Gabriela Romero

KLOBUCHAR: Has the DOJ issued any subpoenas to journalists under the updated guidance?

BONDI: ...

KLOBUCHAR: You can respond

BONDI: ... ... I can't comment

This is a very good statement that correctly calls out Hamas and Israel for committing atrocities, so naturally the replies are completely deranged

Pam Bondi says at a Senate hearing that she has ended the weaponization of the Department of Justice and that any Senator who says otherwise can expect to be federally indicted.

“.. 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 ..”

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Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Former Trump Spiritual Adviser and Megachurch Pastor Pleads Guilty to Sexually Abusing Children A pastor who claimed to defend faith and children confesses to their betrayal—revealing how moral theater, political power, and fear conspire to turn devotion into dominion.

Robert Morris, former spiritual adviser to President Trump and founder of Gateway Church, pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse, exposing how faith, power, and image merged into a system that commodifies devotion.

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Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

This is a lie, there has been mountains of evidence that conversion therapy causes harm for decades.

“Lawyers for the therapist and the Trump administration said there were no studies indicating such therapy causes harm.”

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Alito, “Justice Alito asks, isn’t it the case that the medical consensus is sometimes colored by ideology?”

Truly remarkable coming from a blatantly ideologically blinded judge.

From the SantaFe community on Reddit: Santa Fe Animal Shelter volunteer James made a video to celebrate his buddy Nico (also featuring some aspens to stay on theme) Explore this post and more from the SantaFe community

My shelter buddy Nico has been waiting for someone to adopt him for 219 days.

I made a short video to help advertise him to New Mexico residents. If you want to do a small kindness today, consider liking or sharing the Reddit post, so that it reaches more people.

Same thing happened in LA, same thing happened in DC: prosecutors charged people with assaulting a federal officer and then furiously backpedaled when the evidence didn’t support it

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Yes, when I want to know what the Black community in Chicago is thinking, I always turn to someone who's really got their finger on the pulse: Stephen Miller.

Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Use Emergency Powers to Bypass Courts and Deploy Troops

Trump threatens to invoke insurrection act to bypass court rulings against national guard deployment: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition Last month, the White House issued two executive orders that direct federal...

Funders or groups that promote 'anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity' could be treated as domestic terrorists, under recent directives from the Trump administration.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

It’s time for soft secession How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

Illinois just joined the legal fight to keep Trump from sending red states National Guards into blue states. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Once you start looking for evidence that soft secession might happen you see it everywhere: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

The UN calls conversion therapy ‘torture.’ Could the Supreme Court greenlight it anyway? • Ohio Capital Journal Five years ago, the United Nations concluded that conversion therapy could amount to torture and recommended it be banned. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will consider a case that could greenlight it f...

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This is the issue. Weiss was one of the "journalists" bestowed with the Twitter Files, which revealed some troubling jawboning, but wildly overstated its case. She's now the beneficiary of an unprecedented, openly censorious government project to purge and remake a media institution.

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

What could go wrong?

181. Courts and Domestic Use of the Military In response to adverse judicial rulings, the President's advisers and supporters are claiming courts lack the power to halt domestic use of the military. A critical early precedent is to the contrary.

In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military.

Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary:

CONCLUSION For the above reasons, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 6, and temporarily enjoins Defendants' September 28, 2025, Memorandum ordering the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard service members to Portland. The TRO expires in fourteen days on October 18, 2025, and the parties are ORDERED to comply with the attached TRO. The Defendants' request to stay or administratively stay the Temporary Restraining Order, see Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 35 at 41, is DENIED. IT IS SO ORDERED DATED this 4th day of October, 2025 at 3:40 p.m. pacific daylight time. /s/ Karin J. Immergut Karin J. Immergut United States District Judge

NEW: Judge Immergut BLOCKS Trump's federalization of the Oregon National Guard, writing that the govt has "made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Hey fellow rapturists, come on out to the immersive Oct. 7th experience starring Mel Gibson!”

"hey kid want some candy here's $2500 to go crazy if you get in the car and come with me"

“It is an economy that is in such dire shape that there's no guarantee that we will ever get our money back. It is a terrible investment any way you look at it” sadly that's a truth.

Schatz: Trump Has Billions To Bail Out Argentina, But Nothing For People Whose Health Care Costs Are About To Spike | U.S. Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) today spoke on the Senate floor and called on...

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The party of states' rights is suddenly violating the 10th Amendment. Why isn't everyone throwing that in their face? Same with the First Amendment.

Judge blocks feds from cutting millions in NYC transit anti-terrorism funds The judge said the state will "quite likely" be able to prove its claims that the money would be improperly diverted.

www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Just remembered this footnote.