Wow. In Ohio.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

The SNAP fight is actually a recapitulation of the entire purpose of the shutdown.
There's a contingency fund, Trump is required to spend it, but he's not, usurping Congress's power of the purse, essentially so he can do it again with normal appropriations whenever he wants

We all need to fight Trump's plan for voter suppression and election subversion. We need to recognize that it has multiple dimensions. We need to educate ourselves and our communities and then take action.

Ways to take action (yes, even with limited time):

• Screenshot the donor list
• Boycott or switch brands (e.g.don’t upgrade Apple/Google products!📲)
• File a consumer complaint
• Post your call/email on socials
• Share this thread

5-10 minutes can grow a movement.

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Source: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Sharing good news whenever possible

A wave too big to rig? If we come in with this size of a spread, we will breach most of their new gerrymander walls and flip all those seats blue.

I preferred it when Timothy Oliphant was destroying the country.

Basically a great and terrible metaphor for our democracy. 🤬

North Carolina Senate Approves Gerrymander Targeting Black Voters Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The North Carolina Senate hastily passed a GOP gerrymander Tuesday in a 26-20 vote, advancing a proposed congressional map that aims to dismantle one of the state’s Black Democratic seats at the request of President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

They keep finding ways to horrify

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

At the South Portland ICE facility, after pushing back the crowd to let some vehicles leave, agents gassed the street for approximately 10 minutes solid. S Bancroft was opaque with gas; agents also threw flash grenades and shot pepper bullets.

“Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity After a protest against ICE, federal prosecutors pursued guilt-by-association charges against two "antifa" protesters.

"[F]irst time federal terrorism charges have been deployed in association with the 'antifa' label."

Targeting "whole movements and communities with prosecutorial overreach and a logic of guilt by association."
#Texas #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

This video of reporters flooding out of the Pentagon after refusing to sign Hegseth’s authoritarian pledge that would force them to have the DOD review all their articles before publication is one of the most satisfying things I’ve seen in a while

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Wow. Great to have a government not for the people. 🤬

So proud of my city

OMG! Airports are in the resistance? Too cool (and thanks to @resistlist.bsky.social, which has been sharing all the best resist-y news for a while now.)

One this is awesome and very funny and I love my city. Two, I pity these fools.

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

❤️ the protesters

Remember this? This is the 4th Amendment. So when ICE Agents are referred to as lawless thugs, it's because they are ignoring the 4th Amendment for starters.

The 4th Amendment is not a suggestion, it's the law.

Ha ha ha. Oh sh#t, this isn’t satire.

A ‘hostile takeover’: ousted CDC official raises alarm over RFK Jr approach to infectious disease Debra Houry speaks after testifying on eight months under Kennedy, who critics say shuns science and spreads falsehoods

Thank you Dr. Houry for calling a spade a spade. RFK Jr. is leading a hostile takeover of the CDC. ~80% of experienced leaders gone, science sidelined. The health of all Americans is on the line. #FireRFKJ #SaveTheCDC
@drdebhoury.bsky.social

Full interview:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Two things felt different to the ppl I spoke with who’d been protesting at the ICE building for months.

1st was the sheer volume of tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bangs used, seemingly unprovoked.

2nd was seeing so many videographers/live-streamers embedded with the feds as they marched out.

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

What he said

Wow.