President Donald Trump struggled to answer questions from the press regarding reports that he is seeking to force the Department of Justice to pay him $230 million as compensation for being investigated during the Biden presidency.

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

CNN - President Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities. www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politi...

Billionaires and their families spent over $2.6B in the 2024 election, almost a 1/5 of the total spent that cycle. @rfunkfordham.bsky.social explores the 15 years since the Citizens United ruling and the disastrous impacts of this outsized influence. rooseveltinstitute.org/public...

Thank you, Mike Johnson! No Kings Day signups have doubled since Republicans started lying about our peaceful protests. We will see you in the streets tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

What is happening in Chicago, and other cities across the U.S., is unimaginably horrific—it will forever be a stain on American history. Do your part to fight back against this by attending a protest this Saturday. We need to show America—and the rest of the world—that we are done with this shit.

We must restore the power to the people over corporations. @neeratanden.bsky.social speaks about plan to end Citizens United: www.americanprogress.org/article/intr...

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too. #NoKings snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...

Nothing like this should happen anywhere

From Chicago to D.C., federal judges are standing up to Trump’s abuses They’re showing what judicial independence looks like That’s how democracy wins Full analysis in my NEW @contrariannews.org article contrarian.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

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preferred pronouns are still me/my/mine

Beyond honored to read Casey CEP’s review of my book #Undivded and truly flabbergasted to have it appear in @NewYorker! 🙈🙊 www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

i got so absorbed in reading @hahrie.bsky.social's new book, Undivided, that I completely forgot the other things I'm supposed to do this morning. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669326...

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

nothing says america first like putting qatari fighter jets in the rocky mountains

A few minutes ago in the House: - Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week - House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

went out on my patio to document the hellscape

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

This is well said. Trump and Noem need to back off before we have another Kent State tragedy.

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square. Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files. Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

Nine former tenants announced their joint refusal to pay back what the Debt Collective calls “immoral sums” of “illegally held” back rent demanded by Equity Residential, the fifth-largest landlord in the United States.

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

Since Day One, Donald Trump has made it harder for families to get help from the IRS. Now, he's using the Republican shutdown to gut the IRS even more. Billionaires get tax breaks while families have their health care ripped away.

President Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the "first phase" of a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal to end the two-year war in Gaza.

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

“They don't care”: MSNBC Political Analyst @timmiller.bsky.social says Trump admin's goal during the government shutdown is to dismantle government -- just as it was outlined in Project 2025

@timobrien.bsky.social: Trump's weaponization of Justice Dept. is “profoundly Soviet”

“Absolutely un-American”: Fmr. Acting Vice Chief of National Guard blasts Trump’s escalating militarization of U.S. Cities like Chicago

Noem introduced Border Patrol Chief G. Bovino who claimed the protesters nearby were “an unsafe crowd” and declared “a free arrests zone” to arrest them all after one warning. Bovino: “They’re getting it here as soon as we leave.”

@repstansbury.bsky.social: GOP “lying in the faces of the American people'” about government shutdown

Important context from @genevievelakier.bsky.social:

Trump declared the shutdown an “unprecedented opportunity” to cut the “Democrat Agencies” he disagrees with most—and Russell Vought is ready to help, scythe in hand.

Ezra Levin: There are a lot of politicians who are trying to raise all of our healthcare costs. There are a lot of politicians trying to give a blank check to Donald Trump. @indivisible.org

Maurice Mitchell: We live in the richest country in the history of the world. Yet, Republicans want to kick millions of families off their healthcare... They want to force people to make impossible choices between buying food or medicine. @workingfamilies.org

“F—k them kids!” That’s what federal agents said about the half-naked children zip-tied together & dragged into the streets of Chicago in the dead of night Tuesday morning during one of Convicted Felon Trump’s raids. Americans MUST speak up now to save this country. youtu.be/XIukXTZNXN4?...

Rep. Greg Casar on Republicans skipping town: "It's like the entire Republican party has taken a lesson out of Cancun Ted Cruz' playbook."

Guess where Comer, a wealthy man, gets his healthcare? From the government.

Meiselas: Another critical reason MAGA Mike is telling Republicans that the House is officially closed is because he’s trying to avoid swearing in Democratic Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva.. She would be the 218th signature on the Epstein discharge petition.

we are in a lunatic’s dream world and our own nationwide waking nightmare www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-d...

"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said." www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

The lawless, sadistic and unconscionable Gestapo raid of an apartment building in Chicago turned my stomach. It is indecent, and prompted me to reup this contrarian.substack.com/p/the-americ...

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.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov