Congress created Special Immigrant Juvenile Status as a protection against deportation — yet because of procedural quirks, there is a lag/limbo between SIJS and a green card, and a person can have both a removal order AND a SIJS grant. This admin is pushing forward with removal during this lag time.

Are any of remaining Republicans, some of whom were pro-military folks at all concerned that as the Regime goes Russian / Chinese we adopt their levels of corruption and poor outcomes for the military?

Video of federal agents tear-gassing Irving Park this morning, obtained by Armando Sanchez. This is at least the sixth neighborhood federal agents have tear gassed while conducting immigration raids

If you are wondering how to help people in your community, financial donations to food banks are incredibly important right now. The USDA has instructed states to deny SNAP nutrition benefits. As we have said repeatedly at Defend Public Health, MAHA is a joke when kids in the U.S. are hungry.

Sunny, a yellow lab belonging to a 93-year-old man, went missing in a nature preserve in Los Angeles. To get her back, volunteers filled traps with food they knew Sunny couldn’t resist: homemade meatballs, kielbasa and rotisserie chicken.

Trump now plans to demolish the ENTIRE East Wing of the White House so he can build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom for his billionaire friends. The teardown could be finished as soon as this weekend—destroying a structure built at the turn of the 20th century during Teddy Roosevelt’s administration.

This is the kind of clip that will have legs in our current economy.

I had a secondary duty in the USAF as a security policeman (MP) Even removing your weapon from its mount or holster required paperwork an inch thick afterwards to justify the action. The fact that these goons are being allowed to point a loaded weapon in someone’s face is unfathomable.

Updating my LEGO White House

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

COLLINS: If you have a healthcare plan, why not have that out there to talk about in the public so people can hear it? MIKE JOHNSON: We need to get back to regular session so we can. We will not negotiate with legislative terrorists

"NATO Ally Offers to Cover U.S. Troops’ Paychecks as Shutdown Drags On" www.thedailybeast.com/nato-ally-of...

Advocate: Ohio Christian minister, Silas Shelton, who claimed LGBTQ+ is a “health risk”, and who claimed reading gay porn made him sick, arrested on 4 felony counts, including rape, sexual battery, unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, and gross sexual imposition. He has a 12 year old daughter.

Racial profiling. All day every day. www.newsweek.com/us-citizen-s...

people voted for a guy who in the last couple of days posted a video fantasy of himself shitting on americans, torn down the fucking east wing, and declared that the treasury has to pay him $230 million for reasons. And Lemon, it's Tuesday.

The first time the Confederate flag ever paraded through the US Capitol was on January 6, 2021. The first time the White House was damaged in over 200 years since the US rebuilt in the 1820s after the British burned it in the war of 1812 was mid October, 2025.

East Wing? Heck, here's the new White House.

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

This is so fucking wrong. He’s just ignored the entire process that must be followed to mess with the peoples’ house. Like he ignores every other rule, norm, & law. I’m so fucking pissed off at his Republican enablers who let him do this. The White House is OUR house. Not his.

Trump is just killing people from whatever country he wants. And appears to be making serious policy decisions without consulting (at least) with Congress. And saying things that may be incorrect or overt lies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Watch this. And then the whole thing. They are destroying the rule of law: www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

How can ABC News mention the “King Trump in a Jet” video from last night without mentioning it dropping a “brown substance that looked like feces on the ‘No Kings’ protestors”? That was the most important part! @abcnewsbot.bsky.social #ABC #ABCworldnewstonight

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

“America First” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I wonder if the MAGA get headaches from trying to reconcile his campaign promises with all the stuff he’s been doing in office?

Since Trump and his oligarch friends care so much about money, would a nationwide general strike (no work by anyone except emergency services) be a good move politically? It seems like it would be a good way to show our power and displeasure to Trump. What do others think about this idea?

The promise to negotiate health insurance funding after the shutdown is the football. The Republicans are Lucy. The Democrats are Charlie Brown.

Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄

MAN WHO COULD POSSIBLY HAVE FORESEEN THIS

NYT confirms our reporting from days ago - which the WH said was fake news - that Trump and Hegseth are pulling a stunt to fire artillery rounds over I-5 between SD and LA onto Camp Pendleton as a stunt, one of the busiest highways in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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...

Once again @people.com covers politics better than most other national outlets. (Even if I would have preferred "poop" over "brown liqud" in the headline.) people.com/donald-trump...

I like marshmallows. I like Butter Fingers. Marshmallow Butter Fingers sound gross to me. Anyone actually try one yet?

Trump’s message in releasing George Santos: If you are a loyal Republican & break the law & go to jail, don’t worry - I will release you. It’s a green light for Republicans to break the law & not be afraid of punishment by the justice system. Trump is the King of Republicans.

I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law. Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. Mark my words.

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)

Trump commuted George Santos’s convictions for wire fraud and identity theft. He sure does like to help out fellow Republican criminals and ne’er do wells. I guess Trump chooses which laws to enforce and sentences to uphold based on whether the person was loyal to him.

Levin: I did not pay one dime to any Republican to publicize the No Kings protest. They’re talking about it all by themselves because they’re scared—scared of mass, peaceful people power. They can smear us all they want—these are our First Amendment rights, and we’re showing up.

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

This is why I continuously correct people on Border Patrol vs. ICE. Two different agencies, both under the DHS umbrella, with the former being *significantly* more aggro than the latter.

Cartoon by @stevesack.bsky.social.

Just 4 posts into my feed and already depressed as Hell. Trump and his Cabinet, along with his Congress and his SCOTUS are destroying the democratic USA that we have known and loved at blinding speed. Also screwing over Ukraine & doing war on Venezuela.

Yeah so this is breaking through. The 20b to Argentina and family farms are going under because they can't sell to their markets and the president closed USAID is not something that's just going to get shoved under the rug.

Listen to the things Trump says. It is now clear: The law of the land in the U.S. is whatever Trump says it is. If you obey the written law but cross Trump, you will be punished. That is our new bottom line in the USA. Democracy died at age 249. Killed by Trump & his enablers.

So this is just facially illegal right? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidef...

The Trump-Vance Administration getting rid of biodefense personnel is, to state the blindingly obvious, a very bad choice.