I’m so sick of punk-ass bitches screaming about how tough they are.

After delivering a controversial speech to all 800 US military Generals last night, Pete Hegseth completely misreads the room and throws himself backwards into the audience, in a shockingly futile attempt to crowd surf. #PeteHegseth

"Lutnick, in a notable break with the DOJ, claimed late pedophile Epstein was 'the greatest blackmailer ever' — and may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal."

Release the Epstein Videos!

The legendary Jane Fonda “has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, the McCarthy-era initiative started by her father, Henry Fonda ...” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

White House fires many members of the National Council on the Humanities reut.rs/48LoxCX

The shutdown prevents seating the representative who is going to be the last vote to release the files.

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

This is your reminder that Jack Ciattarelli's Lieutenant Governor nominee said that new taxes are "on the table." www.insidernj.com/the-gannon-a...

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

“But the protesters’ message was the same: ‘No ICE in our state’” via @politico.com. ICE has unlawfully abducted New Yorkers, separating them from their loved ones, as they simply show up to their immigration court hearings. Last Thursday, 5,000 New Yorkers said: ENOUGH!

Now that the sham military meeting is over, can we get back to the forever subject at hand, which is the #TrumpEpsteinFiles?

One of today's ICE raids in Chicago updates from thetriibe.com "...agents returned to the South & West sides —this time outside a Bronzeville homeless shelter & outside a grassroots organization’s headquarters in East Garfield Park —as part of a dizzying onslaught of arrests across Chicagoland."

Republicans control the shutdown. Top to bottom. For example, construction of Trump's ballroom will continue as "essential" during the shutdown. But the stuff that helps you will not. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

I keep sticky notes on my desk with quotes that motivate and energize me. These two stand out today.

This guy, scared shitless and rightfully so, has given his Mike Johnson/Grindr receipts to multiple sources and a reporter so that he doesn’t get Epsteined. If this proves to be real, I’ll also donate to his legal fees. #ProudBlue #Pinks #MikeJohnson #Grindr youtube.com/shorts/3gB-k...

“Green Light” for War Crimes? What Trump & Hegseth’s Lecture to Generals Really Means https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/1/trump_hegseth_military_culture

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The faces of our generals as they listen to a 34-time convicted felon and 5-time draft dodger.

POOR JD! HIS SWEET BELOVED COUCH NOW COSTS MORE WITH THE TARIFFS!

Next time you find yourself in a discussion about the differences between liberals, leftists, democratic socialists, moderates, progressives, and never trumpers, remember: billionaires don't give a fuck. We're all the same to them: human capitol stock. And they love it when we fight each other.

Remember: groveling to bullies never works.

Public Citizen filed a Hatch Act complaint over the HUD website www.citizen.org/wp-content/u...

Congressional Republicans shut down the federal government - their third time under Donald Trump’s control. Here’s what that means for you.

Once again, Democrats should say they will pursue charges against any corrupt Trump official.

The Hatch Act out there waving like crazy and being might.

This morning, I wrote that that shutdown would make Russ Vought visible in a way he was not, to normies, and might become a villain like Elon Musk was w/DOGE. Since then, he has stepped on his dick several times. www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/01/a...

Fixed it.

Pritzker Applauded for Calling for Trump Removal After US Cities as 'Training Grounds' Remarks

Priorities.

180 Republicans Voted Against Funding the FAA, the Agency That Keeps Planes from Crashing Trump selected eight of them to serve in his administration. Read this exclusive research and reporting on Meidas+.

"There is something genuinely wrong with this man, and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked."

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war.. is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health" www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

BCRR now reporting ICE/CBP grabbed a total of five people from the Cicero retail strip: instagram.com/p/DPRgvn8ktLX

and now masked agents detain five people on the southwest side. in particular, feds have targeted the cicero home depot parking lot repeatedly over the past month or so.

Also today, feds arrested four people in Bronzeville outside a church-run shelter:

Needed to delete this post re: last night's South Shore immigration raid because it turned out the sourcing on the claim that everyone in the building was initially detained was less solid than I first thought. However, it's still estimated that federal agents took 40 people or more in the raid.

new: in mid-september, dhs paid lake forest-based pepperball $1.1 million for “pressurized air launchers.” the federal government has spent millions in recent years on launchers and chemical projectiles like the ones agents are now using to brutalize protesters. via @juggaloreporter.bsky.social:

DHS is claiming the South Shore apartment raid was on a "Tren de Aragua hideout." Feds will use whatever personal property they find to bolster this narrative. Those FBI and ATF agents you see in the videos are part of manufacturing that.

More sightings are rolling in. They are highly active as is usual for a Wednesday since this surge began. Reports of vehicles seen at yet another NWS Home Depot. And at 31st and Cicero again, masked Border Patrol is seen alongside a propaganda officer filming an arrest:

Witness video shared to Facebook shows feds swiftly grabbing someone off the street at Lawrence and Kedzie this morning and putting them in an unmarked car. Locals know this is a busy intersection, the beating heart of Albany Park:

Border Patrol is up, per video shared to social media. According to NWRR, they grabbed a person at Home Depot in Belmont Cragin, continuing their pattern of stalking out HD lots early mornings (instagram.com/p/DPRGaMngEkq).

Ivery is also being released on personal recognizance rather than on bond - so no money involved with his release. His next court date is set for Oct. 10.

Ivery is expected to be released from Chicago's Metro Correctional Center around 6 pm tonight. He will not be subject to home incarceration or location monitoring, but will be required to stay at least 500 ft. away from the Broadview ICE facility.

Paul Ivery, a 26-year-old Oak Park man w/ an intellectual disability, and one of five people arrested at Saturday night's protest at the Broadview ICE facility now facing federal charges over it, will be released ahead of trial w/ certain conditions. Updates soon. chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

This is very, very bad.

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