Isn’t there something called the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res... For all naturalized citizens, there are guard rails.

The Supreme Court has blocked efforts to strip naturalized Americans of their citizenship when those efforts targeted people for their political views. bit.ly/4oV8eIP

Mario Guevara's deportation signals a dangerous precedent for press freedom. ICE detained him for over 100 days for live-streaming law enforcement, despite the fact that he was permitted to work in the U.S. Hear more on the newest episode of At Liberty.

"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."

Blue states should stop sending tax dollars to the federal government since the pay red states’ bills.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

This is so cruel for a young child’s memory of childhood being traumatized by drone strikes. So many children are experiencing this right now. We must do better than this.

This isn’t a question by Trump’s people. This is a statement.

www.huffpost.com/entry/religi... Isn’t this cancel culture? Isn’t this moving us towards a theocracy? Isn’t a founding principle religious freedom? These are taxpayer funded schools. This is all insane.

Republicans argue no tax dollars going into building the monstrous ballroom. I’d argue that the ballroom money is misappropriation of tax money since Trump gave everyone on the donor list a huge tax cut. Where does all the money sit and who controls it. Trump’s using our money for his use.

"Jen, if I want to add a bathroom to my house that I'm sitting in right here, I gotta get 16 permits." James Carville wonders at how Donald Trump was able to arbitrarily wreck the White House.

"Donald Trump is a straight-up punk": Chicago Federation of Labor President Bob Reiter says Trump "built his entire fortune on the backs of immigrant workers."

We have leverage over Russia in that when we delay or signal doubt on Ukraine's cause, the Russians attack more and harder. In that sense, we are also participating in the killing of Ukrainians. www.thebulwark.com/p/mixed-sign...

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent arrested in August on suspicion of driving drunk questioned the nationality of a sheriff’s deputy and threatened to check the deputy’s immigration status, according to newly released body-camera footage.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... There’s always a Trump somewhere in a scam. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

For an effective tariff rate that's now at about 9%, pass through to consumer prices has been somewhat muted. But if you listen to earnings calls, that's a mirage: Businesses are saying they'll have to keep raising prices to make up for the new costs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/b...

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch... Scary comparison.

Organizing still works — Avelo Airlines is feeling the heat for profiting off Trump’s terror tactics by running secretive (often illegal) deportation flights. You can take action to help ground “ICE Air”: www.groundavelo.org?utm_source=b...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u... We will watch the DOJ “observers” to ensure they don’t interfere.

Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Kill People He Deems Narco-Terrorists www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u... Will we allow Trump’s new role as executioner? Will he stop at narcoterrorists or make his comment about killing somebody on Fifth Avenue and getting away with it a reality.

US says it now plans to deport Abrego Garcia to Liberia as soon as Oct. 31 apnews.com/article/abre... Here we go again. Trump and ICE Barbie refuse to let this poor man access due process. I can’t imagine what he and his family are going through.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Censorship at 60 Minutes. 🥲🥲

He sends them into blue cities, he uses them to blow up what he claims are drug-running boats in international waters—and now he pays them, he says, on his own authority. This is a dangerous argument that the troops work not for us but for him. www.thebulwark.com/p/time-to-sh...

aje.io/r2juqc Just kill them. Trump’s judge, jury and executioner. We’re paying him to slaughter people at his discretion. Trump’s engaging I murder.

Gift link The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

This is weird but highly plausible. Tells me where we are in the lunatic range. You guys have a real challenge to come up with satire in the Trump era. 😉😉😉

"Those of us in the pro-democracy coalition whose sole priority is a rejection of Trumpism in all of its forms need to get more comfortable with what a more populist pro-democracy alternative would look like."

The White House has released a list of donors who contributed to President Trump’s new ballroom, amid a backlash over the demolition of the decades-old East Wing to make way for the project. https://wapo.st/4nhvJKD

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) Friday pleaded not guilty to bank fraud and false statements charges brought by the Department of Justice amid President Donald Trump’s public push to get retribution on his perceived foes. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p... Is this how we’re funding the government using Trump’s “friends” money? This is extortion. Is this why Trump gave huge tax breaks so he can control his “friendships” and use their monies? We are an autocracy. This is insane.

How Does the U.S. Decide Which Boats to Target? Here’s What We Know. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u... Hegseth approach to picking targets - ini mini mine moe.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Republicans Who Have Rarely Opposed Trump Raise Questions About His Drug War www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u... Gee. You think duh. 🙄 🙄🙄🙄

A mother in Florida filed a lawsuit against an A.I. start-up, alleging its product led to her son’s death. The company’s defense raises a thorny legal question. nyti.ms/4ow8PQF

"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed" Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

"This plan limiting smartphone use during the school day...is about recognizing that the digital environment itself has become a public-health concern." Elle Vidra, a high school senior and New York Teen Tech Council​​​​ member:

www.theatlantic.com/internationa... MAGAs new approach to diplomacy—insult and denigrate if you don’t get your way.

Oh wow — this appears to be footage of the incident from yesterday, in which Rev. Jorge Bautista, a United Church of Christ minister, was shot in the face with a pepper ball — which may have exploded before impact? Or is a slightly different munition? — by an apparent DHS agent while protesting ICE.

List of bribes taken by Trump.

Alexander Hamilton knew.

Just what President Obama foresaw. Now it’s come true.

The military takeover of America. It’s now out in the open.

⚡️Drone attack damages residential building in Moscow Oblast, authorities claim. A residential building was damaged in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, amid a drone attack overnight on Oct. 24, local authorities claimed.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10... This is why Trump broke off trade talks because Canada didn’t ask permission to use the Reagan speech. Reagan was wrong abut tariffs then as Trump is wrong now yet this is a reason to cut off talks with our neighbor. This is beyond childish. This is insane.

Israel released nearly 2,000 imprisoned Palestinians under the Gaza cease-fire deal. Of those freed, 250 Palestinians had been serving long sentences for violent attacks. But more than 1,700 others had been detained in Gaza and held without charge. Here's what to know.

This is what allies do. They support each other.

Trump says he's ending trade talks with Canada over TV ad apnews.com/article/trum... What a snowflake! Trump’s such a delicate flower. And he said we are Woke. What’s next. Maybe a tantrum or slap more tariffs to hurt the American people.

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