“An ICE agent claimed someone was trying to force their way into a door, but it was just a CBS News Chicago photographer filming the exterior of the building.”

For perspective on her politics, Judge Immergut was one of Ken Stars' attorneys investigating Bill Clinton, a US Attorney for GW Bush, and appointed to the federal bench by Trump

Top homepage stories, ~8:35p Eastern US. Spare a thought for the poor drones at #FoxNews. They need to get some ketchup off the bunker walls before anybody can approve a story like “Trump appointee says Trump order ‘untethered to the facts.’”

"It’s not the journalists’ burden to keep the government’s secrets for it," @seth-stern.bsky.social told @columjournreview.bsky.social. "That is the opposite of the press’s job, which is to tell the public what the government doesn’t want the public told."

“Untethered to the facts”

I didn’t think the tear-gas wielding leopards would tear gas my face

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

Hoping for the day when Axis Karry explains the “3,000-year war” bit to the White House press corps

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

There are some great indie journos on the ground in Chicago with up-to-date information as it happens.

This is going to sound great at Nuremberg

Mentions of the term "illegal aliens" in official congressional e-newsletters over time, by party

Republicans ordering the media to get in line

Wild scoop from the Minnesota Star Tribune, which includes a high-ranking Homeland Security official calling Kash Patel a “giant douche canoe” www.startribune.com/trump-offici...

"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said." www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Don’t know if this is a shutdown thing or what, but they really need to think about having a grownup on duty for the second shift on Fridays. And no, this is not how protected speech works, and this is not how pronouns work. (Who’s the “you” in the second sentence?)

Today in protected political speech

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

If you said this exact combination of words to a cop at a traffic stop, they wouldn't even waste time with the breathalyzer.

Really gonna need to see the map on this one

The truth isn’t good enough for #FoxNews when it has a chance to fluff Dear Leader. Compare hed to lede: “The Treasury Department is considering a plan to mint new $1 coins bearing … Trump's image as part of a push to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America's founding, FOX Business has learned”

Axis Karry is not well

Good thing we’re no longer bound by those pesky rules of engagement

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

A right wing influencer was arrested after starting fights in Portland and blaming “antifa”. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...

Today in 100% protected political speech. I don’t make the rules.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Just so it’s on the record

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

But whatever you do, don’t call him a fascist

Band name contest!

Starting the day with a lovely #ElongatedYellowFruit (technically a POV, I think, because it’s #TheGuardian, but still)

Today in America First

Good thing we got rid of those pesky — how did the Secretary of War put it? —“politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.”

New: Abu Dhabi fund MGX told me it picked USD1—a Trump family–linked stablecoin from World Liberty Financial—to put $2B into Binance, citing its “compliance history.” USD1 had just launched. me, for @forbes.com 🪙🍼🤷 1/

Any questions?

Take the good news seriously too

The administration took down the form required for my family get reimbursed for recovery work after our farm was destroyed in Helene. Hard not to see this kind of stuff as intentional.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) is a lying weasel. Pass it on.

Just having a moment reflecting on what a ridiculous state we're in, where the president is making "deals" with private universities by personally meddling in federally allocated education and research funding and this is being treated as just ordinary politics.

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

Deranged, un-American fascism. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Looking forward to the presentation of Lt. Calley’s Medal of Honor

The most unqualified SecDef in U.S. history would like to talk to you generals about merit

“Bots or likely bots authored 44.5% of X posts mentioning Cracker Barrel in the 24 hours after the new logo gained attention on Aug. 20, according to research for ⁦‪@WSJ‬⁩ by PeakMetrics. That number rose to 49% among posts calling for a boycott.”

This needs to become a huge story

This is a real Trump post, and Aaron is right