Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

ICE has killed at least 19 people since it began its kidnapping spree under orders of Donald Trump; most victims died while in internment due to “illness” caused by the deliberate poor conditions they are held in.

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

The DHS bought two luxury Gulfstream private jets for Kristi Noem and other top officials at a cost of $172 million, per the New York Times.

Coast Guard bought Kristi Noem two private jets (I guess if one breaks down). Cost: $172 million. Is that what you call draining the swamp?

It's the peak of the fall migration season. This is when bird deaths from window collisions tend to spike, even though simple solutions can prevent this.

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Everything is retribution www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets. Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6

‘Hot mic’ hot mess: gaffes made by global leaders when they think no one is listening

Federal goons at Portland's ICE fortress stalled an ambulance crew for 20 minutes, bellowing threats to shoot and arrest a medic hauling an injured protester, all while demanding a backseat ride. #PoliceBrutality

Don’t forget.

"More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect"

Taxpayers aren’t supposed to deduct losses from something that has no hope of being a profitable business. But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars. (Published 2023)

An EPA report found that the forever chemical PFNA interferes with human development and likely causes damage to the liver and male reproductive systems. The agency has sat on the report for months. “Scientifically, it was done,” said one scientist. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

They "unfired" the CDC employees when they figured out what a gigantic mistake that idiot Russell Vought had made. The Trump Administration is one idiot show after another. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

💔🕯️ Update: Konstiantynivka. Russian bomb took the lives of a 4-year-old girl and a priest who tried to hide the child in a church.

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …." www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

HEY DONALD “Where do I go to report an immigrant who was working here illegally before obtaining a fraudulent visa, had an anchor baby, brought her family here through chain migration, and who’s currently living in government-funded housing and receiving free health care?” RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact. n.pr/4nLAI7A

The mother of this baby, Tetyana Sakiian, was killed in a russian strike on a Kyiv apartment on Sept 7 — she suffered burns to 90% of her body and fought for life for 2 weeks. Her baby, Nazar, miraculously survived emergency delivery and brain surgery.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

We shouldn’t forget.

Not be a sourpuss or anything—but do leading Democrats really have to rush to tell us that they REALLY want to negotiate with Trump, and that they’ll be “at the table” the MOMENT Trump deigns to talk with them? And God forbid they put “on the table” Trump’s use of the military or the Epstein files.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Texas tried invading Seattle just last month and the Astros lost three straight games and missed the playoffs entirely.

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

"Morris, former spiritual advisor to President Trump and the former pastor at a megachurch in Texas, pleaded guilty to charges in a child sex abuse scandal on Oct. 2. He faced five counts of lewd indecent acts with a child..." www.kjrh.com/news/local-n...

🥀💔 This girl was killed today by Russia Anastasia Hrytsiv, 10th-grader at the Lapaevsky Lyceum. Today, Nastya, her mother, and her grandparents were killed as a result of a direct hit to a residential building. Anastasia's father is in the hospital.

“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Russian fascists murdered French media photojournalist Antoni Lallican with a drone in a targeted strike in Ukraine. His colleague from Kyiv Independent Hryhoriy Ivanchenko was wounded.

Four in ten who buy their own coverage say they would go without coverage if ACA premiums doubled. They will increase 114% if enhanced tax credits are not extended: on.kff.org/4nACyIk

🕯️🇺🇦 4 coffins. Two children, a mother pregnant with twins and a military father. In Chernechchyna, Sumy region, they said goodbye to a family that was killed on the night of September 30 as a result of a Russian drone strike on residential buildings.

"at least half a dozen companies vying for a slice of the $45 billion Congress has allocated for immigration detention work had hired Sowell because he had led them to believe his connections to Homan would help their chances of winning government work."

"Trump wanted this shutdown. This isn’t speculation — it’s strategy... Russ Vought, has openly embraced using a shutdown to permanently fire tens if not hundreds of thousands of public servants". Read @joetrippi.bsky.social on why this shutdown is different: www.lincolnsquare.media/p/no-dollars...

“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.

Trump before the election: “I know nothing about Project 2025.” Trump today:

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

MAGA: If you want to know what the rest of the world thinks of Donald Trump, here you go. They think he's an idiot and a buffoon. Because that's what he is. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Chicago: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

New from me! The Trump administration is gearing up to take aim "radical left" institutions aka nonprofits that work on everything from democracy to climate change. The industry is bracing for the hit. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-tr...

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right: