Camouflaged agents. Ziptying women and kids. In the middle of the night. Many were US citizens. This is Trump’s America—and next it could be YOU.

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Immergut wonders whether Trump's federalization of state National Guard troops in Oregon might mean the troops won't get paid because they've been federalized during a government shutdown.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Immigrants don’t get government health care—they subsidize ours.

“These lies are pissing me off,” said Senator @markwarner.bsky.social. “This isn’t about health care for undocumented immigrants—that’s already against the law. It’s about the fact that Republicans are intentionally skyrocketing your premiums.”

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

They’re lying. They’re dividing. They’re distracting. "Not only are undocumented immigrants not to blame for the administration’s shutdown, daily living costs are rising in part because the administration is busy attacking immigrant agricultural workers," writes @tusk81.bsky.social.

📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀: At a newly reopened ICE facility run by CoreCivic, detainees say conditions are “hell on earth” — overcrowding, filthy cells, denied medical care, threats of solitary confinement, and agents using aggressive force. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐎, 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐎𝐈𝐒: ICE arrested 4 people outside a homeless shelter in Bronzeville — showing up in 30–35 masked agents, unmarked SUVs, and no warrants, according to shelter leaders. #AbuseofPowerWatch

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Cruelty is the point with this lot. To their core.

No lie.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

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.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

A new @rooseveltinstitute.org report by @rfunkfordham.bsky.social empirically assesses the antidemocratic effects of Citizens United 15 years after it was decided. The findings speak for themselves: there is no place for big money in our political system. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

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

Groceries costing more? It’s not just inflation. "You can blame the admin's chaotic and destructive policies for the pain in your wallet," writes @tusk81.bsky.social These mass deportation raids are gutting the farmworker workforce, leaving crops unharvested, and prices soaring.

We need leaders who prioritize the actual needs of working families instead of wasting resources on a cruel deportation campaign.

The largest immigrant detention camp in U.S. history, Fort Bliss, has violated at least 60 federal standards. Detainees have been denied medical screenings, cut off from loved ones and attorneys, and even given meds without consent. This isn’t safety. It’s abuse. ✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social

"Go home." This is the message Corey Lewandowski, DHS Advisor, has for Bad Bunny's fans at the Super Bowl, promising ICE enforcement at the national event. This is the exact climate of fear that has led Bad Bunny and other artists to remove the U.S. from their world tours.

New: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement complied with a federal judge's order to release from custody 28-year-old Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago, a DACA recipient who has lived in the U.S. for two decades.

Repeating a lie over and over again doesn’t make it any more true. Yet that is exactly the message Trump and his allies in Congress are spewing to America in their ‘blame immigrants’ propaganda campaign about the shutdown.

📍 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐎, 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐎𝐈𝐒: Federal agents carried out a massive raid in a South Shore apartment building, detaining dozens — including residents with no criminal record. Tenants say officials gave little explanation, entered without warrants, and caused chaos at home. #AbuseofPowerWatch

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

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.’”

House Republicans are refusing to seat Dem Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election more than a week ago. She's the last signature needed to force a vote on the Epstein files. The soonest the GOP will act is Oct. 7. In three prior specials this year, the winners were all sworn in a day later.

NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

📍𝐋𝐎𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒, 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀: Cary López Alvarado — a U.S. citizen, 9 months pregnant — was violently restrained by masked deportation agents, slammed against a truck, and nearly went into premature labor. She’s one of several Americans now suing DHS for racial profiling and abuse. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: Immigration arrests, deportations, and removal hearings are expected to continue unabated even during a government shutdown. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍, 𝐃.𝐂.: “I was flagged simply because I’m not a natural-born citizen.” A 19-year-old Mexican-American student was singled out for extra screening at a White House tour despite dual citizenship. #AbuseofPowerWatch

Thank you, Ms. Goodall for showing the world the best we can be as humans. Rest in peace. #JaneGoodall

Trump to generals: "America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in any ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out."

Trump is targeting his political enemies for criminal prosecution, using law lackeys to do his dirty deeds. @preetbharara.bsky.social joins me for a deep dive on the grand jury process a la Comey, and for a reflection on just how dark our times have become for justice. youtu.be/oK-7wcexCT8?...

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

Karoline Leavitt now says the awful shooting of Mormons is "yet another targeted attack on Christians." The shooter appears to be a Trump voter. On the pod, @sarahposner.bsky.social smartly explains how this message is really aimed at Evangelicals for nefarious ends: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

This passage nearly broke me.

The Deputy Chief of Staff... is in charge of military strikes? Do we even have a president?

JUST IN: In declarations to the court, top officials in the Portland Police Bureau and the Oregon State Police say they really don't need federal/military assistance to contain the relatively minor protests they're seeing outside ICE facilities. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

The $170 billion in funding going to Miller’s agenda could build more than 7,000 new elementary schools, pay for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or fund the Head Start program for nearly 14 years: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly. Democracy won 🙌🏼

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Congrats to team Europe for winning the Ryder Cup. Historic and well deserved. Our fans were disgraceful. An embarrassment to the US team and the game of golf. No class, dignity or grace…just like their cult leader in the White House.

A recently-elected Democrat could deliver the tie-breaking vote to release the government’s files on alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. trib.al/xF0M50w That is, if House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t delay her swearing in—and it looks like he’s planning to.

Can't we just get healthcare

Just five media companies control 90% of our media market. But it’s not just media. In 75% of U.S. industries, fewer companies now control more of their markets than they did 20 years ago – leaving us vulnerable to higher prices and lower wages. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.