Live from "war ravaged" Portland

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

Clarence Thomas likens old rulings that protect our rights to trains driven by monkeys.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

I understand bailing out farmers who suffered some sort of natural disaster or blight to their crops from a parasite, disease, etc. But that’s not what is happening. They can’t sell their abundant crops because of one man. Trump did it, he can pay the farmers out of his crypto.

They're going to try to overturn Obergefell and end marriage equality. Eyes wide open, folks. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

DHS with an unnecessary show of force in "war-ravaged Portland." 😡

Swalwell: It's an awful day for what's supposed to be a free country. This is a mad king picking off each of his political enemies.

Let’s spell this out. Trump fired a qualified U.S. attorney who refused to do his bidding and installed his own personal lawyer to punish a perceived opponent. Justice needs to follow the law, not politics. This is an attack on the rule of law. Full stop.

I honestly don’t care about James Comey. But I want to live in a democratic republic. His indictment proves we live in a banana republic, where the autocrat personally orders indictments of his political enemies, and when his own officials refuse he finds new ones that will.

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

Generational grift.

Being a House member since Mike Johnson became speaker is a pretty easy gig since he only has it in session about 18 days a year.

At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk. He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

The irony is that Trumpworld is obsessed with energy.

Democratic leaders have pushed back against the reported memo, saying they will not be intimidated by the threat of mass firings.

My wife and I were laughing last night thinking a great South Park Ep would be if the Rapture occurred, but it was the Devil Rapturing people. But then when they got there, he realized how terrible they were, too terrible for him even, so then he had to figure out how to send them back #SouthPark

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

This is what Ice is doing in front of the cameras, imagine what they’re doing when no one is filming

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

I'm in.

We need 15 million demonstrators to bring this event to the attention of our representatives and senators. Only then will they believe we as a nation deny them the ability to take away our constitution and our rights. Please pass on so as many people as possible can know they need to participate.

Lot of provocation from Russia lately. There have been Russian airspace violations in Poland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, and Romania - all in September.

Ha

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

NEW: When Mallory McMorrow conveyed her plans to run for Senate, DSCC asked her to hold off, per 3 sources. More calls, some staff level; same result. Per one source: “It was, ‘Can you wait a little longer, can you wait?’” McMorrow defied them and launched. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

We are stronger together and it’s together that we will take back our country through non-violent activism. All the folks in @cajunblue.bsky.social’s starter pack are activists in community with each other. Follow them and help grow our #resistance to tyranny. #DontBendYourKnee

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

Will this be the moment that wakes people up?

I call bullshit. They are just making shit up now and while we are at it there are legitimate questions about Tyler Robinson now as well. Starting with he didn't have a rifle when he went up the stairs to the roof and he didn't have one when he jumped off the roof.

Get ready for the biggest protest this country has ever seen! October 18th 12pm at Grant Park we will gather in peaceful solidarity to demand: No Thrones! No Crowns! No Kings! This event is organized by 50501 Chicago, @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social and other @chicago-cata.bsky.social members!

NEW: Ed Martin, the head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) vague weaponization task force, in a recent letter threatened to open a criminal investigation into a now-retired FBI special agent who sued the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over Jones’ lies about a mass school shooting.

Last night in LA… Nightmare fuel on a freeway wall.

@joancbaezofficial.bsky.social gives her advice on how to get over dictator phobia and protest Trump's war on democracy— of all people, Joan should know. ✌🏽 youtu.be/E_jNtTliRb8?...

#TheBestPeople @nicollewallace.bsky.social @joancbaezofficial.bsky.social “Unprecedented? Well, because that group of people would love to be unprecedented. I mean, at every turn, the next wave of horrors is unprecedented. So, get used to it and drop the word.”

The West has no unified vision on how to end Russia's war on Ukraine and what ending the war actually means.

Pritzker: "This is a person who thinks that his personal will should be imposed on the United States. That's not how it works."

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

Rachel Maddow wrote a book and made a podcast series titled "Bag Man" that was excellent and revealed a lot of the unseemly details of the Nixon/Agnew administration.

Talking streaming and Can Con right now on CBC's The Early Edition. Then waking you up with a Canadian gem. kd Lang with Constant Craving from 1992.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.