ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits and deaths in custody mount. Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.

one category of show prep material for TRMS staff is something we've always called "subway reading". it's something that's not exactly current events or new reporting... but nevertheless relevant food for thought given the news we're in. today's subway reading: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Speaker Johnson now signaling the House will remain out of session next week, the fifth recess week in a row

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring. Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

5 more of the thousands of reasons to protest this administration tomorrow! www.nokings.org

i thought Ezra Levin, one of the organizers of the No Kings gatherings, made such an important profound point yesterday. He said, "Our enemy here is not Trump, our enemy is fatalism and nihilism and cynicism." Once you give up your power, the authoritarian wins.

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

While Trump and his goons aren't afraid to break the law, it's up to the media to report the facts and hold this regime accountable. I sit down with Matthew Dowd to discuss the loss of trust in the media and how it lets Trump do as he pleases. Watch here: youtu.be/iiXhEQW_U6M

Mike Johnson is covering up for pedophiles. I won't stop saying it.

Why is the Vice President of the United States so insistent on defending this inexcusable, vile behavior?

Donald Trump and JD Vance can find money to launch missiles over the I-5 during a government shutdown, but not a dime for Americans’ health care.

The vice president of the United States is a clownish dipshit, Exhibit 64,532

Huh...?? 'Trump-Syndrome' spreading amongst GOP lawmakers.

Another victory in our partnership with CHP combating retail theft across our state. Grateful to the CHP Southern Division officers who made this recovery happen.

Asked by Kristen Welker on Meet the Press this morning whether the White House was seriously considering invoking the Insurrection Act, Vice President Vance said, "The president is looking at all his options."

“I’m trying to put this delicately,” Perry said. “There has been evidence submitted that the very presence of federal agents, that the way they’re interacting with the populace, is itself the cause of violence.” { gift article } wapo.st/4nJP5sQ

Appalling: JB Pritzker tells me he hasn't been able to get a single conversation with Kristi Noem or any other top Trump officials to even discuss their Chicago operations. Pritzker just wants a heads up for logistical purposes. Nada. Pritzker opens up on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Apropos of nothing in particular this morning, I've been told that, in essence, there are two things that physicians can't do at the White House medical unit: MRIs and surgeries. Virtually anything else can be done there if you have to or want to.

"Trump officials laugh behind closed doors at those of us who try to lead lives of compassion and empathy. Trump could care less about his own voters, and doesn’t respect them" ihttps://open.substack.com/pub/matthewdowd/p/demanding-leaders-with-a-soft-touch?r=130087&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The simple truth is that Trump is a criminal. Now he and his accomplices are back in power, and they’re using that power to smear the honest agents and prosecutors who investigated them. www.thebulwark.com/p/bondi-host...

The detail that two different states, a red and a blue state, are being pitted against each by the president is only one aspect of how dangerous this all is. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Jersey, did you know Trump is targeting our state? Delaying funding for the Hudson Tunnel Project, which is a vital part of the project to double rail capacity between New Jersey and New York City. Stopping these funds, is illegal and completely unacceptable.

"El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who attended the meeting, said Chicago-born Pope Leo was visibly moved after being handed dozens of letters from immigrants describing their fears of arrest and separation under Trump’s enforcement policies..." www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...

As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

The structure and kind of people that enabled Epstein to do what he did while everyone knew what was going on, is exactly the same structure and kind of people around Trump who enable and embolden him to do incredible damage to our country and the world.

Justice department folks undermining justice. GOP women setting back women. "Christians" corrupting christianity. FBI ruining intelligence/public safety. Defense officials being offensive. Health department destroying our health. Education officials ruining education. This is Trump & the GOP.

Pete Hegseth was busy ignoring his job and doing pushups as part of a show for the Guinness Book of World Records while Illinoisans are being invaded by Trump’s military troops.

LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE DESPERATELY RUNNING 26 MILES, 385 YARDS TO ESCAPE A WAR ZONE

Rodrick Johnson, a U.S. citizen who was briefly detained, said agents broke through his door and placed him in zip ties. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer,” the 67-year-old told the Chicago Sun-Times. “They never brought one.” https://to.pbs.org/4pWhXzN

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..." apnews.com/article/chic...

Israeli and Hamas officials launched indirect talks Monday at an Egyptian resort on a U.S.-drafted peace plan to end the ruinous war in Gaza on the eve of its second anniversary. https://to.pbs.org/4nOrrve

Donald Trump and Kristi Noem are using every lever to provoke our communities and incite chaos. If Trump and Noem wanted to help Illinoisans, they would work with us — not against us — to protect public safety.

Activists detained while trying to reach Gaza by sea have complained of mistreatment by Israeli guards.

All of these excesses can be reined in, if not entirely eliminated, by Congress—or at least by a Congress not under Donald Trump’s thumb. All it needs is the wisdom to recognize its own crucial role in creating this problem.

BREAKING: We just won in court — again. A federal judge BLOCKED Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to DEPLOY 300 OF OUR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO PORTLAND.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

The public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Though Trump has historic lows on approval for a President at this point in his second term overall, white evangelical christians today give him a 72% approval. They don't care that he lies all the time, that he was mixed up with Epstein, that he bashes immigrants, and never goes to church.

Oh the hypocrisy 🙄 … and Jesus wept.

Some times in America we have the exact right President in office to lead in crucial moments (i.e. Lincoln). But at other times we have the exact wrong President in office (i.e. Andrew Johnson). Today we have the worst President in our history in office at a most crucial moment.