Checkmate, Mr. President

Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.

America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.

📢🚨‼️ I'm so tired of this 💩.. #OV1 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is so deeply cruel and unjust.

From “Prairie Fires”, a biography about Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser. The more things change, the more they stay the same. This was in 1876.

BERNIE: “This senate is about to make a horrific situation even worse… health insurance premiums will double/triple/quadruple… some will pay 50% of their income… 15 million will lose insurance… 50,000 will die unnecessarily…” #MedicareForAllNOW

Military officials tell troops 168 commissaries could close next month trib.al/3F3Ks58

The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike. n.pr/440Ovz4

Any updates on those South African farmers that were brought in to the US earlier this year?

The Scottish government provides every family with a newborn with a ‘baby box’ of essentials to help them get started. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is bringing the boxes to NY. Why can’t we have obviously good & nice things like this under a Labour government UK wide?

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ROLLING STONE: “The current Congress has dropped the pretense of public service altogether… Congress enjoys ultraluxe health care as it fights to gut yours.” @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn why don’t you care about anyone but yourselves? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house. Remove him from office.

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

ICE and CBP GOONS are patrolling Chicago in unmarked civilian cars, kidnapping and disappearing people for filming.

In Middletown, NY, residents are rising up as ICE agents stalk worksites, profiling people by skin tone & detaining those who followed every legal step. This is state terror—raids without warrants, fear as policy. Communities everywhere are rejecting cages, walls, & checkpoints. #StopICE #NoKings

NYPD Cop is sick and tired of TEMU cops AKA ICE GOONS racial profiling and harassing him.

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

Among the endless fire hose of news, there was an interesting nugget buried in Mayor Keith Wilson's statement today. The city of Portland is considering taking over the lease of the ICE facility and the city said it has no intention of being ICE's landlord.

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It’s going some when nursing homes lock their doors to keep ICE out.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school. Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Trump administration cancels annual food insecurity survey, USDA says - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Blowing up boats in the Caribbean without any legal authority risks dragging the United States into another war, and provoking attacks against American citizens. I'm getting ready to force a vote with @kaine.senate.gov to ensure Congress' power to declare war is not so easily trampled.

We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.