John Oliver on Bari Weiss: "She's been given editorial control of a massive news organization, even though she's never run a TV network, has no experience directing television coverage, and as one 60 Minutes producer pointed out, is not even a reporter." Plays clip of Weiss

How two lawsuits could expand Citizens United, eliminate campaign donations restrictions, and turn America into a kleptocracy — and how this nightmare can be stopped. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

At no point in the 15 years since Obamacare became law have the Republicans come up with a credible plan to protect people with preexisting conditions or cover the millions who got coverage through the ACA

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end Citizens United by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

BREAKING via WSJ The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS. Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

Fascism in action

NEWS: An AFP fact-check reveals that a video posted by Donald Trump and the White House depicting "chaos" in Chicago as justification for deploying the national guard features old footage of incidents in other states including Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska.

very clever that Weiss is framing her purge of any adversarial journalism to Trump or acknowledgement of baseline humanity of Palestinians as a populist crusade against elites. It has no empirical basis & is clearly cynical but media reporters keep treating like a Genuine Concern

🚨 BOMBSHELL: Federal judges caught the U.S. government providing false info in over 35 court cases. Sworn declarations. Falsified records. Repeated lies. This isn’t just sloppy, it’s systemic. Law professor Ryan Goodman says it may be intentional. 📺: 60 Minutes 🔗:

The Associated Press reporting on what we have said for months: the governor of Florida is outright lying when saying that all people detained at Alligator alcatraz have final orders of removals. It’s just not true.

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. LeverNews.com/book

The person who first pushed the antisemitic line re Covid was the guy who is currently Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary. But Cruz doesn't have the guts to call out Trump or RFK Jr. for their antisemitism so his new bete-noire Carlson is an easier target. Then

ICE has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office. You read that right — SEVEN HUNDRED PERCENT. Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.

Presidents are not kings. The Constitution is not optional. Presidents are not kings. The Constitution is not optional. Presidents are not kings. The Constitution is not optional. Presidents are not kings. The Constitution is not optional. Presidents are not kings.

Let's be clear: Trump has reoriented the presidency around his name and his identity, and has, in many ways, made the whole government a vehicle to promote him. us.cnn.com/2025/10/19/pol…

"A man who was pardoned by President Donald Trump on charges related to his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was arrested last week after allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York)." washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

"Speaker Johnson's obstruction has gone far beyond petty partisan politics—it's an unlawful breach of our Constitution and the democratic process," said Adelita Grijalva, who filed a lawsuit with AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes. commondreams.org/news/adelita-g…

This is what kleptocracy looks like.   In 2025, Donald Trump has received: $3 billion: mostly from crypto $940 million: law firms $400 million plane: Qatar $36 million: CBS $25 million: Meta $24 million: YouTube $16 million: ABC $10 million: X Now $230 million from DOJ?

“The fact that Germany yet lives … is thanks to him alone.” —Joseph Goebbels on Hitler’s 56th birthday, ten days before Hitler shot himself in his bunker