Trump take fly fishing. Oof.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

They fired a top-level commander, the top of the chain of command but for SecDef and POTUS, because the wanton murder spree on the high seas as it's been conducted so far wasn't enough for them.

30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.

I work in a woman-owned, 80% female firm. It’s hell. Whenever we have baked goods in the pantry, nobody will take the last one. It just keeps getting cut in half. And again and again. Eighths of danishes. Sixteenths of brownies. Half an Oreo. Please… please… take it. We can buy more Oreos.

A new chapter kicks off at the ROC City Skatepark! We broke ground today on Phase II of the ROC City Skatepark, adding 20,000+ sq. ft. to one of our city’s favorite spots. Learn more: cityofrochester.gov/news/city-celebrates-roc-city-skatepark-expansion-phase-ii-groundbreaking

"Journalists leaving an Oval Office event Wednesday asked the president who the proposed arch would be built for. He replied: 'Me.'" Totally normal stuff for the sitting US president to be building monuments to themselves. Not at all monarchical.

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

Why do US infrastructure projects cost so much & take so long? Consider the Hudson rail tunnel: 1995—Studies 2009—Construction 2010—NJ Gov Christie kills it 2011—Project relaunch 2015—Fed support 2017—GOP Congress kills funding 2021/22—Biden funds it 2023—Construction 2025—Trump claims to cancel it

I mean this seriously - if this is the way the federal government treats the states, what is the incentive to participate in the union? We are being invaded, robbed, and assaulted. Where does this end? Nowhere good.

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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

Here's the transcript of Trump's disclosures of CIA allegedly covert actions in Venezuela. These actions are no longer covert as a result of Trump's disclosure. At this point the entire program of activities in Venezuela needs to be reported in full to Congress to comply with the War Powers Act.

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

If a party that loses by 5 percentage points still gets to control the legislative body, do you really live in a democracy? And if you don't live in a democracy, why should your state remain a part of that union?

If every time the White House changes hands, every state who didn't vote for the victor has its public works grants cancelled, we're literally never going to get anything built in this country again. Absolute insanity. -- www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

“Companies sending representatives to the East Room event include Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon.com and Palantir Technologies, according to the White House.”

The “We Can’t Say ‘Vote No’ Because That’s Electioneering But ‘Don’t Be Misled’ and Early Voting Starts Oct 25 (hint, hint)” mailers paid for with our tax dollars have started showing up in BK Heights.

Five alarm fire that's illegal and impeachable. Newsrooms and electeds should be yelling this.

What Vought is doing is against the law and against the Constitution. Small potatoes next to sending the army into cities and brown people to gulags, maybe, but this administration is lawless from top to bottom.

Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority" The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.) Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear. But… no “kids”!

There are so many obvious constitutional violations in this story. It is enraging. There is no war, there is no foreign invasion, there is nothing that justify it. This is a choice to create a military presence that will brutalize residents of cities that do not support the President.

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico). In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

GOP gave $20 billion to Argentina yesterday

absolutely unthinkable to help pass a budget as long as he feels comfortable saying this

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

Plain language crusader here. If some people are unaware that antifa means anti-fascist then use "anti-fascist". If a term needs an explanation, use a different term. Make no room for confusion (or excuses) during an emergency.

I don't get a ton of FB traffic and can remember only one other post in the last year or so that got shared as much as this article. you may be "unsurprised" as an extremely online person but people seem to be paying attention to this, for whatever that's worth www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The Supreme Court is entrenching a system where a state’s ruling party can essentially make itself permanent by drawing districts that ensure that party’s majority, both for state legislatures & US House seats. Democracies do not deprive themselves entirely of competitive elections.

1st - It was your staff's desk. How is it not reflective of staff values? 2nd - If Nazis are drawn to you and your politics, I'd say that's reflective of you. Commence soul searching.

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

Great news: another planned highway expansion is now on pause! No new highways — from the South Bronx to the Hudson Valley.

In #Switzerland, fine for a speeding driver is based (1) on how far over the limit the driver is going (2) on how much the driver earns. One man caught driving his Ferrari at 137 km/h the in an 80 km/h zone in a village near St. Gallen was fined 300,000 Swiss Francs (today, $375,000 US). 🇨🇭🧵

Mt Hope Needs Better Walkability https://old.reddit.com/r/Rochester/comments/1o7fjtd/mt_hope_needs_better_walkability/ #RochesterNY

Episode 2 of my Collateral Damage podcast is out today. Ryan Frederick killed a police officer during a pot raid on his home. He was tried for capital murder, but convicted of manslaughter. We'd later learn that police informants were breaking into homes to obtain probable cause for raids.

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞 @sbmitche.bsky.social www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

Credit to NYS DoT for pausing the project. These highway expansions are justified by pseudoscience and further harm the environment. The funding could be much better spent elsewhere. nysfocus.com/2025/10/14/h...

NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...