Lots of “No Kings” events everywhere. This amazing Bay Area screenshot from www.nokings.org shows them on the map.

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

In Silicon Valley at the moment, nodding sadly.

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

The Trump administration aims to destroy public education, a cornerstone of our democracy.

October 18th -- No Kings, be there!

Huh, I hadn’t thought of him as a “bury my head in the sand” person but then billions are a well known cause of moral blindness.

New Column: You know how some historians wonder if people recognize the onslaught in real time? Well, I'm here to tell you that millions of us do. And we're fighting it. newrepublic.com/post/201625/... via @newrepublic.com

@pkrugman.bsky.social “We did t expect America to become a country where masked secret policemen smash down your door in the middle of the night and take you away. Yet here we are.”

Important Greg Sargent interview with Chris Murphy. “The world is watching to see what we stand for.”

Ever increasing lawlessness.

In ruling that the government cannot deploy the National Guard in Portland

A federal judge finds that president Trump lied

“this Court concludes that the President did not have a ‘colorable basis’ to..federalize the National Guard..The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts”

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

States should stand together —the strength is in jointly authorizing local, state, & federal employees to refuse direction from Trump.

The lesson of the Trump era is to stick with your principles. He’s coming for you anyway, whether you do or not, so you might as well stick to your principles so people don’t laugh at you afterward and you can look yourself in the mirror.

October 18, 2025. Bring flowers. Sing songs. Flood the streets. Nonviolent resistance is the best path forward.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Looks like a war zone that needs troops!

This is so dystopian. People ready to do battle with Storm Troopers and advancing on protesters armed with … donuts.

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“The Harvard of philanthropy.” Great that Harvard has made itself the reference point for standing up to the authoritarian. Appalling that so many of our civic institutions have let us down.