Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

The government shutdown is in its 4th day and Donald Trump just arrived at his golf course.

Colbert’s response to the Schumer/Jeffries/sombrero video is priceless (starts at 10s or so): youtube.com/shorts/QI959...

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

“.. another setback for the Cybertruck, which has sold poorly and been recalled eight times since last year.” @nytimes.com $TSLA www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...

I've been waiting for a good voice to pick up the Argentina/Soybean scandal. Dan Osborn now has. www.centralnebraskatoday.com/2025/10/02/d...

They are stealing taxpayer dollars from blue states because Democrats in Congress refuse to give Trump a blank check for his authoritarianism. Corruption. Coercion. Blackmail. Lawlessness.  I won’t bend the knee to a wannabe dictator and his cronies. We will prevail.

I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Somehow even the Dems didn’t fumble this, Trump and the GOP are that far gone

had another wonderful chat with my friend @bencollins.bsky.social (a.k.a Tim Onion) about The Onion's wonderfully absurd and truly hilarious 20 minute mockumentary, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile (google the title at your own risk!) www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Reductive? I think he boiled it down to its most salient points.

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

Hegseth thinks rape should not be prosecuted, even for repeat offenders.

HAPPENING NOW — Video obtained by The TRiiBE shows a federal agent with his hands around the neck of a Black man following an apparent car crash on the West Side near California Avenue and Congress Parkway. thetriibe.com/2025/10/vide...

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Lindsey Halligan, the attorney selected by Donald Trump to bring criminal charges against James Comey, has never prosecuted a case. But, like Trump, she did get her start in reality TV — with a brief cameo on South Beach Tow. Here is Halligan’s newly resurfaced TV moment:

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

Screen grab and post on your own platforms.

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Connecticut just sued to stop the Trump administration from unlawfully reallocating and constraining federal homeland security funding from states based on their compliance with the administration’s political agenda.

Out of interest: Do top Democrats still oppose abolishing ICE? Still think it can be ‘reformed’?

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

The incident June 10, with Congress woman LaMonica McIver was simply another absolutely unaccept visit to one of the half ass ICE Locations. Resulting in 3 charges for a NJ Representative. What are the GOP trying to hide?

"If you have body cameras, turn them off."

The reason we're rounding up grandmothers and shoving them onto concrete floors for months at a time with no habeas corpus is in part because soft human trafficking is an incredibly lucrative business for some people in this administration.

Your regular reminder that residents of Puerto Rico are American citizens. This shouldn't be a difficult concept to grasp and yet...

finally people are speaking out as -don’t-want-to-watch-videos-Americans

🚨🚨🚨 A man in khaki shorts pulls out a weapon and points it at 2 teenagers. I am an adult and have no idea how horrified these kids must be; how traumatized they must feel. This was posted an hour ago. See the next post for further details. This shit has to be stopped. 1/2

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I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

This needs to become a huge story

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

Dear lord this footnote about Kari Lake: her "brazen disinterest in the unambiguous statutory obligations implicates her competence to implement the President’s directives in a manner consistent with fundamental tenets of administrative law."

David Cross folks.

'Striking about-face' as Trump admin reinstates official who brutally slammed woman to ground www.alternet.org/trump-admin-...

Why aren't Democratic leaders urging people to participate peacefully in No Kings Day: Saturday, October 18? What are they waiting for? BE THERE! www.nokings.org

ILLINOIS — BROADVIEW POLICE CHIEF ON ICE: “I was shocked. I’ve never been spoken to by a fellow law enforcement officer in such a way.” ICE is routinely gassing cops and negatively impacting the community as their detention facility faces protests.

NEW: Mayor Wu has been one of the faces of pushback to Trump's ICE demands. But a police grant the city is re-applying for is sparking concerns about helping immigration enforcement: not just due to new strings DHS is imposing, but also due to how a fusion center called BRIC is already working.

I sure hope the ADL is proud that they stuck up for Elon Musk when he did a Nazi salute back in January.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.