Sassy AF

-“we’re the ones saving health care” 🤥 (they just cut $1 TRILLION from Medicaid, he hasn’t had a plan in 10 years)

-He then ignores basic math saying he’ll cut drug costs “500%” (not how it works)

-And says they’re “only cutting Democrat programs” (that help regular folks)

Say it with me: Everything out of his mouth is a lie and/or projection/confession

Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social:

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

A stale, rancid one.

So they're just going to trust Republicans. Didn't they also promise a vote to fund DC after the Big Ugly Bill stripped $1.1B in funding to the District? How did that go?

TENNESSEAN: “It’s unclear what state law authorizes the deployment of TN National Guard troops in Memphis… Neither Gov. Lee nor TN AG Skrmetti have explained the legal basis of the operation.”

They ignore their oath to the TN Constitution to score points w/ Trump. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

…and treating people the way you’d want to be treated.

ALL THAT IS GOOD Dr. Jane Goodall gave the good people of the world her greatest gift, while dressing down the bad, during her final interview on 'the beautiful Planet Earth'

📌““There are people I don’t like. Along with Musk, would be Trump, and some of Trump’s real supporters. Put them all on that spaceship and send them off ...”

-Jane Goodall

From her lips to God’s ears, because if ANYBODY has a direct line to God, it’s the Goddess, Jane Goodall …

*ding ding* We’re seeing rampant lawlessness from the Trump admin @billybinion.bsky.social

Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 9% [Updated] - emptywheel Of the eleven people the government charged in conjunction with a "shitshow" Chief Custom and Border Patrol Greg Bovino staged at Chicago's ICE facility on September 27, the publicly filed charges aga...

Ut oh.

Yesterday I reported that just 18% of the cases against people arrested September 27-28 at Broadview in Chicago had survived.

Make that 9% -- they just moved to dismiss another case.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/g...

IRS furloughs nearly half its staff amid shutdown, prompting chaos and confusion | CNN Politics The Internal Revenue Service began furloughing nearly half its staff Wednesday because of the ongoing government shutdown, sparking chaos and confusion among employees as the news rippled through agen...

Oh this will be reeeeeal fun:

#TrumpShutdown #MAGAGOPshutdown

"IRS began furloughing nearly half its staff Wednesday because of the ongoing government shutdown, sparking chaos and confusion among employees as the news rippled through agency offices around the country." www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Extreme conservative religious leaders
aligning w/authoritarian government
is literally what killed Jesus.

Nothing like a shootout over tomatoes.

Thanks so much. I kept looking for it yesterday and couldn't find anything. I worry about their safety. Even after all these years, they're still so exposed. Everyone on their list should be called out so they can at least breathe again. They are true sheroes.

NEWS: The Epstein Survivors' press conference yesterday was postponed. New date TBD.

In so doing, DHS’s official directly overseeing the Broadview facility wrote that, because of Illinois’s joint unified command outside the ICE facility in Broadview, DHS did not even have to interact with protesters that weekend. Id. ¶ 5 and Ex. A. Specifically, the report stated, “Saturday, we had about 30 or so protesters up at the fence in the late afternoon. Within about 5- 10 minutes of us calling the ISP, state and local law enforcement were onsite and immediately pushed back the protesters to the designated area without DHS’s need to intervene.” Id. In light of Director Hott’s private praise of the Illinois State Police’s effectiveness in managing the Broadview facility, it is surprising to see his materially contradictory sworn testimony in this suit that federal facilities face a “serious risk of harm and aggressive actors” if this court enjoins the use of the National Guard in Illinois. See ECF 62-6, ¶ 63.

And by describing that the head of the DHS facility at Broadview made claims in his sworn declaration that materially conflict with kudos he just sent the cops.

The declaration of Larry Snelling, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department (Ex. 23, “Snelling Decl.”), puts into evidence facts regarding CPD’s assistance to federal agents who need police for their own safety and CPD’s assistance to federal agents following an incident where federal agents shot a civilian in Bright Park on October 4, 2025. The declaration shows: a. Federal agents deployed tear gas multiple times on October 4, 2025, at the Brighton Park scene, injuring 27 CPD officers who had responded to assist federal agents. Snelling Decl. ¶¶ 17, 19, 21. b. CPD responded with assistance to multiple events involving federal immigration agents that day, including: o Preserving an incident scene where a woman had been shot by ICE agents until CPD could turn the scene over to federal authorities (Snelling Decl. ¶¶ 10-13); o Documenting a vehicle collision involving federal agents (Snelling Decl. ¶ 14); and o Working to maintain order and public safety at a scene where a crowd of people was upset with federal agents, following the shooting of the civilian (Snelling Decl. ¶¶ 15-21).

The filing also debunks DHS claims that Illinois cops aren't responding to unrest in two ways. First, by describing how many cops responded to Brighton Park after CBP shot someone (and describing the 27 cops who got gassed).

Since Plaintiffs’ Monday morning filings and the Court’s initial hearing that afternoon, the Trump administration has continued its purposeful defiance of the lawful bounds of its power to create a federal military occupation of Illinois.1 Indeed, in the past few days, the President has repeated his disdain for any guardrails on those powers. A few hours after the Monday hearing in this case, Trump issued an after-the-fact memorandum invoking 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to federalize National Guard troops that Secretary Hegseth had already deployed into Illinois. That same day, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller asserted the authoritarian view that the President has “plenary authority”—sweeping and unlimited power—to federalize National Guard troops and dispatch them to American cities like Chicago. The next day, Trump told press in the Oval Office that he might just invoke the Insurrection Act to “get around” judicial orders blocking his unlawful troop deployments, like the one last weekend in Oregon. Then just yesterday, Trump himself posted on social media that the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago should be jailed. These were not empty threats. They were made even as defendants dispatched a third state’s National Guard to Illinois in federalized status, this time from California, and without any new deployment order specific to Illinois. This lawless targeting by the President and his administration of people and places he does not favor will not stop without court intervention. The Court can and should stop this authoritarian march. We remain a nation of laws, we have no king, and the President has no such “plenary authority” to federalize National Guard troops and deploy them into the streets of Illinois. The Court should enter a preliminary injunction against defendants’ federalization and deployment of any state’s National Guard, or deployment of U.S. military, into Illinois over the objection of its Governor.

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday.

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Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. The report was completed in mid-April, scientists familiar with the document told ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.

NEW: PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people.

The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"Garbage" is far too kind a description of what the Washington Post's ed page has become.

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Zelensky holds first phone call with Czechia's populist leader since election win The call comes as Kyiv worries that a Babis-led government could undermine Czechia's pro-Ukraine stance, as he has questioned continued military aid and Ukraine's path toward EU membership.

⚡️ Zelensky holds first phone call with Czechia's populist leader since election win.

The call comes as Kyiv worries that a Babis-led government could undermine Czechia's pro-Ukraine stance, as he has questioned continued military aid and Ukraine's path toward EU membership.

ALERT: House Oversight Committee Democrats ask panel's chairman to "immediately schedule" deposition with Ghislaine Maxwell

Now that Supreme Court has rejected Maxwell's appeal in her criminal case