The approved major disaster declarations fell mostly along party lines.

The damages in Vermont far exceed what some of the small towns impacted can afford on their own, said Eric Forand, the state's emergency management director.

Trump: "It looks like we're gonna have a Communist as the mayor of New York. But here's the good news -- he's gotta go through the White House. Everything goes through the White House. At least this White House it does."

One thing about saying Democrats should do this or that messaging is that there's nowhere to do that messaging right now. Major social media platforms work for Trump, the networks are scared of him (or taken over by his lackeys). Dems can say whatever they want but there is no megaphone effect.

VTDigger gives Sam Douglass credit for an apology. He did NOT apologize, at all. The only thing he "apologized" for was "that our county and state have been dragged into this." Not a word about his own conduct or his role in dragging our state into this.

vtdigger.org/2025/10/15/v...

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

I am just so fucking proud of her.

There is no world in which masked and armed agents of the state running down delivery drivers makes us safer. That our information environment and political leaders have convinced people otherwise is a massive failure.

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Highly normal. Nothing to see here, folks.