Portland's downtown Pioneer Square at 4pm. It's a living hell. Most lunchtime food carts closed. Starbucks out of breakfast croissants. Musician playing ambient techno won't take requests.

Very nice piece from my colleague @stevevladeck.bsky.social in today's Times on the illegality of Trump's troop deployments to American cities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Trump and his valet at the Defense Department, Secretary of Physical Training Pete Hegseth, are now making a dedicated run at turning the men and women of the armed forces into Trump’s personal and partisan army. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Congrats to Jonathan Choe on grifting his way into the room where the fascism happens.

Yet another incident that would’ve gotten any other president immediately impeached that is only the 127th worst thing Trump has done in 2025.

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.” … but what is plenary authority?

@schiff.senate.gov v Bondi, and he's got all the cards, to coin a phrase. What a mess we're in.

Ok, this is just funny. isportlandburning.com

Very good point. MAGA propaganda would have a better chance of succeeding without the efforts of on the ground journos on this:

AOC: Stephen Miller “looks like he's 4'10”. He looks like he's angry about the fact he's 4'10”.” @aoc.bsky.social

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

If I Ran the Media™ Fewer stories on: —How Dems Need to Change Their Messaging —How [event xx] Will Play w [voter bloc YY] —How 2028 Field Is Shaping Up More of: —Which points of resistance are actually working —What specifically GOP Reps/Sens are so afraid of —Real-world tariff/immig effects —ETC

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago. ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

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

Last week Jesse Watters spoke to man named Eric who claimed he was formerly a member of antifa. Two years ago Watters interviewed Ramon "Mundo" Mendoza, a former Mexican Mafia member. Some folks thought the men looked similar. This is a side by side comparison. 🤷‍♀️

When there is no one left to invade, we’ll invade ourselves.

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

FACT CHECK: "The program financing ER care for illegal immigrants has been around for four decades, and not even Trump wants to take it away." @citizencohn.bsky.social with his latest Breakdown, only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/government...

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism. I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

This is fascism.

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true-- ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!

Trump's CEA is circulating its estimate of the economic cost of the government shutdown. But, BREAKING: It's wrong. It makes a simple arithmetic error. And it's dishonest. Surprising, I know. 🧵

It's worth asking how differently things might look on the ground right now if #SCOTUS hadn't eviscerated Bivens—and made it all-but impossible to bring damages suits against federal officers (like ICE agents) who violate our constitutional rights. This is from my rebuttal in Hernández v. Mesa:

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

"No president in recent memory—and likely no president ever—has prompted more discussion about his mental stability and connection with reality." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

If a Hatch Act violation takes place in a forest, but the Office of Special Counsel is vacant, did the violation actually occur?

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Imagine under a Bernie Sanders admin, Congressional Rs and Ds agreed to give a 5% increase to DOD in exchange for big boosts to housing and nutrition. And then Bernie decided to just illegally ignore it and actually cut defense 10%. That’s what Trump is doing. How can you make a deal under that?

You know Trump's long list of obvious and likely misdeeds. It's time for actual investigations. www.thebulwark.com/p/state-comm...

Sending thoughts & prayers to the war-ravaged city of Portland, Oregon now under siege from attack by Antifa & other domestic terrorists. Take solace in dear leader's words: "Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen." (and "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL"). Let the healing begin...

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"I'm not saying [the Michigan church shooter] was motivated by his support for Trump or that he's a rightwing terrorist. I'm just saying by the rules established by the right... they're responsible for this shooting in Michigan, per their own logic." - me, today Full show: zeteo.com/p/the-suspec...

Someone is leaking key parts of the FBI's pipe bomb investigation, things that if authentic are big. Have long suspected the RNC bomb was placed or at least moved on Jan 6. It was in too prominent a place to be overlooked, then found at too convenient a time (or rather, just minutes too early). 1/

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"Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary" @juddlegum.bsky.social for @popular.info

Too funny

Must-read column by @tilleckert.com: I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal.