Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

NEWS: Immigration authorities are increasingly detaining migrants including kids in temporary holding rooms at ICE and Border Patrol offices around NY for 3 days or more. These spots have no beds, showers, hot meals and were never meant for overnight detentions www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always. Left: Netherlands, 1942 Right: Illinois, 2025

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

I truly believe the ICE raids upset most people. And for soft Trump voters, it creates an incentive to move left and pretend the never voted for Trump. Fine if they need a "we didn't know" narrative. But hammering the fuck out of this issue, making it inescapable on social media, is the move.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

The grooming accusations are even more offensive because of the epidemic of school shootings. Every educator in this country has decided if, when, and how we'd give up our very lives to shield your children. Some of our colleagues around the nation have paid the ultimate price...

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Madness. Absolute madness. This is entirely about the Epstein Files and you can't convince me otherwise at this point. Miller and Hegseth want Generals who will take over blue cities but it looks like that's clearly not a priority for the guy in charge. Number 1 is covering for him.

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown. Where are House Republicans? On vacation. Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Trump cites a murderous war criminal to attack the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision. Truly absurd and disturbing. And narcissism of a pathological degree.

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Multiple Chicago schools went on lockdown today because of ICE, including my son’s and the one I’m on the council of. Spent the last two hours standing outside, trying to make sure nothing happens to these kids. This is horrible.

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism ... you don't say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, in a statement announcing its decision to recognize Maria Corina Machado with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025:

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

This is what fascist dictators do.

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

This is NOT making Chicago safer. And this must NOT be what America is.👇

On Trump Deploying Troops to More Cities to Protect ICE from Antifa (Or Whatever)

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

Adelita Grijalva is eager to provide the final signature necessary to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Mike Johnson has delayed her swearing-in for weeks, even though every other special election winner this year has been seated a day after their victory.

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

“Don’t buy the canard that this is retaliation for Democratic intransigence, or that shutdowns grant the executive branch vast new powers. Vought has advocated this sort of illegal rescission for years, including as the lead author of Project 2025.”

Welker: They say the house is not in session because you don't want to swear in the newly elected democratic congresswoman who would be a critical vote to releasing the Epstein files. Johnson: It's totally absurd. This has nothing to do with that. It's another red herring.

Trump is looking at 2028 and he has to figure out, how does he circumvent or avoid the rule that he can't run again. I think one of the ways he's going to do that is to create what's perceived to be a real crisis in America." Barbara Walter joins @johnavlon.bsky.social:

The Trump administration pardons hundreds of cop beaters who wanted to overturn an election and then it wants to stage this sort of arrest of a former the FBI director investigated Trump’s campaign. Sums it up. No law, no order.

Did you think you were middle class? This letter highlights the devastation that #MikeLawler's #MAGA agenda will visit on even the so-called middle class, e.g., seniors on fixed incomes. If you had trouble making ends meet before, you ain't seen nothing yet! www.therecorder.org/post/letters...

GOP Rep Mike Lawler of New York just said Trump's targeting of blue states will hurt *his* district. He knows this corrupt lawlessness is badly damaging his reelection chances. And Mikie Sherrill is using it to pillory the GOPer in NJ gov race. Epic self own. newrepublic.com/article/2012...

Our dementia-addled President In Name Only hacks it up on the golf course again this weekend while rage-boy Gestapo Miller seethes and plots the 4th Reich.

Can Miller really believe this? If so, he is delusional. If not, then he’s a reprehensible demagogue.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

Texas Gateway Church pastor, Trump / MAGA spiritual advisor, and sponsor, Robert Morris, has plead guilty for raping a 12 year old girl. Morris sponsored one of Trump’s Inaugural Balls in 2017 and partook in other MAGA & GOP events. #OpDeathEaters #EndImpunity

Not. A. Drag. Queen. nor transgender or an immigrant Trump spiritual advisor Pastor Robert Morris, founder of Gateway, a Dallas evangelical megachurch, was hauled off in handcuffs today after pleading guilty to child sex abuse #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

Did he share a “wonderful secret” with Donald Trump as well?

As importantly, ICE should stop lying. It's unbelievable that we literally cannot trust anything ICE says after an incident like this. Not even the banal "we will investigate it" can be trusted. The base instinct in every situation is just to lie. Who is dictating this strategy?

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

What a dark day for press freedom in the United States

This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.

Chris Murphy says Dems should lay down a simple marker for Trump: No Dem support for anything that funds his lawbreaking. "if you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness. This isn't a normal time...the world [is] watching to see what we stand for." 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...