I mostly care about Signal and Zoom but this is not good.

Glad @60minutes.bsky.social is featuring this analysis from @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and @justsecurity.org.

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago with 70% of the vote yet Mike Johnson refuses to swear in. This is a continuation of the Jan 6 attack that was designed to overturn an election.

"Let's do something special." // Man whose sit this was said I could photograph his "place" when he left. Triangle on right's a sandwich, still wrapped. He was asking for money. Someone gave him a sandwich. "Didn't ask for a sandwich." His needs or his vices are his own.

His brains gone

Trump: "Don't forget I can use the Insurrection Act. 50% of the presidents almost have used that. And that's unquestioned power."

This is what the SCOTUS did to us. Unforgivable.

It is not a coincidence that ICE/DHS are the only part of state capacity that Trump is expanding, and also that they are engaged in brazenly unconstitutional acts. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Every single member of team TACO treats the US treasury as a personal piggy bank. Extracting as much for themselves as possible.

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting. Now the official line is crumbling. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/2019...

“More than three-quarters of Obamacare policyholders now live in states that voted for President Trump” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

Top story when you go to The Guardian this AM. Which it is not when you go to the Washington Post or the NY Times. Apt language here, whereas WaPo describes the day as an airing of grievances as though we are a bunch of whining George Costanzas, not a vast public fearful of losing everything.

Donald Trump keeps posting images of him as a king and the legacy media ignores it as if it is normal. It is not. It is dangerous. Support pro-democracy media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

This will complicate things for those kidnapped by I.C.E.

They actually hate everyone. It’s their unifying principle, and it is a never ending maw of need to hate evermore.

I really don’t need to know the twisted fantasies of these sick people, but I will say that it is eye opening to see actual representations of how much they hate this country and everything its mythology purports to stand for.

So in addition to the diarrhea dumping AI slop video, JD Vance apparently took to this very platform (I have him blocked) to post another AI video of Trump in a crown as Nancy Pelosi and other MOCs bowing down— (vid obviously cribbed from 2000 post George Floyd event, which makes it even worse).

OMG! This is the most accurate depiction of him and his “presidency” that I have seen yet! Haha!!! He crowned himself King, steals the valor &might of our brave men &women in our military when he is a DRAFT DODGER, he literally shits on EVERY AMERICAN, &everything about him is FAKE! *Chef’s kiss*

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

#nokings Portland frog brigade

Pedestrian bridge on #NoKings 2.0 day; #Lafayette #Indiana. It went on for BLOCKS!

Just arrived on the scene at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. Here less than 10 minutes when agents charged out of the facility and used a pale yellow gas that caused tears and coughing in crowd members. Also shot munitions at those retreating.

No Kings, Des Moines, Iowa Anti-Fascism is Pro-American #NoKings #Iowa

Difficult to capture just how many people are here on the capitol grounds here at No Kings, Des Moines, Iowa. #NoKings #Iowa

No Kings! Dubuque, Iowa #nokings #Dubuque #iowa

Albuquerque #NoKings

Amazing that “No kings and no Nazis” is suddenly a controversial slogan and up for debate in 2025. These are the two most basic creeds of American history.

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

NYT - DHS has purchased two Gulfstream private jets for Secretary Kristi Noem and other top department officials at a cost of $172 million. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

DC J6: 1.500 arrests DC No Kings: zero Tell me again which side is violent?

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD

Live your life in such a way that 7 million people don’t show up just to tell you that you are an asshole. #NoKings

So much for Facebook's renewed commitment to free speech. And so much for this administration's condemnation of social media censorship. How long will it be before the DOJ demands platforms remove news reporting on ICE?

Hurricane season isn't over yet.

So proud of everyone! The NYPD confirmed that rallies across the city have ended with no arrests. It’s getting harder and harder for Trump to sell his propaganda.

No Kings, Portland, Oregon

One of my favs

NEW — Bill Nye, at "No Kings" in DC, on Gaza: "There's something wrong when you have one country ruining, leveling another country…the whole thing just makes you furious." "In the US, we had an agreement…we're going to leave religion out of our government. There's some value there, I think…"

On the day of “No Kings” protests across the country, look to the history of South African disobedience against apartheid. When they try to silence you with repression, reply with more people, louder voices, undeterred steps. #Velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Amazing turnout everywhere! I was in Yarmouth, Saco, South Portland & Portland today. 250 years ago today, after the burning of Portland by the British, our ancestors said, “No King but God.” Today thousands of Mainers echoed our ancestors in saying No Kings. It was a good day for democracy.

In the middle of all this the inflatable costume crowd has arrived and is throwing a rave? Mosh? At the end of the free speech zone closest to the ICE facility.

a woman asked me today what the frog costumes are about, and i told her, it was to generate images like this

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

It’s not the duty of every person who marched today to vote for a democrat, it’s the duty of any democrat with the heart of a servant, who wants to take the oath and hold a public office, to win the vote of every person who marched today.