You can only govern with lies & fear-mongering for so long...

Good Samaritan swims to, and climbs an abandoned pier to free a seagull entangled in a fishing hook. IG: @sassymediatv youtube.com/shortsCnPTAz...

This is a criminal violation of civil rights under color of law, and the people who made it happen must be indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. apnews.com/article/ilha...

Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say

Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That’s according to people familiar with the matter.

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Vote accordingly.

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Good morning and happy Monday to everyone. I'm no Jack Ryan, but I'm totally fine with Zelenskyy taking out the other half of Russia’s bot farms before the midterms.

Trump's DHS raids Rep. Omar's home because of paperwork filled out by her late father in 1995. The Trumpists are desperate. But loyalists at powerful agencies of the executive branch will obey orders. Desperation is dangerous. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

FL is in play. Martin County early voting starts October 21. Vote early. Have ”go to the polls” parties and vote together. Talk it up. Make it a day of celebration. www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/10/12/d...

Democrat David Jolly bet on Republican voters in Florida’s governor race. Will it pay off?

Basic math is also driving Jolly’s push for broader appeal. Democrats can’t win alone anymore.

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As Tim Snyder lays out here, Donald Trump is the most easily bamboozled president ever... particularly when Putin is the bamboozler. There is something fundamentally suspicious about their relationship, which is older and deeper than most Americans realize.

War Through Weakness

Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia

snyder.substack.com

And it’s Coming to its Inevitable End! Vote Blue!😊💙🌊

We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)

Meg Kinnard@megkinnardap.bsky.social · 3h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say.

A judge finally blocked Trump's taxpayer-funded campaign ads after the White House spent about 19 of the 20 million dollars. The money was appropriated to commemorate border security efforts, and Politico reports there's no plan to pay the public back.

Winning the Midterms Is Not Enough

One wave election won’t defeat Trumpism.

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Paperwork her late father filled out decades ago when she was a child?!?

I fail to understand why this idea is considered radical.

Ball: Many of these figures, like the Jesse Watters of the world, they just want this daddy figure. The fact Abdul comes in totally fearless, with strength… they just can’t help but to melt in the face of that.

Whitehouse: If some MAGA official communicated to Judge Rao or her chambers, and that kept the facts from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation and stalled the investigation into misconduct… Popok: People are going to jail.

State executions aren't about justice; they're designed to condition you to accept government-sanctioned violence and dehumanization.

Believe women!

Thousands of human beings are held by the state and locked in cages, stripped of dignity, punished simply for crossing a border or living in a country they call home. ICE currently detains around 60,000 people at any given time These are not "holding facilities." They are concentration camps

This is why NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch must go. On Thursday, October 8, after ICE shot a man who was later taken into federal custody, NYPD officers were allegedly instructed to turn off their body cameras.

Let’s talk about how this Administration keeps screwing you over and wasting your money.    On Kristi Noem’s last morning running DHS, before she got “fired” aka moved to a cushy new position within the Administration, the Department greenlit a deal to buy 5 planes from a donor of hers.

Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left

The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

nytimes.com

I wonder what would have happened if folks had taken seriously the rise in political violence and threats against women, trans, Black, and antifascist organizers and figures back when we were all getting swatted and sent photoshops of ourselves beheaded

Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · yesterday

A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

They always convince themselves that the reason it didn’t work last time was because they didn’t hit hard enough

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

Homan: "We are gonna flood the zone of sanctuary cities"

Zelenskyy on Fox News: "If President Trump wants to change the leader in Ukraine, he has to know that only our people can change ... [but] now we have attacks each day. We're speaking about thousands of drones, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles. How can people vote?"

Homan: "We are gonna flood the zone of sanctuary cities"

Homan: "Over 60% of everybody we arrest is a criminal. But if you're in the country illegally, you're certainly not off the table. If we find you, we're gonna arrest and deport you."