maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Looks like the ol' neighborhood has it covered. Hell yeah, Chicago

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.

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

Why the hell does Trump’s Department of War keep using RUSSIAN military images? This is by no mean the first time this has happened.

"MAGA cultist may buy the canard Trump is battling the “enemy from within,” but voters, courts, and governors are effectively confirming that Trump is the menace." Read Jen Rubin's latest.

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

The Revolution is under way and Montréal is in the North American vanguard ✊ economist.com/internationa...

It’s pronounced cyclist.

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

They are building a Propaganda State. They are cooking the books on job creation. Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

So this interview lasted 2 hours so this “you’re scaring me” part might seem like an overreaction or fearmongering to someone without that context. There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.

Read it all. From one small section: Shortly after a man fired >500 rounds at CDC and killed a cop, the staff that safeguard employee, facility, and data security are gone. And the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, that trains and supports risk management across the entire agency, is gone.

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health. Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

“Christians United for Israel, the evangelical Zionist group founded by Texas pastor John Hagee, claims 10 million members, more than the entire population of 7.5 million Jews in the United States.” I wish more people knew this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They want to kill us all 😳😱

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working on Ebola and dozens of other infectious disease experts (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

"The man with the most power has expended enormous energy targeting those with the least." Katelyn on this Zohran quote: "This is the line. It's the line that got me to tear up as I was watching it." strikes me how this kind of powerful, simple message grows from belief, not focus groups!

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

“Why don’t they just get in line?” It’s a question often directed toward undocumented immigrants living in the United States. The short answer: there is no “line” available for most immigrants. The pathway to American citizenship for the vast majority is long, complex, and financially draining.

New Republic: Vivek Ramaswamy was the headliner at a Turning Point event at Montana State. He was asked repeatedly by a hostile crowd why he thought he could adequately participate in electoral politics when he was non-White and non-Christian. He hadn’t thought the leopard would eat his own face.

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

Cartoon by John Deering.

There is NO evidence that groups funded by Open Society Foundations committed acts of violence or incited others to do so. None!

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

When Trump team pushed to investigate Soros, it cited a watchdog group report. But the group's own leader says "we actually did not make either of those claims that a prosecutor would need to make.” @fahrenthold.bsky.social @aduehren.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Seriously, @nytimes.com ? Participating in the raid on Iran? Blowing up Venezuelan and Columbian boats? This is peacemaking abroad? Do better.

Shutdown day 10.

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday. Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

It's not just $930 billion being cut from Medicaid that will harm people A 🧵 There's another healthcare nightmare in Trump's murderous budget bill - The House GOP budget reconciliation bill does not extend the "enhanced" premium tax credits that were put in place by the American Rescue Plan

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

This is the first visual confirmation of a new round of HHS terminations—promised earlier today by Russel Vought, Trump’s former OMB director—who warned a shutdown would be used as cover to dismantle the CDC.

We have breaking news in Inside Medicine. We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC. But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency. Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...

Sound up! Sing it! Trump is trying to rule like a king. Sending masked agents into our cities. Targeting immigrant families. Terrorizing our communities. But this country does not belong to kings or dictators. It belongs to us. On Oct 18, we rise to say #NoKings ! social.demcast.com/s/YHOzHX6K

If you’re not scared of AI yet, just listen to this interview with Geoffrey Hinton. I’m also scared and surprised China is doing a better job at putting guardrails on AI than any other country. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song. But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.