that 530a accounts could hold only low-cost broad-market index funds. Trump has turned the accounts into a tax dodge for billionaires.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

"Our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." And this is about one of his *good* ideas. The latest edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social:

Some suck up who wants a favor from the US government presented Trump with a medal Trump’s dead uncle won.

mcbzac@mcbzac.bsky.social · 5d ago

Incredible. They’re literally doing the Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence. Like for real.

Cartoonist: Dennis Goris

He’s Trumpifying the US passport again. Now no way to opt out. Pic of Trump. 38 pages instead of current 26 so an eagle “flies” when pages are flipped quickly. Gold cover seal to come with more bling. Shipped in a sleek white box that screams “steal me” instead of current plain envelope.

Trump’s Image ‘Non-Negotiable’ On New U.S. Passport Redesign

Starting in 2028, there will be no way for Americans to avoid having the president’s image grace their passports.

forbes.com

@anandwrites.bsky.social on Real Time with Bill Maher on 2 October 2026.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

Holy shit.

We're continuing to report on sports betting apps, and we need your help. ProPublica is looking for at least 250 people who use DraftKings and FanDuel to share their data with us and help us understand how the apps respond to user behavior. ➡️ How to help: projects.propublica.org/sports-betti...

If we’ve learned one thing about Republicans it’s that they have no moral center. They endlessly accuse and deride their opponent to win then turn around and commit the very acts they accused others of but now label it good and proper.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last wk.

Wolfers: Imagine we had a female president who was so idiosyncratic and so moody and whose policy decisions were up and down like crazy... Could you just imagine the coverage? It’s utterly bizarre what we allow to happen.

Republicans already hold majorities in both the House and Senate. If they wanted to relieve Americans’ wallets they would have done it already.

Comfortably Boo@numb.comfortab.ly · last wk.

18 U.S.C. §597

It isn’t hyperbole to say Trump and Republicans are working to resurrect the robber baron class. They want a country where they are billionaires and every other American is a serf.

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · last wk.

Labor's share of income just hit an all-time low. That means for every dollar a company brings in, workers are taking home smaller and smaller slices. Income keeps shifting to the owners. With @svaneksmith .bsky.social https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/why-is-concentrated-wealth-a-problem

Russia got away with it once or twice by feigning a mistake, but 5 missiles in one day can’t be waved away so easily. Putin is emboldened by assurances from Trump that US is now his b*tch.

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · last wk.

Five Russian drones and missiles violated Moldova's airspace and exploded inside the country today. ​Moldovan police shared the time and location of each explosion. ​It is only by luck that no one was hurt.

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

liberalcurrents.com

Before you reach for the rake this fall, think about who's counting on that mess. A layer of leaves isn't just yard waste; it's insulation. Ground-nesting bees, overwintering butterflies, and beneficial insects tuck into leaf litter to survive the cold.

“The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 text mentions the TSA on two occasions, one of which recommends that "The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) be privatized" (Page 134, Bullet Point 4).” www.snopes.com/fact-check/p...

Does Project 2025 call for privatizing TSA?

A number of recommendations from the Heritage Foundation's blueprint for a new federal government are mirrored in Trump administration policies.

snopes.com

Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️@amwclark.bsky.social · 2w ago

This sounds like a plot to get fed employees to quit & the public to be angry about poorer service, to justify privatizing the TSA so some Trump cronies can get in on private TSA contracts & Trump can get kickbacks

❗️TRUMP WORD ALERT❗️ vagan [vay-gan] NOUN A person without a permanent home who omits all animal products from the diet.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on Talarico: "He doesn't eat meat. He's a vagan. You know what a vagan is? Vagans don't do well in Texas, okay?"

The GOP is an opportunistic power-hungry political cartel. They go on every talk show to scream about 400 noncitizens voting then it’s crickets when 72,000 eligible voters have their ballots rejected. They betray their oaths every day.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 2w ago

I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The East Wing and now an ancient geoglyph in Arizona. Nothing is sacred to that orange dirtbag. “Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge. The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid.”

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2w ago

The Las Playas Intaglio, a giant fish carved into the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, is now considered the oldest example in the Americas of a geoglyphic, the ancient art form that is carved into or drawn on the ground.

Now someone invent a micro EMP device you can wear as jewelry. Specs: USB-chargeable and tap like a Star Trek TNG-style communicator to emit a pulse effective within 10 feet (3 meters).

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”

Republican vilification of Democratic Socialism will go down in history as the largest financial scam in human history.

AMPTsuper@amptsuper.bsky.social · 2w ago

"They had 20% fewer emergency department visits and 31% fewer hospitalizations than similar patients who did not receive meals." www.npr.org/2026/09/26/n...

Bombshell scandal. US Ambas. to Greece Guilfoyle “admitted in an interview for a Greek publication that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government because of its refusal to purchase US gas at above-market prices.” "We can do this to any country we want, we can do this in Greece too."

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Guilfoyle's prime qualification for being ambassador was being Trump Jr's last concubine. But she does perfectly sum up the diplomacy of the Trump dynasty.

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: the undisclosed safety data emerging as weedkiller maker faces Parkinson’s lawsuits in US

Syngenta denies keeping relevant data from the EPA as paraquat stays in the US market despite global bans

theguardian.com

Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · 10mo ago

"Paraquat, the pesticide that appears to cause Parkinson’s in farmworkers, has been banned in Europe and China but remains available in the US. " David Ferry for @wired.com