For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Poverty is a policy choice.

Betting their true plan is to tear the whole thing down and then “relocate” to MAL.

Pretty rich of Ted Cruz to be hauling Google and Meta execs before the Senate to talk about "Joe Biden's jawboning" literally days after Pam Bondi admitted she calls Meta to have them remove groups, and as Trump says the new TikTok should be 100% MAGA www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/10/part...

DHS says they “don’t arrest U.S. citizens for immigration enforcement.” But at least 170 Americans they’ve detained know that’s not true. Don’t ignore their stories. If Trump can detain citizens—including combat Veterans—for days without cause, no one is safe from his whims.

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."

That’s called burying the lead

If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

#DonTheDiddler in a flight mask giving…

It’s very clear that he views it as personal property, and that speaks to so much of how he views the office of the presidency as well. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

I have left Substack. It is a scary move financially, and I urge you to consider signing up now for my newsletters. The Ghost Era is off to a good start. Check out some of these pieces from the last week. There's this morning's newsletter, for example... www.drewmcweeny.com/how-to-prepa...

Omission of news is propaganda too.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

Just when I’m on the verge of giving up on humanity, people have the nerve to go out there and be creative, funny, brave, and beautiful.

The kids are alright, y’all.

Auntie Pho

Repost if you have more followers than the Official White House BlueSky Account

Millions of people are taking a stand against the fascist Trump regime today. If you are one of them, stay safe, stay vigilant, document everything, and let’s goooooo. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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.

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring. Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

Citizens waving American flags protest Trump violating the Constitution. MAGA: They’re Marxists who hate America. GOP operatives praise Hitler and joke about rape and gas chambers in their group chat. MAGA: Boys will be boys!

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky. Block on sight. Protect your digital space. Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them. The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

Holy shit. Buckingham Palace stripped Prince Andrew of his titles and honors. THIS IS THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE FOR THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE. The Royals know they can’t cover it up anymore. The damn is finally breaking!!!

Hi. There is an influx of government sites and I’m gonna use what little clout I have To say Don’t bait them. pay them DUST. Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target . In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

He's actually allowed to pardon anyone he wants. Those are ACTUALLY within his power. Too bad Democratic Presidents didn't use their commutation powers to free masses of people.

every day is vacillating between everything matters too much and lol nothing matters

Trump hosted a dinner this week for donors to his White House ballroom project. Now he's heading to Mar-a-Lago to host a $1 million-per-person dinner for his super PAC. Meanwhile, 700,000 federal employees are furloughed, with nearly as many working without pay due to his government shutdown.

Important: Sen Chris Murphy just sent pointed questions to Kristi Noem about DHS's account of shooting of US citizen by Trump's paramilitary forces in Chicago. The official line is imploding. Murphy wants Noem to explain why DHS misled. More like this, Ds. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Then: throw tea into Boston harbor to protest taxes being collected and spent by a craven ruler. Now: adjust your W-4 to “exempt” to protest taces being collected and spent by a greedy, craven leader.

As they should. It's clearly illegal. The US is not a monarchy. He is trying to put Band-Aids on problems he himself created.

I like this ICE reporting acronym much better than prior ones: “CLEAR.” C - count L - location E - equipment, incl clothing A - activity R - report time

4 months apart

Verified/confirmed.

Apparently $20B of our taxpayer money wasn't enough to bail out Argentina. Now Trump wants U.S. banks to divert ANOTHER $20B away from lending to American businesses, farmers, and families to prop up Milei's corrupt presidency and failing economy. So much for America First.

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Can we celebrate and publicize the wins, not just the new Jonathan Mitchell lawsuits or anti politicians' letters to FDA?

The cartels could actually make money by simply becoming ICE agents to get that $50k signon bonus & bunch of free guns and ready access to a whole bunch of ICE agents but who am I to tell anyone how to do their business

So glad we’re burning down rainforests and drying up lakes to help total losers masturbate in an entirely new way

Oh look, it’s Frey’s governance plan.

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

I think the wealthy of this town are trying to rewrite history with their Precarious State circle jerk on all their corporate stations & papers I think they don't want us to realize our PBS is telling the accurate history of Mayors & Cops in this town. Watch Paradox next Tuesday at 7pm on TPT2!

Imagine if a woman president went off about every picture of herself she didn’t like. “Hysterical.” “Emotional.” “PMSing.” “Petty bitch.”

"We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced." ~W.E.B. Du Bois