It doesn't make him more than a child in any event.

#Booksky Big congratulations to author/legend Samuel Delany, who was just inducted into the Academy of Arts & Sciences! (Fun fact: our publisher, Catherine Lundoff, was one of his students.)🎉🎉🎉
www.amacad.org/person/samue...

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

"She wants to grab him," Ricky Patel said before he had had any exchange w/Ras Baraka. Even after Baraka left the facility, Patel said, "I’m going to place the Mayor in handcuffs. We are arresting the Mayor, per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States."

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...

There are no press releases during the shutdown, making it difficult to find this kind of news.
But the AK Air/Army National Guards, and the USCG, are conducting SAR operations. The flooding is in remote areas, and affecting primarily small villages, it appears.

taskandpurpose.com/news/alaska-...

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Very cool cover art, too.

It’s MADDENING

Amazing how easy it is to gaslight a nation

NEW: More fuel to the Epstein fire

Questions about how responders handled the scene .. when Jeffrey Epstein died

youtube.com/shorts/hGDr7...

China is finding other markets for the goods they would have shipped to us.

The tariffs aren’t crushing them bc trade is multilateral, not bilateral, so they’re not about trade, they’re a sales tax on Americans so the richest can pay less income tax.

In the first month of direct state aid for Missouri’s voucher scheme, 98% of funds went to religious schools...

missouriindependent.com/2025/10/13/n...

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Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has indicated that he wants to do something about [ACA subsidies], and he wants the government open. Well, we want this fixed and we want the government open. So why is there a problem here?"

All we're asking for is the reason for DEVIATION from the existing law.

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Trump just installed Michael Ellis as CIA general counsel, possibly to green light legally dubious CIA ops to do this as an end run around congress.

Many RIFed yesterday are now being unfired(?!)

Unclear if it’s evil or incompetence — but either way, calculated move. Meant to flex power.

Ha. Just shows Republicans are scared.

Dems, @schumer.senate.gov — don’t back down.
They know they’re losing the Republican shutdown shitshow.
We’re winning.

👀 Dickerson, Brennan and MacFarlane. They go, I 'm out.

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

On the one hand, yes, demand answers as to why this happened. But release him now independent of the answer — there is no justification for this. No society that hasn’t hopelessly devolved past the point of return does this to kids. I don’t care whatever they can possibly cook up as an excuse.

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

“[T]he broader aim of all this agitprop is far uglier. Trump has employed a form of state propaganda that may be unrivaled by any presidency in modern memory, and these MAGA influencers are generating material for that vile effort.”