The NYT is reporting that Donald Trump is demanding $230 Million from the DOJ for past cases against him. That means...he's suing us. Because that's who would pay for it.

DOJ WHISTLEBLOWER: “I wouldn’t be abiding by my oath if I stayed silent right now.” 🇺🇸 He says Trump’s DOJ wanted him to lie (about Kilmar being a gang member & terrorist, etc…) — and fired him when he wouldn’t.

As part of Trump’s planned Reduction in Force (RIF) during the government shutdown, the Interior Department said it plans to lay off about 2,050 employees, including 272 from the National Park Service (NPS), 335 from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),

AZ AG Mayes: We have people in Arizona who are being actively harmed by Mike Johnson playing politics and apparently trying to protect the Epstein files. That’s not okay. We’re going to fight as hard as we can to put an end to it and to get Adelita Grijalva sworn in.

Went to Roosevelt Lake today. It was lovely even tho the visitor center and tonto monument were closed bc of the dipshit prezident’s govt shutdown.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

Some of the major terrorist Marxists in AZ today.

One of the best signs so far and those huddled masses that we're fighting for. No Kings

No Kings protests outside of the US were massive today. 👍🔥

#NoKings #Mesa, AZ.

Thousands of people lining the street in #Mesa #Arizona for #NoKings #FuckIce day of antifascism.

Massive crowd as thousands pack downtown Chicago for the No Kings rally and march. I’m here #OnAssignment for @blockclubchi.bsky.social

#NoKings #Tempe

#NoKings Miami!

South Korea: #NoKings! Thousands of people came to show support to the US democracy!

Heading out to join antifa.

“Arizona is considering suing for taxation without representation if you don’t seat Adelita Grijalva.” Speaker Johnson: *continues to cover for Pesophiles*

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Those Epstein files must be bad. #KY04

Good morning. An overnight court filings reveals discussions took place Wednesday over whether the Trump administration has violated a judge's order addressing the use of force in its Chicago immigration campaign. "The government believes the TRO has not been violated at all."

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor. “He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said. Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.” But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background. Don’t believe his lies for a second. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m. neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

105/N. Feds rammed a car that crashed into another, then a foot chase. Neighbors protested. Gas deployed by feds earlier today. Here's what they left behind. A thread of photos. #chicago

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition… We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

Mike Johnson is falsely generalizing the “No Kings” protestors as extremists to justify crackdowns. The truth is, they’re patriots. These protestors don’t “hate America.” They oppose an authoritarian president who tramples on the freedoms and principles America was founded on.

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

More like someone from his staff called and pretended to be the Nobel prize winner bc he’s that twisted.

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

Great

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning. A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2016...

They’re now publicly threatening a military crackdown of the No Kings protest.

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Help us all. Just listen and try not to poke your eardrums out from the sheer dumbfuckery.

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast. But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/

Michigan Avenue right now.

In the real world, Chicago voted best city 9 years in a row by Condé Nast readers.

Reverend David Black, other faith leaders, journalists, and protestors have joined a class action lawsuit alleging ICE violated their First Amendment rights during protests outside a detention center. The brutality of this regime is on full display.

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."