this feels more significant than folks realize

I'll be attending four different NO KINGS protests across Wisconsin this Saturday. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35. Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:

Wow.

As many people upset with violence as the masks

‘It’s catastrophic in Kipnuk. Let’s not paint any other picture,’ said one state emergency official via @AP www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-a...

I’m old enough to remember when it was a scandal to say that a portion of your opponents were “deplorable.” This seems a lot worse?

Cruel, stupid assholes. The Republican brand is safe with these chuds. #Maga #MikeJohnson #Fascists #Nazis

Since my first executive order in 2019, lowering prescription and health care costs has been a priority. With CalRx® insulin at $11/pen starting Jan. 1st, we're closer to affordable care for all. You shouldn't have to choose between medications and putting food on the table.

Those wacky Nazi-loving kids on the group chat that JD Vance is defending? They’re the truest Republicans of all. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-young-...

So Nazis. They want to give refugee status to Nazis. OK, maybe not JUST Nazis. Also certain other white people who hate non-white immigration. But Nazis can definitely come. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Being goofy, old, weird, or whatever is turning out to be the best resistance. The GOP is trying to make No Kings seem scary. But I suspect even they can't round up a bunch of senior citizens and wine moms pushing strollers into "antifa." Basically, keep it up.

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record: This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

The lying liars who lie are really losing their shit over #NoKings. That should be reason enough for us to go. Saturday. Everywhere. Go, and ask everyone you know to go. 👉 nokings.org/#map

Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.

New: “I resigned from the military because of Trump” - “I could not swear to follow a commander in chief who seems so willing to disregard the Constitution.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Standing up now is not radical. To speak out, to march and to demand accountability is not defiance; it’s what Americans do when they see a wrong being committed. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

Trump and Speaker Johnson think that destroying our health care and jacking up the cost of groceries is about hurting Democrats. It’s not. It’s about hurting and punishing the American people.

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Free? Why free?

“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.” If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.

The propaganda spewing from Trump's departments and agencies blaming Democrats for the government shutdown is blatantly illegal. We have the Hatch Act for a reason. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-regime-is-wildly-violating

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval

Colorado is scrambling to process 900+ unemployment claims from federal workers during the government shutdown and the food pantry at Buckley Space Force Base has seen demand double

Great 🧵; this is the main point. If the President can spend money on whatever he wants without congressionally mandated appropriations we don't have separation of powers, or even really a constitutional republic (at least under the terms of our constitution). We just don't.

An emotional minute as the word Democracy melts away in front of the US Capitol Building.

The entire Republican Party strategy for achieving what are comprehensively & wildly unpopular policy objectives now consists entirely of bypassing Article I of the Constitution through wildly illegal abuses of both Article II and Article III.

The CFPB is one of the most staunch financial watchdogs for the American people. The agency has returned at least $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011. It's no longer protecting consumers now...BECAUSE THIS REGIME DOESN'T WANT IT TO!

⁨The blatantly political videos being forced on airports across the country are not only an abuse of taxpayer dollars, but they violate the law. I'm joining @SenBlumenthal and @SenJackReed to demand DHS take down these videos immediately.⁩

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

Probably the most important thread going right now

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

All of this, in violation of the Constitution.

Don't let this story die. These are not little boys. This is not in any way acceptable. All these pathetic losers need to be condemned in the strongest language possible by ALL republicans and prevented from ANY political positions for life. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Finally, some common sense from Oklahoma education. Ryan Walters turned classrooms into culture war battlegrounds. Reversing his Bible mandate isn’t “anti-religion,” it’s accepting the fact that the Bible is not a history book! Schools should teach, not preach.

You don't find out until the 12th paragraph of this story that what Trump is doing is illegal. Just from a newsworthiness standpoint, how do you not lead with that? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Republican leaders of North Carolina's state legislature called everyone back to Raleigh to find a way to rig another US House seat for Donald Trump, but not to pass a state budget, or fund our state's Medicaid system. Do you get it now? 🤡

If the Supreme Court just calls balls and strikes yesterday’s oral arguments about the Voting Rights Act was as if Louisiana threw a wild pitch into the stands and the conservative Justices called it a strike and the liberal Justices said you’ve got to be kidding

It's not a presidency – it's an organized crime takeover of your government.

Republicans complain about immigrants changing the character of America, but they’ve welcomed the most dangerous foreign influence: former South Africans such as Musk and Thiel bringing an apartheid mentality to America.