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Federal agents use pepper spray, rubber bullets on Durango protesters More than 24 hours of peaceful protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Durango culminated Tuesday with pepper spray and rubber bullets being used against protester...

More than 24 hours of peaceful protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Durango culminated Tuesday with pepper spray and rubber bullets being used against protesters.

There's a bipartisan push by some in Colorado's congressional delegation to free a father and children seized by ICE on their way to school in Durango. ICE has not suggested the father committed any crime.

Exclusive: Three-star general pushed out amid tensions with Hegseth | CNN Politics A three-star general serving on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff has been pushed out of his position following months of sustained tensions with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, according to people famili...

Purges of senior military officers.

If this were happening elsewhere, we'd understand right away what was happening.

It's hard to grasp that it's happening here. But it is...

www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

14 million American kids about to lose access to food:

• Trump is spending $1 billion outfitting a hand-me-down Qatari 747 he plans to take into retirement

• Kristi Noem bought two Gulfstream luxury jets for her travel to photo opps

• FBI's Kash Patel is using its Gulfstream g550 for dates

Ellis: Border Patrol agents cannot use chokeholds, correct?

Bovino: "They can, in the appropriate circumstance."

Ellis has the 2023 Border Patrol use of force policy in front of her. She reads it, and it is only allowed when deadly force is authorized.

Bovino acknowledges that is true.

Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.

China’s Repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang More than a million Muslims have been arbitrarily detained in China’s Xinjiang region. The reeducation camps are just one part of the government’s crackdown on Uyghurs.

Yes : www.cfr.org/backgrounder...

A small town police force bragged that citizens "can't get a breath of fresh air in or out without us knowing" thanks to Flock surveillance cameras.

They used the cameras to wrongly accused a woman of a crime, forcing her to find other surveillance video to prove her innocence.

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

The courage of these Guard Members is awesome

How To Register To Vote, and Other Questions Before Election Day How do I register to vote, and where is my polling place? Answering frequently asked questions about voting and Election Day in our Gun Sense Voter Guide.

The fight for a future free from gun violence begins at the ballot box. Find and share important resources that will help you be an informed Gun Sense Voter. ⬇️

U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, witnesses say | CBC News The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative at an event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses tell CBC News

In case Canada is ever tempted to forget that the Trump administration holds the whole country in contempt, Pete Hoekstra is there to remind us, not only because *he* treats the country with contempt but because for him to be ambassador is itself contemptuous.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Breaking on MSNBC:

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

ICE’s arrest of father, two children in Durango spark local protests Two children and their father were detained by federal immigration agents on their way to school in southwestern Colorado on Monday, sparking protests from demonstrators who tried to prevent the fa…

www.denverpost.com/2025/10/28/c...

ICE’s arrest of father, two children in Durango spark local protests Two children and their father were detained by federal immigration agents on their way to school in southwestern Colorado on Monday, sparking protests from demonstrators who tried to prevent the fa…

“ICE has blocked all the mother’s attempts to see her children &is reportedly preparing to forcibly separate these minor children from their father&send them alone to Texas. This isn’t enforcement; it’s traumatic kidnapping of family members who are doing everything right and being punished for it”

screengrab from the marketplace reading $2262 per month, office visits $30, generic drugs $20.

So I've been paying $1200 a month this year for an ACA plan.

2026 preview site from the regime just went up.

This is what the exact same plan will cost me per month in 2026.

I'm beside myself.

Q: What did you mean when you said you're prepared to send 'more than the National Guard' into American cities?

TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want

Death toll from latest Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 104 The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports that Israeli attacks across Gaza since last night have killed at least 104 Palestinians, including 46 children, and wounded at least 253. Since the ceasefire was agreed on October 10, at least 211 Palestinians have been killed and 597 wounded in Israeli attacks, while 482 bodies have been recovered, the ministry said. Israel’s war on Gaza has now killed at least 68,643 people and wounded 170,655 since it began in October 2023, according to the ministry’s latest figures.

Israel murdered at least 46 children in Gaza yesterday because of the *unexplained* death of a *soldier* in Rafah.

And this is not understood by the US et al to have violated the ‘ceasefire.’

Note: This is me — I asked this question.

You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

Can a reporter grow a pair and just say what we all are thinking already? He is deliberately refusing to look at information so he can remain ignorant. Pure and simple.

Today is Day 29 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders:

1. Republicans control the White House, Senate and House.

2. GOP making deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and ACA.

3. Democrats are fighting to lower costs, cancel the cuts and save healthcare for Americans.

Exactly.

They’re no longer hiding their treasonous desire/actual plans to stay in power.

Abstract This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of The Supreme Court Review, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on emergency applications relating to the Trump administration during its October 2024 Term. As it demonstrates, the justices in those cases not only flouted the traditional standards for emergency relief; they exhibited repeated and sustained disrespect for both lower courts and Congress, enabling the executive branch to act in defiance of countless statutory restrictions; of settled constitutional understandings; and even of coercive district court mandates, all with dramatic (and deleterious) real-world consequences. As the Alien Enemies Act cases illustrate, the takeaway is not that the Court always ruled for President Trump; it's that it pushed back only when its mandates were on the line. The upshot is an attempt by the Supreme Court to preserve its supremacy, as such. But such an approach, the essay concludes, is likely to be self-defeating. In the short term, it will encourage the executive branch to take ever-more-aggressive actions against both the people and the lower courts. And in the long term, it will not just further weaken Congress and the lower courts; it will further erode public confidence in the judiciary as an institution. Together, the increased power and momentum of the executive and the decreased credibility of (and respect for) the courts will make it that much harder for the Supreme Court to wield the supremacy it's protecting, even when it wants to.

New paper from me offering a holistic assessment of #SCOTUS's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications thus far:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.

Congress is responsible for setting tariffs. See the Constitution.

But Speaker Johnson has surrendered Congress’ power to Trump. He changed the rules to prevent votes in the House on tariffs—a tax on families—because he knows even Republicans don’t like Trump’s costly trade policy.

Billions of gallons of saltwater laced with forever chemicals are pumped into the ground in every state that does hydraulic fracturing.Pa Wv Oklahoma Texas half the country will be a fresh drinkable water wasteland in five years. Do the research it is horrifying. Study Proprietary oil Co chemicals.

Help Us Report on the Impact of Oil Field Waste in Oklahoma Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground in Oklahoma. For years, residents have filed complaints and struggled to find solutions. We need your help to understand the full scale...

One rancher told us that before an oil well near him was plugged, it shot salt water and oil 40 feet in the air.

Oklahoma residents: Have you seen similar pollution incidents, or purges, in your area?

Help us and @readfrontier.bsky.social report 👇

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown in 2018 - 2019 — for 35 days — before people went hungry, workers lost pay, and government services collapsed.

Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.

'An Unprecedented Hunger and Health Crisis': How the Big Beautiful Bill Could Devastate Vermont Interviews with Sen. Bernie Sanders and more explain how BBB changes to Medicaid and SNAP will devastate rural communities in Vermont.

“It’s horrifying, the absolute immorality of what this administration is doing," @sanders.senate.gov tells @rollingstone.com.