Jeff Elder

Self-dealing to cronies who then donate to Trump. Rank corruption, not just fraud, waste and abuse.

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This strikes me as pretty bad

Stephen Miller's cousin calls him "the face of evil" in blistering Facebook post - LGBTQ Nation "most of all, I grieve for those directly harmed by your actions," his cousin wrote.

Miller’s family is very vocal about their disappointment and disgust with him. His own uncle and now his cousin call him evil, because he’s an evil fascist.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/step...

Donald Trump Jr: "They want to call someone who took a selfie somewhere within 200 miles of DC an insurrectionist on January 6, but directly threatening to withhold help from federal law enforcement doing their job -- that's insurrection."

There won't be once Larry Ellison gets a hold of the algorithm.

“.. 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 ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What Happened to Ukraine's Ballistic Missile Defense? Explaining the Reported Drop in Patriot's Effectiveness Explaining the Reported Drop in Patriot's Effectiveness

Hi all,

I published my latest Missile Matters post earlier today, examining the reported drop in Ukraine’s ballistic missile intercept rate from 37 to 6 percent, as covered by the Financial Times.

Access the full post here:

missilematters.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Short summary below.

1/6

Not everything is about the Americanisation of British politics, but I believe this is an example of one. You can’t out-argue someone who said that not seeing white faces in an area is an inherently bad thing. It’s not a logical argument in the first place.

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

"Forty-five percent" of US construction firms "report experiencing project delays due to shortages of their own, or subcontractors' workers."

A growing economic debacle. It does not have to be this way. Wise and visionary public policy can channel migration into lawful, orderly pathways.

YouGov survey results by political party for the question, How would you describe the tactics currently used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)?

Oct 6 poll of 2,295 U.S. adults (+/-2.7%)
% who would describe the tactics currently used by ICE as [too forceful | not forceful enough]
U.S. adults 50% | 15%
Democrats 84% | 1%
Independents 52% | 11%
Republicans 14% | 31%
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

ICE is firing pepper bullets and deploying smoke grenades in Portland, even though protesters are remaining in their designated area and peacefully dancing.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Where Is the Line? On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

ICYMI yesterday:

I wrote about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America – and why democratic citizens have an obligation to hold the line on what we consider beyond the pale.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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Good news, Dem candidates.

The GOP leader is telling his 2026 candidates that they must not talk about costs unless they are saying how low they are and that tariffs are great.

Which of course means, you get to be the one talking about the truth—that costs are too high and tariffs are a disaster.

Supreme Court lets Noem end legal status for many Venezuelans in the U.S. The majority gave virtually no reasoning. The Democratic appointees objected, but only Justice Jackson wrote: "[Y]et another grave misuse of our emergency docket."

“In all, then, the Supreme Court’s majority has — in a total of five paragraphs over two orders — allowed Noem’s effort to proceed in opposition to seven rulings from seven judges, amounting to 227 pages of opinions.” www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent." The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

“He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian,” a neighbor told Mother Jones. “Pretty despicable.”

The brownshirts are everywhere.

And they *will* come to your street eventually.

This is not just going to happen to "other people."

If you allow a government to break the law because of an “emergency”, it will create an emergency to break the law.

EPA released a climate rollback hours before the shutdown The agency is working to extend by six years a deadline to phase out hydrofluorocarbons.

MADD: Make America Downright Dirty

Even companies have said this unnecessary change would gum up their supply chains since they have been planning for this for years.

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

The brutality is the point with this administration. If ICE thought they were acting legitimately, maybe they wouldn't have masks. They know what they are doing it out of bounds, but they've been given permission from the top down. Remember Trump campaigning on shoving people into a cop car?

He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.

New political prisoner in Georgia: activist Gela Khasaiya of Girchi – More Freedom. On Sept 1, 3 strangers asked him to buy beer, then fought each other. Weeks later, one had a broken arm. Gela never argued, but now faces up to 3 yrs. Another case of pre-Oct 4 repression.

This is the most inept administration to let the government shut down. Is it because then there will not be a vote to release the Epstein files? This regime is holding us hostage and Mike Johnson is enabling it to the detriment of Americans! We deserve better than this! #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

"The minting of this coin, while Trump is alive, appears to be illegal."

Do they know something we do not know?

🤯🙏hostile takeover of peaceful protesters
#dictatorship
Ron Smith
@Ronxyz00
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Heavy military presence outside the Broadview #ICE facility in #Illinois.
Snipers can be seen on top of armored vehicles. Protesters are also being arrested.

This is insane.This is not #America anymore.

What a dark day for press freedom in the United States

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov