TO ALL FEDERAL WORKERS: if you were illegally fired today and have information of wrongdoing or abuse of power by the Trump Administration, our whistleblower tip line is open. We want to hear from you. All whistleblowers are federally protected.

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear." Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

All completely untrue of course, but so identical in wording to earlier comments I wasn't sure it was new. He's got one sound bite worth of false knowledge and is making historically significant decisions on it

I don't feel like a terrorist

Abbot throwing fat insults fully knows that Pritzker (or anyone else) cant respond in kind given the justified social norms against mocking paraplegics that most of us follow

Lot of great rulings like this coming out of the federal bench in Providence. Great job to the local nonprofits involved in these suits (including but not only @riaclu.bsky.social )

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves. The Handbasket reports:

War-ravaged and everything burning, city bombed out

Recuperating from a minor procedure so holed up and catching up on prestige TV.

Good for my graduate alma mater! 👏👨‍🎓

These protests show how the regime is weaker than it appears. Laugh at the regime. It’s the one thing fascists can’t stand.

And yes, they're trying to intimidate us but Pritzker's right -- everyone needs to be out in numbers at these events.

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

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.

Literally the guy who'd be the Hatch Act enforcer for the government demanding that career government employees tell him who they voted for

Politico reporting OSC nominee Ingrassia changed TDY reservations so a junior female employee had to share a hotel room with him (big misconduct). Woman filed a complaint but then withdrew fearing retaliation. OSC is the office that protects whistleblowers www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

For professional reasons I should have listened to that "antifa summit" yesterday, but I learned here DHS Sec. Noem, the govt's authoritative voice on such matters, said -- literally -- 'antifa' is just as organized, sophisticated, and dangerous as Hezbollah, ISIS, or Hamas.

1. Hasn't TV news done this sort of thing forever? 2. Do those 3 disagree on Gaza (beyond 'my team did it better'?) 3. Unless this is a tough "examine our mistakes" interview with a knowledgeable correspondent preferably British, I can not imagine why anyone would care

Curious if this was done in an official capacity? Is Wong furloughed?

Between Oregon and Illinois hearings, the Administration's position is roughly if the status quo has not prevented all lawbreaking from happening, that is sufficient grounds for the President to determine "police can not handle" and deploy troops. And that said determination is unreviewable

Judge Nelson in Oregon is making a similar argument regarding the third prong of Sec. 12406: of the President says he can’t enforce the laws and therefore must send in the Guard, we have to believe him.

In Los Angeles and now Chicago, the White House's aggressive deportation operations have one hype man: Greg Bovino. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...

You had a case brought with a bank shot of standing (MOHELA didn't want to sue but MO did) that went against the black letter of the law ("modify or waive") and SCOTUS still said the executive couldn't do that because it was a Major Question. Compared to "Well why can't he dismantle the DoE?"

For most of my adult life I've lived within a few minutes drive of world-class teaching hospitals, and yeah that's not nothing. Especially as one ages. Even the best dental and veterinary schools in the country nearby.

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels. Great work everyone.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

It's still out there folks, I had COVID again just last month, but thankfully a very mild case likely kept that way through getting boosters every year

War college problem: "You are a PLA staff officer developing concepts to gain control of Taiwan. What U.S. organizational, political, or individual leadership factors might you exploit to reduce the likelihood / effectiveness of US intervention. Current day, real world politics & leaders"

Vague statements but both IL and OR state officials suggest NORTHCOM isn't talking to states, at all, about other states' troops being inserted. In OR at least the CA troops are housed at an ORNG base so there must have been *some* coordination? 1/ www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

I challenge the media to show pictures of Portland. Go to a store with glass. That's all you have to do They can't do it because it would offend Deal Leader

Simply not believable. Just not. Find any footage of Portland cops raising fists in solidarity with protestors

Does anyone believe this? Even in what Fox chooses to show, even their misleading 2020 footage, the buildings are standing, the lights are on, there's no rubble etc. is he confusing Gaza or Kiev footage?

1. Two weeks ago in Portland I went into five restaurants, two supermarkets, Target, a butcher shop, Plaid Pantry, a beer store. No plywood 2. Just look at any recent videos for God's sake. Even next to ICE, windows intact.

Highly selective list of incidents over the last 10 years, ignoring eg when the right-wing Proud Boys attacked my family's east Portland neighborhood in 2021 www.opb.org/article/2022...

58% of Americans - including half of Republicans - think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats, a sign of unease as President Donald Trump increasingly deploys National Guard troops to police American cities, a @reuters.com poll found. www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...

Other reminder note that I've been laid off due to the government shutdown and therefore have no 'duty hours' (and obviously am not using a government office or computer)

Reminder note that the rose 🌹 added to my handle / profile is in solidarity with my hometown of Portland OR in this difficult time (not that I've gone marxist). Keep it weird, keep it peaceful. Portland strong. 🦖🐸🦄

Legislative history, Trump's GEFTA signing remarks, six years of OMB guidance and still saying *will* get back pay even today make an unambiguous record for interpreting the law. That said, some risk Admin stiffs feds anyway and SCOTUS says each employee must sue govt individually

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

The "antifa army" that Noem stared down 😂😂😂

This is ground zero for ICE. Nothing burned. No broken windows. No damaged cars. A few dozen protestors hanging out. This is war ravaged? This is terrorists in control?

This is not a mob boss in a bad movie, but for real the President talking about federal employees.

“It appears the federal government is engaging in prohibited viewpoint discrimination by targeting demonstrators based on the content of their speech, while favoring those with whom the federal government agrees,” he wrote.

Perhaps the Illinois NG should be deployed to Texas to do something about this pattern of crime the local authorities seem unable to control

Ground zero of the supposed "war zone" in Portland. One might note no sign of fire damage to trees or buildings, no broken windows, no debris, basically not even any protestors present

Well, a hedge would have been enough for the small and peaceful groups of sign-holders outside Portland ICE most days until DHS chose to escalate www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

This is good. Not only half a dozen live webcams but pulls the Portland Fire Dept's real time incident list, which shows a distinct lack of "everything burning".