Paul Carroll

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Making up someone to get mad at, elite level.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

Stephen Miller said the Chicago building was “filled with TdA terrorists.”

DOJ prosecutors have not filed criminal charges or shown evidence that anyone arrested in the raid belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang.

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In addition to stealing all the jobs and buying all the homes and getting free healthcare & social security benefits and eating cats & dogs, they're hiding the cattle in their shirts? Throwing them over the wall? And why are they only bringing the sick cattle? They're leaving the healthy ones home?!

Wait. Trump has been telling us for months that inflation is gone. I’m about to go fill up with that $2/gallon gasoline he promised me.

You’re saying inflation is rampant?

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In other words, Trump will just gaslight MAGA and SAY he gave them $2,000.

The Gospel of Professional Christian Mike Johnson:

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

As hard as it may be to believe, you actually give her too much credit. She finished T-5. Without the trans swimmer, she would have still finished fifth.

That was in her best race, in the NCAAs. She never even qualified for the Olympic trials, let alone made a national team. Not even close.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Sorry I can't get over this but it's just so funny to say "The test starts off with giraffes and elephants but the questions get way harder than that"

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...

The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.

(Published Sept.)

Jeanine Pirro Strikes Out Yet Again In Federal Court Prosecutor Jeanine Pirro failed to secure a felony indictment against the woman three times, then lost a jury trial on a misdemeanor charge. Ouch.

Jeanine Pirro’s office tried three times to indict a woman on bogus felony charges of assaulting an ICE agent. A DC grand jury turned her down each time. So Pirro brought a misdemeanor charge instead. And now a trial jury has acquitted her of that. www.huffpost.com/entry/sidney...

The Communist Manifesto, as everyone knows, was originally written in cuneiform.

Why are the farmers destabilized, Scott?

Stupidity Officially Resigns: RFK Jr. to Assume Full Control In Which I, Stupidity, Concede Defeat to a Man Who Debated Biology and Lost to a Placenta.

But RFK Jr.? He’s different. He’s not just dumb. He’s majestic dumb. Dumb that glows. Dumb with wings. Dumb that makes other dumb look up and say, “One day, I wanna be like him.”

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JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME. BEARING WITNESS IS NOT OBSTRUCTION.

I’ll bet he could do more than Trump can.

But what a stupid thing to focus on.

Analysis: DHS leans into propaganda with militaristic action videos | CNN Politics When helicopters descended on a Chicago apartment building last week with federal agents kitted out in military gear, locals saw a terrifying escalation in the federal government’s incursion into Chic...

These do not look like police videos. They look like campaign ones." I spoke about DHS's glossy, military like videos. The deportations are for the camera. @cnn.com @zbyronwolf.bsky.social

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

ANTIFA:

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

5 Alarm Fire, folks.

Everything we've been warning about on Democracy-Ish and The Left Hook for months.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Crowd chanting, "lick them boots! Lick them boots!" at ISP.

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.

The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

Because this administration thinks everyone believes the rules only matter when it helps “your side” (like they do), they are counting on Comey’s unpopularity to normalize this.

Don’t let it. Whatever you think of him or his actions in the past, etc. this indictment is dangerous and an outrage.

YES YES YES YES

Pathetic — a terrified Joe Kernen at CNBC basically apologizes for even asking Eric Trump about their newest obscene corruption reported in NYT, where the UAE pumped billions into Trump’s crypto scam for chips that compromise our security.

(Eric immediately invoked Hunter 🙄)

Didn’t he not only lose the case the last time he sued the NYT but have to pay all their attorneys fees?

NEW: Trump says he is suing the New York Times for $15B for… well… I’m not entirely sure.