wow what a Thursday huh 🙏🏼 ☮️

Big news in the Robert Roberson case, which we covered here:

Live to fight for his freedom and his life another day #txlege 🙏🏼

honestly what is this guy's problem

it’s giving Agg Assault with a Deadly Weapon (unless you’re a cop 😉) 🇺🇸🤳🏽

reminds me of charles barkley making fun of San Antonio women for being chunky but — can we please criticize their trigger discipline (or the Governor’s actions) instead ?! 🫶🏼 🎃 #txlege

*does that look like an Attorney General or does that look like a spokesperson?* fmr Federal Prosecutor says rn on @cnn.com

“clearly you’re a failed lawyer…” says US AG Pam Bondi to a US Senator in today’s Senate hearing. (pot kettle) 🫖🤡

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This represents a major escalation. President Trump effort to mobilize TEXAS National Guard for deployment in Portland and Chicago. Court filing just entered in Oregon v. Trump⬇️

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

The new SCOTUS term starts Monday, but nowadays with all the shadow docket action, it feels like the court never left.

“Sir, this is a brothel.”

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

It’s only a matter of time before there is a Kent State or far worse episode. We have a bunch of barely trained hop-heads encourage to unleash violence. What happens after is anyone’s guess. But none of this should deter us from fighting for democracy and rule of law.

and pointing guns at civilians’ faces

Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative, is set to become Japan’s first woman prime minister after winning leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/w...

i hope the white supremacists know some of us look forward to wearing our flower crowns including in court this year. 🇲🇽🖤🏵️🌹 #diadelosmuertos #Mexicansarentgoinganywhere

Important context from @genevievelakier.bsky.social:

[Throwing the money back.]

idk if this will pass anymore

Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence. This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less. Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down. The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed. And they get another vacation

haven’t been watching cnn today but —someone PLS tell me they even mentioned the Chicago South Shore Drive ICE raid before covering Taylor swift’s new album

Fox News reporter to Mike Johnson: "How can you say 'they take no pleasure in this,' and then the next minute say, 'Oh, they're just having fun and trolling?'"

ICE initially claimed that the officer was "seriously injured" sustaining "severe injuries" and in "serious condition" but actual body cam footage of the ICE agents now shows that they LIED. The officer himself says it was "nothing major" via Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

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...

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

let’s go competent Texans who give a shit about helping people 🙏🏼 ⭐️ #txlege

cup o noodles for every member of congress until they fund the federal government.

I wrote this piece about 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's murder. On the costs of speaking the truth in today's world. And how Jamal's memory still stalks Saudi Arabia--- and the Washington Post. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

he’s going full Sicario 3 and we don’t even have the film yet ☠️☠️🇺🇸🇲🇽

History has many painful lessons.

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

almost looks like all the Texas bar takers being told by Busby tweet they have a 3 DAY WINDOW starting monday to receive their results. 😒😑😐

shermichael on @cnn.com saying the AI video with Leader Jeffries w/ a sombrero and mustache = making a point about how Dems support undocumented immigrants…. AS IF being Mexican (American) = being without status. honey please. this is why you need Latinos on your PANELS people 🇺🇸🇲🇽

wtaf y'all

AG Bondi says *if you touch any LEO, it is a crime* — but, your honor, what if we both lightly belly bumped each other at the same time in a crowd (and I was the one exercising my #1A rights?) is “offensive (any) contact” the element or does it require pain/injury? will check 🤰🏼🇺🇸👮🏻‍♂️

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

Another life lost in the Dallas ICE facility shooting: 32-year-old Miguel Ángel García-Hernández has died after a week on life support, leaving behind his wife and five children.

A verified GoFundMe has been set up for the family of Norlan Fuentes, who has also died after last week’s shooting: “He was caught in the crossfire of an attack he had nothing to do with. He died far from home, without the comfort of his loved ones.” www.gofundme.com/f/zad3m-norl...

JUST IN: On the eve of a 10-day hearing over a legal challenge to its new congressional map, Texas wins on one count: The state did not have to account for mid-decade population shifts when redrawing lines, the judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

The bomb squad arrived and determined it to be a live device, police say. They made the bomb safe to be taken to a separate location where it will be destroyed.

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.

hegseth with the gall to tell military members/leaders to resign if they don't like what he's saying – lol what? 🇺🇸