The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Lot going on but Susan Collins, who claims to support abortion rights, voted to install an anti-abortion law professor as an appeals court judge. That nominee, Jennifer Mascott, refused to say whether Trump could order the military to assassinate his political opponents. @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"

"it's totally condescending, patronizing, misogynistic... his push to obstruct me getting sworn in... is because I will be the 218th signer to the Epstein files" Rep. Grijalva on Mike Johnson's "bless her heart" comment

This is quite a hed/subhed. 1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex. 2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands 3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:

10M adults on ACA plans are self-employed or small business owners and employees. A restaurant owner in Virginia could see his monthly premium double, shooting up to $1400 a month. Small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities – and Republicans are shafting them. Hello?

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Let me tell you all what I’m seeing at No Kings: a TON of American flags, some pride flags, a few Ukrainian ones, very few far-left ones. There are maybe 4 people I’ve encountered who look to be far-leftists. One of them was a kid dragged along by their parent. None were menacing or violent.

#NoKings rally in Cincinnati!

No Kings rally today in Ocracoke as North Carolinians are telling politicians in the legislature: STOP gerrymandering OUR voting districts! No Kings Means NO Gerrymanders! Add your voice: CCNC.me/NoKings 📣 #NoKings #Ocracoke #NorthCarolina #EndGerrymandering

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

White supremacy is when Republican men and women in their 20s & 30s praising Hitler, genocide, and rape are “just kids”—but 18-year-old Michael Brown was no angel, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was a thug, 16-year-old Kalief Browder was a criminal, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice should’ve known better.😐

Remember how we just went through a multi-week newscycle where Democrats and liberals were lambasted for their "violent" political rhetoric, which included Fox hosts claiming that only one political party was demonizing their political opponents as evil? And how libs needs to lower the temperature?

Republicans control the House. Republicans control the Senate. Republicans control the White House. This shutdown has Republicans' name written all over it.

Here’s how/why Republicans jack up your electric rates: stall/kill clean energy projects, so expensive fossil fuel plants have to come online to pick up slack. Polluting plants, otherwise idle, now get paid; your money goes to corrupt payday for big Trump donors.

The shutdown is a dream come true for the regime. They want a collapse; it's the playbook of #Project2025. @antwestcoast.bsky.social

Republicans are going to cheat & gerrymander with the rubber stamp of the Supreme Court. It will be very hard for Democrats to take back the House and Senate. Meanwhile, Trump will send the military to crush protests, and when he gets desperate, he'll implement martial law. Eyes wide open, folks.

Speaker Mike Johnson's goal with telling MAGA base that the No Kings rally is a Hate America rally and that it's filled with Antifa terrorists is to incite violence against the rally. He knows MAGA will commit violence. Then Trump can call out the military on Democrats to silence dissent.

Whoa‼️ Dems could lose 19 seats due to GOP gerrymandering. CA, UT & MD can’t fight fire with fire alone. Other blue states must step up, and every Democrat needs to vote. Don’t sit out any election. Push your governors and legislators to act. Tell friends and family to vote. Help them. #YesOnProp50

Me after seeing the leaked texts of young Republicans *in 2025* praising Hitler & calling to gas all of us. The only thing I’m more (not) shocked by is this will not in any way shame them, further empower them. Remember this next time they pretend to be offended that anyone calls them Nazis. Smh.

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

"College is unaffordable" Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.

“Republicans have consistently used “just joking!” as a shield to downplay and defend Trump’s indefensibly incendiary and bigoted rhetoric.” @playtyperguy.com www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-just...

Make sure you read my latest substack on political gerrymandering. jaimeharrison.substack.com/p/the-cancer...

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Huge mistake by Trump to let the 4'10 freak Stephen Miller take center stage during his Presidency. The more people hear and see from Mini Himmler the more they are repulsed. Plus the ICE raids are horrific and inhumane.

Republicans declare themselves patriots, then turn around and block the paychecks of the men and women who defend America. And what’s really wild, some of those same troops keep voting red while getting screwed over again and again.

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects. In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Several people are live-streaming still. Police have now brought in helicopter. Again, this is the IL state police, who answer to the Governor of Illinois (& supposedly the people)—now threatening that they will use force to arrest any people who do not “disperse” while blocking ppl from leaving.

Note the protesters are in a “designated free-speech area” for this protest outside of the facility. The IL police kettle them, & start beating several protesters to the ground anyway. Please keep this in mind when you see Gov Pritzker posting about how he is supposedly “standing up” against 🧊/feds.

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

Will trump send his goons to Mississippi now? The #1 crime capital in the US?? www.cbsnews.com/news/4-dead-...

Biden couldn’t forgive student loans but Trump gives away our money and power to foreign nations and builds a $200M disgusting add on to our White House without permission from anyone.

There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers. But no $ for health insurance for Americans?

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.” Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole." religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

"The Voting Rights Act is the most important piece of legislation in American history... It is the thing that makes this country a democracy instead of a white, male, apartheid state. But Chief Justice John Roberts hates it. He has spent much of his career trying to destroy it."

I will not shop at @publixofficial.bsky.social. As a private business, Publix has the right to reject guns being openly carried in their stores but they decided it's a good idea. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/p...

Crime prevention works when it builds on community trust and evidence-based solutions, not performative displays of force. bit.ly/4neYVD1

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov