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Trump’s Odd Nuclear Threat and America’s House of Dynamite Almost nothing about Trump's latest nuke tweet is correct. Plus what Netflix's HOUSE OF DYNAMITE gets right about nuclear war.

I couldn't let this week go without reviewing HOUSE OF DYNAMITE — which gets right to me the four core principles of nuclear thrillers. Most of all it should serve as a reminder why Trump's nuclear threats this week are so dangerous: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-od...

Zoom in: Earlier in the week it was unclear whether the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) could find roughly $5.3 billion to make the military's payroll by Friday, but two White House officials tell Axios the money was found at the last minute. The OMB found: $2.5 billion from a military housing fund specified in Trump's "big beautiful bill" to continue paying housing allowances for military personnel. • $1.4 billion from the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation fund, which largely will cover U.S. Army and Air Force payroll. The account normally funds military research and was heavily relied upon two weeks ago to cover military paychecks. • $1.4 billion from a Defense Department procurement account for building U.S. Navy ships, largely to fund the Navy and Marines.

The White House says it’s going to use procurement dollars to illegally pay the troops for rather than do it the legal way of enacting a military pay bill.

You cannot w/ a straight face tell me using procurement dollars to pay the military adheres to the purpose statute and the Antideficiency Act.

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S. n.pr/47wcmYo

Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."

Another Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorney Found to be Serving Unlawfully, Federal Judge Rules Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Bill Essayli, a Trump-appointed Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, has been serving unlawfully in the nation’s largest federal district — the third such finding against a prosecutor installed by President Donald Trump.

It’s almost as if we are being run by a giant well funded international multigenerational pedophile ring

BREAKING: The full bench of the 9th circuit has agreed to take up the Portland National Guard case and vacated the panel decision that had blessed Trump’s deployment.

Trump: “my numbers are up”

Reality:

Bubble rated ★★★★★★★★ out of ★★★★★★★★.

Would not recommend.

As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

Introducing Seattle's United Veteran - Civilian Response · Mobilize Seattle Indivisible and Veterans For Peace announce a new partnership: the United Veteran - Civilian Response. This initiative prepares our community for the possibility of federal troops being deplo...

#seattleindivisible asks us to link up vets and civilians. Join us: mobilize.us/s/cgjHBV

Even if the Republican controlled federal government had allowed the $6 billion contingency reserve to be used to fund SNAP benefits it wouldn’t have been enough to completely fund SNAP

Let that sink in, The Trump administration made a conscious choice to starve millions of Americans.

Amazon announces they are laying off the largest amount of workers ever in the company’s history.

30,000+ workers will lose their jobs.

Text is a screenshot of a social media post from DoorDash that says: @DoorDash • 7h The federal government shutdown threatens SNAP benefits for 40 million Americans this week. We're launching an Emergency Food Response to help: delivering 1 million free meals through 300+ food banks, and waiving delivery and service fees for 300k grocery orders for SNAP recipients. It's a stopgap, not a solution. But help is needed now. Read more: about.doordash.com/en-us/news/sna...

This is what corporations should be doing to face this moment!! 🤝

Door Dash now we just need you to pay employees their fair share.

Maybe hospitalizing a FOOTBALL player will get the attention of right wing Texans.

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Data journalists start news site to track extremist movements Decoherence Media is a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right,” co-founder Tristan Lee told Semafor.

On Monday, former Bellingcat journalist Tristan Lee and open-source researcher Jennefer Harper will launch Decoherence Media, a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right.”

Where we are as a country

As absolutely vital as courts & elections are, we will never sue or vote our way to democracy. We must be clear about how deep rot goes: Federalist Society, Trump-appointed Justices on appeals & Roberts Court aid authoritarian project on behalf of billionaires who bought them.

That and not releasing the Epstein files.

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Well and they KNOW his popularity rating will take a severe hit when Epstein files are released. Hence keeping House out of session and Rep Grijalva not sworn in. Pathetic.

Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Trump’s CISA Raid: Pulling Cybersecurity Experts Off Critical Infrastructure Defense To Process Deportation Paperwork Last week we covered how Trump’s immigration theater was pulling federal agents off child sex crimes, drug interdiction, and terrorism investigations to chase landscapers and line cooks inste…

DHS is reassigning hundreds of CISA cybersecurity experts to process deportation paperwork, pulling them off defending U.S. infrastructure from hacks.

We are gutting cyber defense for political theater, leaving power grids and networks more vulnerable.

www.techdirt.com/2025/10/17/t...

A chart showing polling data on people’s feelings about AI usage in everyday life in 25 countries. Conducted by Pew Research published Oct. 2025.

This is interesting. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

The resistance reaches into Trump country As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

We are so much more fun than them. www.tiktok.com/@evergreenre...