ICE is shooting and murdering people. With real bullets. From real guns. If you think they only use rubber bullets or paintballs, no—they are using real guns with real bullets #DefundICE #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

TEXAS senate candidate Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social (grandson of a Baptist preacher): “I put my hand on a Bible and swore an oath to the constitution, not the other way around.”

More of this. Cut the mic, cut the bs

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

True bravery!

Part I of this series went viral. Not to have done a Part II would have been iresponsible: 20 More Advanced Laws that turn volatility into leverage....plus POW mental tactics you can deploy today.🔥👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

As I got to know them, they gave me a $400m plane. @acyn.bsky.social

And one more thing. Anyone who publicly begs for, and publicly demands, the Nobel Peace Prize should never be given the Nobel Peace Prize.

John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more. It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help. Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

Maybe it's just me, but I like for my Nobel Peace Prize winners to not sic the military on their own citizens while engaging in extrajudicial killings in international waters.

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

Dasha Burns said she talked with Trump on the phone 4 days ago. But now he doesn’t know who she is 🤔

In the long, trade-war debate of “Who Holds the Cards?”, US officials are admitting they tried to reach out to China and essentially got the Heisman. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/china/...

ICE GOONS are harassing two 15-year-old boys on bicycles in Chicago.

President Trump said he told Ukrainian president Zelensky during their call on Sunday that he might give Russian President Putin a new ultimatum to resume serious peace talks or else the U.S. will provide Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles. www.axios.com/2025/10/11/z...

He knows those pictures are going public soon.

Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Add to this the Court’s usurpation of trial judges’ fact-finding function, often getting facts way wrong, in ways that get the Court to desired outcomes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought. "By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check. It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

Incredible and sad for California

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

Because she issued the temporary restraining order one day earlier, I missed U.S. District Judge April Perry’s decision against the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois. Here it is: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... The Supreme Court will hate it because she does originalism.

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...” apnews.com/article/pope...

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

A reminder that I have "Arkham" embedded in my name. (not that there's anything wrong with that...)

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BASH: Are you gonna look into the way ICE is conducting itself? JIM JORDAN: We're going to look into the whole situation where you have these mayors-- BASH: So you'll only look into that side and not federal law enforcement? JORDAN: Wuh wuh wuh we'll look into all this

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up. If you value independent, pro-democracy media that won't bow down or obey, support Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal.. There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants. Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

Gov. JB Pritzker on ABC: "He certainly has the power of the presidency. He does not have the power to overcome the Constitution. And so am I afraid? I am not afraid. Do I think that he could do it? He might. But as I've said before, come and get me I mean. You're dead wrong, Mr. President."

Baldwin: Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds. A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada. Those have shot up because of tariffs. About a quarter of all farmers use the ACA for their health care coverage. This president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.

Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low" Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.

This article I had published at @motherjones.com in January feels very relevant with federal special ed office layoffs. Project 2025 targeted disability education services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

THey and they alone seem to be our only heroes...

Trump’s rhetoric about people attacking law enforcement officers rings a little hollow from someone who pardoned the criminals who killed police on Jan 6

The Great Stunt Queen is blowing up Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean, but most of the world’s cocaine is produced in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia and smuggled through the Pacific, not the Caribbean. As for fentanyl, Venezuela does not supply it at all. It’s made almost entirely in Mexico.

Anyone come to mind?

One more time: As it’s not “weaponization of justice” for law enforcement to prosecute someone who committed crimes trying to rob a bank, it’s also not weaponization of justice for law enforcement to prosecute someone who committed crimes trying to overthrow an American election.

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

The cruelty is the point

Reese Witherspoon on Diane Keaton hiring her as a fresh-faced girl from Nashville. #RIP

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.

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank