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Tucker Carlson asking when Howard Lutnick was picked to run the transition, then pivoting to the Butler shooting, is not a question , it's an accusation wearing a question mark. The Lutnick timing is the setup; the payoff is implying the assassination attempt and the investigation that followed.

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Bill Maher Gives Shocking Take On Donald Trump And ‘Ass Kissers’

That’s debatable. The president seems to prize loyalty above all and punishes dissenters, even close allies. Sen. Tom…
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SCOTUS is allowing the Trump administration to continue “third country” removals. I would like my Cuban cousins at the front of the line. They voted for it!

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DATE: September 29, 2026 at 05:03AM
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NEW YORK TIMES PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGISTS FEED

TITLE: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This.

URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/opinion/boring-politics-exhaustion.html

A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.

URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/opinion/boring-politics-exhaustion.html

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Naomi, We Were Doing It Wrong

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News

Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — September 27, 2026

Naomi Klein was not the enemy of Occupy.

She was one of the people trying to help.

That matters, and it needs to be said up front, because too much of what followed Occupy turned into people picking sides instead of trying to understand what actually happened. Naomi was not attacking the movement. She was trying to make sense of it, to guide it, to help it become something more durable and effective.

And she was not wrong about everything.

Occupy did a lot of things wrong.

We struggled with structure. We struggled with decision-making. We struggled with scale. Consensus processes could drag on, be manipulated, or simply exhaust the people trying to participate in them. Informal leadership emerged anyway, often without accountability. Personal conflicts became political conflicts. Ego showed up. Confusion showed up. Fatigue showed up.

I saw all of that.

I lived inside all of that.

And at the end of it, I was on the receiving end of some of it too. I was labeled, dismissed, and pushed aside in ways that had less to do with reality and more to do with how unstable the environment had become. That is part of the record as well.

So yes, Naomi, we were doing it wrong.

But that is only half the story.

The other half is that the “right way” was not available to us.

By 2011, the established systems had already failed. The political system was not representing people. The economic system was extracting from them. The so-called established left, at least in places like Chicago, was largely absent from what we were building on the ground. There were exceptions. Some lawyers showed up. Jerry Boyle, whatever his limits, was there with us on the street. That counts. Being present counts.

But the broader structure that was supposed to guide movements like this had already lost credibility.

We were not rejecting structure because we were naive. We were rejecting it because the structures we had inherited were part of the problem.

That does not mean what we built in its place worked.

It means we were trying to build something new in real time, under pressure, without a blueprint.

And that is the part that outside observers, even sympathetic ones, did not fully grasp.

Naomi Klein saw the movement. She understood its importance. She recognized the shift in language, the emergence of the 99 percent, the breaking open of a conversation that had been buried for years. But she was still observing it from outside the day-to-day reality of what it meant to keep that space alive.

Occupy was not a theory.

It was a situation.

It was cold nights and long days. It was police lines and shifting rules. It was people trying to feed each other, organize each other, argue with each other, and figure out what came next without any guarantee that there would be a next. It was documentation. It was conversation. It was conflict. It was presence.

I was there in Chicago collecting as much of that as I could. Recording it. Trying to understand what people actually wanted, not what anyone said they were supposed to want. That material still exists. It is primary-source material. It is the voice from the ground that too many people ignored then and continue to ignore now.

And that voice does not fit neatly into theory.

It tells you that yes, the process was flawed.

It also tells you why.

When you build something horizontally, without formal leadership, power does not disappear. It shifts. It becomes informal, sometimes invisible, sometimes unaccountable. That is a real problem. I saw that firsthand. I experienced it firsthand. Anyone who was there long enough saw it.

But the alternative was to fall back into structures that had already proven themselves untrustworthy.

That was the dilemma.

Not theory versus chaos.

Failure versus failure.

And we chose the version that at least felt honest at the time.

So when Naomi Klein and others pointed out what Occupy was not doing, they were not entirely wrong. But they were only seeing one side of the equation. They were measuring a movement against standards that came from a system the movement itself was rejecting.

That is a mismatch.

Occupy was not a finished model. It was an attempt. It was discovery. It was people trying to find each other and build something under conditions that were not designed to allow that to happen.

It did not hold together.

But it was not meaningless.

Occupy was the first big jolt in the American unraveling since the 1960s. It was messy, unstable, contradictory, and often unfair to its own people. But it was the real response to being sold out by our own government. And real things are rarely tidy.

Hey Chris, You Missed Something

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News

Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — September 25, 2026

During Occupy, a lot of people with names, credentials, and platforms explained the movement back to the people who were actually living inside it. Some of them were smart. Some of them were sincere. Some of them were both. But too many of them were talking from above the weather instead of inside it.

Chris, you were one of those people.

This is not a question of whether you understood history. It is not a question of whether you meant well. It is a question of distance. A man can know a great deal and still miss what is right in front of him if he is standing too far away.

From where you stood, the arguments made sense. The state owns violence. The state is better at violence. A movement that tries to beat the state on that ground is walking into a trap. Fine. That is a real argument. It has history behind it.

But Occupy was not just an argument.

Occupy was people on the ground trying to build something in real time under pressure. It was cold nights, police presence, shifting rules, infiltration, exhaustion, ego clashes, confusion, hunger, hope, and a hundred practical problems that never make it into the essays later. It was not a laboratory. It was not a clean moral exercise. It was not a panel discussion. It was a living situation.

And that is what you missed.

You were arguing over tactics as if the movement existed mainly in theory. For those of us who were there, the movement existed in bodies, time, risk, and strain. It existed in the simple act of staying present when the system wanted us gone. It existed in the fact that people who had been isolated from one another suddenly found each other and began naming the same broken structure. That mattered more than many of the people talking about Occupy seemed willing to admit.

You also missed something else. Occupy was not just Zuccotti Park.

That is one of the most irritating habits of the commentary class, then and now. New York happens, and suddenly New York becomes the whole country. It was never the whole country. It was not the whole movement either. Occupy happened in Chicago. It happened in cities and towns all over the United States. It happened internationally. It took different forms in different places, because people were dealing with different pressures, different police departments, different local cultures, and different internal dynamics.

If you thought Occupy was just a New York tactical argument, then you were looking at the wrong piece of the elephant.

And yes, there is source material for that. There is primary-source material from the ground. WPS News still has some of it. The Occupy Chicago footage is on YouTube in a four-part playlist. There is more in the archive going back to 2011. It is not polished theory. It is not after-the-fact interpretation. It is source material from people who were living it while the experts were still deciding what it meant.

That matters.

Because one of the enduring problems of Occupy was that too many people with public authority talked over the people doing the actual work. There was always someone ready to define the movement, discipline the movement, clean up the movement, or scold the movement from a safer distance. Meanwhile, the people on the ground were trying to hold together something fragile enough to break under its own contradictions even without outside commentary helping the process along.

That was the real tension.

Occupy did not fail because one side won an elegant argument about tactics. It came under pressure from every direction at once. Police pressure. Media pressure. logistical pressure. internal pressure. personality pressure. exhaustion. drift. confusion. opportunists. genuine believers. people who wanted process. people who wanted action. people who wanted attention. people who wanted a home for a while because the rest of the country had failed them. That was the mix.

It was human, which is to say it was unstable.

That does not mean it was meaningless. Quite the opposite. It means it was alive.

And that is why voices like yours frustrated so many of us. Not because you were always wrong in the abstract, but because you were too sure that the abstract was the whole story. It wasn’t. You saw pattern. We lived texture. You saw principle. We lived consequence. You saw the movement from the height of commentary. We saw it from the sidewalk, where the weather, the police, the cold, the confusion, and the actual people all had votes.

So yes, Chris, you missed something.

You missed the fact that the ground is not theory.

You missed the fact that movements are not neat.

You missed the fact that people doing the actual work do not experience history as a clean argument.

And if you ever want to understand what Occupy really was, start with the source material. Start with the voices from the ground. Start with the people who were there before you explain it to them again.

https://www.alojapan.com/1543271/why-a-maga-reps-eat-ramen-comment-is-fueling-a-bigger-conversation-about-grocery-costs/ Why a MAGA rep’s ‘eat ramen’ comment is fueling a bigger conversation about grocery costs #affordability #FoodPrices #GroceryCosts #GroceryStore #HeadlineInflation #InstantNoodles #PoliticalCommentary #PoliticalDiscourse #ramen #YoungAmericans A public outcry over political commentary telling young citizens to eat instant noodles has ignited a broader economic debate regarding persistent grocery inflation. Recent social media backlash against

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Trump’s Iran‑War Folly and the GOP’s Midterm Maneuvering: Why Voters Should Avoid the Party of Big Oil

https://bluepress.blog/2026/09/21/trumps-iran-war-folly-and-the-gops-midterm-maneuvering-why-voters-should-avoid-the-party-of-big-oil/

Mitch’s Consequences #duet #politics #news #breakingnews #politicalcommentary #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlCGtHVwWXE

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Republicans are embarrassing themselves, shamelessly grifting off the memory of the victims of 9/11. This barrage of attacks against Mamdani is vile.

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Why do they lie every single time? #duet #politics #news #politicalcommentary #currentevents #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1o85LPSeH4

I thought WE were winning? #duet #politics #news #politicalcommentary #uspolitics #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9toDlgKwwM

Falling teen pregnancy rates are a problem now. The on-screen text overlay on this Fox News clip says it all , the anchor is spinning a 70% drop in teen births over two decades as a crisis of telling young people not to have babies, as if economic precarity and the absence of a stable partner are.

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Beshear Rejects the Democratic Civil War: Make Room for DSA and Working-Class Politics

DSA victories are forcing a Democratic reckoning. Andy Beshear offers the smarter answer: welcome the left, debate policy, and unite around the economic pain families face.

Dana Bash Tried to Divide Democrats—Hakeem Jeffries Refused the Media Trap

Dana Bash pushed Hakeem Jeffries to condemn progressives, but he rejected the manufactured conflict and focused on affordability, MAGA extremism, and working families.

Forget the Socialist Scare: America’s Crisis Is Capitalism Without Democracy

Republicans and corporate Democrats attack DSA with socialist scare tactics while ignoring the oligarchic economy crushing workers and concentrating America’s wealth.

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Lara Greaves points out that after the Nats' failed leadership coup, and the demotion of Chris Penk, Paul Goldsmith now holds 11 Ministerial portfolios;

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This is an unprecedented number for a NZ Cabinet minister. As with the Nats' inability to choose a replacement for CLuxon, it points to a serious shortage of talent in their caucus.

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https://www.europesays.com/people/194903/ Bill O’Reilly Says He’d Rather Vote For Putin Over Ossoff #BillO #PoliticalCommentary #VladimirPutin

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