“‘We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof, and it was deeply disturbing,’ the Rev. David Black of Chicago told CNN earlier this week in his first interview.” https://people.com/pastor-claims-he-was-praying-when-ice-agents-shot-him-pepper-ball-11828065
The incompetence is astounding
"Hundreds of staff fired from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday have been reinstated, according to the American Federation of Government Employees." https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/health/fired-cdc-staffers-reinstated?cid=ios_app
“But there is nothing noble about what Vought is doing. He is a fully competent, utterly committed radical ideologue. He lusts for counter-revolution and radical measures. There is no line he doesn’t feel justified to cross. He does not talk about the conflict with “the Left” in the idiom of democratic politics, but that of war. Vought is at war with large swaths of the population…..”
https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/08ca53da-bb0f-4eb4-aa08-c0648d2d9477
Legal roadblock, likely death knell: Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman says Judge Waverly Crenshaw’s Abrego ruling exposes vindictive prosecution, arming Comey and Letitia James to beat Trump’s retaliatory indictments.
'Roadblock': Watergate prosecu...
Northwest Chicago Suburb: #ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck
https://bsky.app/profile/lagunabeachdems.bsky.social/post/3m2wviueqnc24
I guess we're in the "Diary of Anne Frank" stage of ICE apprehensions. Man hides child from agents. Chicago Sun Times, 10/10/25
Mothers who are legal immigrants but have brown skin
are being arrested in school drop off lines .
James Comey and Letitia James were indicted after Trump installed his inexperienced personal attorney to prosecute his enemies.
Mike Johnson is calling the ‘No Kings’ protests a planned terrorist event supporting Hamas.
The outrageious actions are building and destroying the very soul of this nation.
We cannot look away.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-democracy-with-fpwellman/id1623863298?i=1000731220389
The man with the amazing falsetto. RIP https://apnews.com/article/moody-blues-john-lodge-death-8bc738f385048867148c9edb2d9cc003
The huge, big, gigantic lesson for Democrats coming out of the Trump years, is always, Always, ALWAYS be effective and loyal to your ideals.
And if you do, you can pull another 20% out of the "given up on voting" voters to join your side. They became apathetic because Democrats always compromise away their principals.
For instance, if something needs to be illegal, because polluters are spewing poison into our atmosphere, do not compromise down to tax incentives.
Losers.
Hegseth Announces Bonkers Plan To Build Qatari Air Force Facility In Idaho
The award cautioned that democratic backsliding is accelerating globally—a trend to which Trump has made no small contribution. https://trib.al/Y0ROBlC
"Rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation.”
“Ms. Machado is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize first and foremost for her efforts to advance democracy in Venezuela. But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, to cast one’s vote and to be represented in elective government – is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.”
~ Nobel Peace Prize Committee
#NobelPeacePrize #MaríaCorinaMachado #Venezuela #democracy
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