Doug Pennington

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Zero arrests by NYPD is actually astounding to me

The “it’s actually not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic” party is now “nah, it’s actually a monarchy” party.

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

(around an image of the No Kings logo) IT’S OFFICIAL Nearly 7 million people have attended today's peaceful protests, which makes No Kings Day the biggest single-day protest against tyranny in American history! With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, No Kings Day was 14 times larger than both of Trump's presidential inaugurations (combined).

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

Impunity for his allies even as he forces prosecutions of his enemies (Comey, James, soon possibly Schmitt and more) and prepares to deploy the IRS against groups that oppose him

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Masked Federal Secret Police enter Walgreens in Chicago with guns drawn and arrest Black US citizen for "running"

Preckwinkle issues executive order to create 'ICE-free zones' in Cook County It's the latest in local efforts to establish "ICE-free zones." The Chief Judge of Cook County has already barred civil arrests at Cook County courthouses and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a si...

"Cook County will now prohibit the use of county owned property, resources, and personnel for civil immigration enforcement."

Ja’Marr Chase’s last two appearances on Thursday Night Football:

- 16 REC, 161 YDS, 1 TD vs. Steelers
- 11 REC, 264 YDS, 3 TD vs. Ravens

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

Probably worth noting that both Vance and Trump have been “joking” about murdering fishermen in these strikes.

He doesn't want the headlines about it crossing 218 signatures, but they can't even file it until the House is back in regular session anyway. Johnson has made this ridiculous big fight out of it for only a very marginal and very temporary benefit, bordering on nothing. Dumb even on his own terms.

This #Bengals defense still stinks — can’t tackle out of a wet paper bag — but still getting takeaways (one of them literally tonight), to complement an offense that found rhythm with Flacco. Credit the O line, which took some kind of magic elixir in the 2d Q and decided to run and pass block. Big W

Just so I have this straight: Vance thinks racist men in their 20s and 30s are “just kids,” but 12-year-old girls are grown enough for forced pregnancy?

We need to be absolutely clear

The President is claiming authority to violate the law, and the Constitution

The law in question is exceedingly clear. The Constitution is equally clear

What the president is claiming authority to do and has already done is unambiguously illegal and unconstitutional

Answer choice (B) is the credited response

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

12 Democrats just joined Republicans to advance a District Judge nominee from Trump. Why do they keep doing this?

Coons
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Schiff
Shaheen
Welch
Whitehouse

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

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...

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

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The administration argues that the President's federalization of the Guard under § 12406 is not judicially reviewable at all. Alternatively, it contends that the factual predicates of § 12406(2) and (3) are satisfied in light of the deference due the President's decision to federalize the Guard. We conclude, at this preliminary stage and given the district court's factual ase: 25-2798 Document: 26 Filed: 10/16/2025 Pages: 1€ 10 No. 25-2798 findings, that the federal government does not appear likely to succeed on either argument.

BREAKING: Seventh Circuit rejects Trump admin's request to deploy National Guard in Illinois while litigation over the effort continues, holding Trump likely did not follow the law for doing so. The unanimous ruling keeps a TRO in place blocking deployment but allows troops to remain federalized.

Who’s eating the tariffs? You, mostly.

@cnbc.com
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Like much of that this regime does, the murders of Venezuelan fishermen and boat passengers seem to be being conducted for the sake of making social media content that demonstrates Trump’s masculine dominance. So one way to describe them is as snuff films.

Shouldn’t this (the MAGA #SCOTUS turning US into a one party ruled competitive authoritarianism) be a 5-Alarm fire for every Democrat in America including the ones who fancy themselves as “leaders” in Congress or have aspirations to be the President of United States?

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

Looks like Pulte filed his backdated Form 3 yesterday, the day we published my story. Better 7 months late than never! fanniemae.gcs-web.com/static-files...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Guts Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of talent from NBC News, the Washington Post, Politico and others.

We're now back to the bad old days when big media companies could care less about crafting quality content to reach an ever-diversifying audience. When you're wondering why most people don't read your product a few years from now, remember this: https://loom.ly/rHNvJQc