Trump and the right wing bullshit machine working in high gear to motivate and justify a (potentially violent) federal response to unrest that is largely a figment of their imagination and (where it is real) a reaction to federal agitation. A vicious, intentional, and intensifying cycle.

ProPublica and @theassemblync.bsky.social found that in some North Carolina counties, homeowners with the highest incomes received two to three times as much FEMA housing assistance as those with lower incomes after Hurricane Helene. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and Ren Larson

President Donald Trump and other high-ranking Republicans claim Democrats forced the government shutdown fight because they want to give free health care to immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Here’s a closer look at the facts:

i personally prefer not to marinate in bot driven hate speech & science denial journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... and i hope bsky does not succumb to the forces that degraded most maybe all other social networks

Sue him.

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Exclusive: The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits.

Alongside @404media.co, we sued DHS demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE. We believe it’s important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement.

The regime’s playbook: Launch militarized raids in America’s cities to provoke a reaction. Then claim the reaction is insurrection to justify even more authoritarian action. The regime is using state-sanctioned violence to create a crisis. There is no justification for violence by anyone.

Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

Nothing says America First like bailing out Argentina while making healthcare unaffordable for 20+ million Americans. Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies. Folks, I think America First might be a scam.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Whenever Trump and Republicans talked about waste, fraud, and abuse, it was always projection. Donald Trump's government is the most wasteful, fraudulent, and corrupt administration in American history. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

ATTN PA VOTERS Beware of the false and misleading mailer sent by the PA GOP and a conservative PAC funded by none other than the super wealthy Jeff Yass. VOTE YES TO RETAIN PA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/09...

The National Security Agency ‘expedited’ a FOIA request — then took 1,827 days to process it. The Defense Department ‘expedited’ another — it took 1,119 days. Now, Trump wants requesters to pay $50k if a court expedites a FOIA lawsuit? No way.

A senior White House official inadvertently revealed that the Trump administration was considering sending an elite army strike force into Portland after using Signal in a public place.

🚨 BREAKING News: Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected immigration status for thousands of Venezuelans The Trump administration is trying to revoke a Biden-era policy that extended protections to thousands of Venezuelans. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Did you know that your healthcare premiums are about to double because the GOP is intentionally sabotaging the Affordable Care Act and pretending that Democrats are trying to give undocumented immigrants free insurance?

The Department of Homeland Security just featured a mascot associated with Neo Nazis in a video promoting mass deportation. #DHS talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...

Russ Vought is turning the Office of Management and Budget into DOGE 2.0, while blaming Democrats for the cuts. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/wTb4xfY

With the government shut down and no resolution in sight, a critical nutrition program that serves as a lifeline for nearly seven million low-income mothers—and roughly 41% of all infants in the United States—may soon run out of funding. Read the story: trib.al/oFJGggs

Republicans have “demands” too - increase health care costs for Americans and fund Trump’s lawlessness.

White House Struggling to Deny Stephen Miller Murdered Boats of Fisherman www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/03/w...

"Christianity has morphed into an identity group, untethered from much Christian teaching. It has become another tribal association jockeying for power and pursuing grievances. The problem is when religions devolve into identitarian movements, bad things happen." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Trump thinks our public treasures are his www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

The GOP health care for immigrants lie is an old one. Here’s me six years ago:

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

It did happen here: @vermontgmg.bsky.social compares the Kavanaugh Raids to the Palmer Raids. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_...

I've been waiting for a good voice to pick up the Argentina/Soybean scandal. Dan Osborn now has. www.centralnebraskatoday.com/2025/10/02/d...

> @deanbaker13.bsky.social

A judge has recused from hearing the Portland troops case because his wife is a Democratic Congresswoman -- even though it is not "required under either federal law or the [judicial] Code of Conduct." The new judge was appointed by Trump. We have a legal system with two different sets of rules.

Someone suggested we call these attacks on civilians "Kavanaugh stops." Because after a brief questioning you're free to go, right?

How does the White House respond to the gathering economic storm clouds? By firing potentially tens of thousands of federal workers and pulling the plug on a host of already funded and half-finished development projects! www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-sho...

Lawrence O’Donnell takes down the pathetic journos at the NYT, who continue to sane wash and paper over the depraved insanity of the president and his corrupt, lawless enablers

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

A week after her win in Arizona, @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social still has not been sworn in by Speaker Johnson

Fact-check: Most of the goons in Trump's deportation army aren't even ICE agents. Only about 13% of the personnel carrying out Trump’s deportation agenda are employed by ICE’s primary deportation unit; the rest are pulled from other jobs. Check out the full report: tinyurl.com/yvavwh4f

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.” (Pub. Oct. 2024)

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

SUPREME COURT: HOW is any of Project 2025 LEGAL? Will you use the CONSTITUTION TO MAKE DECISIONS ANYMORE, or are you just going to keep fast-tracking TRUMP to HIS DICTATORSHIP by granting his EMERGENCY "shadow" DOCKETS? (Green dots show all of the ones each administration has won!)

The death of the premature baby born after their mother contracted measles highlights the danger of more and more people refusing vaccines. An individual is contagious 4 days before the rash appears. Imagine a child with measles at a daycare full of babies too young to be vaccinated.