In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Probably unrelated. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

The first time I brought my husband back to my New England hometown, he was immediately suspicious of the number of per capita Dunkin Donuts and asked me if they were a front for the mob.

Portland debrief: -Eem is incredible -Powell’s is overwhelming -How does an entire city sustain itself on thrift stores, coffee shops, bars, and restaurants? I’m a little worried the regional economy is a pyramid scheme built around the exchange of vintage cardigans

Yes!

I didn't know anything about how the H2A agriculture system really worked. This was pretty enlightening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWr...

It's time that we stopped using Nazi to describe these people. They've earned their own slurs, for the history books. MAGA is the cult, the brand MAGAts are the members, mouthpieces, and state actors Trumpism is the policy and governance strategy It's our American form of neo-fascism

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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Dang, this pope is super woke. Right on.

This Is Fascism

Theo Von looks like he should be playing Banana Ball with the Savannah Bananas.

Here's the thing about arguing with extremists, they're never going to admit they're a terrible person. Someone who attended the "5th Annual White Nationalist Economic Summit," which was advertised on stormfront as an opportunity to "work for whites," actually told a journalist they aren't racist.

ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.

Loss in court for Trump Admin: Appeals court blocks the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area amid ongoing protest www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...

OMG, that elderly man who ever so politely informed the police, when asked if he needed help standing or walking, that he didn't think he'd be helping them arrest him. And they had to pick him up and carry him! Boss move! The sight of so many seniors being carried off www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFcI...

Judge Ellis's order includes a paragraph about identifying journalists. Keep these in mind when viewing content of/by those right wing propagandist influencers who call themselves journalists but are really instigators: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released. DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

3 MAGA counterprotesters were arrested at ICE in Portland

TN man arrested, held for posting a meme in response to a local Charlie Kirk memorial service announcement. "Even if the case gets thrown out, he has already spent two weeks in jail and is set to spend two more months until his first hearing." reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.” The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

The WH propaganda video from the anti-antifa event is really chilling. Everyone that expresses opposition is antifa, but antifa is also a terrorist organization to rival hamas or isis, which is absofuckinglutely ridiculous. They've now labeled everyone who expresses opposition a terrorist.

There is definitely a fracture happening. The far right is basically saying they aren't fascisming hard enough or fast enough, but also being messy about it so it's going to fail and the dems will take power and then they're all fucked. >>

Well played, Guardian. I may not be a fan of organized religion, and the Catholic church has a lot of sins to answer for, but I'm glad that they chose another humanitarian, anti-fascist pope.

Federal charges against a Chicago couple who were arrested for protesting against ICE were dropped after a grand jury refused to indict them.

Notes from Judge Ellis's discussion over what should define a journalist at a protest. Compare this to the likes of Nick Sortor and the people sitting in that roundtable with the president while he called real journalists scum.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

It was, and basically from the moment it happened, the decision was made for all senior officials to just… pretend he meant to do that: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"ICE agents being redeployed to target activist groups" How is this remotely legal? Immigration and Customs Enforcement targeting citizens for their activism?

Army commander said under oath that the "Federal Protective Service" requested National Guard support for security at a courthouse. The chief judge of that courthouse, who is on the security committee, says FPS isn't in charge of security there. It's the Marshalls & nobody requested National Guard.

But Hunter and Burisma

My algorithms have shifted and started showing me more foreign sources watching, documenting, warning about the fascism/authoritarianism here.

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Is there such a thing as a correspondent crush? I might have one.

God dammit

Antifa is kind of like people who fly pirate flags on their RVs. There is no pirate governing organization that approves new members. Anyone can decide to identify as a pirate. But if you aren't forcefully boarding other people's vessels to plunder them, then you aren't a fucking pirate.

9th circuit upholds stay on Guard in Portland. Arguments will be heard 9am and be streamed live from court website. No ruling from the bench. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

NOTE: Leavitt says Trump will "stop by for his routine yearly check up." But…Trump had his annual check up already. 5 months ago. On April 11.

If you go to antifa(dot)org, it takes you the Library of Congress web archives. All the page captures just show this from circa 2020:

🚨 This is protecting the American people. “Full force” is not defined by the military. More of this!

I just read an article that made sure to mention Kristi Noem's age and, that was nice.

We've arrived at the point where foreigners are laying out the case that America is fascist now and it's time to isolate us and break ties. And I don't fucking blame them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKvB...