More than 80 U.S. warplanes have been destroyed or damaged in the course of Donald Trump's war on Iran at a cost of more than $3 billion, according to a new congressional report. yahoo.com/news/politics/arti…

An ABC News analysis found defense companies backed by President Trump's sons have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to government data. Read more: abcnews.link/I6Efk6P

BREAKING WaPo: Trump wants to transform his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David. 
The plan calls for a parcel of the private club to be designated a permanent, official sanctuary for foreign leaders and future U.S. presidents. Future presidents would also be offered comped memberships to the Trump club. washingtonpost.com/politics/…

Doug Burgum's Park Service wants to trade protected land on Georgia's Cumberland Island to Carnegie heirs, opening the door to sprawling private estates on a seashore Congress set aside to stay wild. Public comments close Oct. 16. Tell Burgum no. bit.ly/46ZvRJb

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🚨 ProPublica released a bombshell investigation finding that ICE has detained HUNDREDS of US citizens, despite repeatedly denying they have done so. Some of their findings include: —More than 100 Americans were held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all were people of color. —At least 70 children and teens were detained, and 20 who were handcuffed or zip-tied. —DHS agents detained more than 120 citizens in Illinois during Operation Midway Blitz, despite DHS claiming that there were "no administrative arrests of U.S. citizens." —A 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a Los Angeles school after agents allegedly mistook him for a gang member. —Aliya Rahman, an autistic citizen recovering from a traumatic brain injury, was stuck amid protestors in Minneapolis. Agents broke her window and dragged her out of the car while she screamed, then detained her for hours without allowing her to contact her family or lawyers. She was released without being charged. —More than a dozen American children were detained in a raid on an Idaho horse track. —Roughly a dozen citizens, mostly children, were deported. —Brian Morales Garcia, a U.S. citizen, was detained for four days without being able to call a lawyer or family, then deported to Mexico. —Agents allegedly broke into a Minnesota family's home without a judicial warrant, taking the phone of a 20-year-old citizen who was legally trying to record the break-in. —Agents shot pepper balls at and tackled two workers at an Illinois cemetery. One was taken to the hospital handcuffed, with agents standing over his bed. No one was charged. —A 17-year-old in Oregon shouted "I'm a U.S. citizen" as agents broke his car window. An agent responded, "I don't care." —36 Americans were held for at least a day without access to a lawyer or their family. —An American in Baltimore was held for 25 days, unable to see her 5-year-old son over Christmas. —More than 300 citizens were detained for allegedly assaulting or obstructing agents. Fewer than half were charged in federal court, and nearly half of those charges were dropped or dismissed. —At least 63 citizens were detained while recording agents. —Three siblings in Brownsville, Texas, including a 14-year-old, were detained after stopping to film an immigration arrest. —Last month, an Illinois man was injured and detained by agents who mistook him for someone else. —Two citizens who are enrolled members of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe were detained in Bemidji, Minnesota, during a worksite raid. —A citizen documenting ICE activity in Ventura, California, was tackled and tasered while he was already pinned to the ground. —Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was chased and handcuffed by agents, then put in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents abandoned him in the woods with no way to get home, then threw his ID out of the truck. Most alarmingly, this is certainly an undercount. ICE and DHS are completely out of control. When we’re in the majority, we will hold them accountable.

The Bureau of Land Management approved blasting through 100-foot canyon walls at the entrance to the world's longest art gallery. So oil tankers can drive through it. Nine Mile Canyon, Utah holds more than 10,000 cultural, historical and archaeological resources, including over 1,000 known rock art sites containing more than 10,000 individual images. People have used this canyon for at least 8,000 years. The blasting happens in Gate Canyon, the entrance corridor into that gallery. Federal surveys have already found 47 historic sites along this one stretch of road alone. And it's not only the rock art. Threatened Mexican spotted owls use cliff habitat in the canyon, including areas near the proposed blasting. BLM did the minimum environmental review required and barreled ahead anyway, to move oil out of the Uinta Basin faster. Up to 1,000 vehicles a day, roughly half of them heavy tankers. This isn't BLM's first swing at this road. Duchesne County tried the same realignment in 2015 and again in 2022. Both times, public opposition killed it. This time, BLM posted it quietly in March with no public notice, denied conservation groups' request to even weigh in, and approved it in April anyway. It's the same playbook that just got this administration stopped at Big Bend National Park, except "stopped" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. There, a judge halted construction October 2nd, but only after bulldozers had already torn through the park’s grounds. A win in court doesn't un-crush what's already crushed. Three groups sued over Gate Canyon this week. But a lawsuit takes months. A blasting crew takes days. #DemsUnited 🧵

Methane - 86 times more powerful than CO2 over 20 years - is being emitted from thawing permafrost all over the Arctic. This is expected to add 20% to global warming this century, more later. Important when every fraction of a degree counts. phys.org/news/2026-10-gas-fr…

UPDATE: Trump just awarded another $3 BILLION military contract to a company backed by his son Don Jr. (and Peter Thiel) — what skilled businessmen these Trumps are! Robbing the American taxpayer in broad daylight.

Project 2025 is alive and well. This proposal is an attempt to advance Trump and Duffy's disturbing and dystopian dream of forcing women to marry and have more babies. Tying mass transit and rail infrastructure grants to marriage and birth rates is holding necessary public programs hostage to further dangerous right-wing ideology. politico.com/news/2026/10/06…

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

Trump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple. washingtonsun.com/donald-tru…

New: The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administration. propub.li/4zmkdnX

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

We’re about to sleepwalk into a gravely dangerous nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, and not enough people are talking about this. Here’s what’s happening (thread)

An 18 year veteran attorney at the Interior Department just quit. John Murdock is a conservative Christian who says he witnessed a “deeply troubling assault on the rule of law” inside the trump administration. And holy shit, his resignation letter. After laying out what he’s witnessed, he writes- “Flooding the zone with shit is a strategy for producing a shitty country.” Yet another adult has left the room.

Florida Republicans are still backing Mike Caruso, the Palm Beach County Clerk arrested for sexually assaulting his GRANDSON. You don't want to know the details. This is who these people are. From the top down.

So now the Trump administration is sending out one-time $500 checks to people who bought their health insurance through HealthCare.gov and paid the full price because they didn’t qualify for taxpayer subsidies. In other words, people who’s income is roughly 400% above poverty and could already afford to pay full price for their health insurance are getting a $500 check from the president. And guess when those checks started showing up? October 1. Weeks before the midterm election. The checks come with a letter from Trump lying about why you’re getting your $500. And here’s the really interesting part: this isn’t being distributed evenly across the country. Of the roughly $475 million being sent out, 71% of it, or $339 million, is going to people in just 13 states. Those 13 states happen to be major midterm battlegrounds. They contain eight of the nine Senate races and 10 of the 12 governors’ races that nonpartisan analysts consider the most competitive. Call it whatever you want. I’ll call it what it is: a bribe.

Anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. democracydocket.com/news-ale…

One of the only existing groves of American Chestnut trees is scheduled to be destroyed next month to make room for a datacenter. I made an entire video about what this tree meant and the efforts to bring it back that have lasted decades. Consumption knows nothing of sacrament.