The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.   American citizens are being detained & brutalized.   This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois. They're calling them Meal Team 6.

Fire Consumes the Home of a South Carolina State Judge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

The firehose of corruption makes the reality of it staggering. And that’s the point. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Woman shot by ICE has been released from custody, body cam footage revealed an agent saying "do something bitch" while holding his rifle at her

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state. The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

A new draft Trump memo argues that furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown.   Those who represent federal workers or advocate on their behalf say the White House is misreading the clear intent of the law.

OH, THE RAVAGES OF THE WAR ON CARNIVORISM

Despite $45 billion to expand ICE, arrests fell and capacity barely grew. Processing centers overflow, detainees sleep on floors without showers for days. A federal judge ordered fixes after videos showed packed cells in Lower Manhattan.

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

Elder abuse there are laws against that

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

ice tear-gassed chicago police officers

My 16 year old is college shopping now and Columbia was her first choice and now she refuses to consider Columbia because of how they bowed down. The kids are paying attention

I think the quickest way to end a government shutdown would be to withhold salaries for the legislators on both sides during the shutdown.

I’m not any of those either. But I did join Democracy Docket and happily pay the &10/month. For all the great info and analysis, it’s a bargain.

I've been a reader and follower of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social for many years. Years ago when she wrote that the goal of the Frump administration was to dismantle the government/country and sell it off for parts, I thought it was a metaphor. She was correct,- and it wasn't a metaphor.

Who torched Judge Diane Goodstein's house in South Carolina, and why? Is this the result of her being targeted by the MAGA horde? We need answers. time.com/7323442/sout...

And there it is

It really is an amazing accomplishment to be able to stand out for your callous awfulness in this Trump administration.

Would someone please hold the White House accountable for statements like this? We're reacting to their words. Force them to show actual videos that "Portland is burning to the ground." It's not.

Bonta: Just minutes before the hearing, we got word that the Texas National Guard has been federalized. We asked the judge to issue a broad order — one that applies to every National Guard unit in every state — stating that none of them can be deployed to Oregon. She issued that order

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time. Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense. 🧵

Trump has broadened the CIA's powers to conduct lethal targeting and covert operations in Latin America, CNN reports.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Cruelty and fear is the short term point, but the long-term plan is to use the military to stop imaginary violence and declare martial law so that elections will be postponed, and the current administration stays in power.

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

A senior White House official accidentally leaked details of plans to send an elite army unit to Portland, in the latest intelligence leak by the Trump administration.

🧵Violence for Me, But Not for Thee Stephen Miller is a master of violent rhetoric WhenMiller speaks, he speaks from inside the machine. And lately, he’s been preaching something that sounds less like democracy and more like violent vengeance. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

More messaging like this please

Beautiful nature, a diversity of captivating wildlife, wonderful Mother Earth. 🩵💛💙💖 #Earth #wildlife #nature #breathtaking

Pete’s lost Peggy Noonan www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

> @governor.ca.gov

“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...)

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A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE] killed an unarmed person just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park...They killed somebody...They are just putting out their propaganda and then we've gotta later determine what actually happened."

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I don’t think that the United States military murdering Venezuelans at sea is getting anywhere near the attention it should