amazing

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Texas, County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

A federal judge ORDERS senior Border Patrol officer Greg Bovino—the face of Chicago's Operation Midway Blitz — to attend in person at a hearing she just set on Tuesday. He's accused of violating her order by lobbing tear gas into a crowd. More on Bovino www.allrisenews.com/p/general-sc...

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it. They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Absolutely outrageous!! 🤬

"The utmost refined ugliness has become the beauty ideal" Adolf Ziegler, President of the Third Reich Chamber for Fine Arts and plenipotentiary for ‘Degenerate Art’ 1936. Nazis blamed the "weak" Weimar leaders for promoting "so-called modern art," "so-called" so much they called it Entartete

Maybe we should all apply and then wash out of the academy.

Monthly DoD payroll is ~$16 billion. This supposed "gift" would cover less than 1% of that amount. If split evenly among active duty service members, each would get just under $100. Reporters who don't challenge on this are committing egregious malpractice.

“Don’t protest.” Not great when federal law enforcement leaders start directly and openly denying the existence of the literal and explicit First Amendment.

As folks are noting, $130m isn't anywhere near enough to actually pay the troops; the DoD spends something like $16bn on personnel costs per month. It is, however, more than enough to send everyone to prison for a couple of years under the antideficiency act for improperly appropriating funds.

Buried in a new GOP-backed Utah bill is a provision making it harder for courts to strike down future redistricting plans based on partisan bias. The stipulation, Michael Li of the Brennan Center said, is a clear attempt to tie the court’s hands. https://bit.ly/4owphkd

Should have said it in the original German

it's hard to Nazi what's going on here

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

Boat strikes put US service members in legal jeopardy: "Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jeffries: "He's found time to demolish the East Wing in the most horrific way possible bc he wants to erect a ballroom so he can be celebrated like a king. He's found time for all of these different things, but somehow can't be bothered to find a dime to extend the ACA tax credits."

Alaska: $25 million Argentina: $40 billion

Lindsay Halligan, the top prosecutor for the eastern district of Virginia, reportedly used disappearing Signal messages to communicate with a reporter. That would violate records retention rules. The DOJ inspector general's office should investigate.

I have one slight disagreement with this post. There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy. And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.

How do you measure, measure a lie?

New market manipulation scheme just dropped

Nothing says, "We are not serious people," like replacing accredited media with the mypillow guy. For fuck sake, it's just a whole ass cartoon now...

This morning Christian Minister, Jorge Bautista was peacefully protesting outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland, when he was assaulted and shot in the face with the projectile by Border Patrol. #BorderPatrol #Oakland

This enrages me. Honestly, you should just roll up the paper, throw it in the trash can, and join the White House Office of Communications if this is what you’re going to do these days.

Even though the Senate is now debating bills, the shutdown’s root cause is the House’s failure to pass a bill acceptable to both parties. The Senate cannot act until the House provides something it can advance.

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

basically all this shit is Roberts' fault, because the immunity made Trump feel like he could break the law as much as he wants without consequences. bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Thanks John Roberts!

He is there to serve himself not the American people. I know this is stating the obvious, but I still think it’s worth saying.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Leavitt: "Advanced imaging is something that presidents receive and people receive when they go to the doctor, and so we provided a detailed read out of that physical. I don't know the exact imaging that took place. POTUS is in incredibly good shape and I think that's evidence here every single day"

Q: Is $300 million for the ballroom the operative figure and why did it go up so much? LEAVITT: $300 million is the operative figure and again, it's not gonna cost the taxpayers a dime

Jeffries on a death threat made against him by a pardoned J6 criminal: "Not a single Republican has reached out to me since that incident occurred, and that's no surprise because they cannot defend the fact that Donald Trump pardoned hundreds of violent felons who brutally beat police officers."

Americans agree: Trump's management of the US economy is the worst by any American president in history.

"Since Hurricane Helene devastated the community in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, the county government has spent nearly $50 million on cleanup and recovery — while getting reimbursed only $4 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency..." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

That's only 1.5% of what Kristi Noem's jets cost. America First, right?

Cartoon by @ahoyuniverse.bsky.social. How MAGA sees smaller government.

Donald Trump just did something truly awful and is hoping you won't notice. He fired all of the special education staff at the Department of Education. What kind of person abandons kids with special needs?

How cool would it be to have an actual Congress right now instead of a doormat for Trump Tower?

“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Mike hasn’t clocked into work in 3-plus weeks, and hasn’t spent a full week at the office since July. “Been a little busy”: with what? Keeping cucumbers over his eyes so he can pretend not to see anything?

Releasing a health care plan is not negotiating. It's...releasing a health care plan. Odd that the House speaker doesn't understand that basic point.

Making Argentina Great Again. Indefensible.

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

Trump said today that he gets mad when people rank him behind Lincoln as top president. Lincoln freed the slaves, while Trump freed George Santos. Pathetic stuff.