NEW: Democrats in the House and Senate announced plans for a wide-ranging investigation into immigration agents’ detention of citizens after a ProPublica story found that more than 170 Americans have been held by immigration officials this year. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

At least 170 U.S. citizens have already been detained by immigration agents, including children. There's no telling how far this Administration will go if Congress does not act.

New Yorker. By Paul Noth.

For all of us wondering what's next, after No Kings or wondering if there was some real impact, this video is for us. It will leave you as uplifted and encouraged as you were on Saturday, and it will nudge you and guide you about next steps. Please watch.

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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Rand Paul was the only Republican senator not invited to Trump’s luncheon at his new Rose Garden Club today. He said he had lunch with Thomas Massie instead. bsky.app/profile/blue...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings?” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

OPINION: "Proponents of vouchers call “choice” freedom, but real freedom is not abandoning public responsibility," Louise Smith writes. "It is building a society where every child, regardless of income or geography, can attend a great public school."

This metaphor is really, really on-the-nose.

Editorial: "When someone writes the political history of #Florida in the early 2020s, they will have to answer one burning question: What was it about drag queens that made politicians lose their ever-loving minds?" www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/19/e... via @orlandosentinel.com

Washington Post editorial board, 2 days ago: "The idea that Trump is easily swayed by Putin, let alone manipulated or controlled by him, does not hold water."

The paper edition doesn’t bother me so much for all these reasons. But the NYT started its coverage way later than all other news orgs, including daily papers, ran it smaller and much further down. And the pieces seemed half-asses and even precutting their thin coverage.

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Organizers say they expect millions of Americans will march this weekend against the policies of the Trump administration. The protests come amid National Guard deployments in several cities. Read More👉 ebx.sh/8VF5Q7

Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."

Clarity. As always, from @harrylitman.bsky.social

“Professing love for Hitler is more than anti-Semitic—it’s antihuman,” George Packer argues. The Young Republicans’ texts “degrade all of us”:

I know AI is a problem all around but can people just stop with the AI videos of animals? Animals are so fucking cool as it is, why not just post videos of actual animals?

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last" -Winston Churchill

Excited to inform you all that the Department of Homeland Security is currently attempting to ratio me (and failing, as of more than two hours later). With a heavy sigh, I repeat: bring back professionalism. For the love of god. You're running comms for the government of the USA. Act like it.

Newsletter: Anatomy of a crypto meltdown October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward. www.citationneeded.news/anatomy-of-a...

UPDATE: Justice Amy Coney Barrett has ordered Illinois officials to respond by Monday at 5PM ET, BUT she did not order the immediate administrative stay the Trump admin asked for. More w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social @shiakapos.bsky.social

TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡 #BeThere

Our enemy here is not Trump, says @ezralevin.bsky.social, one of the organizers of tomorrow's No Kings march: "our enemy is fatalism, nihilism and cynicism" www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/u...

"“Trump’s persistent use of hostile, often inflammatory language that normalizes aggressive discourse in conservative circles can be incredibly influential on young operatives who are still trying to figure out, ‘What is that political discourse?’” Jipson said."

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

Breakup of Ice - 1880 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9297

In the 10 years since the infamous Mexican rapists escalator ride, this is the first cohesive action by the national press corps to reject Trump access reporting. The first one! With democracy on the brink.

Trump went before Israel’s parliament and called for Netanyahu’s corruption charges (fraud, bribery, and breach of trust) to be dropped. Trump being corrupt in his own country isn’t enough, he’s attempting to export his values overseas, and they clearly don’t include democracy.

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

It's as if everything DeSantis does a court later finds is illegal

In Trump’s “MAGA Mandate” America, blue cities shine under forced serenity. The poor are “reeducated,” Neuralink chips turn vagrants into virtual patriots, and Fort Knox’s gold quietly vanishes into offshore “Patriot Purity Funds.” Utopia, one lobotomy at a time. open.substack.com/pub/normsmus...

Not a sign of insecurity! You‘re the one who’s insecure!

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Of all the pieces Mike Johnson hasn't seen, the Politico Young Republican Nazis piece he will have not seen the hardest.

a real water is wet scenario here

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.* You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

SHARKS ON HOVERBOARDS

my chatgpt wife says she's divorcing me unless I upgrade to the pro plan

This is not just funny, it's smart. We need more of this mockery that shows these thugs that we see their despicable fascism and give them the respect that they deserve.

Protest organizers are also recommending that you don't lean into antifa.

This is why I get so exasperated when people suggest SF written 50+ years ago as the place for new readers of the genre, especially young readers, to start with. There is SO MUCH that will throw them out of the work, from outdated tech to outdated social structures. They'll leave and not come back.

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

Among the reasons Americans risked it all to get rid of a tyrannical king: “He has obstructed the Admin of Justice…made Judges dependent on his Will…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…kept among us Standing Armies w/o legislatures’ Consent” www.americaamerica.news/p/what-we-sh...

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...” apnews.com/article/pope...