THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

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New from me: Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI. Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.

🔴 Scolding a U.S. reporter for asking questions about MBS ordering a fellow journalist to be bonesawed to death signals to dictators everywhere that they can murder journalists with impunity. Read our full statement below:

The Caribbean murders and the Epstein coverup underscore the importance of deterring compliance with Trump’s illegal and corrupt orders. But his poor character and the existence of the pardon power complicate the psychology of deterrence. www.offmessage.net/p/maga-corru...

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The rule of law is dying right in front of us. Impunity for the president's allies, vengeful prosecutions for his opponents.

If Donald Trump had such a robot in the 1950s, this country would be a much better place right now.

It's an administration of shit posters.

Real estate deals with the Saudis while meeting over foreign arms deals, Gold bars from Switzerland while lowering tariffs, Directing DOJ to investigate political opponents after being named in Epstein emails. All of this is corruption, personal gain, destroying economy, foreign policy, rule-of-law.

The most consistent theme of the Trump presidency is using the power of the state to reward allies and harm enemies. -Pardons for allies -DOJ drops charges against allies, brings charges against enemies -Merger requests accepted for allies, denied for enemies -Grants awarded for allies, denied and

I feel like Trump has pioneered a new form of spoils, where criminal allies of the President can expect to be compensated for their crimes.

Things that would get any other president impeached

This is such a bizarre talking point; I've thankfully never had to use most of the types of insurance that I have for me and my family This is a good excuse to share my WSJ letter to the editor explaining that "not filing a claim doesn’t mean you didn’t need insurance" www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

MAGA=Make America Like Hungary

you can indict a ham sandwich, but... www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

It's good to see juries reject prosecutorial overcharging.

We are seeing not just a merging of different parts of the armed forces; we are also seeing a deprofessionalization. Competent people are fired. Those willing to break the law are hired. Normal practices are abandoned as the new force becomes more responsive to the demand for quotas & brutalization.

This is fascism by contractors. For this not to be a total disaster, there would need to be severe sanctions for bounty hunters making mistakes — including mistakes made in good faith. The likelihood that ICE will promulgate such rules is zero.

This is the path out of the abyss.

You fired the wrong dude, Kash.

An authoritarian... stifles dissent/speech persecutes opponents bypasses legislature uses military domestically defies courts declares false emergencies vilifies groups controls info/media controls universities creates cult of personality uses power for profit manipulates law to stay in power

1. A comms guy threatening reporters by siccing the White House on them. 2. The wife of a WH official threatening a pundit's citizenship. 3. A drunk ICE agent saying he'll check an arresting officer's status. These are all the same thing.

also foreign country buys $1 million in soybeans, they get soybeans foreign country spends $1 million on American college tuition, those students live here, spend money here, their research benefits American institutions, they leave with a positive view of America, etc. it's hugely valuable for us!

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Does Donald Trump realize that the Province of Ontario, not the Government of Canada, funded the ads?

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It's time to start holding people who violate court orders in contempt of court.

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What kind of person could watch ICE over the last several months and say "ICE has been insufficiently fascist."? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Impeach him again. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

The delusional despot strikes again.

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I should probably have just published this in the morning, but I had some thoughts about the East Wing — particularly given something Trump said during his 2020 speech accepting the GOP nomination. www.pbump.net/o/the-presid...

The dangers of unchecked presidential power rarely get displayed so vividly.

The East Wing demolition exemplifies just about everything wrong with Donald Trump and Trumpism. This travesty provides an opportunity to break through all the noise and convince the overwhelming majority of Americans to reject the administration's authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Should be a layup legislative move - and ideally Dems would be introducing message bills like this within next 24-48 hrs.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours

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This is genuinely gut-wrenching. Anyone associated w this structure knows the endless ranks of people, over the decades, who have treated the structure and surroundings w respect—since they were symbols for traditions of America as a whole Too apt a metaphor for Trump and US institutions overall

Rarely is a metaphor this obvious.

The Republican rhetoric might have been my biggest motivation to attend a No Kings rally.

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade