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How Chicago’s MMA gyms, cyclists and pet shelters are uniting to resist ICE Teachers, clergy and MMA students are finding ways to counter immigration authorities’ attempts to detain undocumented neighbors.

Resistance is possible, and it’s happening right now.

MAGA Media Keeps Thirsting for Left-Wing Violence . . . even if that means they have to invent it.

MAGA media is desperate for proof of widespread left-wing violence. But from an GOP bar fracas to a teen who staged his abduction by “four Mexicans,” the stories keep turning out to be hoaxes.

My latest newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...

Pentagon to use $130 million anonymous donation to help pay troops The amount is less than a day’s worth of salaries. Fiscal policy experts say the move also raises legal questions.

The Pentagon accepted an anonymous $130 million donation to help pay troops' salaries.

Fiscal policy experts are questioning the legality of the move.
 
"In general, you may not spend money that has been donated because the Constitution and the Anti-Deficiency Act say that you can't."

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the Government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering his "Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade," dated April 25, 1987. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address, and the Government of Ontario did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter. We encourage you to watch President Reagan's unedited video on our YouTube channel.

The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.

The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.

Update: The Chicago clergy letter decrying ICE's actions and voicing a willingness on the part of clergy to put their "bodies on the line" to protest ICE has reached 250 signatures — and now includes multiple evangelical pastors/leaders of evangelical institutions in the area.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson What Can We Do to Stop Him?

What can we do to stop him? 1st don’t worry about 2026/28 elections, yet. Focus on the Nov 2025 elections where there will be 52k races nationwide & turn out is key. 2nd, vote for pro democracy candidates that will shape the 2026/28 elections! Key elections are in CA, ME, NJ, PA & VA! #Elections2025

“military decisions” = whether to invade San Francisco

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Hey, he’s only the president, how is he supposed to know who he is pardoning

Trump now says he's secured "more than $20 trillion of investment." This fake number goes up every single day! (The entire US GDP is $30 trillion)

A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring “we’re just gonna kill people” without a trial or even a shred of due process.

North Carolina State Senate Approves New Congressional Map in Effort to Add a Seat

Trump and GOP are planning on forever power. I still don't think people realize it. You need Democrats who are willing to step up and fight.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

It looks even worse by video 😢

9th Circuit rules that National Guard can deploy to Portland The appeals court overturned the ruling of a lower court judge in Oregon, which could pave the way for President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland.

The appeals court overturned the ruling of a lower court judge in Oregon, which could pave the way for President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland. n.pr/474as2p

Meet my friend, @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social, proud Houston native and dedicated thorn in Abbott’s side.

🚨 ELECTION NOV 4, 2025

Isaiah’s running for CD18 in Houston, and the TXGOP is making this special election as confusing as possible: www.texastribune.org/2025/10/20/t...

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As the FT notes, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will "lay out his plans" before the meeting between Putin and Trump.

In addition, a meeting of European leaders with Trump is possible before his talks with Putin.

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Fired Justice Department lawyer says he refused to lie in the Abrego Garcia case Former Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni is speaking out about a pattern of troubling behavior he says he witnessed inside the DOJ that undermined the rule of law.

Federal judges caught the U.S. government providing false information in over 35 court cases. There are indications of systemic and deliberate falsifying of information

Hey Mike, if we’re playing this game: Maybe instead of trying to hide the Epstein Files, you should do your job and swear in Adelita.

Sabrina Carpenter Expands Tour Fund to Support Trans Rights Sabrina Carpenter expands her tour’s charity fund to support the Transgender Law Center, using her platform to promote trans rights and real-world allyship.

18 Oct 2025 -- Pop star/singer Sabrina Carpenter will now use her arena tour to funnel proceeds through the Sabrina Carpenter Fund to benefit the Transgender Law Center. Good on ya' SC! @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

Lynda Carter smiling in a teal suit and silver earrings with Adelita Grijalva also smiling in a white top and silver earrings

Speaker Johnson, you say you’re a man of God and I believed you. You put your hand on the Bible, you swore an oath- now keep your word to God and country and swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social, the Democrat from my home state of Arizona!

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.