Late on a Friday night, Trump is attempting to illegally withhold funds that were already approved by Congress. I won't stand by while he uses these back-door maneuvers to cut funding for American families. Congress must pass my bill that would put an end to his power grabs.

TONIGHT: @RepBrendanBoyle joins @CapehartJ on The #LastWord. Tune in!

Reporter: "Did you have anything to do with that (White Sox making it to the playoffs)?" Pope Leo: "No comment." 2024 White Sox Record: 41-121 2025 White Sox Record: 60-102 2026 White Sox Record: 82-77 PLAYOFFS

Amen

In the first full season with a Chicago pope

Former President Obama says the federal government is less corrupt than at virtually any point in U.S. history. axios.com/2026/09/24/obama-g…

Many of the anecdotes these staffers leaked were from soon after Peltola’s husband died. Seems pretty understandable that she would be in a bad place. I cannot understand working in politics & actually caring about the country and then leaking this shit right before an election.

President Trump has repeatedly called for eliminating the debt ceiling, putting him at odds with most of his party, but in line with a significant number of Democrats in Congress time-magazine.visitlink.me/U…

Gas is up 50% since February and Trump is more interested in what he can name after himself next. He’s a sad and failed president.

To celebrate the Autumn Equinox🍂 "The Autumn Wind" ~ a poem written by Steve Sabol, delivered by John Facenda

British occupation forces in New York City hang convicted spy Nathan Hale. He behaves with great composure, and on the gallows he declares: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

On this morning 250 years ago, the British hanged a 21-year-old American schoolteacher as a spy, and in trying to make him disappear quietly, they accidentally made him immortal. His name was Nathan Hale, and it is worth sitting with just the last few hours of his life. He had been caught the night before, behind British lines on Long Island, carrying notes on enemy positions hidden in his shoes. There was no real trial. A man out of uniform with military intelligence on him was a spy by the rules of war, and the sentence for spying was death by hanging, no ceremony, no honor. General Howe ordered it done in the morning. What we know of that morning comes mostly from the enemy, from British officers who were there, and it is the small human cruelties that stay with you. Hale asked for a clergyman to attend him in his final hours. The request was refused. He asked for a Bible. That too was denied. He was a devout young man about to die, and they would not give him even that comfort. A British officer named Montresor, watching, was troubled enough by the young man's composure to later make sure his story was told. In his last moments Hale was allowed to write a couple of letters, one to his mother, one to a fellow officer. He wrote them, and then the British provost marshal, a notoriously brutal man named Cunningham, took those letters and destroyed them in front of him. The reason given was chilling in its pettiness: so that the rebels should not know they had a man in their ranks who could die with such firmness. They did not just want to kill him. They wanted to erase him. Then they marched him to the gallows, and there, according to the accounts that survived, this young schoolteacher who had failed at the one dangerous mission he ever attempted, stood calmly and spoke about duty and country with a steadiness that unnerved the men sent to kill him. The famous words attributed to him, that he only regretted having but one life to lose for his country, may be polished or borrowed from a play he loved. But everyone who was there agreed on the essential truth beneath the wording: he met his death without flinching, and he made even his executioners remember him. And that is the irony that redeems the whole sad morning. Cunningham burned the letters so no one would know how bravely Hale died. It did not work. The story got out anyway, carried by the very enemies who watched it, and a young man the British tried to erase became one of the most enduring symbols of the Revolution, honored two and a half centuries later, on this exact day, as the first American to die spying for his country. They denied him a Bible and a chaplain and burned his last words, and still they could not make him small.

My 4 colleagues who covered LSU-Ole Miss shared their experiences, and this observation from @SethWEmerson is so spot-on. nytimes.com/athletic/7615039…

Collins dead to rights on donations for contracts wow.

BREAKING: In an amazing moment, Admiral William McRaven, who led the raid to take out Bin Laden, just slammed Trump and gave an inspiring vision for the nation's future. Every American needs to watch this.

NEW: A Texas Catholic bishop is standing his ground after rebuking a Republican statewide nominee for a racist post about University of Texas students. Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth drew intense criticism for calling Bo French’s post “racist and sinful rhetoric,” including from a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist with close ties to the Trump White House and several right-wing Catholic bishops. One reply told him to “go join Prevost in Rome.” Olson told America Magazine on Friday that he had no choice: “It’s a moral issue. It is so at odds with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” thelettersfromleo.com/p/texa…

Interesting comments from Prof O’Leary, at the time time of 🇩🇪 Unity.. - W.🇩🇪 was poorer than Southern 🇮🇪now - E.🇩🇪 was significantly poorer than the 6 counties. - Economic Question for Pro Unity is settled in favour of 🇮🇪 Unity. - About whether folk are willing. - Achievable!

JALEN HURTS TO DARIUS COOPER!!!!!!!!!!

BREAKING: Marcus Freeman surpasses Knute Rockne for consecutive double digit wins (13), setting a Notre Dame record. Wow. ☘️ #GoIrish ☘️

RT @ScarboroughNow: The damage Netanyahu has done to Israel is incalculable. There has been a 67% shift in America’s attitude toward Israel…