This photo encapsulates Trump better than the combined word count of every article ever written about him.

This is too perfect. Mike Johnson may be the greatest, accidental satirist of his generation.

Quite a moment.

One young voter in New Jersey on CNN right now: “Honestly, the last few days [of shutdown] have been scary for a lot of Americans. And while we’re sitting here struggling and worried, they’re building a ballroom.” 🎯

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now. Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia. A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today. (🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)

THEY. WERE. DOING. THIS. WITHOUT. PAY. NOAA’s hurricane hunter pilots (and Kermit The Frog hanging from the control panel) fly into Hurricane Melissa. Extraordinary bravery, saving lives. (🎥 Cmdr. Danielle Varwig, NOAA Corps).

NEW: Terrifying video from the town of Black River in Jamaica. The worst of storm surges - 200mph winds literally blowing the sea onto the land. #HurricaneMelissa (📸 Yung Senshi)

NEW: Hurricane Melissa is now making landfall in Jamaica. This is the terrifying sight at Treasure Beach on the island right now; somehow the camera still working. I have never heard wind like it.

NEW: Sunrise over Hurricane Melissa. For too many Jamaicans, this will be a life-changing event. Melissa has now surpassed Hurricane Katrina in strength. It is the 8th strongest hurricane in recorded history.

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

“The project will not interfere with the existing structure.” (📸 ABC News)

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.

Trump has installed his own personal lawyers at the top of the Department of Justice to steal $230 million of taxpayer money. This would set a new, global benchmark for corruption in office. Military coups have been triggered by less.

Of everything he has done, this somehow hits different. It lays bare the vacuous, moral bankruptcy of the man and, perhaps more than anything, the generational cowardice of those who should stop him, but won’t.

NEW: Remember when Trump said his new ballroom wouldn’t interfere with the current White House? This is the current view of the East Wing. A demolition. (📸 Washington Post)

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.

Photo of the Day One of the most significant airlifts in recent US history is still ongoing in Alaska. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered the state on Sunday, sweeping some homes into the Bering Strait. Here, some of the 300 residents being airlifted to Anchorage. (📸 Alaska National Guard)

NEW: A huge ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” is currently melting away in front of the US Capitol. Organized by artists and activists, it was commissioned by the Up In Arms campaign, an effort led by Ben Cohen, the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

NEW: Southeast Chicago, Tuesday October 14, 2025. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. If there isn’t a domestic warzone, manufacture one. Fascism. 📸 Credit to local Chicago freelance photographer Matthew Kaplan for all these images.

Decades of experience. And every single one now handing their press pass in. Another step towards the authoritarian state. (📸 Mike Brest)

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm. DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas. Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

NEW: Here, via Washington Post, is the up to date list of which media outlets have signed the Pentagon’s new press policy and which haven’t. Resistance matters.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

BREAKING: ICE agents just abducted a press camera operator in Chicago. WGN-TV’s Debbie Brockman was dragged to the ground, cuffed and bundled into a van - which then rammed her vehicle to escape. What the hell is happening in America? (🎥 Original footage via Josh Thomas/FB)

60 seconds on María Corina Machado and why her Nobel Peace Prize win really matters 👏👇 vm.tiktok.com/ZNdn3rHvb/

NEW: Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela. What’s the chance the madman announces his own peace prize now? The “Donald J Trump Peace Prize” incoming…

Nice work Jim Watson, nice work.

The most honest name in news. Every time. 🎯

NEW: Palestinians moving back towards Gaza City are being fired upon. Israeli forces say the ceasefire does not exist until the government votes for it. At least 8 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

If you had written this as a fake news headline a year ago, you would be called hysterical. Reuters today. Fascism.

Israelis are hostages. But Palestinians are prisoners. Language matters. But, two years on, apparently it still doesn’t to many mainstream media outlets. What a failure it has been.

The new front cover of The New World magazine. A man has been arrested in London tonight for silently holding the magazine up in the street.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

NEW: The centre of Madrid, Spain is being brought to a standstill right now by a massive student-led protest in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla. #Gaza (🎥 Mohammed Shakeel)

BREAKING: 45 civilian boats have just set sail from Turkey bound for Gaza. It comes as a direct response to Israel’s illegal interception and abduction of the Global Sumud Flotilla and its 500 passengers. Remarkable. (🎥 Citizen Média)

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. (🎥 Luc Auffret)

BREAKING: Reports of spontaneous protests erupting in European cities tonight in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was illegally attacked by Israel an hour ago. Demonstrations have been seen in Berlin🇩🇪 & Rome🇮🇹 - and these are the current scenes in Brussels🇧🇪 👇

NEW: Across various platforms, more than TWO MILLION people are currently watching livestreams of the Global Sumud Flotilla. It appears an illegal interception by Israeli forces is now underway.

Photo of the Week. Taken by photojournalist and Chicago Sun-Times Photo Desk editor Ashlee Rezin yesterday, Sunday Sep 28. Dozens of masked, federal agents march through Downtown Chicago, as passersby yell at them to go home. (📸 Ashlee Rezin)

The front cover of this week’s New Yorker. 👏

Worth noting that a number of presenters are losing their jobs and none of them are Brian Kilmeade.

NEW: As Trump heads for a state dinner in Windsor Castle, the anti-Trump protest on the streets of London is growing. (🎥 Alex Seale)

NEW: Trump meets King Charles in London. Mesmerised by the colour of Trump’s face and the King apparently losing the will to live.

Quick look on BBC News app for an update on Gaza, the morning after the UN concluded a genocide is taking place. I’m not sure the corporation deserves to survive any more.

BREAKING: Reports tonight that Israeli tanks & ground forces are entering Gaza City. Meanwhile, Trump has just posted this. The human shields playbook to explain away a bloodbath. It all looks hauntingly co-ordinated, to justify what Israel does next in Gaza: the final solution.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The label says: Date of birth: September 13, 2025 Date of death: September 14, 2025. Because that’s Gaza. (📸 Anadolu Agency)