Attention: The U.S. is no longer rated a “full democracy” by many indexes. It is often classified as a “flawed democracy” or “electoral democracy with deficits.”

A Chicago citizen confronts the hypocrisy of a fellow Hispanic man working for ICE, shaming him and making a powerful point by asking how his family ended up in the United States.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@earthtoeve HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS TODAY?

Brian Allen Trump’s ICE just gassed peaceful protesters in Portland, no warning, just brute force. This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political retaliation in riot gear.

A federal agent shot a woman in Chicago this morning, claiming she’d “boxed in” authorities. But in a city where force becomes the first option, whose rights are we really protecting? This is exactly what Trump wanted: chaos.

How exactly is this different from Kristallnacht?

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school. Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

Again, if the Administration has concerns about the legality or constitutionality of contracting, it can file a lawsuit. What it can't do is unilaterally hijack Congress' authority to appropriate funds.

Gosh, you just hate to see colleagues get so upset at each other like this.

I don’t want to hear another word from the right whining about dangerous, incendiary, violence-inciting language from the left. Once again, here’s their dear leader, the most divisive person on the planet.👇

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

NEW from me: Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

The wheels of justice grind slowly yet finely. Now that Abrego Garcia has been granted the right to pursue discovery the Trump Regime is going to run for the hills yelping like a scalded dog. Unless of course the 5 Trump suckers on the Supreme Court decide yet again to act as Trump's attorneys.

In a brilliant tactical move, Speaker Mike Johnson is announcing that the weasels who make up the Republican caucus will be spending the upcoming week in their districts where I'm sure they'll be very happy to hear from constituents about the government shutdown Republicans caused.

I'm guessing this person wasn't a "radical left lunatic". Story: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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This is pathetic. Just pathetic. This is beyond lying -- its fantasy. Its literally inventing a fictional story. There must be no mirrors in the White House because I can't understand how these feckless wanna-be thugs look themselves in the mirror.

Yet more blood on the hands of this fascist regime and the fucking mindless MAGAts who cheer for them.

80% (!) of the ACA subsidies that are about to expire go to people in states that Trump won in 2024. Time and time again, Trump and MAGA Republicans will sell out their own voters — all to fund massive tax cuts for the super rich.

Their Jethro mind tricks ain’t working.

Yesterday Republicans told people the racist video Trump posted was just a joke But today.. Today his racism was put into practice when his ICE goons rounded up Black and Brown children in Chicago-including citizens And I bet the families of those kids aren't laughing Nor should anyone else

Only the weakest men are afraid of flags. Pettiest, cancel mob on the planet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power. We should all be outraged. freedom.press/issues/mario...

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick. Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Today, I'm signing legislation to safeguard our elections and the voice of every voter. It's now illegal to use contests or payments to get people to register to vote. And in the 2026 election, voters have the chance to repeal our state's ban on the public financing of elections.

A lot of us believed Pete Hegseth hated women even before he was confirmed. We weren’t wrong. Quotes on women in the military: • In a 2024 interview, Hegseth stated that "Women shouldn't be in combat at all. They're life-givers, not life-takers" 1/3

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Our farmers are permanently boxed out of China's soybean market.

Even with a farmer bailout, if there is no market for beans, there is no incentive to plant next year. I’m not a farmer. I didn’t vote for Trump. But the only two businesses we have left in my town revolve around corn and beans. My town will fold. My school will close. It’s over for us.

Yeah. Because it's illegal.

Breaking News: President Trump told Congress in a confidential notice that he had decided that the U.S. was in an “armed conflict” with certain drug cartels.

🚨🚨🚨 “Form a circle, form a circle.” They do not want us to see what they are doing in Portland. Low hanging fruit for us. This was posted 3 hours ago. 1/2

Can verify this is true. Google bends the knee. So much for free speech.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Ted Cruz Edits Sombreros Onto 44 Senate Democrats: ‘Will Continue Until They Re-Open Our Government’

The President is unwell. PBS comments: “his remarks were rambling and incoherent,” in multiple appearances. The Guardian calls some of his speeches “baffling” and “weirder than ever.” Cambridge analysis says that his statements often require “translation” or annotation to make sense.

NEW: A federal court began a hearing in a case here Wednesday to decide whether Texas can use its new gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective… You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

Priorities.

Whoah!! Check out Republican lies about “illegals.” But: Medicaid—must be lawfully in U.S. Medicare—must be lawfully in U.S. ACA benefits—must be lawfully in U.S. So why the lie? To change the topic from what they’ve done to health care.