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The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

It's a two-fer, you get your antisemitic conspiracy theory AND the insistence that there is no such thing as sincere progressive opinion, it couldn't possibly be that people are genuinely pissed off so they must have been paid to protest.

Finally, the Court notes its concern about a third declaration submitted by Defendants, in which the declarant asserted that the FPS “requested federalized National Guard personnel to support protection of the Federal District Court on Friday, October 10, 2025.” Doc. 62-3. This purported fact was incendiary and seized upon by both parties at oral argument. It was also inaccurate, as the Court noted on the record. To their credit, Defendants have since submitted a corrected declaration, and the affiant has declared that they did not make the error willfully. Doc.

Do you think Corey Lewandowski, Kristi Noem, or Stephen Miller himself thought it'd be cute to falsely claim FPS asked for a Guard invasion of the courthouse?

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

The day after the above memo, seemingly authorizing limitless force, a federal judge in Chicago issued a temporary restraining order limiting their use of force.

I wonder which one they plan to follow.

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

If GOP wants to abolish the filibuster over this, awesome. It helps Rs way more than Ds. It’s also a central reason for loss of faith in government over the last 25 yrs. Rs can reopen the govt tonight if they want. If they want to do it to make sure 15 million lose their health care that’s on them.

The WGN producer was released with no charges, per the outlet wgntv.com/news/operati...

Department of Justice lawyers, from Main Justice to AUSAs in the districts, have ALWAYS enjoyed a sort of aura of truth and justice and trust. That was arguably always unjustifiable but Trump DoJ has absolutely pissed it away with compulsive lying.

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

"If we were even to suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs."

Oh Alexander, honey.

New Orwellianism just dropped

Protecting Americans’ health also includes insisting that RFK, Jr be fired and replaced with a competent public health expert - and with restoring the CDC.

That’s the kind of result that would be a victory worth ending the shutdown.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

🧵RFK’s view, is not just stupidly moronic & unintelligent, it reeks of antisemitism.⬇️

Is Argentina now the new 51st state? Imagine taking healthcare away from American so they can help soybean farmers in Argentina.

China bought a quarter of Argentina's soybean crop on Sept. 23, 7 million metric tons. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

I think I know why Republicans don’t give a shit about the ACA tax credits expiring.

Remember all that personal information DOGE stole last spring?

Pretty sure they know exactly who registered Democrats are in most states…

Lacking CDC data again this week, we turn to our secondary wastewater source
@wastewaterscan.bsky.social

🔸The trajectory through September suggests that we may be approaching yearly lows today of 150-200k/day.

Maybe--just work with me here, @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us--you should stop voting to give Russ Vought more authority to defy the interests of Nevadans?

Reading this now. It’s the opinion explaining the reason for granting a TRO (the order came out yesterday) against the National Guard deployment in Illinois. It begins with a quote from Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers against the idea.

also a sign of how far trump has checked out-there is zero chance in the old days he would countenance anyone else taking credit, even in a slip of the tongue

You’ll never guess who is in charge of the Homeland Security Council….

(Miller. It’s Stephen Miller.)

At Broadview: A person in a chicken suit dances as a Mexican-American man debates some MAGA folks.

NEW: U.S. District Judge April Perry's 51-page written opinion in Illinois v. Trump is in.

Full opinion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/6d/6a/8d3a44...

Excellent citation to the Federalist Papers.

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New filing: "Illinois v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #70: memorandum opinion and order

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When I talked to bystanders they said agents accused Brockman of “obstruction,” which sure sounds a lot different than this DHS claim

Yes. And you shouldn’t vote to fund this Administration until there is ironclad language to stop it - and other violations of the law.

This is why there can be no deals. Make the GOP pass their own bill. Or get resignations in exchange for votes. (And make sure the resignations come first!)

This is a message for you, Senator. Federal employees want the shutdown to last until the Administration is forced to start following the law:

"Every other fed I've talked to agrees how much it sucks to be furloughed, but also that this shutdown needs to continue until the administration starts respecting the rule of law," said a NOAA employee. "Even the conservative Republicans."

One fed employee told me the internal conversations feel very different from previous shutdowns.

www.gravityisgone.com/federal-empl...