this is so deeply upsetting

That is some high piled BS right there. They certainly did not serve and protect that 15 year old girl did they! ICE is the American Gestapo and Hoffman Estates police department failed its citizens today. Period.

At issue are the quick-turn orders SCOTUS has issued dictating whether Trump admin policies should be left in place while they are litigated through the lower courts. The emergency docket has taken on greater importance amid the flood of litigation challenging efforts to expand executive power.

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A blood-curdling scream erupted as ICE agents pulled a woman from her car in a school pickup line, shocking parents and onlookers at the scene. TikTok video by New York Post | News

They are pulling moms out of carpool lanes www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUNR594/

One evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries consoles another evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries for not getting an award for which neither evil man is even remotely deserving.

Tweet from Really American: “BREAKING: In an insane moment, the Speaker of the House frames the upcoming ‘No Kings’ protest march as a ‘Hate America’ event, irresponsibly calling folks who oppose fascism ‘pro-Hamas.’ We found that ‘violent rhetoric’ Republicans have criticized.” Below, a screenshot from Fox News shows Rep. Mike Johnson speaking with the U.S. Capitol in the background.

He’s sounding as unhinged as his boss lately.

The best and the brightest

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Comey Indictment Shows Danger of Subservient Prosecutors The political prosecution of a presidential enemy has left the government with a seemingly unwinnable case — and a justice system tainted by politics.

James Comey’s indictment is as far as it could be from the facts and the law. Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance explains why: bit.ly/46TyPOR

Trump Is Waging War on an American City The real threat to people in Chicago ​(and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

For weeks, anti-immigration agents have tossed smoke bombs at people in cars, shot so-called “less lethal” weapons like rubber bullets and pepper balls, and deployed a staggering amount of tear gas, sometimes unleashing it almost casually into streets crowded with passersby. trib.al/h31tf5z

Cartoon by John Deering.

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.” Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation.

It’s this multiple times a day

The Meritocracy!

(said in the same tone of voice as the punchline to "The Aristocrats")

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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Wow!

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

How do you make a deal with a criminal president for whom you are the only consequence? If he faces the truth, maybe. Not until then.

If the Democrats choose to bargain with Trump over the shutdown, knowing that he will betray them once their backs are turned, they would not only enable his crimes, but protect him from their consequences. They would permit him to avoid facing the truth.

www.editorialboard.com/how-do-you-m...

“In a time of darkness, New York must be the light.”

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

Good piece: DOGE was the battering ram, but Russ Vought was the one enabling it, and then hiding it's impacts.

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together. Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police. The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities. But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

I love this image.