Ha! I love this headline in TIME.

Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era That failure is implicit in nearly every frame of a new documentary about Katharine Graham.

Watching this film at this moment in history was a gut punch. New from me at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nixo...

Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

NEW: Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

Wrote a bit about the content mill for consensus the Trump administration has created to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

Two economies:

B of A data shows lower-income consumer spending growing at 0.6%

Higher-income growing at 4x that. “That’s fairly significant.”

@cnbc.com @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map Read more here.

New blockbuster reporting on the secretive map drawing process in Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Minimum wage workers usually don't get a company healthcare plan so the ACA is their only option for affordable healthcare

If WAGES were higher then ACA subsidies wouldn't be necessary but that's not the case

Ranked: Minimum Wages in 50 U.S. States & 35 Countries share.google/OVfeeayWuEk4...

What she’s saying here is … normal. 😲

Apropos of nothing in particular this morning, I've been told that, in essence, there are two things that physicians can't do at the White House medical unit: MRIs and surgeries. Virtually anything else can be done there if you have to or want to.

The Republican shutdown continues.

It was a glaring departure even in the moment. Right or wrong, the story of Biden's political career was generally to place himself in the center of wherever the party was moving ideologically. But on I/P, his own worldview was so rigid that he stubbornly stayed the course as the party moved away

In private audience Pope Leo XIV encourages Latino Catholics serving fearful US immigrants VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ‘He treated us like dignitaries. He sent a message by having us there. He lifted us,’ said Elizabeth Román, president of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

I continue to be inspired to greater solidarity (intellectual, practical, aesthetic) by this developing story. Pope Leo lifts up Latine Catholics accompanying those who are among the most vulnerable to the violence of this US regime.

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Marjorie Taylor Greene: This should not be happening, the shutdown is just going to drive everybody's approval rating that much lower.

Pamela Brown: You're putting the blame on the leadership of your party?

Greene: Absolutely. We control the House. We control the Senate. We have the White House.

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

From a fellow millennial lawyer: I.C.E. is disappearing people to work camps.

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

(Politico) - All it took was a personal message to “Pam.”

@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I put banned books in my little Free Library. I have been listening to the Velshi Banned Book Club and making sure these titles are mixed in. It was very enlightening when a woman stopped and didn’t know who Rachel Carson was and had no idea what DDT did. Change the world a book at a time.

Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning With Trump’s occupation of Chicago worsening, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker shares new details about what’s happening—and tells us the time is now for Americans to rise up against authoritarianism bef...

Appalling: JB Pritzker tells me he hasn't been able to get a single conversation with Kristi Noem or any other top Trump officials to even discuss their Chicago operations. Pritzker just wants a heads up for logistical purposes. Nada.

Pritzker opens up on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Live Updates and Video The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”

Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, for her work promoting democracy.

More & more ppl are openly recognizing that RFK Jr. is an active danger to Americans' health that is steadily worsening.

What's it going to take to get rid of this abomination, Congress????

📞:202-224-3121
📧: democracy.io#!/

Oh, donald trump didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize because a real defender of democracy deservedly won the prize, Maria Corina Machado. Trump will never be taken seriously as a peace maker,he is a destroyer of peace. #DV1 #ProudBlue #NobelPeacePrize

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

Trump might have immunity, but ICE does not.

He won’t be able to protect federal agents from criminal and civil prosecution once he’s gone.

Their day of reckoning will come. Broken down here…

Everything is so normalized w/retribution and lies so people don’t know what to believe or who to trust.

This is exactly how authoritarians control & maintain power. Classic fascism - control the masses. SCOTUS has given him immunity. He will start killing citizens.

We are here.

Pay attention.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back

New from @jeremymberg.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern:
"Silence may protect an institution from becoming an early target, but history shows that it increases the likelihood that that institution (and many others) will be become targets over time."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/deafening-...