My Missouri state representative, Betsy Fogle, is the subject of an attack mailer. (She's a candidate for a state senate seat in November 2026.) The mailer is from "AFP Missouri," but does not list the full name (Americans For Prosperity), nor is there any sourcing or authorship info.

It's 1:25 a.m. in Los Angeles, I'm sitting at my computer, I'm here on #Bluesky, I can't stop crying and my eyes are puffy and I'm having a tough time breathing. We are living in a dictatorship and I don't know what to do or who to call so I'm telling you. #WeMustFightBackHarder #FuckTrump

The man appears to be the same officer who was caught last month on NPR audio aggressively arresting a court observer.

“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Masked goons are tearing families apart, pulling parents away from their children. The family is attempting to navigate the legal system, but this situation is truly horrifying. I'm genuinely afraid for the future of this country.

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Crazy how the executive branch goes “if we can’t break the law it’s irreparable harm to our lawbreaking,” 6 Supreme Court Justices go “yeah sure,” often with no further explanation, and 3 are left doing an eloquent version of “but checks and balances, duly passed statute, what are we doing here.”

ICE is abusing/torturing/disappearing/killing people using our tax dollars and in our name.

The most radical, right wing Supreme Court since Roger Taney sat on the bench is going to take up Trump’s challenge to birthright citizenship And given the way SCOTUS has mostly given Trump what he wants This is a very dangerous time to be a Person of Color in America apple.news/AJn3_UZpaSza...

Nobody who joins ICE has ever had friends, enjoyed sex, or made another person happy in any way. They’re miserable bastards and they only want to spread their misery, to offload it. They will fail at this, too. Their misery will just get worse. I have scientific proof of this.

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This headline says it all about where we are on the rule of law. “Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

What happened at SCOTUS today? The case over $4 billion in foreign aid led to an unsigned Friday SCOTUS order that, in effect, means Trump can overturn certain laws — and that preventing him from doing so is a "harm" for which SCOTUS can grant him relief. Here's my report at Law Dork:

I'm not sure "driven by bots" is the most accurate way to describe these results. The Cracker Barrel boycott was very openly launched and amplified by prominent conservative influencers like Chris Rufo. Bots may have latched onto it afterwards but it was organic far-right derangement.

Turns out it was pretty stupid of me to go to “law school” and pass the “bar” and practice “law”

Jeffries: "Trump announced he's imposing tariffs on prescription drugs which is gonna increase drug prices, in addition to healthcare price increases, the increases in grocery costs, the increases in housing costs, the increases in electricity bills. Trump promised to lower cost of living on day 1"

President Donald Trump has dispatched federal agents to Portland, local elected officials said in a hastily scheduled press conference on Friday night

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

Gonna lay down a marker here: if they do in fact rule for Trump here, it will be properly considered Dred Scott II, and will in an important sense mark the end of the Union

Expect any non-citizen (for now) in any position of power to be harassed and abused on pretext by the secret police.

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The United States is simply not politically stable enough, nor sufficiently committed to democratic and international principles, to host the UN.

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

People wonder why I say I'd have been fired by now if I'd stayed in Texas... I won't stand for this insanity. Students deserve to be called the name they choose and use the pronouns they want. And Tech profs have a First Amendment right to do that. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

I spent the afternoon visiting 10 little free libraries in Springfield and Republic. Today, I donated about 150 books, and took about 40 to explore.

BREAKING NYT:   Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.   Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

My Missouri state representative, Betsy Fogle, is the subject of an attack mailer. (She's a candidate for a state senate seat in November 2026.) The mailer is from "AFP Missouri," but does not list the full name (Americans For Prosperity), nor is there any sourcing or authorship info.

DHS says the ICE officer who shoved the woman in New York yesterday has been relieved of his duties and his conduct unacceptable. Bit surprised as I’ve seen a lot of not too dissimilar videos of ice actions DHS has stood by.

Real post on another network:

At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk. He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

A divide in journalism right now that's worth watching is between reporters who understand how bad things are but are mindful of their reputation and not wanting to be perceived as too extreme or hyperbolic and reporters who feel things are so urgent they have to use urgent, clear language.

James Comey’s son-in-law who is a federal prosecutor in Virginia resigned after Comey’s indictment www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...

Some states are enacting medical debt laws as the Trump administration pulls back federal protections. Elsewhere, industry opposition has derailed legislation.

I have to admit that it's pretty funny that he's figured out that shoehorning "National Security purposes" into whatever he's saying is the Pee-Wee's Playhouse magic phrase for doing whatever he wants

When Republican officials broadcast that they’ve found noncitizens on the rolls, it spurs the kind of headlines that drive worry about noncitizen voting. But when those claims later turn out to be unfounded, there’s rarely an apology for the lives they’ve upended.

Medical scholars say efforts to find a singular cause for autism has historically led to scrutinizing parents and fueling stigma.

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

People are going to die because of this.

I spent the afternoon visiting 10 little free libraries in Springfield and Republic. Today, I donated about 150 books, and took about 40 to explore.