Breaking: Trump admits Constitution says he's "not allowed to run" for another term He precedes this with a minute of delusions of grandeur, and of course if he refuses to leave office he's not running again - right? But the video is useful for when he tries anyway www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

When does some U.S. citizen, legally carrying a concealed weapon in one of the 31 stand-your-ground law states, get grabbed by ICE agents in masks and plain clothes and respond by shooting them? Does it happen before or after masked civilians start impersonating ICE agents and abducting people?

the Trump FCC this week voted to completely neuter rules requiring that your Broadband ISP be transparent about the speed and limitations of your broadband connection at the point of sale, which will make it easier for them to rip you off:

We’re not a constitutional republic right now. We’re not a constitutional republic right now. We’re not a constitutional republic right now. We’re not a constitutional republic right now. My weekly Substack video. Have a watch.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

Accountability matters!

"Until nine years ago it never dawned on me that my children might come of age in a country where the president talks about vermin poisoning the blood of the nation."

This is the third U.S. Attorney found to be unlawfully appointed. The other two are Sigal Chattah and Alina Habba. Their indictments stand because they were signed by other prosecutors. Not true for Lindsey Halligan.

🚨Oregon v Trump National Guard case. Ninth Circuit vacates panel decision. 11 judge-panel will now rehear the case. Judge Graber in dissent said last week: “Above all, I ask those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer.”

This incident is spreading through Chicago running circles. A 67 year old man, driving back from a long run with his friends, is pulled from the car and thrown to the ground by ICE (or BP?) agents because he did... something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWAw...

This isn’t good, for Walmart or more importantly the people who need food and rely on this program.

Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."

Citing her work “hand in glove with the Trump administration” on AI, Sinema argued that the planning commission in Chandler, Arizona, might as well go ahead and greenlight her client’s proposed data center – because soon, once Donald Trump enacts a national AI policy, the city will ….

There's no spinning this.

He wants an insurrection so badly. He had one on January 6, 2021. Don’t give him another: Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Breaking WaPo: The White House just fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of Trump's construction projects, including his planned arch in Washington. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

HUNT: Dems have argued that the norms of our govt should be that you negotiate policy outside of a shutdown GALLEGO: You're talking about norms in a time of Donald Trump? H: But Ds have spent so much time arguing that maintaining norms is incredibly important G: It's all out the window, Kasie. No

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The states say suspending SNAP "is both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act," and "irreparably harming their states." "A harm that increases every day SNAP benefits are delayed."

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Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis. What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:

The Trumpist Revolution is far closer to the “Il Duce ha sempre ragione” of Italian fascism: “The Leader is always right.”

Scalise: "If it was about healthcare, they wouldn't be gutting $50 billion out of the rural healthcare fund." (The bill he's referring to cuts *$1 trillion* from Medicaid)

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... Please read Judge Luttig’s article in the Atlantic. He clearly and in no uncertain terms describes America’s present situation. My question for him and everyone else, “what are we supposed to do to stop this from happening?”

Anne Applebaum: Americans Aren't Angry Enough. Yet. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Texas Sues Tylenol Makers, Claiming They Hid Autism Risks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/h... Since Tylenol is the pain reliever of choice (doctor recommended) for most pregnant women autism is most likely a correlation not a causal medication.

Here’s all the journalists at CNN who resigned after their CEO Mark Thompson told them to scale back reporting on Trump’s demolition of the East Wing.

Over and over in the Gospels, Jesus made it clear: food is not something people need to prove themselves worthy of. This is not about humanity deserving to be fed but about the inhumanity of those withholding the meal... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jesus-fed-...

No president has ever summoned active-duty troops in order to attack his political opponents with partisan political messages. It is gross and constant. Trump, Hegseth and Vance are politicizing the military and trying to turn troops against Democrats for a reason.

In the NY Times, historian Jill Lepore called Hillary Clinton’s 2016 DNC speech “depraved,” “cynical,” “the most reprehensible piece of political theater.” She said Clinton painted her enemies as “satanic.” Unlike the Times, I checked the speech. Lepore is 100% wrong. www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/p...

One year ago

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

If you are able to, please contribute to your local food bank this week

When hungry people who lost their SNAP benefits show up at Republicans’ district offices angry since they are running the country, their staff can attempt to explain to them that it’s not their fault because of the intricacies of the senate filibuster rule. While they hide.

JUST IN: Judge says Bondi & Noem violated court rule with inflammatory public statements about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, orders notices to every DOJ & DHS employee about limits in criminal cases & possibility of sanctions. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

You may not *need* a political science degree to understand why having billionaires fund the US military is a bad idea, but I *do* have a political science degree and would like to underscore *how* bad of an idea it is.

California is preparing to send its own state observers to watch over federal monitors from President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. The move underscores a growing standoff between state election officials and a federal government many voting rights advocates say is weaponizing oversight.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Ranking Member @meeks.house.gov, Ranking Member @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social and @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social are calling on the State Department to swiftly deploy necessary disaster relief assistance to Jamaica and the Caribbean ahead of Hurricane Melissa’s expected landfall:

Let the Trump admin argue in court the legal technicalities on why people should starve. Great optics for them.

NEW: High-profile Congressional hearings are typically festivals of grandstanding and missed opportunities. If Jack Smith testifies about his investigations, here are the 5 questions we hope members of Congress ask him to avoid that fate.. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

That is quite a good argument for ... negotiating with the opposition.

At 2pm Judge Xinis is holding a 'virtual' hearing on govt's new stated plan of sending Abrego Garcia to Liberia by 10/31. Abrego says it's too late to switch again & govt must 1st try Costa Rica (already offered, but only if he'd plead guilty). I'll try to live blog here for @lawfaremedia.org . /1

Even if you are leader of the free world, you don’t just get an MRI without a clear reason to do so. There’s no such thing as a “screening” MRI.

Senator Gallego - “How can I negotiate? The president’s in Asia for five days. Johnson’s keeping the House out until January to protect pedophiles. So who am I negotiating with?"

Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...

One day we need to properly study the impact of TRT and other growth hormones on the male brain. Some of these people are just too stupid to comprehend without explanation.

Federal workers didn’t cause this shutdown—but they’re paying the price. The HELP FEDs Act protects them from student loan penalties and credit damage while they go without pay.

The US president is teasing different ways that he falsely claims he would be "allowed" to violate the plain language and obvious intent of the US Constitution. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin used exactly the method he falsely says he is "allowed" to use, to remain dictator for the last 26 years.