"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come." @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

Dominion Voting Systems, once at the center of 2020 election conspiracies, has been sold to a firm run by a former Republican elections official promising to “restore trust in voting.” Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to do it.

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight. As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old. There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

This is not a border crossing. There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior. This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

The letters demand records, communications, and internal risk assessments about transactions linked to Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their network. Trump loyal Republicans on the committee reportedly blocked prior subpoenas for the same records. #OpDeathEaters #Epstein

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

Q: What guarantees did you give Hamas to persuade them Israel will stop the bombing campaign once hostages have been exchanged? TRUMP: What did I do with respect to them? Well, you know, I spoke a little bit tough ... they knew retribution would be tremendous. Would've been complete obliteration.

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized? TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

I’m getting big “artists at a con circulating the same $20 around” vibes but like, in an evil way

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

These do not look like police videos. They look like campaign ones." I spoke about DHS's glossy, military like videos. The deportations are for the camera. @cnn.com @zbyronwolf.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Just got this text from my daughter’s school. On the one hand, his for her school. On the other, fuck ICE.

this is an absolutely insane news conference for the Attorney General of the United States to be participating in. (note how Benny Johnson describes the Annunciation shooting as an act of political violence, which is a lie)

"Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well" -- Rep. Wesley Hunt on Trump not getting the Nobel Prize

Lots of ways to understand the contemporary moment but one is the role of owners of immobile assets - oil, gas, coal and land- who want to ensure they can continue to extract rents (and pollute) and who prefer an authoritarian set up to do so. Their threat perception rises with every new eco tech

A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7." @timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

they literally have one play and keep doing it over and over

LEAKED AUDIO has surfaced from Thiel's lecture series, where he railed against AI and financial regulations and called Greta Thunberg the Antichrist. From the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again. Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden. Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

A Democratic effort to pass a bill paying active-duty military members during the shutdown was blocked on the House floor by the GOP.

Actually, it does work like that now. The US Congress could pass a resolution giving Trump a Nobel Prize, the White House would host a formal ceremony, and within months it would become “true” for half of the country that Trump had won a Nobel Prize.

These protests show how the regime is weaker than it appears. Laugh at the regime. It’s the one thing fascists can’t stand.

So Trump gave Argentina a $20 billion bailout and is now building a Qatari military facility in Idaho. While Americans can’t afford groceries.

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond. "If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2016...

JB Pritzker also talks about his inability to get any top Trump officials on the phone, probably because they *want* this to be experienced as an invasion. He explains why this could make law enforcement officials on both sides *less* safe. Total dereliction. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Pritzker also says ICE's treatment of peaceful protesters has gotten so bad that Illinois law enforcement has to protect them *from* ICE. "We’ve got Illinois State Police standing in between ICE and the protesters," he says. This is the America Miller wants. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

Ninth Circuit just ended appeals from denial of anti-SLAPP motions in federal court, overturning 20+ years of precedent. From a practical standpoint, massively consequential case. From a principled standpoint, major blow to free expression. Bad. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

This isn't about honoring them so much as making the title meaningless for previous winners

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

The Trump administration is working to dramatically expand school choice, moving kids to a range of private & religious schools or homeschooling. Ultimately, what percentage of children would remain in public schools? A Moms for Liberty co-founder told me: “I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt,

Another obvious case of Trump weaponizing the legal system, with political hacks pursuing a baseless case that career prosecutors would not touch. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Eight of these Senators represent states that directly voted post Dobbs to codify abortion access in their constitutions, or blocked anti-abortion measures. But now they’re demanding federal restrictions (KS: Marshall, Moran; MO: Hawley, Schmitt; MT: Daines, Sheehy; OH: Moreno, Husted)

In some ways this is the government now

I am so fucking tired of hearing the tired, lazy lies about how “now you can walk to the subway safely in DC, now you can go to restaurants…” DC was just fine. And Trump & the GOP are parroting these lies in the stupidest ways, for MAGA snowflakes in rural America. Fuck you, you fucking liars.

this is an incredibly evil thing for fetterman to break party ranks on. like...maybe worse than manchin or sinema?