Terri Payne

But they’re not getting paid for all those days off, right? 😾

I worked on the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and the anger Americans felt over bailing *ourselves* out was measurable on the Richter Scale. And that investment MADE money for the fisc! But we’re cool with incurring debt on Argentina’s behalf? Make it make sense.

Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 9% [Updated] - emptywheel Of the eleven people the government charged in conjunction with a "shitshow" Chief Custom and Border Patrol Greg Bovino staged at Chicago's ICE facility on September 27, the publicly filed charges aga...

Ut oh.

Yesterday I reported that just 18% of the cases against people arrested September 27-28 at Broadview in Chicago had survived.

Make that 9% -- they just moved to dismiss another case.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/g...

JFC

Damn right!

Thank god someone is angry and showing it.

It isnt democrats vs republicans. It's billionaires vs everybody else. James Talarico did an amazing job comforting the crowd as he reminded us that women's reproductive rights matter, immigrants aren't taking our money, our healthcare isn't up for debate, & God tells us to love our neighbors.

And then Stephen Miller with that dangling “plenary power” manufacturing dread of the next awful thing…exhausting 😞

Thank you @schiff.senate.gov

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

It doesn’t have to be like this. 😩

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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This is all being done in our name. Unconscionable. Where is the Senate?

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

District judge throws out prosecution against protester in DC with prejudice, slams US attorney for a pattern of abuse

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Hadn’t thought of it that way before.

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Trump promised an infrastructure bill for 4 years in his first term.

Said it was coming in 2 weeks many times.

Never delivered one.

Democrats then delivered critically needed funding for crumbling infrastructure.

Now Russ Vought is taking that away.

But only in blue states.

“Your side” is the whole problem wrapped up in a two-word package.

There can be no other reason.

This hurts my heart and also may have just convinced me TikTok has some value to offer the world.

Dude I fuckin love listening to music

The Ozymandias Problem

What monsters are we?!

So Jersey 👊🏻

People seem to be forgetting that DOJ doesn’t just “get” an indictment. They have to convince a grand jury to vote to return one, something this administration has struggled with recently.

“When a phantom foundation wires $100 million to the president's crypto company, America has a problem. When that payment arrives after Trump visits the UAE, the problem becomes a national security crisis. Trump's corruption is the greatest threat facing America.”

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a Reichstag fire, but one of them every week

Nice.