“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…” ~Patrick Henry

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

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i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

For no reason at all: I suggest you take time & watch footage from the Hong Kong democracy protests — specifically 2019-2020 protests. Get a sense of what tech-enabled anti-protest policing looks like. Those kids came up with wild stuff to withstand/neutralize “non-lethal” crowd control techniques.

This piece is an essential read. Andy Kroll: I spent nearly a year investigating Russ Vought, the Trump adviser and Project 2025 architect who wants to put civil servants "in trauma." I obtained new audio recordings & videos. This is the most definitive profile yet.

Yeah this

A Christianity that believes it needs a president, legislation and a government to ensure its survival is a Christianity that is centered on the worship of its own power rather than faithfully relying on the power of God. God is just its mascot for its political ideology

This is an outrageous abuse of power. Exactly what the Founding Fathers had impeachment for.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

I really don’t care if it’s someone’s 18th birthday or they’re 80, anyone who says things like “the watermelon people” and and wants “Nazi gas chambers” needs to have their professional lives destroyed. They need to be on terrorism watch lists. Would you want to fly with that person? Hell no.

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

When do the American ICE hostages get released?

This is real. Chicago today.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

NEW: We obtained Secret Service records showing that the agency spent nearly $100,000 in taxpayer money at Trump properties in the first months of President Trump's second term.

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

Nice recap

Number of days since Republicans shut down the government to carry out their Project 2025 agenda and protect the Epstein files: Eleven.

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

In the report of Trump’s physical today, it states he received the flu and COVID vaccines. Tonight there’s a Friday Night Massacre at CDC. Because the President of the United States of America will ALWAYS protect himself but hopes most of us die. #MalignantNarcissist #CDC #RemoveTrump #FireRFKJr

New blockbuster reporting on the secretive map drawing process in Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I’m not telling anyone what to do, but Portland feels like it’s going it right. Dress up as inflatable animals and dance. Make them look and feel ridiculous for being there. Read Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism by Srdja Popovic if you think I’m wrong.

And nobody voted for him. His name appeared on zero ballots.

Miller “slips” on CNN and says Trump has plenary power. Trump says “we took the freedom of speech away”. Bondi says “we’re going to do to Antifa the same thing we did to the cartels”. These are not people interested in Democracy. They’re not looking for another term. They want unchecked power

Let’s help bring this mom home

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Miles was chief of staff at DHS in Trump’s first term 👇🏽

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

A British academic is tracking the Dictator in the WH’s authoritarian acts since taking office in Jan. It tracks illegalities, unconst’l acts, abuses of power - anything undermining democracy & propping up authoritarianism. Tally is at 1466 authoritarian acts. 🆘🇺🇸 www.trumpactiontracker.info?

Trump airlines? Shut down. Trump casinos? Shut down. Trump steaks? Shut down. Trump vodka? Shut down. Trump university? Shut down. Donald Trump has kept his promise to run our government like he ran his companies: shut down, with unpaid workers & blaming everyone but himself.

“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Save the date: On Oct. 8, Reps. Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene will hold a press conference — joined by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse — to discuss the discharge petition to force a vote on Khanna and Massie's bill, the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

I'm not a political genius, but I'm pretty sure the party that published a 600-page manifesto on how they want to shut down the federal government are the ones who shut down the federal government.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

On Wednesday, Rep Malcolm Kenyatta D-Philadelphia was called "boy" and told to "be careful" off camera by Rep Scott Barger R-Blair/Huntingdon after making this statement on the PA House floor.

WTF 🤬 A pastor abuses a child and only gets six months in county jail?

Illinois State Police, acting on behalf of ICE, engaged in violent behavior against faith leaders, community members, and peaceful protestors at the Broadview, IL ICE facility this morning.

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Office of Inspector General (OIG) websites are down including whistleblower links and watchdog reports. All among the many things the administration doesn’t want us to notice in the chaos of the shutdown. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...