A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Corny niche humor department: Dating app for pilots only. Inside jokes, but some actually funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbSZ...

Sobering and insightful must watch by @timothysnyder.bsky.social on Trump’s anti-fascist roundtable: “When they say they are going after Antifa what they mean is they are going after the broad center. They’re going after civil society… (and) individuals. snyder.substack.com/p/when-anti-...

On heels of Pope’s comments that US bishops need to speak out forcefully against ICE raids, Leo received full USCCB leadership in private audience today; at November meeting, the conference will elect its new president.

Seems important. It now appears the Nov 2025 USCCB election may be a bellwether for the direction of the U.S. Catholic Church during the papacy of Pope Leo. Will we live the Gospel by following Jesus? cc: @catholickungfu.bsky.social @decentfilms.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

Prayed but didn't post🤷‍♂️ Day 67 (yesterday) and Day 68—Said my Our Father for our country. Every day until … Join me. Let me know. Pass this on. If it’s not your “thing”, just be kind and let it be. Here is why I pray: cc: @catholickungfu.bsky.social @decentfilms.bsky.social @bpdflores.bsky.social

That’s totally how science works

Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social: “It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Outstanding thread. @catholickungfu.bsky.social with the receipts to show the consistency through the millennia. Bravo.

Had a great evening at @thebulwark.com Live event in DC. @jvl.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social were on their game. We’re in this fight against Trump’s authoritarian project together.

Folks, the oath of enlisted people and officers are two different oaths. The officer's oath does not include the stuff about the president.

"At least the church cannot be silent." #PopeLeoXIV #PrayForAmerica elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Complete nonsense from Secretary Rubio. The Trump administration is engaged in lawless, premeditated killings without any congressional authorization. Schiff-Kaine resolution moves to stop that lawless killing. The resolution would not affect authority to defend against real armed attacks.

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Day 66—Said my Our Father for our country. Every day until … Join me. Let me know. Pass this on. If it’s not your “thing”, just be kind and let it be.

More good work by Greg Sargent

Pritzker: “This is a convicted felon…who is threatening to jail me. This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump: If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.”

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

What is Freedom in the United States? "Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." These words spoken by Pope John Paul II exactly 30 years ago in Baltimore directly apply to us today. A brief 🧵 1/6

‘The church cannot remain silent,’ Pope Leo XIV tells El Pasoans in Vatican meeting on mass deportation fears

The President is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. Congress needs to push back.

Bravo! And much needed.

Pope Leo at General Audience: “No fall is definitive, no night is eternal, no wound is destined to remain open forever. However distant, lost or unworthy we may feel, there is no distance that can extinguish the unfailing power of God’s love.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announces an executive order establishing "ICE-free zones" in Chicago. "That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids." This man is an American Hero!

Always read @hcrichardson.bsky.social. She is documenting the unprecedented and dangerous times in which we live.

A must read by @jvl.bsky.social on the crisis in Chicago. Clear, insightful, and disturbing. Ben Franklin said, “We have a republic, if we can keep it.” Our constitutional republic is under attack by the Trump administration. Chicago is the front line. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo? I talked to him yesterday. He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Important @radiofreetom.bsky.social piece. A must read if you care about the future of our nation. Yes, it’s that serious.

Important @radiofreetom.bsky.social piece on why the senior U.S. military leadership must hold the line against Trump’s illegal use of the military force to amass and use authoritarian power.

Very good piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Durbin: “The president said he wanted to use American cities as 'training grounds for our military' to fight 'the enemy within.' Chicago is not the enemy. Our fellow Americans are not the enemy."

Pam Bondi's shameless stonewalling of the Senate Judiciary Committee today is of course a total negation of Congressional oversight. "Oversight" is impossible if they won't let you see anything.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Day 65—Said my Our Father for our country. Every day until … Join me. Let me know. Pass this on. If it’s not your “thing”, just be kind and let it be.

Today is the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. In honor of the day, here are photos of the pilgrimage that my wife Dawn and I made last month to Fatima (left) and Lourdes (right).

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: This neat clip I'd never seen before has been making the rounds. On October 4, 1963, Barbra Streisand (just 21 years old) joined Judy Garland to sing this cleverly intermixed medley that Garland herself cooked up. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?si=BUC...

Day 64—Said my Our Father for our country. Every day until … Join me. Let me know. Pass this on. If it’s not your “thing”, just be kind and let it be.

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

Not be a sourpuss or anything—but do leading Democrats really have to rush to tell us that they REALLY want to negotiate with Trump, and that they’ll be “at the table” the MOMENT Trump deigns to talk with them? And God forbid they put “on the table” Trump’s use of the military or the Epstein files.

At this inflection point for Trump's authoritarian project, the democratic resistance has a chance to rise to the occasion by linking together its legal prong (lawsuits), its political prong (the government shutdown fight), and its popular prong (No Kings). A moment of challenge and opportunity.

Contrary to Stephen Miller, the president is not "commander-in-chief" of law enforcement within the United States. The invocation of the title "commander-in-chief" to justify anything Trump wants to do anywhere is a sign of how far down the road the administration is to Caesarism.

I am a Catholic and a Secular Franciscan. I endorse this message. (Note: @govpritzker.illinois.gov next to the priest.) Cc: @deanast.bsky.social @catholickungfu.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )