ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious. Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.” “That sounds terrible.” “What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

Surely Whip Emmer called everyone who stormed the Capitol on January 6th a terrorist 🧐🧐

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

You should not control a nuclear arsenal if you cannot tell the difference between fiction and reality. The story needs to be told through the lens of mental illness

EXCLUSIVE: Key Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia was accused of sexually harassing a lower-ranking colleague, according to administration officials. Fearing retaliation, the woman later withdrew a complaint, and Ingrassia denied wrongdoing.

Notable points in Judge Perry's remarks in Illinois v Trump National Guard case.⤵️ Judge: 1. Federalized deployment of National Guard not quelling civil unrest. Instead, it is "likely to lead to civil unrest." 2. State and local community policing not well geared for out of state Guards.

JUST IN: U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui refuses an indictment DC US Atty's office got from DC Superior Court grand jury after US District Court grand jury refused to indict. Faruqui calls indictment "facially invalid." Govt to appeal to Boasberg. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

"The court is required to continue its constitutional functions" US judges so far have rejected the Justice Department’s requests to delay more than a dozen legal challenges to Trump administration policies as the government shutdown enters its second week: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

From today's TRO hearing in Illinois v. Trump, Judge April Perry:

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.” @nytimes.com #OKgov www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions. Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

Other, more serious countries, have actual constitutional/supreme courts. We, alas, have a 9-member super-legislature that doesn't even pretend anymore that it is following the law or constitution.

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion? “Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

Jimmy Kimmel put together an amazing compilation of Donald Trump saying all the words from the birthday letter he wrote to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party,and I'm very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show."

Stay strong, Chicago

"El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who attended the meeting, said Chicago-born Pope Leo was visibly moved after being handed dozens of letters from immigrants describing their fears of arrest and separation under Trump’s enforcement policies..." www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

Within 24 hours of the Kirk shooting, top Trump officials and administration lawyers were drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for possible executive actions and prioritizing which liberal organizations and strongholds of the left needed targeting. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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

In addition to whatever Durham told the 2nd most recent prosecutors, all the exculpatory evidence Durham gathered on this subject will have to be turned over to Comey in discovery abcnews.go.com/US/special-c...

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

UPDATE: A source shares this message VOA chief Abramowitz sent to workforce following DC Circuit ruling allowing him to remain in his post despite Trump's attempt to fire him:

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it. His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns. This is now very obvious.

MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

The violated the 4th amendment rights of everybody in that building and zip tied children for this

ALERT: The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-arr...

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans. U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties. Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed. This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda. It was always about cruelty.

Thugs.

I realize there's a lot going on with the shutdown, BUT DONALD TRUMP'S FORMER SPIRITUAL ADVISOR JUST PLED GUILTY TO SEXUALLY ABUSING A 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL. Seems like something the media might want to ask the president about—if he ever stops hiding.

Kash Patel has "summarily dismissed" a trainee for displaying a pride flag. "Summarily" means without attention to formalities. And there are formalities for firing a federal employee. So the twit Kash is admitting that the firing was done in a pique of bigotry, not in accordance with the law.

The sight of opposition politicians being arrested is becoming more and more common in America.

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.

“Stephen Miller confessed that when he uses such dehumanizing language he is, “using this language to mark people. To put a target on them. … It is a message [he] is sending to all the crazies and lunatics out there” to go target the people he dehumanizes.”

The truth about conservatives is their fears are based on what they’d do in a similar situation. Every moral panic from conservatives is a roadmap of what they’d do if they had power.

Some of us were talking about both subjects before it was cool.

Why are they unable to sell the harvest, Senator?

Don't have full confirmation on this yet, but hearing that Guevara was sent to El Salvador this morning, which is just fucking shameful. He was here with legal permission and this was 100% punishment for his journalism about protests.

Vought was fired by the Biden Admin, from a low level Board of Visitors job. What a loser.