US Soybean farmer: This is caused by this administration, and it’s having a negative major consequence on not only farmers, but also on American factory workers..."

A tiny firm with no experience, but lots of Trumpworld ties, got a massive contract from DHS. A rival says the award was rushed and "unlawful."

There really needs to be a massive betting line on which bubble will crash first, crypto or AI. Lucky for the billionaires who created the bubble, Trump installed the guy who started the run on SVB then wailed until he was bailed out, David Sacks, as his Crypto/AI Czar.

At least NBC is covering it as ridiculous www-msnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.msnb...

This is the way.

Not a subscriber, so I can't read this. But I'd be pretty surprised if Madison and Marshall said the president should declare a fake drug emergency to unilaterally impose tariffs, then leverage those tariffs to bully other countries for personal grudges and pressure prize committees to honor him.

Post 1/5 Nation's Defense Bar Condemns Apparent Politicization of Justice in the Letitia James Indictment. NACDL "unequivocally condemns the federal indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James," calling it an "untenable breach of institutional independence."

Background on both cases from Monday at Law Dork:

Paying a monarchy $5.1 million, to take 160 detainees? Something smells like💰 laundering.

#LookWhatYouMadeMeDo #TheAudacityToBelieve #DoSomething #WomenLead www.kctv5.com/2025/10/08/c...

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

When you read this about people being *afraid to go to. church* lest they be snatched by ICE, remember that Cardinal Timothy Dolan serves on Trump's Religious Liberty Commission (www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...) and was honored by the Becket Fund this year (becketfund.org/media/cardin...)

Dear Elon Musk... My 5 bullet point list: 1) I started a Community Action Group 2) I now sit on a Community service Board 3) One of my people is running for office 4) We are having a Women's Freedom Forum with 300 attending and Media 5) I did not cry, I got busy Thanks for the motivation.

Weird how all the slogans, ideology, & state capture tactics are the same! If only we could discern some reason for these similarities!

Recently banned by the U.S. Naval Academy, Linda Gordon’s “Second Coming of the KKK” is a great place to start.

The impact of the government shutdown hit travelers across the United States, as air traffic controllers called out sick, closing a control tower and leading to delays at major airports. https://cnn.it/46HYb3y

Mars was the Roman god of war. That’s why we say ‘martial arts,' ‘martial law,' and 'court martial.' Marshall was the Roman god of designer fashion at discount prices. That’s why we have Marshall’s.

Having a purpose in life could help reduce the chance of developing dementia. www.sciencealert.com/your-lifes-p...

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

TIME MAG - “The 69-year-old judge had received death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire…” (Stephen miller in particular has been lashing out at judges) time.com/7323442/sout...

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

The local ABC station is a sinclair station. The NBC station is Tegna, and CBS is now, um, interesting. And the talk radio in Seattle is beyond awful - my mom only gets NPR from now on.

There's a very funny short story to be written about a Halliburton-type exec who just wants to give Pete Hegseth millions of dollars in bribes, but Hegseth doesn't even understand that's what the guy is trying to do, much less know how to make it happen.

How to overcome anxiety:

This brings up a potential critical future juncture in the conscience of our military. Who will be the first to refuse to obey an order that they view to be unlawful? Every veteran knows how many times the phrase, "Don't obey an illegal order!" was drilled into them during their service. /1

Has Pritzker lost control of his State Police? Are they acting on their own? That's unacceptable. If true, heads should roll. A worse possibility is that he surreptitiously approves of this type of police behavior. That seems out of character, but his silence does not build confidence.

Bibi & his war crime buddies dusting off the old USS Liberty Strategy workbook. I'd bet a a short stack that the phrase, "It worked the last time!" was heard in their strategy meeting.

A few hundred officers and some videographers can't come close to controlling a city. But they can produce content. Which seems to be the primary goal (along with violating rights and hurting people for the sake of violating rights and hurting people).

Me. Doing what you should be doing...finding your people, building community, building capacity. While you cannot "ignore" what the administration is doing, spend less time reacting and more time taking positive action.

The Republican platform is simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.

"Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b)

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

This

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

Like most Utopian Authoritarian governments, they just keep picking new "enemies of the state" to jail, murderer and intimidate until there is no one left to challenge them.

I seriously doubt anyone in MAGA world will have the balls to call out ICE for tear-gassing Chicago cops—just like they stayed silent when Trump pardoned the thugs who beat police on January 6th. Cowards then, cowards now.

“.. an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, older and disabled people that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Take the Andy Ngo move for promoting the Proud Boys and trying to cast right-wing perpetrators of street violence as victims, and scale it up nationally for ICE. But the public doesn't react to masked govt officers beating people they way they react to radicals and reactionaries punching each other.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Good one. "Kavanaugh Stops" for when DHS officers grab US citizens on the street and detain them for anywhere from 20 minutes to a couple days, and "Kavanaugh Raids" for when DHS officers raid a worksite or apartment building and detain US citizens for hours/days while they check everyone there.

Just thinking about all those *very serious scholars* who told me that there's no place for studying gender in political science, but especially in public opinion about democracy and national security

“[That’s] an insane insult to his senior officers, who all made their bones fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Elliot Ackerman, who led Marines in the second battle of Falluja...“Those guys have got a lot more dust on their boots than he does.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...