Can’t wait for Alito to explain why you have a right to pray at midfield on public school property but should be shot in the head with “less” lethal ammo when you do it in front of an immigration detention facility

Trump's soul doesn't have a temple.

Make this go viral. Lead pastor in Chicago, Rev. David Black, is being pepper sprayed directly into his eyes by an ICE Agent. Keep fighting. 🔥

I’m shocked.

If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight book talk tonight via Zoom! Excited that over 140 folks have registered so far to learn about how to up their advocacy efforts. Check it out luma.com/o7tavt2c

Just picked up a new read from @carterlavin.bsky.social & @islandpress.bsky.social !

Good times chatting with the Stop Requested podcast crew about #transit advocacy and my upcoming @islandpress.bsky.social book -- give it a listen here open.spotify.com/episode/2omu...

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

The Justice Department had 36 attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians when Trump took office in January. Today it has two. See how this works?

In 1999, Bill Clinton announced “the last, best unprotected wild lands anywhere in our nation” would be shielded by a new rule that banned roads, drilling and other disturbances. Today, these lands could soon see chainsaws and logging trucks amid a push by Trump to raze these ecosystems for timber.

I call this one "WHEN?"

Today marks yet another day that Speaker Mike Johnson has denied Adelita Grijalva her right to govern. She won her special election on Sept 23rd but has yet to be sworn in. Why? Because she will become the 218th vote needed to discharge the release of the Epstein files. Say her name.

The ICE stories in this Reddit thread should shake every American, regardless of party, to their core. We no longer have a Constitution. This is fascism, pure and simple.

It's not health care, it's health insurance . It's disingenuous to conflate the two. You pay insurance companies, they decide if and what health care you can get, for how long, and how much additionally it will cost you.

The media’s job is to make you think that the people who want to give you healthcare are just as crazy as the people trying to take it away.

So SCOTUS seems poised to rule that conversion therapy to "cure" adolescents of homosexuality is peachy-keen legal. Up next, legalizing flogging to cure other not-diseases.

WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?” AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Make America Great Again… GTF Out!

I dunno if I'm the last one to hear about this? But the reason the president is sending the *National Guard* to Portland is because the city mailed the government's landlord...a zoning violation notice? They are sending in the troops to avoid "a monthly code enforcement fee"??

What we learned today from the Bondi hearings; Tom Homan kept the $50,000 bribe and Donald Trump is in the Epstein files with half-naked women.

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim. We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

apple.news/A9GT4M-udRuS... (Answer: YES. They did)

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility. “Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

It's interesting that Bondi can release records of former special counsel Jack Smith, but can't release the Epstein files. It's interesting how Bondi can indict Comey for a "supposed" lie, but not indict Homan for taking $50,000. DISBAR BONDI!

The only war in Portland is the price war between Trader Joe's and Whole Foods on organic avocados. #Portland

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours. There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds. Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

Update from the war zone in Portland.

How often does government money get used in a sting and the target just gets to keep it?

They should refuse to serve them

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

ICE is lying. Go figure

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. apnews.com/article/chic...

I am eager to read this book -- I've heard Carter Lavin speak on transportation activism and have read some of his columns on the topic. He is accessible, creative, and effective in building community consensus. I 💙 how he communicates that folks can translate goals into results-oriented ACTION.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

They again want the right to torture gays into changing their natural choice. What's with their obsession with people' sexual orientations? I can't stand them anymore. Stay away from people's genitals you pricks! Find another hobby FFS! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

People are upset with Bluesky in states demanding age credential information. It's not on Bluesky. States are passing laws that define porn so broadly that Bluesky could be found liable. SCOTUS recently blessed this b.s. in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

we haven't raised enough hell that Adelita Grijalva of Arizona hasn't been sworn in yet