Much of ICE's national leadership was purged overnight, to be replaced with Border Patrol agents in the mold of its ultra-aggressive field commander Gregory Bovino. It might be the scariest development yet in the Trump admin's war on America. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/think-ice-...

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino just entered the Chicago’s Dirksen Courthouse, surrounded by masked border patrol agents, as a small group of protesters jeer. Bovino is set to testify this morning about his agency’s alleged violations of a temporary restraining order.

Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled. www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

I've talked before about power struggles within hardening authoritarianism. Usually, regime supporters fight over using rule-of-law in crackdowns (with massive abuses, of course) vs. completely embracing extrajudicial methods. Here, we see the latter dominating. Which is very bad news going forward.

3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests" Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

“The boat strikes constitute murder,” Eugene R. Fidell told me. He used to be a JAG in the Coast Guard and is now at Yale Law School. The entire operation amounts to “treating the world as a free-fire zone,” he said.

Trump’s “mental faculties are crumbling like blue cheese, and major media need to write prominent stories about this alarming problem – not just stick a sentence into the 14th paragraph of a news story.” My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

I have a very bad feeling about this...

i once again would like to express some alarm and concern at the sheer pace of Nazi-related news updates

Looks like Donald Trump's decades-long obsession with eugenics isn't going anywhere. Check out @juliametraux.bsky.social's timeline of the president’s thoughts on “good genes,” IQ, and which disabled people should “just die":

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

For me argentina is the easiest one because there's 40 million people on SNAP and we're giving milei 40 billion. "The president could give every hungry family a thousand dollars right now but he's giving it to argentina instead for no reason at all. He hates america"

consider that the psychotic loop of chatgpt mostly seems to be 'the chatbot repeating your own ideas back to you and telling you they're brilliant' and then consider billionaires and the people around them

In Chicago, a federal agent pointed a gun in a combat veteran's face and told him “bang, bang,” and “you’re dead liberal,” per court docs. It's another alleged violation of a federal judge's order Background www.allrisenews.com/p/gregory-bo... Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

SCOOP: Brad Lander is telling allies he's planning to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

"i took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, found it difficult, and badly understood what i was being asked to do" is not a great sign

NEW: In Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case, the Justice Department is moving to quash subpoenas for the testimony of senior DOJ officials, including Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

"The next presidency is going to have to embark on a sweeping de-Trump-ification of the entire federal government to purge it of the culture of abuse and lawlessness that has taken hold, and there are few more vivid examples than ICE." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Also, Greg Bovino allegedly asked a reporter, “Did Judge Ellis get hit in the head by a rock like I did this morning? … Maybe she needs to see what that’s like before she gives an order like that.”

I thought this was metaphorical hyperbole but, alas, no. The Department of Energy is selling off more than 40,000 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the Cold War arsenal to nuclear reactor startups. All of which I’m sure will be thoroughly vetted and monitored by…their former board member.

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

NEW: Don Trump Jr.--after helping pick top Pentagon officials to join his dad's administration--has now become an investor and advisor to Pentagon drone builders. This as President Trump orders Pentagon to buy more drones. A NYT investigation of this latest conflict. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

This is the third death that I'm aware of this year where a person died trying to flee from ICE.

Ah. “Mellon, the 77-year-old … who poured $30 million into 3 GOP super PACs in 5 months, wrote that black people were ‘even more belligerent’ after the expansion of social programs in the 1960s and 1970s and that Americans who rely on government assistance were ‘slaves of a new Master, Uncle Sam.’”

NYT - Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the US government to help pay troops during the shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us...

Say @gavinnewsom.bsky.social? The empty Port of Los Angeles and the Amazon fulfillment center in Ontario, CA would look great in a CA version of that Reagan ad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2B-...

Here's the Ronald Reagan ad from Canada that Trump calls "fake."

"The utmost refined ugliness has become the beauty ideal" Adolf Ziegler, President of the Third Reich Chamber for Fine Arts and plenipotentiary for ‘Degenerate Art’ 1936. Nazis blamed the "weak" Weimar leaders for promoting "so-called modern art," "so-called" so much they called it Entartete

The corrosive public health impact of RFK’s MAHA foolishness is not just being felt at the federal level, but also at the local level where his ideological soulmates are hard at work creating more business for local dentists.

Spoke to two of Jack Smith's top deputies about the launch of their new firm this week. Read: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

To be clear, the thing that will absolutely fuck us in the "drug war" is losing the cooperation of Colombia, Peru, and Mexico and it very much looks like we're doing it.

BREAKING: Judge Ellis, overseeing the protest/journalist case in Illinois, orders DOJ to bring top Trump admin Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, accused of personally violating the TRO in the case, to court for a hearing at 10a CT Tuesday.

Test run for 2026. Here's what I wrote in the NY Times about the federal government potentially interfering with the 2026 elections and what we need to do about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

NEW: Letitia James asks the court to dismiss the indictment against her because Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed US attorney and has "no authority to litigate this case on behalf of the United States." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Letitia James's attorneys ask the court to limit further govt disclosures in the wake of Signal messages sent by "purported interim U.S. Attorney Halligan" to @annabower.bsky.social. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Despite holding out Costa Rica as an option, DOJ has just publicly filed a notice in Abrego Garcia suggesting that it's identified the Republic of Liberia as the next country that's willing to accept Abrego Garcia (after it was rejected by/unable to make a deal with Ghana, Eswatini, & Uganda). FFS.

🎙️Some NEWS! Introducing Disclosure, a new @bloomberg.com podcast I'm co-hosting w/my atty @mvtopic.bsky.social about the #FOIA & the wild backstories behind my FOIA requests & lawsuits. Produced by the great Heather Schroering & Sean Cannon Check out the trailer! www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

Usually we do this in war zones or flood zones or to look for nuclear facilities. Now it's our own president demolishing a large portion of the most famous and historic federal building in the country, without notice to Americans

Here's a fun little nugget from Trump's demand that DOJ pay him, personally, $250 million: In his memo, he argues that prosecutors "should have foreseen" that he has "immunity from prosecution for officials acts." Thank you John Roberts, great rule of law-ing, sir! static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Wonder what Harry Sargeant III & Keith Schiller are up to these days. A recent post by @emptywheel.bsky.social reminded me about Schiller's [denied] role in an aborted Venezuelan coup. One of my more popular Twitter threads was about what a jerk Schiller is...😎

There is still both (1) the pending en banc call in the Portland case; & (2) the merits appeal in the California case. Judge Berzon’s “statement” may well be an effort by a sizeable chunk of the court to nudge their colleagues in one or both of those contexts. What comes next there is what matters.

You guys wanna see a dead body

Just a quick PSA that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your public movements. This is why law enforcement can follow YOU or photograph YOU in public without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Law enforcement doesn’t get “extra” protection in that regard. Goose/gander etc.

trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors

The destruction of the White House is such an ungodly abomination that, of course, the New York Jets are involved.

JUST IN: Once again, Lindsey Halligan has to turn to out-of-state prosecutors, this time for the Letitia James case. Roger Keller is a Missouri-based prosecutor. Two NC-based prosecutors are handling the Comey case for her as well. No one from EDVA in either case.