Meg Crafton

What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...

Russ Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government.

Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president 👇

Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility

An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon

ICE vs the clergy

YouTube video by L.A. TACO Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused

ICE raids are escalating. Trump’s ICE is NOT detaining “dangerous criminals.” They are grabbing pregnant women, children, gardeners, home workers, street vendors, car wash workers, USA citizens. This must end #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

m.youtube.com/shorts/QgkAM...

“Was it your brain?” should be the follow up question to every Trump statement.

Release the Trump-Epstein files.

Let's not mince words - this is fascist shit.

Yes. I know about the second restraining order. However, as Governor Pritzker pointed out, as of 120 minutes ago…he was still planning to send them. At this stage of the game, we should be open to the very real possibility that he will blow off all court orders…and go in anyway.

Trump just ordered 400 members of the Texas National Guard to go to Illinois, Oregon…and who the f*ck knows where else.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Chills…

What about Illinois?? Texas is deploying 400 Nat. Guard troops. I'm afraid they are about to declare martial law...

What about Illinois??

This is a fierce ruling against Trump from a judge he appointed.

If Chicago was the shithole MAGA Republicans claim and the NRA existed for any reason other than to lick the boots of authoritarian regimes, we’d be watching the news out of Chicago like it was Mogadishu in the early days of October 1993. #blackhawkdown

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.

They call your Social Security & Medicare 'Entitlements' so you don't call them something silly like 'Earned Benefits.'

Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and that’s not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.

The near daily Zoom calls between blue state attorneys general:

Fascinating and encouraging.

Most of the immigrants ICE arrested in California last month have never even been charged with a crime, much less convicted.

If Donald Trump says he’s only targeting the “worst of the worst,” why do his own numbers prove otherwise?

Has the @wsj.com admitted its source for the Epstein stories was Gislaine Maxwell yet? The leaks stopped after she got her sex offender status waived and she was moved to club fed after meeting with Trump’s fixer Todd Blanche.

Jodie Sweetin on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Surviving America New God Pod!

I got to talk to the delightful Jodie Sweetin, who was on Full House and Fuller House, and is super woke and awesome. We talked about life and current events.

I know this post won’t get many likes, cuz I’m promoting a podcast episode. But I gotta post’em. Fuck me, right?