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@cnn.com @msnbc.com @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @nbcnews.com @abcnewsbot.bsky.social @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy @newsnation.bsky.social @thehill.com Here's the Portland frontline war today. SHOW THIS TO YOUR VIEWERS.

Republicans are in disarray 1 week into the shutdown President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Republicans have been in “disarray” for years now actually.

NEW: Trump vented this weekend after a judge he appointed ruled his troop deployment to Portland was illegal. It’s the latest in a growing list of his own judicial appointees who have dealt him defeats on some the highest profile issues of the year. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Josh Hawley and Yale Law School, ladies and gentlemen.

Whitehouse: "It obviously makes a big difference when you have a professional DOJ and there's no alleged involvement of the president in a sex trafficking operation. This is different. This is a MAGA DOJ conducting an investigation into a trafficking operation in which POTUS may well be implicated"

Durbin to Bondi: "Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar, you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family, even though this gift was clearly illegal. Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

Trump has never sounded guiltier than this and that's a high bar

I'm not a conservative commentator. Billionaires won't pay me $150m. No major network is making me the editor in chief.

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Meiselas: Trump claimed that he and the leaders of the Republican Party were speaking with Democrats. Is he being truthful, or is he lying?

Jeffries: Well, as far as I can tell, that’s a stone-cold lie

Pro-tip: the people zip-tying kids or shoving the elderly down stairs are never the good guys.

Buried in the polls, with every American screaming for the Epstein files, the walls are closing in on Tangerine Palpatine.

Sending troops to every city you can in a desperate attempt to make martial law happen is not strength. It’s the last gasp of a dying regime.

I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

bingo

“I don’t know this woman, Ghislaine Maxwell — never met her. My lawyer only coached her for, what, eight hours? Then she gets transferred to Club Fed’s Yoga Camp. Total coincidence!” - DJT

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Imagine believing this. They’ve refused to expand Medicaid in Tennessee costing us $30 billion and counting

Been seeing this a lot lately. MAGA folks calling judges Trump appointed “leftist” the moment they rule against him for unconstitutional orders. Funny how quickly “loyalty” turns into “betrayal” when the law doesn’t bend their way.

Illinois Sues to Block Trump’s Deployment of Texas National Guard in Chicago Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Illinois filed a lawsuit Monday to block President Donald Trump’s attempt to send hundreds of Texas National Guard troops in Chicago, saying the deployment infringes on the state’s “sovereignty and right to self-governance.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump is claiming no inflation.

He knows that, unlike him, we actually do our own shopping and know that’s bullshit, right?

Developing: Trump considering $10 billion bailout for farmers he singularly drove into poverty by taking away their biggest customers and markets.

No hyperbole here. He started the fire and now he’s giving them a cup of water to put it out.

And of course, he expects them to thank him for it.

I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.

BREAKING:

The Supreme Court just rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.

The decision means that her conviction and 20-year criminal sentence remain in place.

🚨 Keefer v. Biden Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES petition by Republican Pennsylvania legislators invoking the discredited ISL theory to challenge a pro-voting executive order passed by President Joe Biden along with other Pennsylvania-specific voting policies. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

Donald Trump and congressional republicans clearly can’t govern. They are entirely responsible for this shutdown.

"An Enemy From Within": Trump's Plan to Turn the Military on American Citizens Donald Trump called American cities "training grounds" for our troops. We need to take that threat seriously.

My new article, "An Enemy From Within” is now live. I analyze Donald Trump’s recent address to our nation's military leaders and the dangerous demand for personal loyalty over constitutional duty. A line has been crossed, and the integrity of our democracy is at stake.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.