Significantly *more* live artillery rounds were launched over Interstate 5 during Friday’s rehearsal, defense officials said, with one estimating the number at 30.

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.

Republicans said this was a “Hate America” rally but it looks like the participants were just not very good at hating America.

Prince Winston…accept no substitute. #Cats #Caturday #NoKings #Democracy💙🇺🇸

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond. Pay attention and act!

"In unison." Amen. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Insurance rates up $2000. Food benefits cut off. Farmers unable to sell their crops. Skyrocketing national debt. $40 billion to Argentina. America First!

“You’re saying sometimes it’s acceptable for a federal district court to order a map that intentionally discriminates on the basis of race?” Justice Neil Gorsuch asked the voting advocates. More via @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social ⬇️

JUST IN: A federal judge in San Francisco has HALTED Trump’s plan to lay off thousands of federal workers during his shutdown, calling it “unlawful” and “politically motivated.” Judge Illston said Trump acted as if “the laws don’t apply to them anymore.”

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

NEW TODAY: A deep dive on Tim Parlatore, Pete Hegseth’s longtime personal attorney. He has a key role in Hegseth’s efforts to restrict news reporting in the Pentagon, and a history that includes defending alleged mobsters, accused war criminals, and President Donald Trump. wapo.st/4h8hTsC

Trump bailed out Argentina, who then undercut US farmers by selling their soybeans to China, who used be our biggest customer for soybeans before Trump drove them away with his tariffs. This is Trump 3D chess in action. Arrogance, Ignorance and Idiocy.

I think what is troubling about some of the current layoffs that are still underway is CDC can’t do its work. When the entire HR office is laid off, they can’t bring people on. The whole conflict of interest office is laid off, so they can’t look at COI for leaders or advisors, a priority for HHS

ICE is terrorizing people in the United States of America. Why would you call it anything else? That's exactly what it is.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump Con www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

#Cats #Caturday So funny…

#Caturday #Cats Mostly tricks…Waitin’ for treats…Winston Cat.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Three cheers for MIT. When the White House tried to buy obedience with funding strings...MIT said, “Hell No!” Merit over mandates. Freedom over control. Finally...an institution with the guts to tell power where to shove its politics.

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

Secret police in the school pickup line. We can’t stand by. There are no words for this brazenness and cruelty.

I’m sure this is fine. abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law. Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

BREAKING: Republican Governor of Oklahoma comes out blasting deployment of National Guard from Texas to Illinois. Calls it a violation of States' Rights. MAGA and Trump are increasingly isolated on this -- as they should be. We will not stop until this insanity ends.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

Michigan Avenue right now.

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square. Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files. Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..." apnews.com/article/chic...

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Sunday moon pic from the war zone at my house in war ravaged Portland 🌝 Oregon

MAJOR BREAKING: In a late-night order, Judge Immergut, a Trump-appointee, has BLOCKED Trump from deploying the National Guard from ANY state or D.C. into Oregon.

Immergut: What I'll do is not modify my original TRO but issue a new TRO that prohibits the relocation or deployment of any federalized national guard to the state of Oregon....

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info. SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

Hamilton says that Trump's earlier order federalizing national guard was not limited to the state of California. Immergut: You are missing the point...my order was based on conditions in Portland. That there was no legal basis to bring national guard into Oregon...

Economist cartoon. The world sees what Trump is doing.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

OH THE HUMANITY

NEW: Judge Immergut - a trump appointee - has called an emergency hearing tonight because the administration appears to have tried to circumvent her order by calling in the California guard after she blocked the Oregon guard deployment with a temporary restraining order yesterday. 1/

Yep here they are all dressed to keep the peace.

SOYBEAN FARMER SOUNDS OFF: Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers. Now Trump is giving $20B to Argentina—the same country taking much of America’s soybean market. Soybeans are the no. 1 cash crop in Tennessee. Via @pulsereportnow on IG

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...

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...