"In addition to simply wanting to enforce Trump's will...they want Americans to get used to having troops in the streets because they are looking to the 2026 election. That is the end game right there." @hcrichardson.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social in today's Bulwark Podcast:

This makes me laugh.

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

Remember the thousands of "guy in a diner" stories about "economic anxiety" as the main force behind MAGA-ism?

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Commentary: After 57% of voters protected reproductive rights in the Ohio Constitution in 2023, the gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the Ohio Statehouse has continued to attempt to regulate, restrict, or outlaw abortion as if nothing changed. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/15/r...

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow." (Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

"The Pentagon should not fear scrutiny by the press corps that walks its halls. It should welcome it and rise to it. In a free country, the Army defends the people—and the press ensures the people know what is being done in their name." www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-do...

I’m nitpicking here, or maybe just commenting, but I often struggle with the phrase “crack down.” To me it sounds like there’s rampant wrongdoing going on that ICE is responding to, as opposed to people responding to ICE’s over-the-top tactics

Beautiful story, should have been on Page One: "Of the estimated two million acres of native prairie that stretched across Wisconsin before settlers arrived, less than half a percent remains. The sisters of Holy Wisdom said it was their duty to restore and protect what they can."

The same hedge fund involved in inflating the housing bubble is involved in the AI bubble! Here's a transcript excerpt on Magnetar. www.organizedmoney.fm/p/the-ai-bub...

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

I've said this before, but one of the more striking things about the current generation of righties is that they really show no sign of understanding that there's a world *beyond* their screens, beyond owning & being owned on social media. A real world, with real people & real problems.

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

A diseased population is easier to control

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

"So it’s back up I-94, past Great America and the Mars Cheese Castle, zooming by the Haribo gummy factory and the outlet stores and on to the town where beer and water are considered essential life elements."

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Look, I get critiques of *how* someone conducts an interview. But Wilson’s congregants include the Sec. of Defense, who invited a pastor in Wilson’s denomination to lead the first of a recurring worship service at the Pentagon. If anything, it’s odd it took this long for outlets to interview him.

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

A federal judge has ruled that ICE agents in the Chicago area who aren’t undercover must wear badges or IDs. blockclubchi.co/4ohSEGQ

A very weird detail in this WSJ story about Trump’s weaponization of DOJ and FBI: “Trump occasionally reminds aides about an incident last year in which Trump cut his hand on Bondi’s large wedding ring, causing him to bleed.” …?? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Federal judge rules National Guard troops from Texas have no place in Chicago or the rest of Illinois. Judge cites a growing body of evidence that the Department of Homeland Security’s legal positions (under Trump) are "simply unreliable."

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

From 2017: "The "Rape Melania" sign was not the work of an anti-Trump protester at all. Instead ... it was the brainchild of a group of Trump supporters led by Jack Posobiec ... a prominent figure in the pro-Trump internet."

"They’re hoping that things could escalate so they can have the pretext to be even more aggressive."

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

Johns Hopkins U. Study Finds Higher Air Toxics Cancer Risks Than EPA Estimates. Cancer-causing air pollution from petrochemical plants in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” are 11 TIMES higher than prior EPA estimates. insideepa.com/daily-news/l... ($) 1/

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

"Christianity is under attack!" They say as they literally shoot a man of the cloth for doing what his religion tells him to do.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

"The point isn’t that we’re headed irreversibly toward totalitarianism, but that we should at this point be on guard against complacency, exploiting all legitimate means to change our course." www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

It's not a distraction. It's subjugation.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The authoritarian threat is not just at the federal level

Falling to your death from a window is a recognised medical condition in Russia.

Chicago news media groups filed suit against ICE and Homeland Security, claiming excessive force against reporters and protesters of immigration arrests.

For example, the Dems should say "The government is shut down because Republicans are asking Democrats to provide bipartisan cover for a constitutional crime spree—something they can’t in good conscience do." Always read @brianbeutler.bsky.social .

If you want to take the Chicago FOP's temperature after the weekend, the union president wrote an angry letter alleging cops were told to stand down instead of helping federal authorities after they shot someone, which CPD denies. The union did not weigh in on federal agents gassing their members.

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.” (Published April 2025)

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023 www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on Chicago’s South Side They are creating chaos www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

“Musk’s data centers will probably bring in only a few hundred jobs to Memphis while consuming millions of gallons of water a day and more electricity than is needed to power all the city’s homes.” 1/2 www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

(1) Agree (2) Also note how argument has publicly shifted from US needs to send in military PROTECT the CIVILIANS from crime (supposedly committed by immigrants), to US needs to send in military to protect ICE officers FROM the CIVILIANS (so they can safely commit crimes against immigrants).

One thing about a #KavanaughStop that people should pay attention to (beyond the cruelty it enables) is that much of our law is based on Supreme Court justices just making up facts and ideas about the world. Time and again, they just invent things to justify their conclusions, both left and right.

This. But also the Infidels are in Gaza quart of the genocide at the behest of the US and Israel. We’re already there and it’s boomeranging back. The old Bikers for Trump characters look quaint now, but even they are ultimately apart of this Fascism. www.bbc.com/news/article...