Deborah Ford

Hate to tell you JD, but the thing about your wife that MAGA hates isn’t actually her religion, and it isn’t something you can charm her into converting.

When you call yourself the leaders of a democratic country, but have to hide on a military base from the people that you rule.

Trump’s Plan Is Now Out in the Open It’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots.

"Give Donald Trump this much: He has never tried to hide his malice, his lawlessness, or his desire to inflict pain on others." -
@peter-wehner.bsky.social

Trump's authoritarian plans are out in the open.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

And this is it's so important to reject nihilism about freedom and voting. This is gonna be tight.

Why a Reagan Ad Provoked Trump Canada’s anti-tariff ad was an incursion in the trade war, but there’s another reason it may have bothered Trump.

"To Trump, Reagan’s composed performance, with its affirmation of consensus, is almost intolerable. It must be discredited not because it is inaccurate but because it represents an entirely different model of what presidential authority looks like." -Jake Lundberg
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston

/13 Seriously, though: if you are suffering, reach out for help. There is always hope, and things can get better, and you are not going through it alone.

ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.

On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.

CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

It’s not just that he spent the money, but it’s just so ridiculously tacky!

Release the damn #EpsteinFiles

The wannabe King is building his palace with our tax payer money.
I'd much rather house the homeless, feed the poor, increase minimum wage, and have free healthcare for all.

Trump's tweet about his new marble bathroom in the white house with the words: LET THEM EAT MARBLE!

But look at the king's palace.
He wants us to take pride in that?
Republicans are so lost.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Nancy Mace not backing the blue. www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

writ of mandate (mandamus)

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

You MUST sue Johnson, to End the GOP COUP‼️

“A (writ of) mandamus, or mandate, is an order from a court to an lower court or government official to orderly perform a duty or correct an abuse of discretion. See e.g. Cheney v. United States Dist. Court For D.C. (2004).”

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Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.

UPDATE: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to continue paying for food stamps during the government shutdown.

This Man Is the Face of the Future Greg Bovino is next.

"Bovino wants the community he is embedded in to see him not as a law enforcement officer but as an occupying military commander. He has not tried to establish a working relationship with the city; he has tried to dominate it."

The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.

I'm all for this, where do I sign!
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Roman baths were very popular during the Civil War.