Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

My office is reaching out to the White House and Homeland Security for more information. We have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission. There is no national security threat in Portland. Our communities are safe and calm.

Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM (From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Clear grounds for removing Trump from office. He’s sending America’s military against a domestic terror organization that does not exist fighting a war that is not happening. He’s gone completely and dangerously mad.

Winter Soccer, Bulgaria, 1971 by Jecko Vassilev

JD Vance appropriating the term "blood libel" to describe legitimate criticism of ICE agents is one of the most antisemitic things I have heard in US politics in the past few weeks. Yet this administration has somehow managed to convince a lot of people it actually cares about fighting antisemitism.

I just want to say... thank you. We thought this thing was dead in the water. Instead, over 100 independent theatres, bars, improv spaces, and random people with projectors emailed asking to show this dumb movie because making fun of the president and his dead pedophile friend is important.

In the last 24 hours, dozens of indie theatres from Los Angeles to the Farao Islands reached out asking to show Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile to their audiences on 10/2. We're on more than two dozen confirmed screens right now. The list is rapidly growing. You can buy tickets in your town here:

Folks, some incredible news: A couple of weeks ago, a national theatre chain axed our release of Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile because it mentioned Donald Trump. Now, because of you, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will now run on over 25 screens throughout the world. theonion.com/badpedophile

ICE brutality around the country highlights the importance of #IndivisibleSantaFe #NewMexico signs to help businesses assert their privacy rights when ICE shows up. www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents... 1/2

Note that the part where he points the gun at onlookers starts with the officer losing control of his weapon. This is something police are (supposed to be) trained NEVER to do. So he was humiliated, and reacted by pointing his gun at civilians.

NEW: The Trump admin asking TikTok investors for a multibillion-dollar payment to US is the latest extractive “fee for service” from WH. "These are shakedown schemes…I'd even call it extortion…Privately, CEOs are horrified." www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g... w/ @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

If this is the new normal then I want to see Pete Hegseth's complete unredacted military service record and that of every single veteran serving in Tr*mp's cabinet.

New Jersey Navy veteran Julio Aponte III questions whether any veteran's personal information is secure after Rep. Mikie Sherrill's private military record was released by Republicans.

do not fear these people // i will see you motherfuckers in court are dual messages we really need to hear from more of the elites who have been targeted by this admin

Trump's ordered indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is a baseless act of personal vengeance and one more savage assault on justice in America.

The story btw azmirror.com/2025/09/25/j...

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders. we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

Comey’s attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, is the former U.S. attorney who put crooked Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in prison.

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

They did in fact use the Kirk killing as the reichstag fire

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ne...

Trump just advanced the spin-off of TikTok into the hands of some of his biggest allies. Asked if the new algorithm would be more pro-Trump, he said, "If I could, I'd make it 100 percent MAGA-related. But it's not gonna work out that way, unfortunately" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I am almost 99.9% sure that Mr. José Escobar Molina is the same José featured in this episode of The Daily: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/p...? The story begins at 23:55, and, as @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social notes, the circumstances are way worse than in the complaint. (Facts line up almost to a tee.)

The circumstances of Mr. Escobar's arrest are even worse than the brief summary above. He repeatedly tried to tell the immigration officials that he had papers while they were arresting him. In response, a federal agent said "No you don't. You are illegal," and "Shut up, bitch! You're illegal."

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

This is what I’m talking about! Fight together!

@beccasheff.bsky.social Congratulations on securing Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira’s release!

Bravo @aclunm.bsky.social! www.aclu-nm.org/en/press-rel...

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

This kicks ass. Bravo @aft.org @rweingarten.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Along with Thune - Collins, Murkowski, and Cassidy - they all voted for RFK Jr. They all own this mess and they are not going to be able to separate themselves from the taint of the Trump regime - especially if their constituents suffer bc of their decisions.

One of America's top religion journals uses the title of an infamous white nationalist book to ask whether a dead fascist dictator or Bari Weiss represents a better model for the leader of their Christian conservative political alliance.

Another win for "Fuck you. Make me."

House and Senate Dems are going after the big law firms providing free legal services to Trump. They may not get far now, but what they're really doing is laying the groundwork for full-blown congressional investigations the moment they take back the House. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

"i can not believe the president lied about the wrong thing"

Friday: a prosecutor is forced to resign bc he concludes there's not enough evidence to go after Trump's perceived enemies Saturday: Trump makes public post asking Attorney General why she hasn't gone after his enemies Wednesday: DOJ says enemy indictment coming right up sir do I have that right?

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

I am so glad to see the WSJ figure this out in 2025.😂 I helped start Elias Law Group in 2021. We are currently litigating more than 50 voting and election cases in 25 states. Our cases almost never settle and thus we are always in court, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

Not just promoting, *requiring*. They’re mandating TPUSA chapters in every school while banning GSA chapters in every school.

Danger is lurking even in public schools. Our youth are at risk. Our country is at risk. Stop Republican fascism!

Oklahoma promoting Hitler-Youth-like Turning Point U.S.A. clubs in public schools. State government joining with Charlie Kirk’s organization to indoctrinate high school students into Republican Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

Wild honey has a scent - of freedom Dust - a scent of sunshine And a girl's mouth - of violets. But gold - nothing. Water - like mignonette. And like apple - love. But we have learned that blood smells only of blood. -Anna Akhamatova, trans. Ilya Kaminsky/Katie Farris #everynightapoem #shanatova