This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

I would pay big bucks
to see @jvl.bsky.social interview the Portland Chicken on @thebulwark.com

America needs, at some point, to start prosecuting white collar crime.

His brain is broken.🙄

Also, what happened at his second annual of the year today? Is he still going to Israel?

A new James Baldwin biography explores how his lovers influenced his work Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion.

Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion. n.pr/3J6uOib

AstraZeneca makes deal with White House to lower drug prices The U.K.-based drugmaker became the second to strike a deal with the Trump administration as part of the president's push to rein in U.S. drug prices.

The U.K.-based drugmaker became the second to strike a deal with the Trump administration as part of the president's push to rein in U.S. drug prices. n.pr/4mZIDgo

👇🏼!!!!!

#NobelPeacePrize #FDJT

Don’t know who made this but it’s pretty great!

I love when I find random gems in the wild.

I didnt even know this book existed!

Candyman Jackson said Trump’s visit today to Walter Reed was a follow up for his vascular issues and also to get updated travel vaccinations.

This is dedicated to those who believed DJT and legacy media coverage that Project 2025 was nothing to be concerned about.

Also, this isn’t legal.

Many were asking that since Judge Perry granted the TRO "in part," which part was she not granting. The answer: "The Court declines at this time to enter a Preliminary Injunction, and also to extend the scope of the TRO to include the military..."

This is the TRO blocking deployment of the NG to IL

Marsha Blackburn Hit With Community Note Over January 6th Phone Records

Blackburn voted for the powers that were used to investigate her

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Trump Education Secretary Linda McMahon Follows Flat Earth Account

McMahon wants to close the Department of Education meidasnews.com/news/trump-e...

Illinois Democrats call for investigation of Chicago ICE raids After a chaotic month of federal immigration enforcement in the Chicago area, Democratic leaders asked top federal watchdogs to review actions by the Department of Homeland Security.

Twelve Illinois Democrats sent a letter requesting probes by two top federal government watchdogs into Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities in the Chicago area and other Department of Homeland Security authorities after a chaotic month of raids. trib.al/JXfWh4c

And having fun and experiencing joy, which scares them even more!

I led an amendment with @wyden.senate.gov to require federal military and law enforcement agents to display their agency and name or badge number at protests.

Not to be outdone, in came Jack Posobiec, one of the right’s weirdest hangers-on, who is perhaps most famous for the time he spread the “Pizzagate” theory and then got removed from the pizzeria in question by police for filming a child’s birthday party. Running with the major theme of the hour — that Antifa is definitely, certainly, really real despite all evidence to the contrary, and that everybody needs to stop saying it’s not real — Posobiec made a startling claim: Antifa is so clearly real that it “has been going on for almost 100 years ... going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany.” And look, yes, it is absolutely true that there were anti-fascist protesters in the Weimar Republic. If you’ll remember, those were the people taking issue with the early versions of the Nazis. But it’s sort of difficult to position yourself as the good guys if you’re aligning yourself with the Nazis in your historical analogy. I’m just saying that, if I was Posobiec’s publicity guy, I might ask him to drop that soundbite from future public appearances.

I complained earlier that WaPo's story on Trump inviting PizzaGate guy to the White House was insane. Not so this Independent story.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Greene is doing something that Dems should want to emulate: intentionally pitting Trump against his most vile subordinates.

Example: Trump wants a budget deal? We'd love to, but we can't trust that you'll keep your word with Vought and Miller driving the bus. Fire them.

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

I argued yesterday that, by lowering the bar to indicting a former FBI director to "make shit up," Kash and Pam Bondi signed their own arrest warrants.

Either they keep ratcheting up their own abuse, or they'll meet the same fate as Comey.

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

"The court is required to continue its constitutional functions"

US judges so far have rejected the Justice Department’s requests to delay more than a dozen legal challenges to Trump administration policies as the government shutdown enters its second week:
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Kash Patel Fires Two F.B.I. Agents Who Worked on Trump Investigation The agents were identified in documents obtained by a Republican senator as having worked with Jack Smith, the special counsel who led the federal inquiries into Donald J. Trump. [Picture of Kash Patel, looking bleary eyed] The two agents dismissed this week by Mr. Patel worked in a special unit of the bureau’s Washington field office.Credit...Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times Glenn ThrushAlan Feuer By Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer Oct. 8, 2025 Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, this week fired two agents who were identified as having worked with Jack Smith, the special counsel who led the federal investigations into Donald J. Trump, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.

The problem with being literalist is you can't say, simply and truthfully, that 2 career FBI agents were fired because they obtained toll records from 9 people covering 4 days of a terrorist attack on their workplace.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Really good piece on someone everyone should be tracking, Greg Bovino.

"Bovino combines Bull Connor’s aggression with Don King’s showmanship:"

In unusual move, federal grand jury refuses to indict couple found with guns outside Broadview ICE facility Prosecutors moved to dismiss a criminal complaint against the couple but have not ruled out new charges.

Interestingly, Perry confirms with Hamilton that lawfully carrying a gun is a "protected constitutional right."

Context: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Ultimately, as the defense explained in its Status Report, to the extent the government maintains its position that it will not produce the relevant discovery, under a claim of privilege or otherwise, the government cannot rebut Mr. Abrego’s demonstrated, prima facie case of vindictiveness, making dismissal of this case the only proper remedy. (Dkt. 146 at 3-4).

Earlier today, DOJ basically told the judge in the Kilmar Abrego case they were going to blow off the vindictive prosecution claim.

His attorneys responded, fine, then the criminal case must be dismissed.
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