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“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

Last year they claimed “illegals” were voting, without any evidence.

They used fear mongering to push for voter suppression laws.

Now they claim “illegals” are getting free healthcare, again without any evidence.

So they can make healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans.

Enough.

“This can spin out of control if the governors feel that they are the last line of defense for the U.S. democracy."

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Illinois investigating after ICE raid left ‘nearly naked’ children zip-tied, says Neighbors recalled witnessing law enforcement zip-tie children together and separate them from parents during a middle-of-the-night immigration raid

Illinois is investigating after ICE raid left ‘nearly naked’ children zip-tied, Gov JB Pritzker says www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.

What are you protecting?

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

'The opinion is significant, legal experts said, because it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review.' www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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Bondi’s firing of federal prosecutor in Miami threatened to derail big Medicare fraud trial Attorney General Pam Bondi fired a Miami federal prosecutor for criticizing President Trump on his blog when he was in private practice.

A big Medicare fraud case nearly cratered after Pam Bondi fired the lead prosecutor over some 2017 anti-Trump blog posts. She did this on Rosh Hashanah, a few days before trial was supposed to begin. It's possible that her objective was actually to stop the Medicare fraud case itself.

Yes, very weird. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Jasmine Crockett: "Stop believing the lies they are putting out there. The only person that is harming you right now is the old white nepo baby that is sitting in the White House that is causing all the destruction, pain, and problems you are enduring"

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

In addition to their national defense duties, Americans rely on our National Guard to fight wildfires and respond to other natural disasters.

Donald Trump's weaponization of the Guard and deployments to American cities erodes that trust, and makes us less prepared when they are most needed.

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN have left the building.

Elon Musk Gambles Billions in Memphis to Catch Up on AI xAI aims to win the tech arms race with its “Colossus” data centers, thrown up at lightning speed. The city is divided over the massive power and water demands.

“Musk’s data centers will probably bring in only a few hundred jobs to Memphis while consuming millions of gallons of water a day and more electricity than is needed to power all the city’s homes.” www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

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Face the Nation anchor checks Mike Johnson’s shutdown spin in real time #TrumpShutdown