Linda Z Braden

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

The US is falling apart because Donald Trump won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV. From bombing Iran to sending troops to Portland, the president’s decisions are influenced by what he sees on Fox News — according to former Trump officials.

@swin24.bsky.social writes:
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A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They’re Not Involved A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.

When @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reached out to the companies listed in a "rebuilding Gaza" presentation that has circulated within the Trump administration, not a single one confirmed their involvement. The ones who replied had never even heard of it.

Statement on Behalf of Debbie Brockman, WGN Employee Assaulted by Federal Agents | People's Law Office Debbie Brockman, the WGN employee who was physically attacked and arrested in Chicago, Illinois by federal agents on October 10, 2025, would like to

Debbie Brockman, the WGN producer who was violently detained by Border Patrol agents in Chicago while on her way to work, has hired a law firm and "intends to pursue all legal avenues" over her arrest -- which resulted in no charges.

peopleslawoffice.com/statement-on...

notice how—even in the midst of all that—the border patrol agent is worried about his mask falling down.

as witnesses scream that the person is an american citizen, the agent can be heard barking, “then why are you running?”

they’re terrorizing communities all over chicagoland like this.

video shared to facebook around 11 am shows at least four border patrol agents chasing people into the walgreens at 106th/ewing—about 4 blocks away from where feds later unleashed tear gas.

an agent is seen tackling someone to the ground. someone else screams that they’re an american citizen.

How MAGA sees things.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

If I were a journalist, I would be trying to find the names of people in the chain of command.

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

UPDATE — Multiple witness videos today show an older white federal agent straddling a young Black man on the ground outside of a Walgreens on Chicago’s Southeast Side.

This is a developing story.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

This is because the feds won't stop gassing our neighborhoods so they can flee and, by extension, are also repeatedly gassing the cops. What a moment to be alive

RIFs rip through federal Office of Special Education Programs With OSEP reportedly decimated, one special education expert asks: How can IDEA "possibly function"?

Top on the list of "Democrat programs" Trump/Vought just ended is the office which runs special education programs in the United States. www.k12dive.com/news/special...

My expectation is Israel will push the boundaries on the ceasefire to see how many Palestinians they can kill in any given day without US censure, knowing that every death will push Hamas to strike back which Trump and Netanyahu would see as the official breach and thus commit to total annihilation.

Breaking: Text messages of Young Republican groups across the country have just been leaked.

They talk about putting Democrats in “gas chambers,” attacking “Jews,” calling Black people “watermelon people,” calling to “rape” their enemies, and bringing back slavery.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Anger at Kaepernick is one of the more egregious examples of “how dare a Black man say racism is bad instead of being grateful for white America letting him succeed.”

He walked into Lambeau and beat the Packers in a playoff game. He lead the Niners to a Superbowl. He wasn’t in the NFL as a favor.

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes: - inflatable frog suit - cape - pepper spray filter - a thirst for the blood of the innocent - air pump batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

Remember when Republicans got mad that the federal government might be CENSORING political content on social media? Remember when they spent three years holding hearings trying to prove it happened? And threatened to jail anyone involved?

How times change!

I'm willing to pay an extra 25 cents per ride.

As long as @chicagocta.bsky.social is willing to ensure that nobody smokes on trains and that they don't smell like pot when I get on.

Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA Some CISA staffers have been pushed out, while others are being told to move across the country for jobs outside their skill sets.

The Trump admin is laying off nearly 200 CISA employees & forcing dozens more to take new jobs at other agencies (sometimes across the country) or quit.

Morale & productivity are sinking at the already-depleted agency, further jeopardizing US cybersecurity.

My story w/ new details: bit.ly/3KLoptn

Trump is destroying U.S. cybersecurity defenses after the Chinese just successfully conducted one of the biggest and most successful hacks on U.S. telecom infrastructure in history

Trumpism is indistinguishable from a foreign attack

worse, because of hollow faith and patriotism rhetoric

Leak: Feds Think Protests Hide Terrorism “No Kings” protest eyed amid NSPM-7 domestic terror panic

Following the NSPM-7 directive for feds to focus on anti-ICE terrorism, the FBI and Homeland produced an intel bulletin linking anti-ICE protests to terrorism.

Bulletin here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-feds-...

Appeals Court Allows Trump To Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment Read more here.

The 7th Circuit temporarily allowed Trump to keep the National Guard under federal command in Illinois, but blocked its use for active deployment. While troops cannot be used in Chicago for law enforcement, the president will retain command over them.
https://bit.ly/475XKip

Fuck. Why? There is no reason for this deployment!

Everything is for sale.

Uday speaks. Man with no known religious conviction gives interview to paid propaganda agent of the Kremlin and describes how he is remaking Christianity. This is hysterical. bsky.app/profile/atru...