SCOOP: In a new memo, the Pentagon says all interactions with Congress need to be run through a central office, a change from historic norms. "Frankly don’t think it’ll fly with the members or leaders of the committee," one HASC member said. breakingdefense.com/2025/10/pentag…

This is all bad and wrong but I'd be lying if for the rest of my life on Columbus Days I won't be finding a way to work in "this is just a psyop to distract from Columbus Day"

Rs predicted Dems would cave after No Kings protests, but Dems are feeling more energized than ever: “The rallies are just reinforcement of the view that Donald Trump should not be given a blank check to continue his lawless activities,” Van Hollen said huffpost.com/entry/shutdown…

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I can think of no worse punishment for someone.

Not taking a salary, but demanding 575x his salary as tribute from DOJ. nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/…

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican

It's hard to think of an action more purely corrupt than a a president ordering the executive branch to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars. I cannot wait to read the MAGA defenses of this (and there will be many). They'll display Soviet levels of sycophancy.

We don’t blow up boats off Miami because 25% of the time suspicion is wrong. We shouldn’t do it off Venezuela either. These are small outboards with no fentanyl and no path to Florida. We can’t just kill indiscriminately because we are not at war. It’s summary execution!

founder of a generative AI chatbot lol

Libertarians when they’re encouraged to develop their thoughts

Yes to be clear it is good that Trump has not yet *completely* succeeded at replacing constitutional government with personalistic rule — the question is whether you’re on the side of helping him achieve that goal or trying to stop him.

"The fact that the nomination got this far illustrates how much antisemitic and hateful rhetoric has been normalized, explained away or rewarded by Republicans in power," Katie Rogers writes of the Ingrassia case. nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/…

physical manifestation of prevalent Trump pattern: -floats idea -shows he is actually serious -insists implementing won’t be as big a change -aides cite precedent of past presidents doing similar -change begins despite past insistences, downplayed -more change is actually coming

You voted to bar him from ever running for office again because he sicced a mob on your office and tried to end american democracy. Cool hat tho,

Rep. MTG once again saying Republicans don’t have a health care plan, 15 years after Obamacare was signed into law. “I think that is unacceptable,” she writes.

The NRA apparently believes the United States is the only country in the world where SSRIs are prescribed.

This is going to be the UK's last export industry

Federal Reserve officials, who are unable to receive U.S. economic statistics due to the continuing government shutdown, recently lost access to a separate measure of employment data from ADP, a payroll-processing firm whose data-sharing with the central bank has been public for

Leading historic preservation group urges Trump to halt the bulldozers currently demolishing the East Wing of the White House, warning his ballroom plans are going to "overwhelm" White House itself huffpost.com/entry/white-ho…