NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

The KenCen’s website was notorious for having 10s of 1000s of people in the online box office waiting room for hours - if not days - to try to get tickets to shows like Hamilton and The Book of Mormon. Now they have to close the balconies at a John Williams concert. Sad! apple.news/AZdploo7oSpO...

I’m not on the betting sites, but does anyone know if there are prop bet opps for Trump saying kids can just eat their Halloween candy if their SNAP benefits expire on Nov 1?

What the hell did they do to that young man once they finally wrestled him into the stairwell, outnumbering him 5:1 and probably outweighing him 10:1 or more? Amidst everything else they’re doing, they had papers at the ready to cover the window and block any further documentation of their abuse.

🚨 Arnoldo Bazan and his father were pulled over by unmarked immigration vehicles in Houston. His dad was arrested. Arnoldo? Restrained, hurt, and hospitalized. 1/2

Watch this and listen carefully. Singapore PM on the change in the global order given the US is no longer the insurer of stability - a sentiment that will go beyond the current administration. But nobody else has stepped in building a foundation of multipolarity amid turbulence.

A little timeline cleanse with a display of humanity, kindness, and community for a change. I know my eyeglass prescription needs updating, but man I could not for the life of me figure out what was going on here for a while.

Bad strategy here. Yes, strengthening protections for all fed workers is welcomed, but in this moment the admin is proving it does whatever the hell it wants to. Pass the bill to pay essential workers, send it to the House, and force them back into session to vote on it. apple.news/ACm_Ck7XVQl-...

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Vance: “crime has gotten out of control in our cities.” The interviewer must push back every.single.time: “you admitted to fabricating claims that residents of Ohio - whom you were elected to represent - were eating their neighbors’ pets. Why should we believe you now?” youtube.com/shorts/sXohW...

🚨🚨🚨The intensity here is indescribable. The reference post (to follow) indicates the gravity being similar to that of “Bloody Sunday.” A harrowing parallel. 1/2

Might as well call him Senator Sinema. apple.news/Auc8WRuk4SSC...

Not a fan of Trump Not a fan of Bibi Not a fan of Hamas I can still be happy that progress is being made in Israel. A bad cast doesn’t have to ruin a promising play.

Remember when this guy was the nominee for Attorney General of the USA? “the committee found Gaetz engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl in 2017” www.npr.org/2024/12/23/n...

Saving this amidst my many reposts of her soldiers on attack; here is the General surveying the enemy formations on the riotous battlefield of Portland, Oregon. #weird

“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Please point me to any legislator - any! - who is explaining the situation this clearly. I’ll settle for anywhere close to this clearly. youtube.com/shorts/DJL0l...

Yep. Either roll back the healthcare cuts or abolish the filibuster to pass the CR as written. If they were to do the latter, make it clear that day 1 of a Democratic trifecta passes DC Statehood, Puerto Rico Statehood, and expands the Supreme Court to 1 justice per circuit. Restore representation.

@gallego.senate.gov: would you be able to field a coalition of enough Senators to tie DACA to the inevitable aid for farmers, as they both as relief to people who didn’t create the situations they currently suffer? Maybe the current climate isn’t conducive to promoting DACA, but….

Remember when comparing J6 to the Beer Hall Putsch and calling it a “dry run” was laughed off as “overreacting”?

79. American citizen.

Ignores daily security briefings. Admits to gleaning intelligence and making security decisions based on what he sees on TV. Backs off when presented with facts from outside his advisors’ reality distortion zone. This really is the dumbest President ever. www.kgw.com/article/news...

“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔 *busts in the door with babies crying*

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Let’s guess what’s in the Epstein files. My guess is that Trump ratted on Epstein, knew where enough skeletons were, & got sealed immunity for himself and those he didn’t expect to implicate. Acosta gets cabinet post bc it’s all buried & wouldn’t resurface but for #metoo and late 2010’s zeitgeist.

Had a rare, but intense headache yesterday. Took a Tylenol; it went away. I guess I should be glad I’m not a pregnant woman.

@patrickboyle.bsky.social read the entire Epstein Birthday Book so you didn’t have to, and YouTube demonetized him for doing so.

I can’t shake the feeling that Charlie Kirk will get the MLK Jr treatment from his advocates. A young orator and organizer taken down by a bullet in his prime. Once they name schools and blvds after Kirk, his name will be a lot harder to erase than, say, Robert E Lee or other Lost Cause heroes. 🤔

Just so we’re clear, the anti-cancel culture/pro-free speech crowd is demanding the cancelling of people exercising their free speech. And yes, when Senator Marsha Blackburn of the United States Government gets involved, it’s absolutely a First Amendment situation. apple.news/ANJ-hrOM6S3m...

When asked further in his Friday TV interview about how we “fix the country” or “come back together” after Kirk’s shooting, Trump said that he “couldn’t care less”. apple.news/AXWMHejkVSvC...

Remember when people insisted that RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard be taken seriously as candidates to be the Democratic Party nominee for President?

Me, trying to remember what it’s called when the government owns the means of production. 🤔 apple.news/AtKf6kJpfSgu...

The gates don’t bother me, but I do remember when I was taking the Metro Red Line daily 25 years ago that the city was proud to have a system with no turnstiles or barriers in its beautiful new stations. Rides were basically on the honor system with police randomly checking tickets on board.

Trump Fed Governor who dissented with the decision to hold rates curiously predicts “expected data revisions” resulting in “private-sector payroll growth [being] near stall speed” prior to today’s jobs report. Clairvoyance or corruption? www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/waller20250801a.htm

It was never about reducing debt. Here’s a billion dollars that get scored as a revenue rise for reconciliation, but will be “fixed” before a penny of the new revenue is ever collected. (And boo-f’n-hoo regarding the W-2G generation. Corps will whine about anything.) apple.news/AZVausWYYQJu...

Of course he’s “never heard it that way.” Who actually thinks he has read (or seen) The Merchant of Venice, which most of us were introduced to in high school? apple.news/AQkyQLemAR5S...

L.A. Taco has confirmed with the family of 20yr old Adrian Andrew Martinez, who was taken by ICE while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is a US citizen who was speaking up for his coworker that was detained. ~ @eltragon.bsky.social

Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

Kudos for speaking more directly than most, but this is nonsense. If the “retaliation” is a threat to life, then organize and quash it. She and her colleagues have the power to do so. If the “retaliation” is being primaried, then just win or enjoy retirement. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

His policies that “WILL NEVER CHANGE,” include so far: —Annihilating the livelihoods of federal employees —Decimating retirement accounts —Tariffing small business owners into bankruptcy But if you’re a rich foreigner, come make more money off the back of his subjects I mean citizens!

I seem to remember a recent film that was huge in the right-wing circles about preventing women from being trafficked. I wonder if those zealots have anything to say about what’s going on here.

Gary has been on a roll lately. youtube.com/shorts/mFp_o...

This so perfectly encapsulates today’s right wing ethos: Deny the easily-affordable action that would improve the quality of life for many while simultaneously reinforcing the “temporarily displaced millionaire” neurosis by teasing them with a golden ticket out of poverty.

An elderly holocaust survivor confronts ICE and Tom Homan. His bravery after what he has experienced and endured shows his incredible indomitable spirit even the Nazis couldn’t crush. #MomSky

Can someone please share what 5 things Amy Gleason did this week as the acting administrator of DOGE?

“The wealth of bands, orchestras, concerts and gigs we see today isn’t a predictor of our musical future, it’s a reflection of our educational past”: powerful @theguardian.com letter on the bleak decline of music in state schools …