A lot of people on here have been saying they didn't recognize the totenkopf design and fair enough. And I thought, well why do I know what that is? One reason may be that I was active duty for some of the same time Platner was, and they told us about it repeatedly

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...

ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers. "What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder. "The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back. Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it. They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

Border Patrol targeted construction/landscaping workers on the North Side — including Lincoln Park, an affluent, majority-white neighborhood. Community members gathered after agents detained a man working on a house. Agents responded by deploying gas. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/f...

Aw dude.

Photos taken on Thursday appeared to show that the Trump administration has not only torn down the East Wing, but the East Colonnade, which included a movie theater that has hosted screenings for decades. deadline.com/2025/10/trum...

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

"I think they are politically trying to block us from reaching the American audience," Basel Adra told Christiane Amanpour about his and co-director Yuval Abraham's Oscar-winning doc, No Other Land. www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/w...

Google has eliminated "a key program for boosting women in tech." www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...

Look at Jared when Witkoff admits “they’ve been working on the [Gaza] “masterplan” for 2 years”

Updating my LEGO White House

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.” Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

Multiple sources tell me numerous FBI agents showed up this week at Carswell, a women's federal prison in Texas. If you work or live there and know more about what prompted the visit, please reach out. You can DM here or if you prefer secure Signal find me at KeriB.123

Magaro joins the previously announced cast led by Rachel Brosnahan, Matthew Rhys, Courtney B. Vance, Fiona Shaw,+ Jack Reynor. The story centers on an ambitious defense attorney (Brosnahan) who takes on a high-profile case. deadline.com/2025/10/john...

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity. "We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes. Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Archdiocese of Chicago condemns Trump's immigration crackdown: "Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear—the church stands with migrants."

CBS has given a series order to Robert and Michelle King's legal drama Cupertino for the 2026-27 season. The series reunites the Kings with Mike Colter, who plays a lawyer who's been cheated out of his stock options by his former employer, a tech startup. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/c...

blessed to mostly be missing the 'well, he's not such a bad nazi' discourse

NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...

Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

I’m dropping this everywhere but we shouldn’t spread the lie that he didn’t know about the symbolism. He knew very well.

A new Idaho law makes it illegal for state and local governments, private businesses, employers, schools and daycares to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive any other “medical intervention.” ➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/4oz4JYj

🧵 Federal agents raided Family Night at La Catedral Arena in Wilder, Idaho. A community racetrack packed with families, food, and music. They came under the guise of “illegal betting.” What they unleashed was terror: children zip-tied, parents separated, and chaos erupting across a crowd of 1,000.

Outside 26 Federal Plaza protestors have gathered after a raid snatched up street vendors on Canal.

Feds revoke Dallas activist’s DACA status, detain him over social media posts: Yaa’kub Ira Vijandre was a fixture at Dallas-area pro-Palestine protests, filming with his camera. Now, he faces deportation over social media posts the govt claims glorify terrorism. www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

Federal agents many in masks at Broadway and Canal moments ago questioning a man, a bunch more agents just walked away. "Can i call my mom," the man asks, he's now being loaded into a car and being driven away. More TK @thecity.nyc

New York City – Manhattan's Chinatown. Around this part of Canal Street, there's a large amount of copycat/counterfeit merchandise hawked and sold. The photo shows a section of shuttered retail stores, just west of the intersection of Broadway and Canal, on the north side.

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

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

NEW: The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center is calling for an inspector general investigation into potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations in the office of border czar Tom Homan related to government contracting.

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...

"They don't understand that the people don't want the billionaires to pick who the next mayor is," Curtis Sliwa said in response to John Catsimatidis, his employer, and Sid Rosenberg, a longtime pal, urging him to drop his mayoral bid to boost Cuomo. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/20/t...

Will AI Take My Job? examined whether AI could outperform a variety of professionals, including a doctor, fashion photographer, and a lawyer. But in a twist not disclosed until the closing moments of the show, the female presenter was generated by a machine. deadline.com/2025/10/chan...

Caroline Palmer’s novel, “Workhorse,” emphasizes striving and grit in a debut set at a moment when glossy magazines were losing their cachet. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/b...

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Did you know there's an ICE detention site right here in NYC? In the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a federal jail in Sunset Park. I'll be here at the vigil, sharing about how to join the Dignity Not Detention campaign, to get New York State out of the business of caging immigrants!

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia on.ft.com/4ou3MjY

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23