Of Trump's 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior leadership roles in its first 200 days, only two, or 2%, are Black. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

He paved the way for the toxic discourse and the billionaires' thumbs on the scale, then he side-eyes the justices who dare to point out how baldly the scales are thumb-fucked. Shoving someone on the playground and tsk-tsking the teachers who ask you why you're being a bully.

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages www.propublica.org/article/trum... www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Years ago, we all drank water. It was fun and it brought us together. Then Musk started adding mercury to it. It has started to make me sick. My hair is falling out and my skin looks like tracing paper. Some people started drinking something else but I still drink mercury. Were they wrong to stop?

How nice it must be, to destroy this country by ignoring the Constitution's separation of powers and enabling an authoritarian regime, and then retreat into your bubble.

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

Notice that as the crowd boos Netanyahu the banner Nobel President Trump is pulled away. Fox News will eliminate the sound & that detail in order to perpetuate the lie that this WH actually cares about the hostages -- or ending the war. As soon as the hostages are returned, Gaza will be destroyed.

Before targeting Trump foes, Pulte practiced on his own family, per @ Brian Slodysko and Chris Megerian. He accused his grandfather’s widow of insider trading, was tied to a website trashing an aunt as a "fake Christian" and called another relative "a fat slob." apnews.com/article/trum...

Cartoon by John Deering.

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Imagine that

"These people" = Americans

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...

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds. FFS

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans ripped health care away from 15 million people and are raising costs for millions more. The numbers are damning.

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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

This is a big deal.

The No Kings rallies have been peaceful. But when was there ever a protest with violence in Washington, DC? I'm racking my brain on that one....Oh yeah, when YOUR people showed up to overturn an election, beat up cops, and threatened Dem. and Repub. legislators. Trump pardoned all those thugs.

The Letitia James charges come after the James Comey indictment and it looks like John Bolton may be next. Trump vowed to exact "retribution" against those he considers enemies and that is one campaign promise he is keeping.

hey @nytpitchbot.bsky.social the editors at @nytimes.com seem to be gunning for your job... (either that, or Jared just bought the paper)

Norway should just blame Sweden. Trump won't know any better. #NobelPeacePrize

Treating what Trump and his cabinet officials said at that meeting this morning as credible and then asking guests to respond to it is...not journalism.

So much for fair elections... The new owner, Scott Leiendecker, is a former GOP election official in Missouri who used to work with Ed Martin from the DOJ and vows to replace the electronic systems with paper ballots. 28 states used Dominion systems in 2020.

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

"It's very funny when the government gets to decide who is a Real Jew and who is not! We are all laughing. It is funny, yes."

DHS Fascism Barbie Tricia McLaughlin in response to a video of Pritzker literally walking the streets of Chicago: "Get out of your mansion. Go walk around Chicago. Go see the rampant crime."

This is the lesson of 2025

Excellent piece by @dwallacewells.bsky.social about ICE's assault on journalists trying to document their actions. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Michigan Avenue right now.

One thing people should know is that Choe works for Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk's group, and was at the WH on behalf of that group

Christian minister attacked by ICE agents. Waiting for the outrage from MAGA. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

At what point is a reporter going to ask "Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth?" Pundits wrongly assume this is some kind of clever strategy. It's not.

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

“If you come for my people, you come for me. So come and get me.” IL Gov. JB Pritzker talks to @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social about Pres. Trump's call for the governor to be jailed

Debora Patta is fearless in her reporting, continually placing herself in harm's way to cover the front lines. With data from UNICEF, she captures the heartbreaking reality of traumatized young children parenting their toddler siblings as they try to survive another day on their own.

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean. If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

“…And to think I voted for all of it. Why, I had no idea the leopards would eat MY face!”

The only time Pam Bondi went silent today was when she realized she could be accused of perjury if she answered. She is in so far over her head -- and we can only hope someday it comes back to bite her.

Pam Bondi is simply no match - intellectually or ethically - for Adam Schiff. Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today. When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.

"Karoline Leavitt is one of the most trustworthy human beings I know." Thanks, Pam. I needed a good laugh today.

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

This but for news

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

"(We must) figure out how to live near each other -- or we can all die near each other." I wish Israel would replace Netanyahu with Rachel Goldberg-Polin. She's a true leader.