A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

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We are now learning how much oppression and abuse Americans will tolerate. The day will come when enough Americans will decide enough is enough and this lawless regime must be stopped. But right now too many are willing to let the lawless abuse continue.

YouTube video by C0nc0rdance Wakefield's Smoking Gun

Fascinating science: How disgraced researcher Andrew Wakefield launched the modern anti-vax movement by fraudulently manipulating data to reach fabricated conclusions, hoping he would make a lot of money. Instead, he put millions of children at risk. youtu.be/EXtANMp3wok

UN Says Emissions Will Drop In The Next 10 Years But Not ‘Fast Enough’—Bill Gates Urges New Approach The projections still fall short of the 60% reduction in emissions needed to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

The projections still fall short of the 60% reduction in emissions needed to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

Firing an entire federal arts commission to clear the path for your own triumphal arch? It’s a textbook indicator of authoritarian executive overreach — the exact trend we warned about in our assessment.

#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment

The shutdown will worsen hunger—which the Trump administration just stopped tracking Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits.

Shortly before the shutdown, the USDA moved to scrap the Household Food Security Report, the nation’s primary tool for tracking food insecurity, and in doing so, stripped away the very infrastructure needed to remedy rising hunger in America.

We remember. That’s why grandparents are standing up for vaccines: Donna A. Gaffney and Teri Mills Now is the time for all grandparents to do something to protect our grandchildren from this growing and preventable threat to their lives. Add your voice to this vital conversation by joining Grandpar...

Wondering what #GrandparentsforVaccines is all about?

Take a look at nurseteria.bsky.social and donnagaffney.bsky.social op ed published this week in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...

Corporate media is in a bad place.

Back in the 1960s, the Smothers Brothers made fun of President Lyndon Johnson and his policies many times on their popular television show. The president wrote them a letter in response.

Trump is sending the DOJ to California to monitor the election. His intentions are clear—he wants to suppress the vote. And when we win, he will falsely lay claim to fraud. We will not be intimidated. California will defend free and fair elections.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social

If you have kids, talk to your pediatrician about vaccines. If you are pregnant, talk to your OBGyn about meds you can take in pregnancy. Don’t get your medical advice from a politician. The president is being briefed by RFK Jr. who already told us not to take his medical advice.

A patient called to ask for medication samples because he lost his insurance and can’t afford his prescriptions. The United States is the only developed country in the world without universal health insurance.

@jreinermd.bsky.social

Why bother making an actual trade deal when you can just announce a new “framework” every few months and manipulate the markets?

That’s a trillion dollar increase in two months.

Trump Claims He’d Give His $230 Million Justice Department Grift to Charity. Yeah, Right. The president, who has a history of reneging on charitable pledges, ran his own family foundation into the ground.

On Tuesday, shortly after the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump is demanding $230 million from the DOJ, the president claimed he would donate any such funds to charity.

His effort to put a spin on this blatant grift belies Trump’s long, sordid history of stiffing contractors.

Report: Trump demands taxpayers hand him $230 million Is it still "ridiculous that anyone would even suggest" that he's cashing in?

Earlier this year, we published an article headlined “10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement.”

We failed, though, to consider that the president might simply force the US government, i.e. us taxpayers, to straight-up pay him hundreds of millions of dollars.

The U.S. experiment with profit-driven health care has failed “The market competition, managed care, and ‘corporate efficiency’ that economists prescribed as the cure for health care inflation instead accelerated it.”

This seems so obvious but is said so seldom. Good to see these experts put it out there in plain English.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/h...

"Bribe Delivery System"

Have you seen a child die from pneumococcal disease? I have. Florida announces plans to become the first state to remove all vaccine mandates.

@greenhousemd.bsky.social
#medsky

Trump Bypasses Shutdown Fight to Focus on Ceasefires, Ballroom President Donald Trump’s upcoming trip to Asia caps a whirlwind stretch that includes jetting to the Middle East to mark the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, escalating a trade clash with China, redoubling efforts to send troops to US cities and overseeing construction of a $300 million White House ballroom.

Seemingly absent from President Donald Trump's day-to-day work? Negotiating an end to the US government shutdown.

Sign the Petition RFK Jr. Must Be Removed—Before More Damage is Done, Before More Lives are Lost

www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

What shutdown? Kristi Noem's new private jets. A shocking White House demolition. The Trump administration's gilded priorities are clear.

A shocking White House demolition. Kristi Noem’s new private jets. Lavish donor dinners.

Amid a government shutdown with no end in sight, the Trump administration’s gilded priorities are clear.

Let’s be clear, this is state TV. Regime have state television, not democracies.

I think the ballroom story is gonna mushroom into a much much much much bigger thing. I see the visceral reaction people have towards the videos.

March For Health & Science

On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr.

www.911forhealthandscience.org

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

The Constitution is not self-enforcing.

The only thing holding our Republic together are our norms.

And the only thing that enforces those norms is The People.

No one is coming to save us.

It's entirely up to us.