ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Johnson's keeping the House Chamber empty because he knows a functioning House of Representatives will force an end to the shutdown, and salvaging of the healthcare system the GOP just vandalized, as I discuss here.

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

You need to see this… Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

Lego MRI scanner set (donated to hospitals) a big help for kids who need scans: "more than 1 million children globally have used the sets to help them prepare...96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children's anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation"

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."

It’s clear at pretty much every turn that none of these people have any experience with anything they’re doing and are just playacting what they’ve seen in movies. It’s a government run by people whose experience amounts to the “I’m not a doctor but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night” ads.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump demolishing the White House to build a $250 million ballroom funded by Amazon, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir — all during a government shutdown, and as he covers up the Epstein Files — captures it all pretty well doesn't it

This is Comoong. She has a whole dog park to run around in. Prefers to sit like this the entire time instead. 13/10 (IG: comoongpark)

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

There’s a limit to the “imagine if Obama” retort but Christ on a cracker the man is *literally* demolishing the White House!

As expected, 9th Circuit panel rules for Trump, allowing deployment of the Oregon National Guard to Portland. Graber, in dissent, asks colleagues on 9th to vacate the order. "I ask those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer," she writes

🚨2-1 panel of the 9th Circuit (2 Trump vs 1 Clinton appointee) permits Trump to deploy the National Guard in Portland. The majority opinion finds that Trump properly considered the situation from June through September, and declares the ICE protests disruptive enough to call out the Guard.

A reminder that the GOP could stop this man from literally tearing down our country at any time, and they are *choosing* not to

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Q: You are the most powerful man on earth. Why don'y you just enable Ukraine to finish this war tomorrow? TRUMP: Well, if you know anything about what you were talking about-- Q: I do TRUMP: I don't think you do

This is Iliamna. She made a new best friend, who happens to be a balloon. Really thought they would have more time together. 12/10 (TT: andreal.corbin)

A hacking group has told 404 Media that it's made a dossier containing the private information of thousands of government officials constructed from stolen Salesforce data.

“I’ll give you something to cry about” as government policy

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

New AP/NORC poll finds: - 47% of U.S. adults are “not very” or “not at all confident” they could find a good job if they wanted to - 36% say electricity bills are a "major" source of stress; 50% say the same about grocery prices apnews.com/article/poll...

They aren't really targeting professors in Texas, are they? Me:

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack. This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

Updated this story after Colombian President Gustavo Petro confirmed the surviving Colombian national had been returned home and also accused the U.S. of violating Colombia's sovereignty when it destroyed a fishing boat on Sept. 16 (the third announced U.S. strike in the Caribbean).

Trump: "Don't forget I can use the Insurrection Act. 50% of the presidents almost have used that. And that's unquestioned power."

With alt text. Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

WaPo - To secure Washington's access to El Salvador's most notorious prison, the secretary of state made an extraordinary offer to President Nayib Bukele. www.washingtonpost.com/nation...

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

"What brings you out to the No Kings rally?" "Trump is being an asshole." Oakland, California, protesters showed out for their local No Kings rally—and Mother Jones' @michaelmechanic.bsky.social caught up with a few to talk.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Warren: The only movement these Republicans can manage is bowing down to Trump. When you ask them about today, they claim the No Kings Rally is anti-American. They’re wrong. Hundreds of thousands of people protesting peacefully for what they believe in—that is deeply American. That is patriotism.

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

Caturday meets No Kings day.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

in this thread of guides we have: - protest guides against government surveillance - what a faraday pouch does - best VPNs to protecting your privacy online - background on “no kings” organizers - what tools the trump administration is deploying to surveil protesters and his “enemies” - and more

They don't think they're public servants. They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms

Hasan: The UK still has a king. King Charles III, but he has less gold in his palace then Donald Trump in the oval office right now. King Charles has more respect for democratic norms than the whiny manchild trying to send his troops into as many blue cities as he can.

Trump isn’t even trying to hide the fact that the DOJ is completely politicized and the rule of law no longer applies federally

The U.S. military mobilization in the Caribbean: • 8 Navy warships • 10 stealth fighters • About 10,000 troops • New ammunition storage sites in Puerto Rico The goal, officials say privately, is to oust Maduro from power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

"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...