NYT adds to @juddlegum.bsky.social's reporting about the billionaires that Scott Bessent is bailing out by propping up Javier Milei. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

I just took a deep breath and deleted a skeet where I cussed out @padlet.com, but honestly, maybe I should have kept it. This was a great resource, and the folks behind this decision should be ashamed of themselves for what they have chosen to enable.

🇪🇺 The European Parliament supported a resolution authorizing the downing of Russian aircraft and drones in the EU airspace.

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

New book?

She's waiting on the final draft to be finalized by Michelle Obama.

feds have been all over chicagoland today. reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview. feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

@theophite.bsky.social I thought you were exaggerating when you said this case is about something she didn't sign - but the indictment doesn't say whether she signed the doc at issue, or whether she represented anything! This really should be dismissed

Alleges “ill-gotten gains” of $18,000 and change over the life of the Virginia home loan. (Which would be $600/year if a 30-yr loan)

Everyone associated with this prosecution should end up in front of a bar hearing and subsequently disbarred.

It appears that Lindsay Halligan's prosecution of Letitia James has been assigned to Biden appointee Jamar K. Walker. James is represented by Abbe Lowell.

Okay this is a good headline

“Though Trump claimed the military was needed to combat daily violence against fed immigration officials, Immergut, a Trump appointee, concluded that Trump’s assessment was “untethered to facts” and failed to satisfy the legal basis to federalize the state’s Natl Guard troops.” RE: OR case, Politico

Perry cites other fed prosecutions/lawsuits in Chicago and says "in the last 48 hours, in four separate unrelated legal decision from different neutral parties, they all cast significant doubt on DHS' credibility and assessment of what is happening on the streets of Chicago."

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state. U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination." "I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.” Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

This is terrifying! ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents) This is Trump’s America.

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

ILLINOIS Candidate for Congress @abugai.bsky.social : “You said Prizker & Johnson need a history lesson - I’d like to give you one: when masked men are kidnapping entire families, naked, zip-tying their hands and throwing them into U-haul trucks… they’re usually not the good guys.”

"Baby in her placenta"

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*launching a military coup* “oh fuck my old man balls just ripped open when I started jogging

Argentina takes a chainsaw to their own government and we have to bail them out. Brazil protects their democracy by prosecuting coup plotters and we hit them with extortionate “corruption” tariffs👍

Be nice if any single national Democrat promised to hold these fuckwads accountable for malicious prosecution should the wheel ever turn around. But, whatever. Everybody who opposes Trump will just have to weather this bullshit.

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

⚠️ Rep. #ThomasMassie just exposed a hidden #EpsteinList He says the #FBI has been sitting on files naming 20 more men tied to Epstein’s sex trafficking ring — including a high-profile U.S. official. And #KashPatel? Massie says he lied to the American people.

Among the endless fire hose of news, there was an interesting nugget buried in Mayor Keith Wilson's statement today. The city of Portland is considering taking over the lease of the ICE facility and the city said it has no intention of being ICE's landlord.

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

Interesting insights into thoughts on mass deportation in a @nytimes.com poll: 1. The message that ICE is out of control is getting through—by 9 points, people say the *process* has been "mostly unfair." 2. Despite this, people say ICE is deporting "people who should be deported" also by 9 points.

"Garbage" is far too kind a description of what the Washington Post's ed page has become.

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security. www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

JUST IN: DOJ says it shouldn't have to turn over any US government communications about Abrego Garcia that might reflect desire for selective or vindictive prosecution, if the acting US attorney handling the case wasn't aware or party to them. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Russian Parliament member of the socialist party Sergey Mironov believes that countries which bomb other countries have no right to exist. Who is going to tell him?

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at Rutgers University says he is fleeing with his family to Spain after death threats

So the argument for sending US troops into cities to be used against Americans is that Antifa has apparently taken over our cities and the troops have to battle them.

A federal grand jury reportedly indicted Letitia James, Trump’s latest effort to weaponize the Justice Dept. to punish political rivals

Proving, as anyone who has had to deal with it knows, that there's very little justice, rectitude, or capable jurisprudence in Louisiana.

(CNN) — New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted in federal court on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

I am so angry, my heart is broken. Young children are waiting at school for this mother to pick them up. What will happen to them? What will happen to her? To her car, her purse? Why does it take over 12 heavily armed men to kidnap her? Is she really "the worst of the worst" or just a human bounty?

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

I don’t usually cover breaking news, but this story is truly wild. A pastor in central PA brought an AR-15 to church and pointed it at people during his sermon. Gun safety experts and internet commentators are, predictably, not happy! (Paywall free link below) www.pennlive.com/news/2025/10...

I also went to weekend camps back then were it wasn't Capture the Flag but large games (at night) of "Communists Vs Christians", and we'd have to free the captured Christians that the Communists tagged.

Yeah, this was in Dallas in the late 90s, but we had 4 armed men come in with real unloaded guns, and take a few of us aside. Said they were here to kill believers, and asked if we were believers. After we all said "Yes", they unmasked themselves as dads from church.

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them