"For me, it’s more that she embodied the woman I wanted to be: easily given to kindness but never a pushover, serious as necessary but always good-humored, strong yet vulnerable, razor sharp but never shy of being a lovable goofball..."

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims. If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday. Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

No Kings — Freedom (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Trump has weaponized the Justice Department against his political opponents, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. This is a danger to democracy. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Wow.

Oh noooooo! After a jury found Greg Bovino to be full of shit in LA, a judge found him to be full of shitshow in Chicago. [This is Judge April Perry's opinion on her TRO.] storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So not for cause, or to address fraud, waste & abuse. For partisan political pain.

Posted this to Facebook 9 years ago today. It's why I have such little patience for the "No one could have predicted it would be this bad!" people. Some of us did predict it. And we tried to warn people.

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Oh look everyone….how a real president writes and speaks…..

What a dumb ass: Trump meant to DM Pam Bondi when he mistakenly ordered her to prosecute his enemies via public tweet China, Iran, Russia: If you're listening, Trump is using Twitter DMs to communicate with Cabinet officials newrepublic.com/post/201529/...

How has Tylenol not filed a lawsuit

Autism cannot be acquired after birth. Seems bad that the top people in the US federal government are brain rotted freaks obsessed with children’s genitals.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

As students were learning on Friday, masked immigration agents deployed tear gas near Funston Elementary in Chicago. I joined @mayorofchicago.bsky.social @ramirez.house.gov @ctulocal1.bsky.social at Funston today to show gratitude to the local rapid responders who rushed to protect kids.

The troops are working but not being paid, Johnson and his most ineffective Congress we've ever had is not working but still being paid. When someone shows you beyond a shadow of a doubt who they are and what their values are, believe them. Any questions?

Fascists and autocrats fear what teachers do because they know their brand of greed, hierarchy, and extremism cannot survive in a democracy of diverse, educated citizens. Thank you @NationalMemo.com. www.nationalmemo.com/teachers-aga...

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.” People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave. apnews.com/article/myan...

Robert Roberson was sentenced to death despite medical evidence exonerating him, and lead detectives in the case agreeing he’s innocent. We’re calling on Governor Abbott to stop his execution scheduled for October 16 NOW.

Today in Politics Chat, I talked about how power sloshes around when a president is checked out, and noted that right now unelected officials like Stephen Miller are trying to grab it. But instead, We the People can take it back and create a better nation.

Lawfare has a post about how hard it is to challenge prosecutions for selective and vindictive charging and it's not wrong. But there is someone exactly situated: Kash Patel's lies to SJC about investigating Jim Comey. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Her contempt is extraordinary. Trump thinks he's a king. He believes he's accountable to no one. Not Congress. Not the American people. And so when his people testify before the Senate, they act like they are bound by no rules and no laws.

When Democrats controlled the White House, Senate and House there were no shutdowns because we acted like adults and negotiated with Republicans. Now Republicans control everything and they're refusing to even show up for work. Because they think the chaos of a shutdown is fun.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker explains what he believes is Donald Trump's real goal in normalizing a military presence in U.S. cities by dressing ICE and Border Patrol agents in military gear. Watch:

October 5, 2025

No reputable medical or psychological association supports conversion therapy. Being LGBTQ+ is not an illness, and we don’t need to be cured. We have been working to ban conversion therapy in Nebraska since 2019. With my LB 367, we could be next to ban this inhumane practice.

The War Room open.substack.com/pub/nickande...

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

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. 🧵

Acting as judge, jury, and executioner against civilian vessels would lead to war crimes charges with nearly any other country’s leader.

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security. Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. Now he's in charge of IRS.

Tonight! Illinois Governor JB Pritzker will be Rachel Maddow's guest. 9pmET on MSNBC

Militarized federal agents patrolling the streets doesn't make anyone safer. People should never have to fear being brutalized by their government for protesting.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

This dystopian video is previewing a violent takeover, not a targeted law enforcement action. It's insane. Trump is militarizing our cities to STOKE violence. Not to reduce it. These are the tried and true tactics of authoritarians - plain and simple.

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition. It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

What's important is to understand the cumulative effect of it all. To not just see today's outrage. See the silencing of Kimmel, the arrest of Comey, the harassment of Soros, the troops in our cities, the seizure of spending power, as all part of a plan to end our democracy.

#KYsen @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) went on Fox News and explained the consequences of Trump’s government shutdown in one minute.

All I ask is that you watch and listen for 2 mins. youtu.be/AxZDE8PBhFk

I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.

Trump's Truth Social posts might doom his invasion of Chicago just like they did in Portland. From a just-filed lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...