David Tully

Trump says ICE raids "haven't gone far enough" President Trump said he's OK with tactics used by ICE agents during raids "because you have to get the people out."

For anyone who doubts that Trump's campaign of terror is deliberate.

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Ezra Klein This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism

I saw a poll a few weeks ago that struck me. It was from The New York Times and Siena University. It asked Americans what they thought the top problem facing the country was. No. 1 was the economy. That was what I expected. But No. 2 wasn’t immigration or inflation or democracy or climate change or even Trump. It was political division. In that same poll, 64 percent of the country said we’re too divided to solve our problems. They’re not wrong.

I hear it when Trump says, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.” When I hear that, I hear something scary, but I also hear an opening, an opportunity: In the end, most Americans want America to work. They know we disagree with one another. They don’t want us to hate one another.

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."

Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

You mean…it was edited?

The War Powers Resolution was Congress’s attempt to rein in the quasi-legal military authority that had been accumulated by the presidency. It was passed in response to Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia, Operation Menu, which was *drumroll* an airstrike campaign.

Here’s a different angle of the video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground shared with the Tribune from a different source

In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis

Trump to receive national honor, gold crown during trip to South Korea Trump is attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in South Korea, where he will meet business and political leaders - and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

President Trump is in South Korea, where he will receive a national honor and a gold crown, and meet business and political leaders -- and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Gift link to today's story, which will be updated throughout the day: wapo.st/4qCYULk

YouTube video by Reuters LIVE: Anti-Trump protesters rally in South Korea | REUTERS

LIVE: Anti-Trump protesters rally in South Korea

Hundreds of South Korean protesters stage a rally in Gyeongju against US President Donald Trump as he was set to arrive in the city for meetings on the sidelines of the APEC summit.

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Trump given golden crown in South Korea ahead of trade discussions South Korean President Lee Jae-myung is meeting with his US counterpart to see if their countries can strike a trade deal.

God damn it South Korea we just had a No Kings protest

If you go to the USDA website, in a comical Hatch violation, the website says the SNAP well has run dry (it hasn’t) and that it’s Democrats fault for giving healthcare to “illegal aliens” and people who want “genital mutilation procedures.”

ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital.

"I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!"

The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck.

Houston, Texas.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in: - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Philadelphia - Denver - El Paso - San Diego - Seattle/Portland - New Orleans Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed. Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino. ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations. I am hearing from both sides of this friction. One senior DHS official tells me: "ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?". Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me: "What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there. Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results. Official statement to @FoxNews via @TriciaOhio : "While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country." 7:57 PM · Oct 27, 2025 · 29.6K Views

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

This! There is no such thing as moderation. The median voter does not exist and never has.

If we’re relying decades old political science for analysis, I am begging the Democratic Party and its would-be advisors to put away Downs and pick up Schattschneider.

Amos Lawrence memorably said:

"We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, compromise Union Whigs & waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Stuff like this can be radicalizing.

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

FWD: 👁️‍🗨️🍂 Support Request from West Chicago Rapid Response group (WeGo Angels): ⚙️ Two patrollers we regularly work with were arrested, and one patroller, who had a baby in the backseat of her car, was pulled out of her car, assaulted, and pepper-sprayed in the face, for peacefully documenting ICE's actions from her car. ⚙️ She has been taken to Rush Hospital, where nobody EXCEPT ICE is being allowed to see her, including her husband. We are calling for back-up: we want as many people as possible to show up at Rush Hospital in Aurora, IL to PEACEFULLY demand ICE leave the hospital and demand her husband his legal right to see her.

If you can make it to Rush Hospital in Aurora, IL, an ICE patroller got pulled out of her car, assaulted and pepper sprayed by agents. She's in the hospital and nobody except ICE is allowed to see her.

There's a call to assemble and demand ICE leave the hospital, and let her husband in to see her.

Truly - being in Chicago, we are living it day to day and seeing how awful it is. Whistles going off, chalk writing warning of ICE, and general stress and sadness. I wish others understood and can see, but know Chicagoans are fighting this and united

get your fucking hands off the city

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He posted an AI video of himself shitting on Americans six days ago

Periodic reminder that this scheming half-wit Goebbels isn’t even a lawyer.

A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.

Perhaps one day the consensus will be that it was all about white power and immigration status and immigration law had nothing to do with it.

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

Let’s be exceptionally clear: 0% of this is legal. It is 100% vandalism. No money has been appropriated by Congress for this. The President does not own this structure and can not use private money to alter it. He does not have and has not sought approval from the agency that could approve it.

It makes sense to start this demolition during the government shutdown because the National Capital Planning Commission is shutdown. There’s no way they’d approve this. You know. If they’d been asked. Which they weren’t.
#lawlessness

The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out. Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.

"When electoral gains from moderation have been exhausted—when Democrats are running moderates in every competitive district and still losing—the task isn’t to moderate harder. It’s to give voters reason to believe politics can deliver real change." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault

Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Serious question: “Why?“