Pentagon leadership just told officials, including the Joint Chiefs chair, they now need permission before speaking to Congress. The memo dropped the same day reporters walked out over new press restrictions. Checks and balances aren’t checking and balancing.

James Rodden "has not been spotted at the Executive Office for Immigration Review courts, but the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor also has not confirmed if he was fired. Even the government attorneys I’ve spoken with cannot get a clear answer on that.”

The funniest part is the notion that ranchers and farmers get to set their own prices. They probably got a decent laugh out of that one. 🤡

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"

Live look at Speaker Mike Johnson:

"If you want to make room for the white working class, you must make room for Nazism" is a truly depressing referendum on a lot of different things at once

I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified. So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life. Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

New research has found alarmingly high rates of mental health disorders among women after abortion bans took effect in US states. Low-income women exhibited the most significant deterioration in mental health indicators, such as increased levels of anxiety and depression.

There are wildly conflicting accounts about ICE shooting Richard Noticias in Los Angeles. EXACTLY why Judge Ellis in Chicago is trying to make agents there use bodycams. For months I've closely checked photos of DHS (ICE, CBP, FPS, etc.) personnel for this, very few ever wear them.

Obama is headed to Virginia and New Jersey to campaign and more great news:

At what point do we acknowledge that Johnson has effectively dissolved Congress?

Ukraine’s state security service has unveiled an upgraded sea drone it says can now operate anywhere in the Black Sea, carry heavier weapons and use artificial intelligence for targeting. Check it out:

If you live in Ireland, you're going to hear a lot today about how riots are the cry of the unheard, and that is correct - but they also occur in a vacuum that politics has created. Functioning societies that provide for their citizens don't have them, and they are far less likely to be fertile ...

State rep. Hoan Huynh shared video of agents surrounding his vehicle/stopping him + staffers shortly after he said one agent pointed a gun inside his vehicle at him while another threatened to break a window. They were following feds in Albany Park after four people were reportedly taken. Story tk.

The British did less damage to the White House than Donald Trump.

Ten years ago you didn't hear some new scandal about Nazis every fucking day. This is not normal, and it's not okay.

Federal Judge Jeffrey Cummings has found that ICE agents violated the terms of a consent decree by detaining people without proper warrants. He ruled that as of this week ICE must wear body cams at all times and can face arrest and contempt proceedings if they conduct unlawful, warrantless arrests.

Fun fact: Donald Trump, a Yankees fan, could decide to deport Shohei Ohtani, and half the Dodgers roster, in order to help the Yankees win the World Series.

If Mamdani were named Menendez or Martin, I don’t think he’d be receiving the same level of vitriol.

I think the Fetterman and Platner experiences show that Democrats should not be so quick to jump on the left wing populist bandwagon in very purple states.

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

Imagine all the political candidates that are going to have to explain Trump tattoos over the next 20 years.

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

Things look bleak, but imagine being alive in late 1942 when it looked like Germany, Japan and Italy were winning World War 2.

I’m less concerned about part of the White House being torn down, and more concerned about the fact that it’s being replaced with a $250m privately funded ballroom. I don’t think people who intend to leave office in 3 years typically spend a quarter of a billon on a 4 year construction project.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

DHS confirmed *five federal law enforcement agencies* were involved in the Canal Street raid. They have not confirmed the number of people who were arrested and detained. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...

christ almighty what is this guy doing www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Important to note that it's New York STATE that brought charges against the J6er that threatened Hakeem Jeffries. Not the DOJ.

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

The federal department threatened to cut grant funding by this coming Monday unless states remove any reference — even a passing one — to inclusive gender ideology.

“Put America first”: GOP senators are fuming at Trump’s idea to import Argentinian beef to lower US prices. Lawmakers face blowback from angry ranchers who were already alarmed by Trump’s $40 billion bailout of Argentina — even as the country undercuts US soybean farmers over trade with China.

Raskin with Jeffries: "It's an alarming situation where now we have many of these January 6 defendants who have been picked up on other defenses. The Department of Justice is not zealously prosecuting them for other crimes they have committed ... it's a very dangerous situation."

Honestly I think they could just keep demolishing the White House bit by bit until it was completely gone and no one would even stop them

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."

Is using DOJ to loot the US treasury faithful execution of the laws?

I don’t really know how to say this more clearly. If your party is ok with murdering unidentified civilians, known links to child sex trafficking, and taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the treasury, they are down for ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING anyone in history has ever done plus some other shit

I know everyone’s following the Louvre heist but I would like to point your attention to the California LEGO LOOTER www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Surprised to learn that I had an anti-American tilt.

NEW: Trump is going to steal $230M in taxpayer dollars by having his DOJ pay him a settlement for his legal trouble. Watch. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."

"Do we not care about them?" Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told The Hill, adding: “Let’s not be punitive to Americans just to score political points.”

the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster