WTF???!!!

Virginia - this is happening in our state. Where is Miyares? Why isn't he doing something about this? Why should anyone be subject to these conditions? augustafreepress.com/news/farmvil...

#SNAP recipients aren't the only ones who will suffer from Trump's obscene failure to provide this life-saving benefit. Farmers, retail owners, truck drivers, employees of multiple outlets... the list goes on. Once again, your taxpayer dollars are not being spent on the needs of our citizens.

DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, D.C., a WaPo investigation found. DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found. 🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nuDGwf

If you want to help us with legal expenses as we stand up to Trump, you can chip in at katforillinois.com/legal!

National Guard troops were at Portland ICE building despite court ban, feds admit https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10/national-guard-troops-were-at-portland-ice-building-despite-court-ban-feds-admit.html 

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

For every one meal a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9. Food banks cannot bridge the gap if SNAP benefits aren’t available.

Arms control and disarmament is a national security imperative. That’s why I’m supporting legislation from Rep. Jim McGovern and Rep. Jill Tokuda to end the nuclear arms race and all its attendant dangers.

Meanwhile, Gov Henry McMaster expects us to dig deep and find the money to fund the food banks while our healthcare insurance sky rockets, thanks to his BFF in the White House. #TrumpShutdown is failing Americans and the people of SC. #scpol

The federal criminal justice system is being systematically dismantled and destroyed piece by piece and turned into a mob boss’s network of corrupt consiglieres and thugs, where good people simply doing their jobs are rooted out and eradicated.

Dear God. If they don’t want to be called Nazis they shouldn’t make videos of themselves acting like Nazis.

Yesterday, ICE again denied our congressional oversight visit to the San Diego federal building to follow up on reports that ICE is detaining people there in inhumane conditions. It doesn't matter how much ICE tries to stonewall us. We're going to continue to show up and push for answers.

The federal government keeps labeling everyone they go after as cartel members — and it keeps being proven false. These are the same people we’re supposed to trust when they execute people at sea under that very justification?

Rep. Jim Himes: "Fentanyl...comes out of Mexico, from the cartels there. There is cocaine coming out of Colombia, not so much Venezuela. So what we see there is a massive number of military assets deployed for purely performative reasons...It's purely performative."

Yikes www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Digital access to banned books www.cbs8.com/article/news...

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

More miserable lies won’t change the facts: federal law ALREADY prohibits any undocumented immigrant from receiving Medicaid, Medicare, or coverage under the ACA.

We got news that one of the two men detained has been released, after an arduous ordeal, but the other is still trying to get his papers to show his (yes actual) legal authorization to be here.

In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

Since January, ICE has increased spending on arms, chemical weapons, explosives, body armor, and more by 600% They've got money for explosives but not for food stamps

This is the third U.S. Attorney found to be unlawfully appointed. The other two are Sigal Chattah and Alina Habba. Their indictments stand because they were signed by other prosecutors. Not true for Lindsey Halligan.

Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP. If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them. Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.

JB Pritzker creating the “Illinois Accountability Commission” isn’t getting enough attention. Its focus is on immigration agents & it will document abuses, capture impacts on families and communities, & recommend actions to prevent further harm. We need more of these nationwide.

Firing an entire federal arts commission to clear the path for your own triumphal arch? It’s a textbook indicator of authoritarian executive overreach — the exact trend we warned about in our assessment. #authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment

Trump on sending troops into American cities: “If I want to enact a certain act, I’m allowed to do it…And I’d be allowed to do whatever I want…And the courts wouldn’t get involved. Nobody would get involved. And I can send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines.”

So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?

Extra-legal killings are bad. Extra-legal killings of people who are drug smugglers is really bad, since they could not be executed if arrested. Extra-legal killings of people who are MISTAKEN to be drug smugglers is a necessary consequence of a policy of extra-legal killings. #NotInMyName

BREAKING: A federal judge says L.A.-based US attorney Bill ESSAYLI has been acting in the role unlawfully since July, declaring him disqualified from the position. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We live in a country where the media is focused more on who a Democratic mayoral candidate defines as his ‘aunt’ than on the DHS Twitter account putting out white nationalist propaganda and replying to Nazis online.

It would be ridiculous to call a Canadian ad about trade policy a "PSYOP" and punish Americans with a new tax for it, even if the ad *weren't* Ronald Reagan's own words. ICYMI, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

I happen to believe that your elected officials should vote to reopen government AND keep your premiums from more than doubling.   Government should be open and Americans shouldn't go bankrupt to afford health care.

WILD story. A DHS officer shot at a man he thought was fleeing (a judge dismissed all charges). Bullets went into the driver's side window, through his jacket collar, and into the empty passenger seat. An MPD cop on the scene says he was ordered not to put it in the police report.

If Border Patrol is willing to beat a 67 year old white man on the streets of Chicago with multiple people taking video, just imagine what they were doing on the border.

26 states are suing the USDA and the Trump administration to do what they are legally required to do—fund SNAP. They have the authority, they have the ability, and they have the money. Letting families go hungry is a Donald Trump choice and it’s not even one that follows the law.

NEW: I'm not going to lie to you, this one's a little bit of a tear-jerker. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-we-fight

ICE is struggling to hire officers — even after lowering its standards. DHS is spending millions of dollars on an aggressive television ad campaign targeting local police officers — but it's not getting nearly enough applicants. It looks like most Americans simply don’t want to be ICE thugs.

If Head Start programs aren’t funded on November 1st, thousands of children and families will be left without access to early learning programs and child care. Child care is already inaccessible to so many. Republicans must end this shutdown immediately. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Combat veteran Chris Gentry was protesting lawfully on the side of the road when an ICE agent pointed a gun at him and said “bang bang, you’re dead liberal” He’s filed a civil rights suit… but this is going on all across the country These men hide their faces and act outside the law.

BREAKING: An ICE agent pointed a gun at a protester and said, “Bang, bang. You’re dead, liberal.” The man he threatened was a U.S. citizen — and a military veteran. (Source: Federal Court Filing)

It’s worth noting that if a parent took a minor child across state lines without the permission of the other parent, that would be considered kidnapping. But I guess that’s okay when it’s the federal government. A 13 year old abducted by ICE. What are we doing? open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...

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WTF!!!

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. RFK Jr. must resign.

"A majority of western Alaska’s weather balloon network was not operating during the landfall of the storm last weekend due to staffing constraints inflicted by the Trump administration..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...