It's abundantly clear that a lot of Department of Homeland Security agents take great pleasure in inflicting violence on other people.

Customs and Border Protection Agent brags about shooting a U.S. citizen.

Crazy how much some media has normalized the idea that voters are taking a risk if they elect governors/mayors who will defy Trump. That he’ll threaten their funding, etc. Try to imagine, say. Greg Abbott being asked if he’s worried that Biden will punish Texas over his lawsuits.

Spotted a real National Guard patrol in Dupont Circle (left) this morning … then an individual in ill-fitting fatigues and gear (right) shortly thereafter. Is this an actual guardsman? Did not appear to be a Halloween costume. It’s increasingly difficult to tell who’s legit, which seems dangerous.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

EXCLUSIVE: Christy McCormick, a top federal voting official, is facing calls to resign following an unhinged public rant in which she accused Democrats of promoting "open borders" and widespread voting by "illegal citizens" to gain votes.

Horrifying comments from a Republican member of an independent federal commission meant to help states administer fair and impartial elections and — most importantly — to retain and promote public trust in the democratic process.

All of this is true enough as far as it goes. But even more problematic is the fact that when the U.S. Coast Guard interdicts suspect vessels, boarding and searching for drugs, a quarter of the time they find no contraband. We're not just murdering drug smugglers. We are murdering innocent people.

Pretty sure "attacking another country's military infrastructure within its own borders" has a name...

This looks like a concentration camp.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

The DOJ filed charges against Illinois Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh for allegedly conspiring to impede an immigration officer. The case raises severe First Amendment and electoral concerns, as opposing Trump’s Chicago immigration raids has become a key part of her campaign.

President Trump is determined to prevent Democrats from reclaiming the U.S. House in the 2026 midterm elections. Check out Democracy Docket's new live redistricting tracker!

seeing people talk about setting up mini food pantries in tandem with giving out halloween candy while corporations fund extreme makeover: white house edition is the sign of sick, broken society. i mean what in the actual fuck.

The distillation of this is that your government is lying to you and plans to keep doing so.

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

No way the planned federal databases assembling one-touch access to every agency's information about a person would ever get misused this way.

“Federal agents detain a man in a parking lot in the Avondale neighborhood following a confrontation during immigration raids, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered increased federal law enforcement presence to assist in crime prevention, in Chicago.” @reuters.com

Under Trump’s postmasters general, USPS has been quietly reducing pickups across the country, leading to 1 to 3 day delays. Mail-in voters don’t know this, putting millions at risk of accidental disenfranchisement. Rural voters will be affected more, meaning Trump voters face the most risk.

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.

I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime. While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...

It seems quite perverse for the Speaker to have the power to prevent Reps from being seated. If a Speaker were elected 217-216 in a House with two vacancies and after special elections the Speaker would be removed 217-218, can the Speaker stay on simply by preventing the new Reps from being seated?

There it is.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

It occurred to me that, with his demolition of the White House's East Wing, Trump has orchestrated attacks on the symbolic homes of two out of three branches of the federal government. Is One First Street next?

“Coverage of this mass sports gambling arrest is brought to you by DraftKings“

this is what scientific progress is all about www.404media.co/breathing-th...

Even if you believe the White House needs a ballroom, you must ask if it was necessary to tear down an entire wing to build it.

Total federal spending is up +7% in 2025 over 2024 year-to-date to Oct 20. The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere. Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.

As a reminder, just like in TX and Missouri, North Carolina's Trump congressional gerrymander isn't targeting a *Democratic member of Congress* -- it's targeting *the people and communities who live in that district*

That would be Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, in the Oval Office for a meeting btwn the U.S. president and the NATO Secretary-General in the middle of a brutal war in Europe, staring at plans for a ballroom that will replace the now-demolished East Wing of the White House.

The Speaker doesn't sound alarmed about a tax-payer funded quarter billion dollar payout directly to Trump's pocket.

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:

Jack Smith's devastating letter to Grassley. Latter's revelation—that Smith analyzed toll records of 8 US Senators—was disclosed in Smith's report, obvious from the indictment, & produced to Trump's attys who are now top DOJ officials. Trump did same to Swalwell, Schiff & 43 staffers during Trump I.

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do. Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.

Somewhere, a fact-checker is staring into a mirror and splashing water on their face, muttering, “come on; you got this.”

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

OK, I’ve finished marking up the per curiam opinion, and this is one of the worst opinions I’ve read this year. It gets some things just flat out wrong, it works overtime to only provide Trump-friendly facts, and it stretches Newsom (the CA NG 9th Cir opinion) to the breaking point.

Investígate peaceful political protests? And demonizing their “usual suspect — George Soros?” How very free speech. How very “right of the people peaceably to assemble.” How very not at all antisemitic.

Metaphors abound.

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Makes me worry about what they are going to do during the elections.

utterly depressing that Nixon-level scandals are now a normal Friday night news drop, barely remarked upon, just another day in Trump’s America