He’s plotting a power grab while families are figuring out how to pay rent and buy groceries during the shutdown. Trump first, America last.

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants' apnews.com/article/fact...

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago

Daily Totals as of Oct 4 950 1,114,380

It was FBI and local cops, not ICE, in this case.

One of the cases dismissed involved a 7-person takedown of a guy for waving in front of someone's body cam. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here's what the bruises on the female defendant (now dismissed) looked like, when the goons got done with her. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia has sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — after Lutnick called Jeffrey Epstein the 'greatest blackmailer ever' — urging him to testify before the panel about his knowledge of Epstein and his crimes.

The most important statement is that of Todd Blanche, who could well be implicated in vindictive prosecution claims in the LaMonica McIver and Jim Comey cases, too.

One point Judge Waverly Crenshaw pointed to in granting Kilmar Abrego discovery on Vindictive Prosecution is people, including Pam Bondi, kept making false claims publicly about Abrego. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Also at least two 4A violations.

DOJ is backing off initial charges when all the facts come in and they see the cases won’t hold up. Either DOJ is overcharging or (my guess) relying on law enforcement statements that aren’t supported by evidence — in other words, lies.

In dismissing one of the cases (Butler & Wilson) charged during the invasion of DC, Zia Faruqui compares how uncommon past MTDs from prosecutors were compared to the last 8 weeks. 20/4,000 cases in previous 10 years (including entirety of Jan6 prosecution) compared to 20/95 cases in last 8 weeks.

Supreme Court lets Trump strip protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants apnews.com/article/supr...

I slowed down a video of Nick Sortor in Portland from Wed night to show he pushed this woman first in this altercation. Sortor claimed he was attacked last night (Thurs) and was unfairly arrested, and Pam Bondi has since called him to tell him the feds will investigate his "wrongful arrest." /

MSNBC, Deadline White House Yesterday 300 federal agents (ICE, FBI, etc) raided a south side of Chicago building, including repelling into the building, breaking people doors, putting them in vans, + taking almost everyone into custody.....WITH NO WARRANT OR EXPLAINATION. Most were released later.

BREAKING: A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that blocks President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship. The president can't rewrite the 14th Amendment with the stroke of a pen.

Here are the cases dismissed in the last 8 weeks (I was unaware of some of these -- and remember there have been at least 11 no-bill cases ).

People are asking: Why is Trump screwing American farmers so badly when they’re his most loyal voting bloc? Maybe because it’s a cheap land grab. Run farmers out of business, then he and his billionaire buddies buy up millions of acres for pennies on the dollar. Are the farmers catching on yet?

Reuters: SECOND US APPEALS COURT REJECTS TRUMP'S ORDER CURTAILING BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

To explain "PCA" That's Posse comitatus act. Portland is already challenging DOD's federalization of OR Guard. And this will make things legally more suspect.

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!

Please be patient while the Trump regime tries to find the $17 TRILLION $ it lost. We will reopen the government when we can explain where it went.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Elected officials questioning the legality of ICE processes being arrested

France released a Russian "shadow fleet" tanker suspected of involvement in Danish drone flights, six days after detention Russia's shadow fleet uses foreign flags to evade sanctions, carrying oil that generates billions for the war in Ukraine euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/03/r...

Absolutely bizarre. Trump takes credit for a judge blocking HIS OWN PLAN to cut $34 million in funding for counterterrorism in New York.

Trump claims that Kristi Noem cut millions from funding supporting the cops who protect Trump Tower against terrorists w/o telling him. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

They took these US citizens naked and put them in zip ties and threw them in a van.

Normally, I'm wildly opposed to disseminating Trump's Truth Social posts, but I'm making an exception here.

A 10-foot-tall statue of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein — holding hands and each with a foot raised behind him — has returned to the National Mall, a week after the National Park Service removed it for not being compliant with an issued permit. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

White House Struggling to Deny Stephen Miller Murdered Boats of Fisherman www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/03/w...

Supreme Court will consider overturning strict Hawaii law regulating where people can carry guns apnews.com/article/supr...

57% of MAGAts want ACA subsidies extended. www.kff.org/affordable-c...

Daily Totals as of Oct 3 970 1,113,430

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Good. This is the way.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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History has many painful lessons.

Thanks for noting that it is 100% in the capabilities of New Republic to do this!!

Breaking: The FDA this week approved a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone.

All those 2024 media fact-checks that said, “Donald Trump and the Trump campaign deny any connection to Project 2025” look pretty ridiculous right now. A Trump denial is not a fact. You just used his lies to “debunk” a reality that was obvious to anyone paying attention.

And death by policy, or eugenics by policy for those people they don't like. Every policy they have created kills certain people either slowly or fast. And that's the part we refuse to say out loud for some reason.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Immigrants don’t get government health care—they subsidize ours.