Don't look away, America. This is your country now.

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

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A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

Now we're seeing confirmation of the NSO acquisition. Mark my words, this is the path through which Pegasus gets put on Americans iPhones & Androids. This dictatorship-in-a-box belongs nowhere near our constitutional rights.

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.

Love it.

The Nobel committee has an easy out here. Just tell Trump he “won” the Nobel Prize, send him a gold foil wrapped chocolate “Nobel” medal, and quietly give the actual prize to literally anyone else. He won’t care as long as he can show the thing off to foreign leaders in the Oval Office.

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

The Furries coming out en-mass to save our democracy was not on my 2025 bingo card, but I’m here for it.

"He has 100s of 1000s of Arabs' blood on his hands. Tony Blair should be heading to The Hague, not to Gaza." What I told Piers Morgan on his show this week, about the ludicrous and colonial plan to have Blair help Trump run Gaza. Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmdm...

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Mass chaos. Fires blazing. Complete public disorder. Meanwhile, in Portland.

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Dr Oz: "Some of the reasons that premiums are going up is because if you take people who didn't know they had insurance and therefore never put in any claims off the rolls, then you still have people who are charging enough to make up the difference. But I do think there are criminal elements."

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

The White House said Trump "authorized" the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard members, after vowing to send troops into Chicago. Meanwhile, Guard members arrived in Oregon from California.

I’m anti-fascist. Are you? ✋

The courts won’t save us. Trump Administration Live Updates: California National Guard Sent to Oregon, Newsom Says www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.

I waited to post this until I had permission from the writer. This is real and it's frightening. The blood running through the veins/arteries of the monsters in the R' party/Project 2025/Russell Vought has been replaced with cruelty and evil. 😡🤬😭

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

So, this isn’t about the US (and I suspect it’s intentionally phrased to make people like me share the link — so i shall not). But, I think it says something that I did have to actually check to see if this was about this president. It’s crazy. But… not that crazy anymore.

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.

These people want any excuse available to abuse women.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

This is disgusting.

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If you missed out on the hardcover for @rob-sheridan.com’s glitch art book, there’ll be 75 more hardcover copies on Tuesday 10/7! I barely made it in for one of the 200 signed hardcovers, so it’ll go fast. But softcover is still available too!

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans. U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties. Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed. This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda. It was always about cruelty.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

We’re taking to the streets across the nation on October 18 to protest the Trump administration’s abuse of executive power. Join us on October 6 at 8pm ET to make sure you’re prepared to protest safely. RSVP at aclu.org/KYRtraining_oct6

This. I voted for this guy every opportunity I’ve had. Honestly, never used to consider myself a socialist, just liked Medicare for all. But man… these days Bernie almost seems too centrist for me. Still. This.

Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time? BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right

Just astounding. The reason they can shove through 100 Trump nominees at once is because the GOP changed the rules to eliminate the 60-vote requirement. Something they won’t do to fund the government. Yet they blame Dems.

This is called Treason. Full stop. Deployment of troops against American citizens is an act of war. The constitution demands their immediate removal.

On Saturday, September 27, US Air Force veteran Dana Briggs was arrested outside of the Broadview ICE detention facility. He is being charged with assaulting a federal officer, which is a felony.

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

It was an extraordinary week. The slumbering giant of America is awakening. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-7f6

If you were in the room during Hegseth and Trump's speech, and you'd like to share your response anonymously, reach out to me on Signal (in bio.) Share widely.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.