The hearing happened as ICE enforcement was reported across several Chicago neighborhoods, including Lincoln Park, Wicker Park and Ukrainian Village. trib.al/7zziVhQ

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

Virginia Giuffre’s ghostwriter disclosed that she possesses the full list of names from the Epstein files, backed by private recordings that substantiate the information. nypost.com/2025/10/22/u...

Pritzker on Fox on ICE agents: "The problem is, who's holding the bad ones accountable? Because the bad ones, frankly, are the ones we're seeing all the time."

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker established a commission to document abuses by federal agents carrying out President Trump’s Midway Blitz.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

Marc Benioff, Jensen Huang and other "friends" convinced Trump to cancel his San Francisco crackdown in a show of force for Big Tech.

Robert De Niro erupted on MSNBC, branding Trump aide Stephen Miller a “Nazi” and warning Trump won’t leave after 2029. “He will not want to go!” he declared, likening Miller to Goebbels and accusing him of betraying his own heritage. www.rawstory.com/robert-de-ni...

BREAKING: A federal appeals court in Chicago on Thursday denied the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay of a district judge’s order barring the president from deploying National Guard troops in the city and state.

Let this renewed threat against San Francisco be a warning to every community: Trump will not stop with L.A., Portland, D.C., or Chicago. Your city could be next. Using our servicemembers for law enforcement is illegal, and I'm prepared to do everything I can to block this threatened deployment.

I’m afraid for our men and women in uniform. There are no longer rules for engagement. Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?

Bring as many American flags to No Kings as you can.

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx. The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake. And that’s why we’re fighting back.

The ‘Peace President’ killed six more people off the coast of Venezuela this morning. We have no evidence other than his word that they were a threat to anyone, anywhere and also release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention in this matter!

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one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California. California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents. This anonymous denial of due process is deadly. 1/2

I sense a pardon on its way.

GREER: I think China realizes they've overstepped CNBC: You think they realize they overstepped? Their statement says 'if forced to fight, China will fight to the end'

Israel slashes aid to Gaza as Trump threatens to 'violently' disarm Hamas - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-slashes-aid-gaza-trump-says-threatens-violently-disarm-hamas

Ditto

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now. YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday. Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms. While you still can. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..." www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do. …getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired. …betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator. The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

Report: 88% of last year’s Ark. voucher recipients didn’t come from public schools arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

Thanks, New Yorker

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

some simple American truths 🎯

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

"I can’t shake the thought that one of our generals should have walked out of that room, resigned his commission, and delivered a speech warning about the peril facing the U.S. military. At least one senior leader must step away, speak plainly, and sound the alarm." open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

This is a great way to bleed more subscribers. Really, really sucks for the amazing journalists still at the Post to be surrounded by this chaos.

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

The AI economy comes to the Arkansas Delta  arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective… You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

I could not be prouder of the work my firm is doing to protect voting rights and voters from the current Department of Justice.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Minnesota Alliance for Retired Americans Educational Fund and a recently naturalized citizen and voter, my law firm has moved to intervene against a DOJ lawsuit seeking access to the state's voter registration data. www.democracydocket.com/cases/minnes...

Phang: So, as we can see you have a DHS official—you clearly hear him say on that body cam footage, “I am arresting the mayor. Even though he stepped out, I’m going to put him in cuffs.” Who told him to do it? He says: the Deputy Attorney General… And who’s that? Todd Blanche.

A TV talk show chatterbox elevated to Secretary of Defense talking about standards is an undiluted lack of self-awareness.

Republicans can’t win on their policies, so they are trying to dodge accountability by rewriting the rules. These lawmakers are going out of their way to silence the will of the people and deliberately undermine our democracy.

New Sierra Club report calls out AR utilities for not investing in more green energy arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...