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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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One of my role models for the Trump era (since 1.0) has been @joycevance.bsky.social, whom I look up to for her impeccable legal commentary, ability to do a million things, and inspiration. I can’t wait to read her book — thank you, Joyce! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/801635...
October 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
One of my role models for the Trump era (since 1.0) has been @joycevance.bsky.social, whom I look up to for her impeccable legal commentary, ability to do a million things, and inspiration. I can’t wait to read her book — thank you, Joyce! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/801635...
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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FIRED DOJ LAWYER: “I responded up the chain of command - that’s a lie. I cannot sign my name to that.”
Erez Reuveni says he was fired by Trump’s DOJ for refusing to lie that KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA was a terrorist & gang member.
Erez Reuveni says he was fired by Trump’s DOJ for refusing to lie that KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA was a terrorist & gang member.
October 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
FIRED DOJ LAWYER: “I responded up the chain of command - that’s a lie. I cannot sign my name to that.”
Erez Reuveni says he was fired by Trump’s DOJ for refusing to lie that KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA was a terrorist & gang member.
Erez Reuveni says he was fired by Trump’s DOJ for refusing to lie that KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA was a terrorist & gang member.
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Anyway here's a picture of Mike Lawler hanging out with one of the Young Republicans who suggested putting their political opponents in gas chambers
October 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Anyway here's a picture of Mike Lawler hanging out with one of the Young Republicans who suggested putting their political opponents in gas chambers
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They just killed NHANES.
Every US public health student learns about this study.
It’s given us all sorts of important knowledge about the health of Americans and they just ended it.
Every US public health student learns about this study.
It’s given us all sorts of important knowledge about the health of Americans and they just ended it.
Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky
CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
www.statnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
They just killed NHANES.
Every US public health student learns about this study.
It’s given us all sorts of important knowledge about the health of Americans and they just ended it.
Every US public health student learns about this study.
It’s given us all sorts of important knowledge about the health of Americans and they just ended it.
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Spot on.
Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?
HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.
HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.
October 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Spot on.
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This is real. Chicago today.
Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby
October 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This is real. Chicago today.
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Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)
Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)
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To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
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ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
October 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.
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"Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it..."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...
www.propublica.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it..."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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These *men* showed up at this market and grabbed the owner for no reason dressed in plain clothes with no identification.
They threw him to the ground as a Combat Vet shopping there calls the police on them! There was no warrant and he was a citizen.
They threw him to the ground as a Combat Vet shopping there calls the police on them! There was no warrant and he was a citizen.
October 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
These *men* showed up at this market and grabbed the owner for no reason dressed in plain clothes with no identification.
They threw him to the ground as a Combat Vet shopping there calls the police on them! There was no warrant and he was a citizen.
They threw him to the ground as a Combat Vet shopping there calls the police on them! There was no warrant and he was a citizen.
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“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
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Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang
# of times the Bible forbids/demands penalties for abortion- 0
# of times the Bible justifies keeping out immigrants-0
# of times Jesus condemns homosexuality-0
# of times the Bible addresses poverty, justice and compassion for the poor- over 2,000
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
# of times the Bible justifies keeping out immigrants-0
# of times Jesus condemns homosexuality-0
# of times the Bible addresses poverty, justice and compassion for the poor- over 2,000
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
October 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang
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“We aren’t just outside the bounds of normal constitutional operations; we’re several standard deviations outside anything America has ever experienced before. We can clearly see what’s happening is wrong—illegal and unconstitutional—and the actors who can do something about that just … aren’t.”
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...
There is no budget "deal" to be made
President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“We aren’t just outside the bounds of normal constitutional operations; we’re several standard deviations outside anything America has ever experienced before. We can clearly see what’s happening is wrong—illegal and unconstitutional—and the actors who can do something about that just … aren’t.”
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Still waiting for it to trickle down...
October 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Still waiting for it to trickle down...
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Tennessee soybean farmer: China has long been our biggest customer, and tariffs have cut into our ability to sell soybeans to them. We don't want a bailout. We just want access to free and open markets to sell our crops.
October 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Tennessee soybean farmer: China has long been our biggest customer, and tariffs have cut into our ability to sell soybeans to them. We don't want a bailout. We just want access to free and open markets to sell our crops.
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I am just so fucking proud of her.
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that.
Shameless!
Shameless!
BREAKING: SCOTUS (again) allows Sec. Noem to proceed with ending Temporary Protect Status for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, over the objection of the three Democratic appointees.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A326
KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR A STAY
[October 3, 2025]
In March of this year, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered a preliminary order postponing the effective date of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to remove "temporary protected status" (TPS) from Venezuelan nationals living in the United States. See 8 U.S. C. §1254a; 5 U.S. C. §705.
In May, this Court stayed that order while the Government appealed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ultimately affirmed the District Court's preliminary order. Last month, the District Court entered final judgment in respondents' favor, holding unlawful and setting aside the Secretary's actions effectuating her decision— namely, her vacatur of a pending extension of TPS for Venezuelan nationals, and her termination of that status itself.
See 5 U. S. C. §706(2). (The District Court also concluded that the Secretary unlawfully vacated a TPS extension for Haitian nationals. The Government now seeks to stay the portions of the District Court's judgment pertaining to Ven-ezuela, but not Haiti. See Application 7, n. 6.)
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties' legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifwdli7xxfny6ivyfuusq7lptvsyntu7ypokqdyrgpoxlyw4dmokq@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that.
Shameless!
Shameless!
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Trump says the US is in "armed conflict" with drug cartels.
Meanwhile, his DOJ is disbanding a task force that took on cartels.
Trump doesn't care about stopping drug trafficking — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy.
This is a power grab.
Meanwhile, his DOJ is disbanding a task force that took on cartels.
Trump doesn't care about stopping drug trafficking — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy.
This is a power grab.
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Trump says the US is in "armed conflict" with drug cartels.
Meanwhile, his DOJ is disbanding a task force that took on cartels.
Trump doesn't care about stopping drug trafficking — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy.
This is a power grab.
Meanwhile, his DOJ is disbanding a task force that took on cartels.
Trump doesn't care about stopping drug trafficking — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy.
This is a power grab.
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Trump just ordered and the U.S. Navy just carried out another summary execution of 4 persons suspected of drug running in international waters. I am at a loss of words, so I am re-upping my piece on this just posted yesterday…
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President Trump’s Summary Execution of “Foreign Designated Terrorists” in International Waters and the Coming War on Anti-Fascism in America
Stopping A Lethal Category Error Before It Goes Any Further
substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Trump just ordered and the U.S. Navy just carried out another summary execution of 4 persons suspected of drug running in international waters. I am at a loss of words, so I am re-upping my piece on this just posted yesterday…
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