Sunday thought: The slumbering giant is awakening open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Good Sunday read here from @gelliottmorris.com.....

Van Hollen: "It's good to see the president finally get off the golf course and decide to talk. He's been much more focused, as we all know, on keeping the Epstein files locked up than keeping the government open."

Olympian levels of lying from Republicans on Sunday shows today. Going to be a very ugly week.

Our cities aren’t war ravaged. They’re ICE ravaged.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

The State of Illinois is closely monitoring the federal deployments in the Village of Broadview. Public safety is always my top priority, and the Illinois State Police remains in close communication with the Broadview Police Department to monitor and maintain public safety.

OVERNIGHT: Latest filing in challenge to legality of Trump admin's extension of Bill Essayli's appointment as US Attorney in L.A. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... DOJ filing: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“You fat orange bitch” 🤣

Agents are policing the crowd from the bed of a pickup truck at the Broadview ICE detention center. ATF is with them on the ground.

Feds just arrested a reporter at the ICE facility outside Chicago

This is just unacceptable belligerent crazy talk from the Attorney General.

Does this count as an official statement?

It's a failure of Dem messaging and a sign of weakness that Steve Bannon has no problem just coming out and saying this. The president is not The President. He's just a confused old man who goes on TV to air his grudges. Stephen Miller is The President, and he's the one pushing this hateful agenda.

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Good new detailed reporting from @washingtonpost.com on Hegseth calling all the brass to Pentagon at great cost and security risk. Here's the last paragraph: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

This is a declaration of war against United States citizens

Interesting that Trump would announce he's sending troops to Portland with authorization for "Full Force" days before the nation's top military brass have been called to Quantico. A test to see who will oppose unlawful orders? Strikes on Venezuelan boats have already met resistance....

Yes. @cristianfarias.com nails this. Not just the core holding of the Court’s immunity decision, but CJ Roberts’ gratuitous opining that the President’s control of DOJ - even for sham prosecutions - cannot be reviewed, imperils every person on Trump’s enemies list. nymag.com/intelligence...

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THIS 👉

Troops to Portland? Illegal and absurd. But the absurdity is the point. Trump policy is to ignore real threats to US security coming from abroad and use the armed forces to pursue imaginary threats from within, thereby creating an atmosphere suitable for personal rule. (1/2)

War-ravaged Portland

> @governor.ca.gov

Would be great to see today statements denouncing the invasion of Portland by: - All Dem govs - All Dems AGs - Senate and House Dems We have to denounce, attack, challenge immediately and defend the American people from this dangerous man.

Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday by federal agents. The reason for his detention was not clear, according to the school district. Roberts’ whereabouts are also, alarmingly, unclear. trib.al/ifiCl4B

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Yesterday people asked why Nexstar and Sinclair caved. The answer is simple: those who tracked which companies were advertising with them made a huge impact. Thanks to those calls, companies began pulling their ad budgets over the Kimmel blackout.

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

Donald Trump is using federal agents to stoke fear and violate constitutional rights — all with the aims of expanding his control and sending military troops to our cities. It’s unlawful and un-American. We must all stand up and speak out against fanning the flames of violence.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

New 2A bro logo just dropped

The President of the United States claims to have authorized the military to use lethal force on US citizens, and there’s not a single Republican who has the balls to tell him that’s both illegal and morally wrong.

“...Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was first gutted, one person left their blazer in the office and was unable to get back into the building to get it. It was the only blazer they owned: They were broke, applying for jobs, and had nothing to wear to interviews because of this.” CFPB employee

I think that’s likely, yes. He’s always wanted to break as much as possible before the midterms. All of his advisors are telling him they’re going to get absolutely run over in the midterms. They’re preparing for historic losses - hence the rush to redistrict and try to steal seats.

The disappearance and unknown whereabouts of Alligator Alcatraz detainees should be a much bigger story, no?

Lot of provocation from Russia lately. There have been Russian airspace violations in Poland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, and Romania - all in September.

This will be a very interesting bellwether election, Bucks Co. sheriff. It's mostly administrative and small (just 75 officers). BUT, the big issue: GOP Sheriff Fed Harran entered into an agreement with ICE, which Dem. Danny Ceisler vows to end. Bucks is as evenly split as any county in the US.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Our Oregon and 3 voters, my firm has filed a motion to intervene to oppose DOJ's effort to obtain voter registration data — including sensitive personal information like birthdates and partial Social Security numbers. www.democracydocket.com/cases/oregon...

My #LA friends & colleagues - someone must have the room to foster this lovely girl.

1. Judges have stopped him, repeatedly. 2. We are one election away from breaking that control (which right now only rests with a handful of seats in the House) 3. His runway is a lot shorter and he's a lot weaker than you think, which is why you should stop mythologizing him.

The Trump admin illegally leaked my unredacted personnel file to Jack's allies to try to smear me. The full force of the federal government is being weaponized to defeat me — I’m asking you to help me fight back! Donate here: secure.ngpvan.com/NGY2cCnISU6c...

If I was Donald Trump I would not be drawing the public’s attention right now to my ability to release files

If you know something about decisions being made on spending, or you aren’t getting funds that you expected, you can reach me on Signal at annakramer.54

This is what I’ve been reporting on for months. Agencies are taking money and repurposing it against Congressional instructions, and there’s no way to know what they are taking the money from or what they are using it for.

Slipped into a 10:40pm email last night: USDA is “repurposing” $285 million to start a farmer assistance program 1 year earlier than Congress authorized. They don’t say where they are taking the money from — aka the program Congress actually wanted the $280 million to fund