BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

I call BS. Oct 18 will be many thousands of peaceful Americans exercising their right to free speech at over 2000 locations across the country. The feds may try to instigate violence, but we will not take the bait. ⏬️

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MIT rejects Compact "The premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone...America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking....Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach"

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History" Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

You don't blow up Venezuelan & Colombian boats in international waters -- killing 21 people -- and expect a Nobel Peace Prize.

The regime’s proposed approach to avoid “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers (because the regime is injuring, killing, and disappearing them)? Bringing in “guest workers” through the H-2A program at even *lower* wages. So, near-slave labour.

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours. There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds. Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

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Wish we could say the US was doing the same!⏬️

This is the ONLY reason that DT is pushing EU to cut Russian LNG imports. To justify US increasing FF extraction.⏬️

The Insurrection Act gives the president power to deploy the U.S. military domestically and to federalize National Guard troops during specific circumstances. It has been used before, but not in decades.

Hoo boy. I imagine the pictures and videos are probably much worse and Trump is not the only one included in this.

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RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition? JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back R: Why not now? J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I will be recruiting 1-2 new PhD students next year. Areas of interest include experimental fire research focused on flame spread, ignition, flammability or emissions of wildland or urban fuels and modeling the spread of fires through the wildland-urban interface.

bingo

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

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So the war on the middle class and poor goes on....

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

Is this even legal? Most irresponsible House Speaker ever. Guess the house is furloughed, too--but they are getting paid to not work. They should be passing all those Appropriations Bills that came out of committee weeks or months ago. Instead they just sit on their thumbs to stall Epstein files.

Oregon gets another victory. Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland ground.news/article/judg...

Time file a case to prevent DT from calling up Nat Guardvin Chicago as well, if it hasn't been filed already.

News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement. Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.

They took 4 Black children from their US citizen parents. Chicago PD needs to make kidnapping arrests. Now.

Meanwhile, if you haven't seen the Border Patrol Agent assaulting a person in Chicago today:

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

By 2050 we need to see something like the following global energy mix (all forms). It will vary by region and will require a variety of energy storage solutions. We have the technology today to do this by the way. ☀️ 60% all forms solar + green h2 💧 15% 💨 15% ☢️ 5% 🌋 2% 🌊 1.5% 🌳 1% 🔵 0.5% DAC fuels

The Republicans could end this shutdown by negotiating a decrease to your rising health insurance premiums. They don’t want to do that because that premium increase will pay for their tax cut for rich people.

I haven't read every comment but I have yet to see anyone point out that undocumented workers have paid billions in taxes for social security, Medicare and other benefits or programs that go only to U.S. citizens. Conversely, not all citizens are taxpayers. itep.org/undocumented...

Please do read.

Release the jobs report. And while you’re at it, release the Epstein files.

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Veterans are speaking out against ICE's "mob tactics" in Broadview. "Our democracy is being crushed." blockclubchi.co/475z6iV

I appreciate the clarity of this statement on Trump's attempt to further strongarm 9 universities, including my employer, from Penn faculty: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

"If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education." Thanks a lot, UT-Austin.

Chemerinsky: "This is extortion, plain and simple." No reason to mince words at this point.

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…

Most 2026 approps bills have passed out of committee in both houses, often by large margins. A couple have passed both houses (like DOD). Most have not been brought to the floor in either house for debate or vote. Maybe they could agree to take up the damn bills? www.crfb.org/blogs/approp...

Yeah. Because it's illegal.