Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Greg has correctly articulated our theory of the case - and accurately laid out the one battleground on which Governors and other electeds can successfully fight the feds, other than the courts (and there is delicate strategy there as well that I’m not sure everyone fully appreciates.)

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Our press sucks. Seriously. How hard is it to just fucking cite the law.

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

This remains THE issue, and it's not one you can solve credibly without the Trump regime fundamentally abandoning its modus operandi thus far, as by firing Russ Vought. (Either that or the Senate GOP nukes the filibuster)

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

Ok, this is just funny.

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Pritzker is everything Newsom wants you to believe Newsom is, including both actually brave and seemingly in possession of an actually beating human heart.

Screenshot of a tweet from @samstein dated 5 October 2025, showing federal agents dressed up like soldiers, and among them people with professional cameras. The text: "The clamp down is about producing content as much as anything else"

Don’t Believe the Hype: Trump Bum-Rushing DC Reporters Edition News comes today that Russ Vought is now threatening not to pay...

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Abject bad faith will continue until abject bad faith has personal and professional consequences.

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

I think there’s a lot to this. The network effects (including big press complicity) and the enforced ideological channeling of Twitter really strengthened this movement.

I sympathize a little with the willful obtuseness of editorial on this point, because it really is untenable (for democracy as much as their bottom line) to have half the country not trusting legitimate news. But there's no amount of lowered standards for op-eds that's going to fix it.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

“My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.” - 2/6/25

9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times

“.. 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 ..”

@theguardian.com
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Robert Costa screenshot from X: "Robert Costa @costareports Senator Collins says at the Capitol tonight that she’s circulating a bipartisan plan that will commit to moving to address health-care subsidies once the government is reopened… she showed reporters a folder that had a printout of what she said could be a way out of shutdown"

The Senator who enabled the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh is selling snake oil again. #MEPoltiics

Will some Democrats be stupid enough to buy?

No "assurance" or "promise" any Republican makes on anything is worth a single thing, at all. It has exactly zero value. Why would any Democrat agree to anything that's not a piece of legislative text, when even legislative text is ignored by the wannabe dictators of the Trump regime?

i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

No

"We're gonna crash some planes if you don't fund ICE."

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

In which I finally put that absurd 2013 WSJ graphic to good use Twelve years ago, the Wall St. Journal ran a story about the impact of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which was a sweeping tax bill signed into law by President Obama which locked in the Bush tax cuts for lower & middle-class households while allowing them to expire on schedule for wealthier Americans: A compromise measure, the Act gives permanence to the lower rate of much of the Bush tax cuts, while retaining the higher tax rate at upper income levels that became effective on January 1 due to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. It also establishes caps on tax deductions and credits for those at upper income levels. It does not tackle federal spending levels to a great extent, rather leaving that for further negotiations and legislation. The American Taxpayer Relief Act passed by a wide majority in the Senate, with both Democrats and Republicans supporting it, while most of the House Republicans opposed it. The WSJ story, titled "How Much Will Your Taxes Jump?," led to widespread derision at the time for wringing its hands over wealthy people having to go back to (gasp) paying a few percent more of their sky-high incomes in taxes.

📣 NEW: In which I finally put that absurd 2013 WSJ graphic to good use.

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Here's how much premiums will ACTUALLY spike for 4 households starting January 1st if they don't shop around.

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Has America become a police state? I was a counterterrorism official at the State Department for 12 years before Trump fired me. The path we’re on is alarming and we need to push back. I’m running for Congress (VA-8) to fight for our democracy. I would be grateful for your support at duffin4va.com.

It’s day four of MAGA’s outrageous government shutdown. Now, Speaker Johnson gave House Republicans another paid week away from work.

I’m going live on Instagram at 7 PM ET with my friend and Ranking Democrat on the Rules Committee @repmcgovern.bsky.social to talk about this lawlessness.

Pritzker has been great. But these reports that IL state police are assisting ICE, harassing and beating people who record ICE, and helping arresting protesters all seem to be supported by some video. If state cops are helping feds suppress rights over governor’s objections, that’s a big problem.