Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection. I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.” @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

Straight-talking Mike Johnson struggles to look at the camera when claiming to care about healthcare

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

Priest is going to walk from Pope’s childhood home in Chicago to Statue of Liberty to protest ICE www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMBC7kMB/

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

Update from the war zone in Portland.

282 Ex DOJ officials open letter: “We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

Pam Bondi is so transparent, you can see right through her

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent. Will you? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Your constant reminder that bribe for hire Pam Bondi isn’t an attorney general by any means, she’s a criminal who was installed by a criminal to cover up his crimes and the crimes of other powerful rich criminals. Any testimony she gives is a complete bullshit perjury rant.

Pam Bondi's shameless stonewalling of the Senate Judiciary Committee today is of course a total negation of Congressional oversight. "Oversight" is impossible if they won't let you see anything.

A fascist dictator is ordering armed troops from another state to invade the city of Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune editorial board reacts by warning Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to avoid injudicious language. Really.

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

Air traffic controllers are working 60-hour weeks with no pay—conditions that led to a breaking point during the last shutdown.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked Pam Bondi about DOJ's decision to drop the investigation into Tom Homan. MSNBC first reported that Homan was recorded in Sept. 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI sting. Bondi refused to answer, then attacked Whitehouse.

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

Leavitt: “You guys are framing this like the president wants to do the exact thing he says he wants to do.”

The subhed here is a master class in corporate journalism rewarding malfeasance via semantics Bondi didn't valiantly fend something off, she refused to answer legitimate questions before Congress because the answers would be horrifying and politically inconvenient And that's a profile in cowardice

Thanks, New Yorker

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

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Stephen Miller, a man no one elected, is behind the Venezuelan boat strikes which have killed 17 people. He should not be making military decisions. He should not be executing strikes that take lives. Only silver lining? He has no immunity. He can (and should) be prosecuted for his crimes.

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

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It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

A disgrace. Border Patrol “commander” on who gets detained in Chicago. “‘Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?’ he said to the reporter, a middle-aged man of Anglo descent.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

ICE is abusing/torturing/disappearing/killing people using our tax dollars and in our name.

Jeffries: "Here's what DHS has done. DHS put out a hit list directed at Democratic members of Congress, Dem governors, and Dem officials. It's a hit list saying to crazies all across the country 'target these people.' So no, we're not gonna be lectured by DHS. Take your hit list down."

Do not bow down to these people. Do not allow them to convince you that you must. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

If you voted for him, you've done this.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

BREAKING: Per MSNBC, Nexstar has ALSO CAVED and will stop preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! Way to go, everyone!

Dems should commit to impeach Bondi and refer to bar for disbarment.

If this is about Comey saying he did not authorize the leak to the WSJ the IG report destroys the case. McCabe leaked it. He told everyone that and he said he did NOT clear with Comey in advance. IF so, this is as malicious a prosecution as I have ever seen. www.documentcloud.org/documents/44...

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I hope the same thing happens to this guy. Abolish ICE. bsky.app/profile/cbar...

Story from Camilo here: www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

Maybe don't take medical advice from the inject bleach guy who stares bare-eyed into an eclipse.