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Kristi Noem's goons raided a car wash in August and shattered a guy's leg. They then held him in custody under 24/7 supervision in a California hospital, hiding him using various fake names. They interrogated him but did not charge him. It took a judge's order to make ICE let him go.

What?

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting - emptywheel The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would...

The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...

Don't look now, but Pam Bondi is refusing to answer Lindsey Graham's question about how many "illegals" live in Chicago.

Instead, she filibustered about how many drug traffickers were caught there, most based on investigations started under Biden.

"There’s another reason Dems should stand strong: Republicans have shown they don’t negotiate in good faith or follow through on their commitments. They’ve used their majorities in Congress to branch to tear up bipartisan agreements, cancel appropriated funds, and attempt to turn Trump into a king."

There is a major, major problem with taking what happened in Washington, D.C., as a federal enclave, and transposing it to legitimize the idea of the Texas National Guard policing the streets of Chicago in violation of the law and saying, "Chicagoans would love this!" (they would not).

Durbin to Bondi: "Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar, you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family, even though this gift was clearly illegal. Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."

instead of answering Durbin's questions, Bondi is attacking him

This should be seen as authoritarian: A refusal to allow the work of oversight to be done, masquerading as a debating club when she ought to be answering questions.

Democrats are winning the shutdown Republicans, meanwhile, are bumbling and stumbling.

New in PN: Dems are winning the shutdown

"If Republicans are on board with Trump’s effort to become a dictator, there’s not much point in negotiating. You might as well force them to own their priorities, including hugely increasing healthcare costs, then use it against them on the campaign trail."

“Violence is not the cause of Trump and Miller’s desire to use state power to crush their opposition. It is the pretext for which they transparently long.”

Portland And Beyond This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

Attempts to deploy federalized National Guardsmen to Oregon, California, & Illinois, also, signs that Trump, or at least someone around him, is starting to think seriously about the Insurrection Act. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

This is from Marge Greene.

You know who has been warning about this for months? Democrats.

But the people who had no plan to deal with this crisis and still don’t want you to believe this is about “illegals.”

Sen. Ruben Gallego says the impacts of the shutdown pale in comparison to the calamity that would ensue if the Obamacare subsidies expire: “If we don’t get ACA tax credit extensions, over 100,000 Arizonans are going to double their premiums on their health insurance. That’s painful and permanent.”

Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.

"Two weeks" is GOP-pol-speak for "never." Putin understands this

This Administration wants troops in place in Blue states so they can nullify the mid term elections when they lose. Bigly. #politics #fascism

“Tulip mania didn’t significantly impact the Dutch economy of the 1630s”

“The South Sea Bubble got a lot of ships built”

“The legacy of the dot-com bubble was infrastructure build-out”

Preview of next month’s mainstream media talking points

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Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Agents attacked an elderly couple who were peacefully protesting. The wife was hit in the head, has a concussion.

282 Ex DOJ officials open letter: “We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it”

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

Trump officials order federal workers to use out-of-office email line attacking Democrats The Trump administration is ordering federal employees being furloughed over the shutdown to set an out-of-office automatic email reply that blames Democrats for the situation, reported the Huffington Post on Wednesday.The email directing this change "came from leaders of [the Department of Health a...

The Trump administration is ordering federal employees being furloughed over the shutdown to set an out-of-office automatic email reply that blames Democrats for the situation, reported the Huffington Post on Wednesday.

MAGA, why was convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell moved to a minimum security prison in Texas shortly after meeting with Trump's former personal defense attorney?

This is a generous gift, and a very smart thing to do.

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Opinion | Mr. President, May We Interest You in a Naked Bike Ride?

Pres. Trump presents Portland as a "war-ravaged" "hell" that must be crushed by armed troops, but it's actually a city that protests his plan with a naked bike ride -- that's the kind of "war zone" this is. So I call on Trump to join the naked bike ride: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Opinion | Mr. President, May We Interest You in a Naked Bike Ride?

"Cycling in the buff is a Portland specialty, and one organization has announced a naked ride “in response to the militarization of our city.”

Such is the war zone here."

Spot on from @nickkristof.bsky.social

GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

This guy sounds like a fucking lunatic.