The former Marion, Kansas police chief who ordered a raid on the newspaper that was investigating him is set to stand trial for telling a witness to delete text message evidence (via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social)

NEWS: Trump is finalizing plans to offer U.S. asylum to far right, anti-immigrant protesters in Europe. Meanwhile, he posts videos of himself literally shit-bombing U.S. protesters. This sums it up. Freedom for neo-nazis. Feces for my people. www.treason.io/p/read-trump...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is everywhere. But it didn't start that way. There was a time when the mayoral front-runner was polling at 1%, tied literally with "Someone Else." Now he has an 80,000-strong army of volunteers, a killer social strategy, and the internet on his side. The Big Interview:

Trump denies ever telling Zelensky to give up Donbas. “I never discussed that,” he said, adding the U.S. believes both sides should freeze the war along current front lines. “Everything else is too complicated. Stop now, go home, and stop killing people.”

It’s not super often that I confront news-related information that totally blows my mind—I swim in this all day every day—but wow, this @economist.com video on today’s drug trafficking did that www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMme9MYw/

Found it on YouTube, for anyone else who couldn’t watch the TikTok. youtube.com/shorts/EZNbS...

Literally all of this is false. 7 million people turned out, probably the largest single-day protest in American history. And at least in DC, what I saw was a hugely representative crowd, mostly with (often very clever) homemade signs.

Undoing years of actual law enforcement at home (read the quotes in the story) for what the White House press secretary called "fun videos" of deportation flights to CECOT. The Secretary of State, the nation's top diplomat, did that.

Genuinely fascinating and terrifying to have a person who has never read a book or basically anything and only learns and retains about 5% of what the last person he spoke with told him running the country

I guess it would've been too much to expect any of the so-called journalists onboard AF1 to note that these were not "very small" demonstrations, and were in fact the largest demonstrations in 50+ years.

Justice Department whistleblower Erez Reuveni says he was fired after refusing to lie to the court. He sits down with Scott Pelley in his first television interview. Tonight on 60 Minutes.

Who could have imagined that firing live artillery rounds over the planet's second busiest roadway might be a bad idea

Oh wow

My feelings, exactly.

Watch this. And then the whole thing. They are destroying the rule of law: www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

Vance spokesperson: “Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous.” <shrapnel hits Vance’s motorcade> Vance spokesperson: No comment.

Pennsylvania. www.axios.com/2025/10/19/p...

Fifteen presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act. Trump claims one president used it 28 times in the course of a single presidency. The Insurrection Act has been used a total of 30 times over the course of its 217-year history.

their ducks: not even in a row. in disarray. shambles our ducks: slowly arranging themselves into uncountable phalanxes

The plant, which is located in the southwestern Orenburg Oblast and is the largest of its kind in the world, was targeted in a drone strike, Ukraine's military said earlier in the day.

⚡️Major Russian gas plant forced to suspend gas intake following Ukrainian drone attack. Russia's Orenburg gas processing plant was forced to halt gas intake from Kazakhstan on Oct. 19 following a Ukrainian drone attack on the facility, Kazakhstan's Energy Ministry announced.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Former career DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni witnessed Trump’s officials lying to a Judge and refused to do the same. So Emil Bove fired him — now he‘s blowing the whistle on the rampant abuse of power at Trump’s DOJ. www.cbsnews.com/news/erez-re...

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Wildly illegal trade policy violating both US and international law, on top of wildly illegal murder of civilians in international & foreign waters, violating both US and international law.

Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this. Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.

Russians started a human safari in Pokrovsk too. Videos are just civilians getting slaughtered under the surveillance of a drone. This will obviously not make it to headlines but please don’t let russians kill in silence

Net favorability among Dem primary voters Israel -23 Palestine +47 Benjamin Netanyahu -68 AIPAC -24 Pro-Israel Lobby -38 The UN +66 Doctors Without Borders +79

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner discussed brokering a fragile deal between Israel and Hamas and rejected allegations that Israeli forces had committed genocide in Gaza during an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired this evening.

I’m willing to bet that Comey and Fitzgerald are smarter than the DoJ lawyers about what constitutes a conflict of interest, and I’m willing to bet they’ve already contemplated this and have a response prepared.

Zero ambiguity here, folks. Trump is now threatening to use the “unquestioned power” of the Insurrection Act under the phony (and unconstitutional) pretense of fighting crime in cities

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

The event organizers say 7m people showed up. That would mean ~1 out of every 50 Americans came out to protest the president

She was legally declared a victim of a crime in a court of law, she was not an "accuser," she was a VICTIM

Truth. 👎

The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.

7 million protesters, 0 arrests. Man we suck at terrorism.

Powerful!!! 🥺

OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California. Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.

omg 👀 This both humiliating and terrifying.

Speaking of delightfully stupid:

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

The fact that there were no counterprotests shows that Trumpism and MAGA barely exist outside of social media. This movement has gradually collapsed completely within the population. — It’s difficult to fill the real world with Trump government troll bots.

It would be nice if the US had a system of government that didn’t allow the president to arbitrarily tariff whoever he wanted, except we very explicitly do, and since no one seems to care or react, then I guess the rules of our government no longer exist