Former chair of the Tennessee libertarian party 👇🏽

This is the guy who lied on the stand at a trial in LA, telling the jury he witnessed the defendant assault the ICE officer, when the video showed the ICE officer assault the defendant. The jury took an hour to acquit. He's referred to immigrants as "filth, trash, and scum."

hey Chicago if you are (understandably) nervous about confrontations with ICE find a street vendor and give what can they’re charging $5 for a tamale? Not for you, it’s $20 now

Agree this is a must read. It's also a gut punch: "I was the editor of Governing, a magazine & website covering state & local governments. But after facing increasing internal censorship pressures — largely to avoid critical coverage of President Donald Trump — I refused to go along, & I resigned.

People all over the country need to understand that federal agents are not in Chicago to prevent violence – they're in Chicago to cause violence.

No one besides gutter racists wants this

Much better!

Trump's thugs are terrorizing Chicago. This sick persecution will come to all corners of this country if we don't rise up and defeat the fascists. Get active now, while you can.

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

A white nationalist government rises to power and the fact is barely acknowledged by the media except to suggest Democrats should shut up about racial justice.

If you‘re wondering why the U.S. is in an attack posture in Latin America, note that Venezuela has the world’s largest known oil reserves. Trump likes to grab things, whether it’s women’s private parts on airplanes, classified records at the White House or other countries’ natural resources.

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

Things like this keep happening.

BREAKING: Jack Smith is requesting that Congress and the Justice Dept. let him testify in public. In new letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Smith says he wants to testify "in open hearings" because of "the many mischaracterizations" around his investigations.

I’ve posted about the Epstein files every day for many months, I write about the Epstein files every day, and we talk about the Epstein files every week on the pod. And I won’t stop until the full, unredacted (except for victim/witness info) files have been released.

"The White House also has not said how much of his own money Trump is contributing." He is extorting money from companies & is stealing from other government departments. Can't afford to pay for Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, but we can pay for Noem's new jets & a new ballroom....

So Rand Paul gets it.

If only people saw racism as disqualifying for leadership. This is my plea for “efficiency.” www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

"budgetary twister" is yet anther all-time first-ballot hall of fame euphemism

If one of your Senators is one of the four (Thune, Scott, Lankford, and Johnson) who has come out v Ingrassia for his Nazi views, you might call and ask when they're going to call out Stephen Miller, who is also a white nationalist, but who also serves as a gatekeeper to what Trump thinks is true.

Every day it amazes me that reporters who have been lied to for a decade hear something new from the liar and pretend to their audience that he might be telling the truth this time.

Reminder that we have a rogue president who disregards his oath of office, is an enemy of the Constitution, orders the murder of foreign nationals, and has partially demolished the White House.

Via @klasfeldreports.com, George Santos may not be done with the criminal justice system.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

This is the most positive take I can muster.

"Platner’s highest-profile supporter, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is sticking with him, even as a new controversy emerged in the form of a tattoo that’s been linked to antisemitism." "BEEN LINKED TO ANTISEMITISM???" The Totenkopf was used by the 3rd SS Panzer Division of the Waffen-SS.

I do know about this. Shocker: Trump is nuts.

NEW: Trump is going to steal $230M in taxpayer dollars by having his DOJ pay him a settlement for his legal trouble. Watch. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

Alt headline: Houthi Lindsey Small Group

Keep going AB! A hit dog hollers!

@gaylepb.bsky.social @bluehairypie.bsky.social

Survivors of domestic violence who went to prison for crimes related to their abuse have for years asked California lawmakers to make courts take that abuse into consideration. For the third year, California killed such a reform.

This is a very smart and important point. Talk to the people around you.

The judge wrote that school libraries are “loci of intellectual freedom,” and emphasized that students must be free to “inquire, to study and to evaluate, to gain new maturity and understanding.” www.advocate.com/news/pentago...

Please come out to support Rumeysa Ozturk tomorrow, Tuesday, October 21, 8:30 AM at the JFK Federal Building in Boston. This is Rumeysa’s hearing to try to restore her right to work. #Tufts #RumeysaOzturk #indivisible #ICE

I really needed a good laugh too.

And really that says it all.

The Trumpers who drove past our protest looked taken aback, for sure.

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2/2 In the "before times" category: Tabloid news made it a several-day item when young J Carter WH staffers called in for a late-night weekend shift (incl me), showed up at the office w blue jeans. Always wore a jacket and tie, even on all-nighters, after that. Now: POTUS diarrhea from a plane.

Welp.

They were right. We, in 2016, were right. In 2024, we were right. And now Bari Weiss is sitting atop the media hierarchy. And we’re still right.

Civil rights advocates in Maine are warning that Question 1, a ballot measure that would require voter ID and restrict mail voting, could block incarcerated peoples’ right to vote. Maine is one of two states to allow people to vote from prison.

Really good overview from @imillhiser.bsky.social of the paths to accountability for ICE in court—and how the Supreme Court has blocked off some (but not all) of them. I may be slightly more optimistic than Ian that the Federal Tort Claims Act remains a viable option. www.vox.com/politics/464...