Apparently a soldiers wife was tricked by ICE into showing up to get a military ID and was detained. She is set for deportation. She has 4 American born kids. Absolutely disgusting way to treat service members families. Good on Bobby for campaigning on this.

Pedro serves in the U.S. Army. His wife Giovanna came here at 6, has a clean record, and followed every legal step. Her petition was approved, but ICE detained her anyway. Monica De La Cruz has stood with this administration has been silent when her people have needed her.

THE CIA'S SECOND-IN-COMMAND JUST FIRED THE AGENCY'S LAWYER AND HIRED HIMSELF Michael Ellis. Deputy Director of the CIA. This week he walked into the general counsel's office, removed the person whose entire job is to tell the CIA when it's breaking the law, and installed himself in the seat Read that again. The man running covert operations is now also the man who approves whether those covert operations are legal. No separation. No independent check. Just Ellis, grading his own homework, in the most secretive agency in the federal government There is no oversight body watching this happen in real time. No confirmation hearing. No public vote. One trusted Trump loyalist just erased the one internal brake that existed inside the CIA's legal chain This is the same Michael Ellis who Trump tried to install as NSA general counsel back in 2020 and got blocked for being too political to trust with classified legal judgment Didn't matter. Trump brought him back anyway. Promoted him anyway. And now he's unsupervised, sitting on both sides of the legal review process for one of the most powerful intelligence agencies on planet earth Compare that to a career CIA analyst who needs three signatures and a security review just to expense a cab ride Ellis needed zero signatures to seize legal authority over his own conduct This isn't a personnel shuffle. This is Donald Trump's pattern, repeating inside the one agency where nobody is supposed to see it happen Schedule F for the civil service. Loyalty tests for prosecutors. Acting officials who answer only to Trump. And now the CIA's own watchdog function, swallowed whole by the guy it was supposed to watch When the people checking the power and the people holding the power are the same person, that's not an intelligence agency anymore That's a black box with Donald Trump's name on the door And nobody elected Michael Ellis to anything

10 years ago today GOP Sen. Mike Lee: “If anyone spoke to my wife, or my daughter, or my mother, or any of my five sisters, the way Mr. Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, wouldn’t want to be associated with that person, and I certainly don’t think I’d be comfortable hiring that person to be the leader of the free world.”

Just brutal to see. DHS contractors just plowed through the last of the four ancient cottonwood trees in Arizona--a tree older than the border itself--to make way for a double border wall through critical jaguar habitat. A dozen protestors were arrested today trying to stop this travesty.

This is what the Trump administration did to the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. The "Grandmother Tree" was 250 years old. So is America. #loathehard

TRUMP'S PERSONAL LAWYER IS THREATENING TO BANKRUPT A THINK TANK FOR DOING MATH The Center for American Progress ran the numbers on Trump's National Guard deployment and found it cost one point seven billion dollars and did basically nothing to stop crime So Trump's lawyer Alejandro Brito sent them a letter demanding they retract it by Friday night or get hit with a five billion dollar defamation suit Five billion dollars. For publishing a report. That's not a legal threat, that's a hit job with letterhead Here's what actually happened in DC while Trump bragged about his troops saving the city A Reuters investigation checked the court records. National Guard soldiers showed up in just one point three percent of criminal cases One point three percent. For one point seven billion dollars. Do that math yourself since apparently CAP isn't allowed to And where were the troops actually posted while crime supposedly raged? Wealthier neighborhoods. Minor incidents. Photo-op zones, not crime scenes A federal judge already ruled Trump's entire legal justification for this deployment would "erase Congress's role" in governing DC. He lost in court and kept the troops there anyway, now extended through February 2026 So the actual scoreboard is this. Nearly two billion taxpayer dollars spent. A policy that barely touches real crime. A judge calling the legal theory illegal. And the one group that pointed all of this out in writing is the one getting threatened with financial obliteration Not the failed deployment. Not the wasted billions. The researchers who reported on it This is the pattern now. Spend the public's money on a program that doesn't work, lose in court, then turn your personal attorney loose on anyone who writes it down Neera Tanden is calling it exactly what it is. Censorship with a price tag Trump isn't trying to win the argument. He's trying to make the argument too expensive to have This is only the beginning

Ouch. "Hegseth is a ludicrous figure in many ways—the strutting sycophant who has promised a military with “no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos”; the flaunter of push-ups that are performative but out of regs; the grown man stuck at the development level of an angry first lieutenant; the testosterone-obsessed infantry officer who, unlike most of his peers, never managed to earn a Ranger tab. Even so, we should take what he is saying seriously." From @EliotACohen: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…

True. Israel has firm orders for 75 F-35I Adirs: the original 50 (nearly all delivered) plus 25 more under the June 2024 LOA. That $3B package (and prior ones) is funded entirely by U.S. FMF grants. Deliveries of the extra jets begin in 2028.

This is abhorrent. Elections don’t have to be about cruelty and lies. South Carolina deserves better. I urge voters to look at the merits of each candidate and cast their vote accordingly. We must reject politics based on division and hate. While South Carolinians can strongly disagree with one another, we can do so civilly and with honest intentions for the betterment of our communities and well being of our families.

Breaking: Poland’s Embassy in Washington has issued a blistering rebuke of Tucker Carlson, accusing him of insulting the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers killed or wounded fighting Nazi Germany. “You have now become an apologist for Adolf Hitler,” the letter says.

This is Mike Caruso, the man who was arrested last month for sexually abusing a five year old member of his family. The Palm Beach Republican Party endorsed him today.

The *sitting Attorney General* just spoke at the Republican Convention you fucking dolt

🚨Palm Beach County Republicans just endorsed MAGA Mike Caruso in their GOP voter guide on Instagram. That’s the same Mike Caruso arrested in August on five felony charges, including lewd or lascivious m*lestation, over the alleged abuse of HIS OWN GRANDSON. Caruso has refused to suspends his campaign and says he intends to win his race. The Palm Beach County Republican Party says it has a duty to campaign for nominees. Protecting kids apparently comes second to keeping a seat. Where is the outrage?

🚨Alabama Rep. Brett Easterbrook spent years positions himself as an enforcer of Christian “family values.” He sponsored the bill forcing trans girls to use boys bathrooms in schools. He voted to ban LGBTQ-inclusivity in classrooms, keep trans girls off girls’ teams, and make gender-affirming care for minors a felony. On Oct. 2, police booked him for first-degree human trafficking and prostitution. Kory Wesley, president of the Satsuma City School Board, was also arrested on human trafficking charges.

It took ProPublica reporters $45 and a flag to start a private school in Arkansas. No teaching experience. No background check. Nobody asked what they'd teach or how they'd measure whether kids were learning. Last month I showed you Alpha School getting rejected as a charter in Texas, then approved for the state's voucher program anyway. This is that same pipeline with even fewer guardrails. In Arkansas, the reporters registered an LLC online and got a certificate the same day. Then they applied to get public money as a microschool. It took about 10 minutes and two documents. No accreditation, no proof of financial solvency, and no cap on how many students they could enroll. They set their tuition at $7,208, the exact voucher amount per student. When they asked the state about it, an Education Department employee didn't reject them. He suggested ways they could still get the money. In West Virginia they filed on notebook paper. The state told them to take the "microschool route," where no one has any oversight. The department says it does not approve or deny microschools for any reason, including the qualifications of the owner. Unlimited students, by law. The reporters never took a dime and never enrolled a kid. But nothing stopped them from doing either. Arkansas has gone from under 100 private schools to more than 220 since its voucher program started, plus 143 microschools approved this year alone. Anyone can open one. The state can't stop you. And your tax dollars are paying for it all.

“All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about where we needed to go and what we needed to do, they got rid of, right?” a former senior Army officer said. “Because they want people that are compliant and loyal, not people who think."

They thought no one could see them violently throw Ben Braver to the ground, but we saw. They're out of control. If they're not stopped JD will be America's Dictator for the next 40 years.

I could only make it halfway through this transcript before I had to stop. It’s almost unbelievable that this man is the President of the United States. He rarely finishes a coherent thought. At one point, he actually says that all of his decisions “are correct ones.” His explanations of the national debt and basic economics are astonishingly muddled. And he makes false claim after false claim with absolute confidence. I can't tell if he's just doesnt care that he's lying or actually belives the lies himself. Reading the transcript—not watching him, not hearing the delivery, just reading his actual words—is jarring. time.com/article/2026/10/01/…

MAGA cultist and self-proclaimed "prophet" Hank Kunneman calls on God to "shatter the agenda of hell" in the midterms: "We lift up a rod of authority like Moses and we're asking you to drown every enemy of the Lord God of Hosts. We're asking you to drown every demonic satanic perverted liberal compromise RINO agenda." peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch…