You should read @joanwalsh.bsky.social on the utter vindictiveness of the Tish James indictment

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“Welcome to the hellscape of #Chicago where people are being forced to eat hotdogs 🌭 with ketchup on them and our deep dish pizza 🍕 has gone shallow” 😂😂

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking," Pope Leo XIV wrote in the document released by the Vatican on Thursday…And she knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community." www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

BREAKING: Donald Trump has weaponized his Justice Department against another one of his political enemies, Letitia James.

Just last month Justice Department prosecutors in Virginia, led at the time by Erik Seibert, interviewed dozens of witnesses and did not believe they gathered enough evidence to support criminal charges against NY AG Leticia James.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

ICE thugs.

Excellent work. Thank you. It’s been my pinned article for 6 months and I started adding other racist developments in the thread.

🎁🔗 Lost Science is an ongoing series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration.

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

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ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

"The broader goal is the militarization of major cities before 2026 elections... Next year, I fear that what they're gonna do is deploy these folks to polling places & say they're protecting the vote. Trump knows without these breaches of the Constitution, he's gonna lose Congress." - Gov. Pritzker

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

The Speaker of the House has sent Congress home for the past two weeks.

If Speaker Johnson was really interested in ending the shutdown, he’d bring Congress back so we can negotiate a bipartisan resolution that funds the government and saves millions of Americans’ health care.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

I do not understand why television stations are not showing live coverage of how there is literally nothing happening in Portland and Chicago. I mean, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw would each be sitting on a set in those cities telling everyone the white house is lying.

🎁🔗 “Trump has unleashed new weaponry in his war against Democrats, liberals and the left. He has initiated what amounts to a unique form of partisan civil war designed to amass power in a nominal democracy and defang, decimate and defund the opposition” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

🎁🔗 Six former U.S. surgeons general sound the alarm. “The actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans”
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ICYMI: NYC Bar Association “the recent attacks on Venezuelan vessels and their crews were unauthorized by U.S. law and in violation of binding international law, they were illegal summary executions – murders.”