Texas proudly invading Illinois. It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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.

Indigenous nations plan tariff-free trade corridor across US-Canada border

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.” “That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause. thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Fascism in America will not stop unless we stop it and that means coming together in collective action to shift the paradigm and begin answering the material conditions that created this crisis. Seeing how this system works make it obvious. It will continue until we stop it.

Weiss's ascendance represents the need for the wealth class to continue moving rightward as capitalism requires fascism. Individuals like Klein are there to help moderate white liberals begin to accept that "necessity." That's how this whole thing works and has always worked.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

BREAKING: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked a federal judge Monday morning to block President Donald Trump from deploying 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Chicago alongside 300 members of the Illinois National Guard. @wttw.bsky.social

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms (like this one) to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

More than 800,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in California will be able to unionize under a bill that has now been signed into law. The law also requires the corporate giants to bargain with these workers in good faith.

The government said it was going to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda. Then it said Eswatini. But today, a DOJ attorney just told a federal judge that they haven't formalized a plan for removal yet. They apparently haven't even contacted Eswatini about the plan to remove Abrego there.

Trump canceled 94 million pounds of food aid. Roadrunner Food Bank in New Mexico — where the line starts forming before daylight — lost about 850,000 pounds. From @propublica.org: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

NYT: Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From Ghislaine Maxwell The court’s action ends Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction, meaning her only chance of an early release from prison is likely to be clemency from President Trump.

"the patterns in the primes" www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

mood

🧵 Colin Middleton (1910-83) was a Belfast painter who switched between Surrealism, Abstraction & Expressionism throughout his career. Thet’s explore the strange & fascinating images he made [1]

Tucker Carlson's content is to the 2020s what the National Enquirer or Weekly World News were to the 1980s. The difference is that those two publications were not algorithmically amplified by the world's richest man (the way X amplifies Tucker), and were taken seriously by neither political party.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

This is really nuts.

82nd Airborne! “Anthony Salisbury, a deputy to Stephen Miller, sent the texts over Signal while traveling in Minnesota & in clear view of others. Troubled by seeing sensitive military planning discussed openly, a source contacted the Star Tribune & allowed a reporter to review images of the texts.”

also introducing my grandfather Richard, otherwise known by many who loved and respected him as Dick Wright bsky.app/profile/actu...

Last night was watching a drama taking place in Vienna in the 1930s that includes a scene of Nazis dragging residents out of an apartment building in the middle of the night and I thought “oh that’s just like…”

she is an incurious bigot whose only talent is syncophancy, and i can only hope her fall is as meteoric as her rise, with an attendant crater at impact

CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation. Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.

"ICE has no regard for any human life." "I've seen ICE agents with fingers on their trigger, using real M16s and M9s, pointing them at people." "They're just trigger happy, and there is no trigger discipline." #Illinois #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

In Broadview, IL this morning outside Chicago— Federal agents have kidnapped hundreds of immigrants in recent weeks. Outside the ICE processing center here, protesters are gathered for another Friday morning demo. Last week's ended in tear gas and arrests. ICE vans periodically rolling in.

Telegram is still on the App Store after being linked to multiple mass shootings.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

this is as open an admission that an entire agency is engaging in routine constitutional violations that I can imagine

Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.

One day’s sales….that’s all it would take. Starbucks should do the right thing and support their hard working employees.

Fucking state sponsored terror

Strong #JournalismIsNotACrime rally today at Foley Square to protest ICE assaults on press and the prosecution of a photojournalist. Thread of photos to follow!

I knew, knew I had read something about finding away around this a month or two ago " The RECOURSE Act would let the state withhold payments to the federal government only after it withholds funding for New York programs. "

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Madrid, esta noche Gente en la calle protestando contra la interceptación por Israel de la flotilla que pretende romper el bloqueo de Gaza para acabar con el hambre provocada y las matanzas diarias

The Trump regime is dissolving the Union unilaterally, that's what these actions *are*—repudiation of the American constitutional order vis-a-vis federalism.

Italy’s largest union just announced a general strike in protest of the stoppage of the Sumud Flotilla!

Your TDAP shot protects you, but now importantly, it protects little babies.

Excellent op-ed today from Cassie Pritchard, on labor, the culture war, and the politics of effigy and domination www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

BREAKING: Workers at the Starbucks store that was the center of the “Charlie Kirk cup controversy” were thrown under the bus after Starbucks lied about their cup-writing policies to the press. Now, they’re organizing a union to protect each other and demand better!

Democrats, your messaging is pretty easy here. "Republicans control Congress, but they can't agree on a budget. And we won't support their proposal that would hurt so many people. Now Trump says he'll shut down the government, and cut benefits you depend on. We won't be part of it."

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

In the last two weeks these feds have choked & beaten protesters, broken bones, given people concussions from munitions, pointed their sidearms at people, tear gassed a neighborhood, shot reporters in the face, destroyed neighbors' property, threatened elected officials No National Guard necessary

“ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence.”

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

“No more climate change worship... We are done with that shit.” Hegseth announces he's going to ignore 40+ years of US defense and intelligence assessments on the real threat of #climatechange for international security and military operations and bases. Look here. www.gleick.com/blog/climate...

The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is tomorrow, Sept. 30.