I've protested ICE at the Broadview facility while Kat Abughazalah protested, as did literally hundreds, if not thousands of more peaceful protestors. To charge Kat with federal conspiracy, which carries up to 6 years in prison, for PEACEFULLY PROTESTING is an absurdly reckless attack on the 1A.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

Since January there have been two distinct masked, armed gangs terrorizing America’s streets: ICE & the Border Patrol. Last night, the Border Patrol’s most aggressive commander effectively seized control of ICE. ICE, it turns out, wasn’t aggressive *enough*. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/think-ice-...

The $230 Million Theft in Broad Daylight open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.

"And as millions face the prospect of starving, the president is obsessed over the fun minutiae of party-planning... Trump has spoken to senior administration officials about the idea of putting his name or image (like a bust) in the ballroom." - @swin24.bsky.social

ICE agents terrorizing our communities, dragging elderly people out of their cars, mothers disappeared from their asylum hearings, teens harassed for not having ID while riding their bikes… It’s still not enough for Trump. He wants more Blackhawks and kids hauled out of bed and citizens arrested.

Why would a kid on a bike need an ID?

This is really something! A federal appeals court, which recently ruled 2-1 (both Trump judges) to stop a lower court block on Trump deploying the National Guard to Portland, has stayed its own order after finding a "material factual error" in the regime's argument. lawandcrime.com/high-profile...

That's the authoritarian dream

Angus: Canada is reconsidering that relationship with China. Why? Because we can no longer trust the US. And we know that we have 150, maybe more, Canadians in custody at ICE detention centers. We had two Canadians under Chinese custody and it caused a huge outcry. We now have over 150 in the US.

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

I’d love to hear from #McCrery and #AECOM about how they feel about helping Trump with his despotic aspirations, and specifically about him publicly lying about the demolition of the #EastWing that was part of their project.

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

Thank you BBC for this article! It’s a great, succinct explainer on the review process for WH renos. TL;DR: WH, Capitol, SCOTUS are exempt from review process, but past presidents have done it voluntarily. This was another “norm” violation. (Do any laws actually apply to him?)

#Trump ’s vision for the #WhiteHouse is like one of those ugly McMansions that has a garage that is bigger and more prominent than the rest of the house.

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

Good: Jamie Raskin tells me he's formally demanding any/all internal communications between WH and DOJ on Trump's $230 million payoff. More Dems should talk this way about Trump's criming. He's turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2021...

The full East Wing of the White House will be torn down to make way for President Donald Trump's new ballroom, contradicting the former New York real estate magnate's pledge that the project would not interfere with the existing US landmark reut.rs/4qGJLIX 1/6

"The longer you are in an authoritarian state, it becomes more and more entrenched. And so we have to fight it in every possible way." Thank you @merkley.senate.gov for ringing the alarm bells and calling on us all to unite and fight back to defend our democracy 🔔🔔🔔

The Home Depot continues to allow ICE to terrorize the communities they pretend to serve. Let’s show them the same kindness we did to target! use the website boycotthomedepot.network and the toolkit at bit.ly/boycotthomed... to spread the word!

Everything happening in the U.S. now is easier to understand when you stop thinking a political party took power and realize instead that an organized crime ring did.

The #ImbibeAndBribeBallroom, because no one wants to check their bags full of money and classified docs on a flight to Lauderdale.

“Trump’s plan to add an expansive ballroom to the White House will mean the demolition of the entire East Wing, which was expected to be fully torn down by this weekend, according to a senior administration official. Mr. Trump had pledged that the East Wing would not be touched by the construction.”

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."

COLLINS: The NYT is reporting your legal team is seeking $230 million from your own DOJ now in response to the investigations into you. Is that something you want? TRUMP: It could be, yeah. I don't even talk to them about it. All I know is they would owe me a lot of money. They rigged the election.

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

MAGA attempts to discredit #NoKings attendees as all being old. Consider: Older people are dismissed as irrelevant. Young adults are dismissed as uninformed. Middle-aged people are told to “get a job”, and if they bring their kids, they are “indoctrinating” them. There is no legitimate protestor.

Breathtaking incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Millions of Americans… turned out across the USA…to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an administration apparently bent on replacing that democracy with a dictatorship - by Heather Cox Richardson open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

If you’ve never been to a protest like “No Kings” and worry it will be a downer or a bore, I’m here to tell you it’s fun and inspiring. It will make you feel better about people, and we need that after seeing all those MAGA thugs and liars on the news. You are not alone. Get your ass out there!

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

Today at Detroit Metro Airport.

“Trumpism is an attempt to make the world a playground for the rich and ruthless, so it seeks to dissolve the sinews of moral and legal restraint that make civilization decent”. David Brooks Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A US citizen in Chicago was kidnapped by Border Patrol and dumped on the streets half a mile away. EVEN THOUGH HE WAS FILMING IT. They do not care about getting caught. They have no fear of accountability.

#NoKings Be there, and bring a friend!

What a lede (!): “When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn't be concerned. But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced. …”

🧵🧊✈️ THU 16 OCT 2025 – PART 2 🤨 HONDURAS⛓️🇭🇳 👉 A GlobalX Airbus 321 (tail: N520FL) has departed Louisiana on an ICE mission to San Pedro Sula, Honduras 👀

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

#NoKings Poster

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting. JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.