ICE just stormed over here and attacked us, even though the state police had us contained. I’m not in good shape.

The guy buying the Portland Trail Blazers is using a fortune "that was built on predatory lending. ... He made lots of profit ... on the backs of low- and poor-credit individuals.” And now the team is poised to ask for public money to stay in Portland. www.propublica.org/article/tom-...

People of color don't lynch themselves. A second independent autopsy, which hasn't been released to the public, revealed Trey Reed sustained blunt force trauma to the back of his head. We know it wasn't suicide. We know it was murder. We demand a full scale investigation by the FBI. #justicefortrey

My opponent thinks we are suckers. She thinks we don’t see through her smoke and mirrors on the shutdown. It’s easy to skip a paycheck when you’re a multimillionaire like she is. She’s out of touch and out of gas. Let’s replace her with someone who wants to do the work. @wellmanformo.bsky.social

It's good to be the king. The peasants aren't nearly as lucky-- they're just trying to stay alive.

Every lost paycheck, every shuttered service pushes families closer to ruin. This standoff ends only when voters unleash outrage that no lawmaker can afford to ignore. Read @michaelcohen212.bsky.social for @meidastouch.com. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

No matter what Trump claims, federal agents and military troops are bound by the Constitution, and must uphold our rights to peaceful assembly, freedom of speech, due process, and safeguards against unlawful searches and seizures. action.aclu.org/send-message...

Oregon AG: "47 has started to attack our independent judiciary. He's attacked free press. Now you've seen the normalization of the US military in American cities. We have to draw a line in the sand.” We draw that line Saturday 10/18! Show up to say #NoKings for America!

Casey Desantis’s charity that got $10 million redirected from a Medicaid fraud settlement the state entered into directly into its bank account rather than the FL treasury.

OMG !!! trump posted this incredibly dark, sick AI video of himself and JD Vance in a band and Russ Vought—the man behind Project 2025— as the grim reaper. This is what "the president" is doing while the government is shut down ! #trumpIsASickCriminal #trumpWantsToHurtAmericans

A great pod! Saving to share with Con Law students next time I teach that course

What is Trump Rx and will it save me money on prescription drugs? The president’s new plan to slash drug prices is “a splashy announcement without a lot of substance.” www.vox.com/health/46360...

Good morning Your taxpayer money Troops on duty In that violent city of Portland

With zero time for crowd to clear, Bovino orders people back. Tells them it's their one is warning. Within seconds, feds attack protesters. ISP troopers assist ICE and BP with crowd control. BP tackles and arrests.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

NEW VIDEO: Stop grading Republicans on a curve. There are no Republican heroes in the fight for democracy. Staying grounded in the truth is essential — our democracy depends on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDs3...

I’m still waiting on the files #Epstein

ICE Agents in #Chicago ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building It’s the most egregious abuse of our basic rights as Americans I've seen in a long time, maybe in my lifetime,” says Chris Hayes.

Nick Sortor, anti-immigrant and MAGA influencer was just arrested at the ICE protest in Portland moments ago.

National Guard members volunteered to help ICE in Missouri — now they're not being paid

It’s time for Mutual Aid groups. We have to get started. The last time we had these conversations, we were in the middle of COVID. Communities were struggling to keep going - economically, emotionally, physically. AOC did a lot of work in this space. I'm sharing resources she created. 🧵

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The government has obtained tools that permit “indiscriminate and warrantless data collection” that “can absolutely assist ICE in turning law-abiding citizens and protestors into targets of the federal government,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @san.com. san.com/cc/ices-sur...

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@slotkin.senate.gov didn’t miss a beat, but Hegseth misses them all. Her #CupOfJoe is full of the fire that we expect from our elected representatives.

But, it will keep a promise to fossil fuel industries to keep them in business by churning out dirty, polluting, non-reusable energy.

Critical read👇 If you're not a pod/video consumer, take 5 minutes to read through this synopsis. Murphy has coalesced a lot of issues into a rational plan for political action.

John Roberts has led the Supreme Court for 20 years now. In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has transformed America, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself @pemalevy.bsky.social looks at the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it.

Rep. Mark Alford exposed the truth about today’s meeting: Trump wanted Democrats in the Oval Office just to “give them a little taste of what we gave Zelenskyy.” Not negotiation—humiliation. This shutdown is by design. #DonaldTrumpsShutdown

Chris Murphy just offered an extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. "This isn’t a normal time. If you don’t mount a stand right now on behalf of democracy, there won’t be another opportunity. The world [is] watching to see what we stand for." Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2013...

The Senate is expected to vote today on the GOP’s cruel government funding proposal and Democrats’ alternative, which would protect our healthcare. Our Democratic senators need to hear from us. Urge them to keep holding the line to safeguard healthcare for millions: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

Those responsible for compiling the jobs report don’t have jobs anymore, hence there will be no jobs report this month. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

ISP have forced people out of the road (never heard a dispersal warning). Some kind of ISP SWAT unit here now, too.

Jeffries: “Republicans have shown zero interest in even having a conversation after the White House meeting on Monday. We've seen behavior by the president that is unserious and unhinged. And Leader Schumer and myself haven't gotten a single phone call as it relates to a follow-up conversation.”

Trump’s Supremes took one more step toward making him king. The Court said Trump could fire a commissioner for any reason, stripping away Congressional protections that firings must be because a commissioner screwed up big. But the Supremes ignored their own precedent and let Trump have his way.

Trump calls Democrats ‘The Party of Hate, Evil, and Satan.’ Just days after Trump tells military leaders he needs them to attack Democrats which he calls the "enemy within," he now dehumanizes Democrats. This is genocidal rhetoric. Pls Understand he wants us dead. www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

Senator Murphy also lays out a clear set of codified demands that Dems can stand for. Among them: *no more using budget to punish enemies *no more using FCC to censor critics *restrictions on ICE lawlessness in interior *clear ban on troops in cities 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance. "If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Furloughed employees have been told to schedule automated email messages saying the Democrats caused the shutdown. Some agencies have used hostility charged, anti "radical left" language. Political activity by Federal employees is prohibited (1939 Hatch Act). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...