*screams*

When I talk about ICE raids at Home Depot and reference "the people who do bulk purchases every day," I am talking specifically about Latinx crews. And yes, I think they fear being tortured and deported. Maybe check yourself before automatically assuming people don't understand their own country.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

she was just the best, every time I read something she wrote I'm like 'oh wow somehow I think *even more* highly of her'

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable. Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

Pretty insane to think there will be at least some number of Americans who will get their military news from a conspiracy-poisoned pillow salesman

ICE & CPB need to ousted from Chicago and abolished. The abductions and attacks must be stopped.

true. i do know some shit

Re DHS point person on “election integrity”: “Election officials from nearly all 50 states gathered on a call last month…eager to hear how the woman filling a newly created Trump administration position might help safeguard the vote ahead of next year’s midterms. But many of them left alarmed.” 🎁🔗

Love that the richest country in the world won't provide health care or food to the citizens. Because it can, it chooses not to.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Learning a lot about electorality from the Dems lately!

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence” when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

If they do the typical thing -- wander in after the damage is already done & publish a few wan "factchecks" of the RW story -- we are all fucked. Get ahead of it. Tell your own story, loudly, in every venue. Draw attention. Make noise. Do better for once.

This is bullshit, but as we know, that doesn't matter. It's an easy story to tell & an easy one to believe. What is the counter-story? Are climate people telling it? Are Dems? Where are they on this? Can they actually get ahead of the curve for once in their f'ing lives?

Remember how I said electricity prices are the sleeper political issue of the next few years, especially in crucial state elections? Here's RW media telling NJ voters that renewables are the cause of those high prices:

The feds driving around and terrorizing our neighborhoods like they're playing Grand Theft Auto is now a daily/regular occurrence and I keep wondering how we're supposed to live like this

We have a filibuster. Now, if only democrats would stop approving Trump's nominees.

UPDATE: Trump’s response to cattle ranchers concerned about him prioritizing Argentina (and sending them Billions) is to lash out at them. www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...

How I feel about political candidates

A failing that physics faculty and physics students seem to be mutually complicit in is understanding that physics classes are often not really about learning the specific topic but rather are about the way learning the specific topic teaches you methods, including thinking methods

Yeah, at this point the absolute most charitable read I can possibly get to is that an Afghan grandmother placed a time-delayed curse on him 20 years ago that turned out to be way more powerful than she ever expected it to be

Sadists do, however, dominate the regime. Miller and Noem and Lewandowski and Homan all clearly thrill to watching jackboots curb stomping. Musk and Vought and many other less overtly, thuggishly violent functionaries get off on starving children.

ICE arrests dad of 16-year-old with Stage 4 cancer. DHS says the 40-year-old painter and home renovator had "habitual driving offenses" chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/i...

Here's who's in the Pentagon's new "press corps," covering world's most powerful military: Out: New York Times, Washington Post. In: Tim Pool's Timcast, Gateway Pundit, the MyPillow guy's LindellTV. wapo.st/49iiXbn @scottnover.bsky.social

Trump has blown up another boat - this time in the Pacific.

The refusal to seat Adelita Grijalva is an opening attack on free and fair elections next year. abcnews.go.com/Politics/ari...

U.S. REP. DELIA RAMIREZ (D-IL): "We are very clear that the greatest threat to public safety in our communities, it's called ICE. It's called CBP. And unfortunately, even USCIS is being weaponized at this moment. ICE is operating as a terror force..."

⛽️❗️Strikes on refineries work better than any sanctions, 68 out of 83 regions of the Russian Federation complain about fuel shortages, - Frontline Analytics

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

I'm being very intentional about my word choice when I say that ICE raids are not Roman circuses because they are not sporting. They are spectacle, and they are absolutely arousing for sadists. But fascist sadists are not seeing sport. They are seeking flesh crushed under an unyielding machine

At this point, nothing is stopping him from doing this.

Another disturbing example of how Trump silences dissent: "the chief content officer for our parent company... stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Border patrol agents have descended on Little Village, sparking fury and fear in the neighborhood. blockclubchi.co/3WOuS9t

happening now: border patrol commander greg bovino and at least a dozen armed, masked agents have formed a line residents at 26th and ogden in cicero. federal agents for weeks have repeatedly targeted the nearby home depot parking lot. local police are also on scene, according to a facebook live.

Border Patrol has reportedly detained several people in Little Village this morning. Video from Facebook shows Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and his agents walking the streets as warning whistles blow in the background.

"No need for congressional authorization of funds. If construction can be done with private donations, then so can demolition: writes @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te... #TearItDown

U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez + others calling for Ruben Torres to be released to be with his daughter Ofelia, a 16-year old Lake View HS student sick with cancer. “They should be together right now but instead Ruben became another person taken by this rogue agency,” Ramirez said.

Ahhhhh ok. Yeah we WERE about to get Fetterman'd/Sinema'd/Manchin'd again. Money'd class just got lazy on this one and/or underestimated how desperate mofos were for someone not in the establishment that he popped off too early in the process and got found out...

for everyone very concerned about Maine elections, there's a ballot measure this November, funded by Leonard Leo, to make voting a lot harder in the state. Could have big impact in 2026 if it passes @burness.bsky.social did a deep dive at @boltsmag.org boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

NEW: A Border Patrol spokesperson could not tell @wttw.bsky.social whether these agents' body-worn cameras recorded this interaction. A federal judge ordered all federal agents to have their cameras on while interacting with members of the public.

Reductively, the two kinds of left candidates in America are 1) Bernie Sanders and 2) young, exciting progressive challenger people like because they saw a video on the Internet. Mixed bag on both ends. Probably worth recruiting more outwardly normal, even boring middle-aged people with left views.

Politico is reporting that Indiana Republicans are signaling they don't have the votes for a middecade gerrymander: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I absolutely believe that the DHS distro of ICE footage is *intended* to function as the circus, but I also question the efficacy. Spectacle is not the same as circus. The circus has sadistic elements, sure, but it is not PURE sadism. Pure sadism has a much narrower entertainment appeal.

Today on Volts: Redwood Materials, the biggest battery recycler in the US, has launched Redwood Energy, which will gather used batteries & hook them up to power banks to serve as grid-scale storage until they're depleted. I talk with the CTO about the logistics & potential of second-life batteries.

“The public has a right to know what MPD officers did when called to the United States Institute of Peace earlier this year,” @rcfp.org's Adam Marshall said. More about our attorneys' efforts supporting @marisakabas.bsky.social's fight to access body-worn camera footage of a DOGE raid on USIP 👇