Well!

Not here to make the case that this administration has been all that successful. But there's been a piling-on effect for some time now.

LOL the Trib's top web story today is an EDITORIAL about a preliminary draft budget by the Gainey administration.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Everyone's walking around like they're in a damn Enya video.

www.axios.com/2025/10/03/t...

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

Pfizer "secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals" and in return will "sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx"

looks like state capitalism to me

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Not sure these are really the key takeaways from today's event, my dudes.

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

This is one of the most demented things Trump has posted

By a vote of 54-45, the #Senate confirmed Michael Waltz to be to be Rep of the US to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Dem senators voting in favor: Fetterman, Kelly, & Shaheen.

GOP Senator Paul voted No.

Senator Tillis did not vote

My editor caught the best moment of Steelers/Vikings in Dublin yesterday.

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

The original culture-war issue.

I'd love to see data that correlated a kid's vote on this question with voting patterns as an adult.

I think this is where my interest in politics really took root.

The Wayback Machine may someday soon be the key bulwark against a scenario like this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjYv...

Report appears to be archived here:

web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Stephen Miller: “We are gonna channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign to led to this assassination to uproot & dismantle these terrorist networks … we are going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, Homeland Security & throughout this govt to dismantle & destroy these networks"

Democrats who read this story should probably do so with goggles on, so their eyes don't roll right out of their heads.

Ah well, what are you gonna do. No one could have seen this coming.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

An essay about this moment that is well worth reading, by the author of a terrific book.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...