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🚨 Oral arguments today at SCOTUS: A Christian therapist is challenging Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors — even though she doesn’t practice or plan to. FFRF’s brief urges the Court to dismiss this manufactured case: no harm, no standing, no case. slate.com/news-and-pol...

ICYMI: Sam Osterhout went live with @pamhemphill53.bsky.social for her first hand account of the violent clashes between law enforcement and protesters in Portland. Watch, now! www.lincolnsquare.media/p/whos-stirr...

Chelsea White’s husband was kidnapped by ICE right in front of her at a traffic stop and was disappeared and deported to Mexico. Trump is separating families like hers.

This is literally the only interpretation of these things. Rs could end this in whatever time it takes to do a voice vote in both houses, but they chose not to (because they don't have the votes). None of that is the responsibility of the Dems to fix.

No self-respecting reporter or news organization should misinform the public by referring to government agencies and officials by their pretend names and titles to humor, placate or curry favor with those in power.

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

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement. Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Notable opinion here. Should be obvious to all, but apparently is not.

The Trump administration has weaponized the federal government in an attempt to intimidate their political opponents. But there is one group they can’t silence: THE PEOPLE. On 10/18, we will reject their corruption by saying: No Thrones. No Crowns. NO KINGS: hrc.im/Volunteer

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NEW: A 20-year federal prosecutor, fired abruptly this week even as he lead case against Abbey Gate bomber, warns his colleagues: the Trump administration is sacrificing national security to purge Trump's perceived adversaries. w/ @dnlbrns www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need. Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries. projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

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...

Odd fingers and faces in the crowd of a recent Will Smith concert video led to suspicions of AI. But AI is improving fast, and there are serious implications for how "fake" crowds might be coopted.

Who said it? "There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it."

NEW: I created this reference list of all known third-country removals since Trump's inauguration. It's a lot more than you probably think, and there are likely more we don't know about. Bookmark this, I will be updating it as more occur. hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...

Last year, when @propublica.org published 14 hours of Project 2025 training videos, Trump was still denying any connection to PJ2025. But we pointed out that 29 of the 36 speakers in these clips had already worked for Trump in some capacity:

URGENT: Write a letter to your lawmakers using our action center tool telling them to vocally oppose journalist Mario Guevara's deportation and to do so quickly. Guevara could be kicked out of the country as early as TODAY. He is legally authorized to work here and is not charged with any crime.

Trump would strongly disapprove of this.

Go watch (or rewatch) "Children of Men" -- excellent movie.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

🚨 LIVE FROM TEXAS: Democracy Docket is reporting from El Paso as a federal court decides whether Texas can use its new congressional map in next year’s election. At stake is minority communities’ voting strength – and perhaps the balance of power in Congress.

A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.

Go Jen @ DD! www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Hard to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when you're in charge of all 3 branches of government, plus the Supreme Court.

Republicans control the House, Senate, and the White House. And now they’re using YOUR taxpayer dollars to try and shift blame. This is a REPUBLICAN shutdown. Democrats are ready to negotiate whenever they decide to govern. www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

Seems to me that things like this that are taxpayer/charity funded should have openly developed generics available to all within a very short period of time, like 30 days at most.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

October 18, 2025. Bring flowers. Sing songs. Flood the streets. Nonviolent resistance is the best path forward.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Whoah!! Check out Republican lies about “illegals.” But: Medicaid—must be lawfully in U.S. Medicare—must be lawfully in U.S. ACA benefits—must be lawfully in U.S. So why the lie? To change the topic from what they’ve done to health care.

Anna Bower should really put a warning at the top of these videos: "WARNING - MAY CAUSE BRAIN DEATH" I swear to you, don't watch them. I think I lost 25% of the vision in my left eye, and my 3rd toe suddenly turned blue. Things might start falling off me. DON'T WATCH THESE

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Michigan Alliance for Retired Americans and two voters, my law firm has filed a motion to intervene in the DOJ's lawsuit seeking Michigan’s complete, unredacted voter registration list. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

They control the House, Senate, and White House. A shutdown is their doing, but House Republicans aren’t even at the Capitol! Here are the facts: 🧵

We simply cannot trust Trump and Republicans to stick to their word on funding agreements. Democrats have kept our promises. But Trump is clawing back funding that has already been appropriated. They have no intention to negotiate in good faith or follow the law.

Why would a President deploy the military against his own citizens? The talk-show hosts running our military are panicking— willing to escalate tensions in unconstitutional, dangerous ways to push their radical agenda. This is un-American, and every patriot must call it out as authoritarianism.

SOUND UP - ALL THE WAY! Wait, don't your earbuds go up to eleven?

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

"Now is the time for all good Americans to come to the aid of their US Constitution."

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

I wish I could see how many military leaders there have mastered their extensive training in Advanced Pokerface.