Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

As a resident of Portland, I can relate

Gov. Shapiro: "The way the president has chosen to deploy the National Guard in other states, and to deploy the Guard of one state. Texas, into another state, Illinois, is extremely dangerous...It does not make us more safe. It creates chaos and real danger in our communities."

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Why doesn’t she just ask the feds in the helicopters circling portland all night for their footage of our war zone? They won’t have it because there is no war zone. This is so fucking exhausting.

Because that's how wars work - you just hide them in the cupboard when visitors are in the house 😌

it’s all just a grift

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

Government Shutdown Leaves US Cyber Defenses Weaker, Insiders Say Already understaffed and now further diminished, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is scrambling to investigate a spate of cyber attacks. The lapse of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has made it even harder.

Already understaffed and now further diminished, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is scrambling to investigate a spate of cyber attacks. The lapse of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has made it even harder.

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

What Kori said

Good work

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
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Take it from Mr. Art of the Deal, if there’s a shutdown, the president is to blame.

JUDGE McELROY: It’s “yet another case where the administration is saying … I’m going to do what I want to do and not what the law says and make the court make me.”

@politico.com #FEMA @kyledcheney.bsky.social
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“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter:

"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Land of the free. Home of the brave.

ILLINOIS — BROADVIEW POLICE CHIEF ON ICE: “I was shocked. I’ve never been spoken to by a fellow law enforcement officer in such a way.”

ICE is routinely gassing cops and negatively impacting the community as their detention facility faces protests.

Dear Sec. Noem:

Last week your spokesperson said this ICE officer’s excessively violent conduct was "unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE."

The video evidence hasn’t changed.

Does DHS now support ICE agents assaulting women in front of their children?