Britain may already be at war with Russia, former head of MI5 says

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JUST IN: A judge concludes the Trump administration sent a man to Mexico to sidestep protections against torture. He has no criminal history and had legal protection from being sent to his native El Salvador — where it appears Mexico is sending him. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

This is demonstrably pathetic and a sign of true weakness. The Feds lack the numbers to do what they want to do. They can hurt, yes, but not at the authoritarian scale that (de facto President) Miller desires. So they go for the media-bait illusions of power. Like this. Profoundly weak flex.

I’m still waiting to learn from MAGA how Democrats are responsible for a couple more new mass shootings from straight white male Marine Corps vets. I’m sure the various theories and conspiracies are in the works.

Trump tells NBC News he 'would think' that his own DOJ is investigating former FBI Director Christopher Wray. Trump accused Wray of committing ‘inappropriate behavior' without evidence.

The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election. It won 51 seats - an outright majority. Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership. A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.

Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.

He. Was. Indicted. For. Bribery. In. 2024. Do. Not. Congratulate.

Another Kavanaugh stop.

Paging “Muslims for Trump”… Trump just shared an anti-Muslim video from Charlie Kirk complaining about the way Muslims pray and claiming they “hate America” and should be deported. The post itself warns, “Islam will suffocate the US, just as it’s doing worldwide.”

Police in Chicago have open a criminal investigation into a malicious assault carried out by Trump's secret police on a CBS News camera crew. This is one of more than a dozen incidents of assaults by ICE officers against journalists in the last week. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

That quote is not out of context, the full version is worse.

As of 2pm today - less than 6 hours after receiving formal notice that the President had federalized Oregon’s National Guard in Portland - we filed a lawsuit. The president has overstepped his authority. #portland #nationalguard #orpol

AFP’s Jaime Saldarriaga photographs soapbox cart riders racing downhill during the 2025 Cerro Quitasol Festival in Bello, Antioquia Department, Colombia

Good news, and a setback for Moscow, which invested heavily in defeating PAS. But PAS will end up with a very narrow majority. The EU needs to do more to show Moldovans the benefits of aligning with Brussels rather than Moscow.

He couldn’t do much worse.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Multiple people shot at Mormon church in Michigan and North Carolina bar

He’s had his morning medication.

American cities that the Current Occupant of the White House does not like are not war zones. Those issuing, following, and ENABLING these orders are behaving like war criminals.

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

Feds just arrested a reporter at the ICE facility outside Chicago

‘I don’t care’: Colombia president Petro hits back after US revokes his visa

@govpritzker.illinois.gov what authority does ICE have to manage use of public roads? That sounds like a job for local and state law enforcement. Not ICE.

Ok

I've seen this misreported in so many places, and I'm grateful to reporters like Anna for doing the legwork to get the details right!

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

September 27, 2025

Clearly no way ICE with their $28 billion budget could possibly get less than a dozen people away from their driveway curb cut without the full force of the USA military.

What the hell is happening? Trump just posting a fake video of himself promising every America access to a medical technology that doesn't exist. Did Trump see this AI video of himself and think it was real? Does he know this is not him? Does he not remember what announcements he films?

CARTOON OF THE DAY

I know that it's deranged conspiracy theory stuff, but I especially hate that this is also a scam targeting desperate people with real health problems. It reminds me of how evangelical faith healers do the same sort of thing. There's a special innermost circle of hell for such people.

As I mentioned earlier, his Trump Social feed has been batshit crazy the last week or so. Is anyone going to say anything about this? This is especially weird since it's an AI video of himself making a looney promise to create an alternative Medbed Medical system. WTF???

While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.

“I ask all the soldiers of the United States Army not to point their guns at humanity,” he said. “Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity.” -Amen- #uspol #democracy #solidarity www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

More in today’s edition of purging the security services.

When we say “believe women,” we mean: Trust that harm is real. Trust that pain is present. We aren’t saying we don’t want accountability. We’re saying that to ever get there, we first have to recognize the injury.

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say.

Why would Democrats agree to any budget deal when all of it can be overturned by executive fiat?

Trump demands that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco. Anybody from the party of small government have an issue with this or nah?

Gift article about just how crooked people in this administration are. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

So even with no defense attorney there to cross examine witnesses, no defense witnesses, nobody challenging the authenticity of any of the evidence, Halligan was still only able to convince barely half the jurors when the standard isn’t even proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

The only people we'll admire from this time are the ones who said "Hell, no."

The Trump admin, with the imprimatur of SCOTUS, is operating under the principle of “it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission”, and other institutions have adopted the same stance. The only way to push back is for illegal actions to be punished at a level that makes folks take notice.

They continue to act guilty as hell www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

New: Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding that AG Bondi turn over documents relating to the firing of the EDVA prosecutor that paved the way for the Comey indictment. @durbin.senate.gov and others