New pinned thread.

Holy shit…..This imagery is a textbook metaphor for America’s jaw dropping retreat from the world’s stage.

Prosecutor Resigns, Saying U.S. Attorney Mishandled Chicago Protest Case The prosecutor said that U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros had intervened and overruled her in the case against a group of protesters known as the “Broadview Six.” The former lead prosecutor in a high-profile Trump administration case against anti-ICE protesters retired this week and accused Chicago’s U.S. attorney of pushing unwarranted felony charges. In a resignation letter dated Thursday, the prosecutor, Sheri H. Mecklenburg, said that U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros had personally intervened and overruled her, despite her objections, in the failed case against a group of protesters known as the “Broadview Six.” The move escalates the turmoil inside the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago, where a wave of veteran prosecutorshas quit over what some of them believed to be political pressure to charge certain cases. The case involved protesters outside the Broadview immigrant detention center who were arrested last year and accused of interfering with a federal agent. Federal prosecutors in Chicago twice failed to persuade a grand jury to indict the protesters; such failures were rare in federal cases before the second Trump administration. nytimes.com/2026/09/25/us/ch…

Joe Biden went to the Supreme Court to get usury student debt relieved. Donald Trump went to the Supreme Court to restrict voting rights. Both sides are not the same.

US measles cases continue to climb, topping 3,600 cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-me…

While Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump insist we're not even at war with Iran, the Pentagon just quietly added 37 more wounded troops to its official tally, bringing the total figure to 861. No explanation was given by the Pentagon, just a growing number capturing the real cost of this conflict. washingtonpost.com/national-…

The Supreme Court rules that Missouri's 2022 map will be in effect during the general election.

Sheri Mecklenburg's full retirement letter to Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros:

Trump said Nevada has 250,000 noncitizens voting. So DHS went through the list of voters. Guess how many they found. 250,000? No. 2000? Nope. 200? Wrong. They found ZERO noncitizens. Epstein is not a hoax. Affordability is not a hoax. Illegals voting is a big fat orange hoax.

Bill Clinton: "Some days I can hardly believe what is happening in this country that I love so much. People in charge have created one set of rules for themselves and another set for everyone else. They've weaponized government to settle personal scores, prosecute enemies, stamp out free speech. They've even made the federal government a new profit centre for themselves and their allies."

So now Trump is telling Zelensky to go to Moscow to negotiate peace with Putin. Putin has been trying to assassinate the guy for years. If he went to Russia he would obviously be killed. Weird how Trump does everything Putin tells him to do.

We should never forget this outrageous fascist maneuver “On September 13, 2022, Ron DeSantis shipped two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, allegedly in order to draw attention to what he claimed to be the Biden administration’s failed border policies. The two planes left from Texas filled with lawful asylum seekers who were told by DeSantis’s staff that they were to be provided with jobs and “up to eight months of cash assistance for income-eligible refugees in Massachusetts, apparently mimicking benefits offered to refugees who arrive in the United States through the country’s official resettlement program, which the Venezuelans were not part of,” according to the New York Times. They were also provided with a fake brochure titled “Refugee Migrant Benefits,” though they did not qualify for such benefits. Several migrants told NPR they were told the flight was going to Boston, not Martha’s Vineyard. According to the migrants, a woman who identified herself as Perla also said that, if they traveled to Boston, they could receive “expedited work papers.” The allegation that the migrants were misled is legally significant. It would mean that the flights were not just heartless, but potentially criminal. Very few analyses gave much attention to how DeSantis’s stunt was connected to a white supremacy ideology. Nor did they give much attention to how the stunt resembled a segregationist past in which White Citizens’ Councils in the South protested against attempts by activists in the early 1960 who traveled to the South as Freedom Riders to integrate the interstate bus system. Not only did the segregationists and armed mobs confront the freedom riders when they pulled into Southern cities with bats and firebombs, they also “passed out leaflets and placed want ads in Southern newspapers to recruit Black families with the promise of jobs up north” as part of an inhumane plan to send busloads of Black people up North. It is worth repeating that little was reported about how this story echoed a segregationist past of Jim Crow racist policies and violence. And almost nothing was said about how DeSantis’s politics of disposability was part of a similar logic carried to extremes in the past in fascist regimes such as Nazi Germany. Not only did DeSantis build on the legacy of American white supremacists such as former Gov. George Wallace, he also took a lesson from the history of fascism in trying to ride white supremacy and nationalism to further his political career. DeSantis’s publicity stunt of using migrants as political pawns was also disconnected in the mainstream and liberal media from his attempt to erase the history of the Jim Crow era as part of his larger project of a politics of disposability. For instance, little was said connecting this racist policy to DeSantis’s passing laws banning books about Black history and racial narratives from schools and libraries, along with limiting what teachers can teach about racism — a policy that clearly indicates how DeSantis is following in the footsteps of the Nazification of education in Hitler’s Germany”

In addition, Trump eviscerated the legal immigration system during his 1st term, so part of the reason they had such a problem in the first part of Biden's is they had to rebuild it. Whoever takes over in 2028 is going to have the same problem, as Trump did it again.

People are entitled to their opinions, but not their own facts. Biden had a deal in place w/Senate Rs that none other than Lindsey Graham said was the best deal Rs were going to get, Trump told Rs to kill it, and the whole episode is now flushed down the memory hole

.@ModSquadUS and I are all-in for @scott_colom for two reasons: 1) he’s got what it takes to win, and 2) when he does, he’ll always put Mississippi families first. He's exactly the candidate who can flip Mississippi blue, and with all of us behind him, he can get it done.

Donald Trump continues to attack Americans’ right to vote because he knows his party can’t win on the issues. The Trump Administration’s flawed voter screening database is yet another example of this Administration’s disregard of constitutional rights.

NEW: Nevada said that 185 voters in the state identified by DHS as noncitizens were, in fact, citizens — and the agency appeared unwilling to substantiate its claims. The revelation deepens concerns about the reliability of the Trump administration's ongoing effort to identify alleged noncitizens. democracydocket.com/news-ale…

JUST IN: The prosecutor at the center of the “Broadview 6” scandal penned a fiery resignation letter to U.S. Atty Boutros saying he “personally directed” her to seek felony charges not misdemeanors and then unfairly "vilified" her in court Read it here: chicagotribune.com/2026/09/2…

This comes as yet another week ends with no Pentagon news briefing. The last one was held May 5, more than four months ago.

"Hands off the ICC!" Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten pushes back against the United States' attempt to dismantle the International Criminal Court, which is based in The Hague.

White supremacy doesn’t become Christian just because you attach Bible verses to it. Yet a growing group of pastors are doing exactly that, preaching racism and antisemitism to disaffected young men, building large online audiences, and monetizing the resulting outrage. roysreport.com/the-rise-of-t…