Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

📣 Free Debbie Brockman‼️

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.” The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

The Mayor of Chicago called attention to an incident in which ICE agents supposedly tear gassed City of Chicago Police Officers who were trying to create separation between protestors and ICE agents reportedly shooting protestors with pepper ball guns. Now ICE is even attacking cops...

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Admit it—you worry this will happen to you. Me too.

“My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.” - 2/6/25 9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…

Five-alarm fire inside the DOJ - Lawyer Oyer

This is the home of Diane Goodstein, a federal judge who ruled against Trump last month. Members of her family were still inside, but survived by jumping out windows. Just yesterday Stephen Miller claimed left wing judges were terrorists & state power was needed to stop them.

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

Russians occupied her city when she was five. Now, they are turning her into a soldier. Oleksandra Deminova from Russian-occupied Makiivka, Donetsk region, ended up in Russian Vladivostok, where she is being made a "cadet" in the militarized program of the "Warrior Center".

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

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Pete Buttigieg was 100% correct here: "Americans will have more rights and freedoms under a Harris-Walz Administration."

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

Make no mistake. The MAGA movement supports: 1) Cancel culture -- silencing popular voices that are critical of their political views. 2) Repressing freedom of speech 3) Censoring American media through intimidation 4) State control of American corporations and other businesses

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Nawrocki talks tough while also spreading Russian propaganda and serving as an agent of Putin's campaign to sew disunity within the EU and NATO. Even if Nawrocki himself hasn't directly agreed to work for Putin, the effect of his anti-Ukraine + anti-EU political messaging helps Putin and Russia.

Donald Trump is pooping his pants publicly confronted by protestors at dinner

Bill Gates is actively profiting from ICE detention flights. Gates is 30% owner of Signature Aviation an FBO that provides ground support services such as refueling for DHS contract flights. This is in contrast to the Gates Foundation humanitarian work worldwide. Gates should be ashamed #ProudBlue

The United States imports oil products from India's Reliance Industries refinery, which sources nearly half its oil from Russia.

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent,” Justice Sotomayor wrote. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Today, Donald Trump posted a meme on X cheering USA military helicopters flying over a burning City of Chicago.

5/ Also in the files: something I reported earlier this month, about a missing $1.1M ring that belonged to the wife of billionaire Robert Smith, who rented one of Trump's homes as his federal tax investigation heated up. More on that below. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

New Executive Order (Aug. 25, 2025) - despite its name - reaches far beyond DC in potential use of the U.S. military inside and across the United States. Link: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Highlight of some key provisions⬇️

The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.

BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. 🧵

🧊😲✈️ CHILD IN CHAINS‼️ 👉 Thursday August 21, 2025 at Boeing Field in Seattle, we spotted this apparent girl in chains being directed up the steps of an Avelo Airlines 737 (tail: N805VL) on the live web cam feed from the airport 👀 (clip courtesy lalabote.bsky.social)

One more illustration that Russia always lies: Back on March 4, 2014, Putin stated that Russia doesn't consider the option of Crimea joining Russia. He also said that Moscow will by no means "provoke anyone into such decisions" and "fuel such sentiments."

Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?

Thank you to the two protesters standing in front of the National Guard with signs that say, “Shame” and “Fascism Is Not Welcome Here.”

Putin wants to take photos with President Trump and delay sanctions - EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas on the meeting in Alaska. Kaja Kallas stated that Putin is not showing readiness for meaningful negotiations with President Trump in Alaska.

#ICYMI: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

Putin awarded the Order of Lenin to Trump’s special envoy so that it could be passed on to Deputy Director for Digital Innovation at the CIA — whose son was killed in 2024 in Donetsk region of Ukraine after voluntarily joining the Russian army in its illegal invasion www.cbsnews.com/news/putin-a...

We’ve flipped the Constitution: We now have direct election of Senators while state legislatures pick the House of Representatives.

Amazing that Republicans didn’t have any problem with the Texas maps in 2022 or 2024. I wonder what changed? Probably unrelated to Trump’s plummeting approval ratings.