NEW: Don Trump Jr.--after helping pick top Pentagon officials to join his dad's administration--has now become an investor and advisor to Pentagon drone builders. This as President Trump orders Pentagon to buy more drones. A NYT investigation of this latest conflict. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Seems like an important detail

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

"Not my lane" "Never heard of it" "Beef? What's that?" "I don't know the details"

He is literally not paying for it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Horrifying.

An essential feature of authoritarianism is that the leader - not courts - decides who is guilty and who is not. Santos - who Trump said is getting a commutation bc he “votes Republican” - is the 10th high profile loyalist to get a pardon or clemency. We cannot accept this.

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

Difficult to capture just how many people are here on the capitol grounds here at No Kings, Des Moines, Iowa. #NoKings #Iowa

We had 600-700 people show up on a cold, rainy Vancover, Canada day.

Seattle!! bsky.app/profile/angr...

Endless lines of protestors in Downtown Los Angeles

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

Today's official crowd count estimate from #NoKings coalition: 7 million people turned out nationwide That's 2 million more than the #NoKings peaceful protests in June

“.. It was not immediately clear where the funding for the jets came from.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Chicago come through, No Kings there abc7chicago.com/post/no-king...

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

No Kings, San Diego

Boston

I was at the the No Kings march in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Many elderly or disabled folks who couldn’t make it to Manhattan, but also young families and people of all ages. I stood in the same spot for more than an hour and the stream of protesters was constant. Amazing turnout.

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/orig...

the admin that imprisoned and tried to deport a student over a pro-Palestinian op-ed, calling it anti-semitism, calls outrage over "I love Hitler" texts by young Republicans "pearl-clutching"

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines. We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

This is a great factcheck on the DHS sizzle videos of them rounding up immigrants: they are leaving a lot of context out.

Who’s Eating the Tariffs? (via Goldman) @scottlincicome.bsky.social

Honestly very impressed by Newsmax, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner. They deserve credit precisely because they’re standing up for journalistic principle notwithstanding their ideological inclination.

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Staff in Israel’s Knesset handed out hats that looked like MAGA baseball caps to celebrate Donald Trump’s role in the ceasefire with Hamas.

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor. “He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said. Read more at @windycitytimes.com

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

Ask her how she deals with being a Trump puppet.

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

There’s a March for Health and Science being organized in DC for Wednesday, November 5.

Imagine that

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

See below for the incredible way Meta’s AI tool describes this video.

As I said a couple hours ago about a different fake video, you don't need to feel stupid if you fell for it. The entire internet is drowning in this AI shit. And there's no easy solution. We're just fucking cooked as a society.

“However, Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government.”

Cowards. "Three large U.S. law firms did not answer questions from Democratic lawmakers over what kind of work they might have been doing for the U.S. government since entering into an agreement with Trump earlier this year.."

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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.