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ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Anybody talk to Mitch today?

Before this special AT40 program aired, I hinted that I had a small part in bringing it to light. Here is some of the backstory.

"Trump is trying to create a new status quo where his single say-so is enough to overturn the will of two thirds of Congress on all spending matters. It’s un-American. It’s emperor stuff. If they had a shred of dignity left, they’d impeach the son of a bitch today." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The Swamp just keeps getting swampier.

Ironically, America is in such dire straits that Trump's campaign slogan has become mine.

Just got the email that Netflix will soon "update" my pricing. Do euphemisms still work? For me, they just double the outrage.

GEO Group, a leading for-profit owner and operator of immigration detention centers, is now ICE’s largest contractor, winning more than $800 million in ICE business in 2025 alone, much of it for prisons and detention centers used for immigration detention.

So this is a headline on Huffpost: "Republicans Condemn 'Incredibly Offensive' Trump Post About The Obamas" Are you fucking kidding me? 3 fucking Republicans said something. 3. Stop giving them credit for not even doing the absolute minimum. This is ludicrous.

Kristi Noem wanted to revoke the protective status of hundreds of thousands of Haitian refugees — using overly racist language to make the case. This judge said no.

It might be that Trump is working his way up to actually shooting someone on Fifth Avenue, just to prove his point.

Dear Karoline, My outrage is real.

Cooperation may get more ICE agents off the street, but it could make it harder for the state to enforce its laws.

All you need to know about Republicans.

I'm no fan of Rep. Omar, but on this, I agree 100%.

Masked thugs on the streets. Measles outbreaks across the nation. Blatant government corruption. Coverup of group of elite sex offenders. Ruling party trying to rig elections. Leader building grandiose monuments to himself. Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service. Third world America.

"All this is coming at a pivotal moment, when some congressional Republicans—one year into Trump 2.0—are starting to reconsider the question of whether their bodies contain spines." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"The machinery of authority depends on routine obedience. History shows that when citizens withdraw it—patiently, lawfully and together—even the most entrenched systems bend."

The Powell witch-hunt is not about revenge. It’s not about monetary policy. It’s about power. As is ICE. As is Venezuela. As is the fact that he does not intend to give up power in 2028.

Yes!!

Trump: If Iran's leaders order the killing of peaceful protestors, we will bomb them. Also Trump: Orders killing of peaceful protestors in the USA.

Great observations, Chuck!

“Renee Good was a mother of three. She was helping protect the civil rights of people because it was the right thing. She was on the scene of an ICE action, as a volunteer observer. Let’s be her volunteer observers, now. Let’s not let them get away with this shit.” open.substack.com/pub/genewein...

The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.

More Republican lunacy: Sen. Moreno (R-OH) wants to deny Americans the freedom of holding dual citizenship.

If what Trump and his administration are doing was happening in another country, we'd be sending in troops, weapons, and hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to defend those under attack and to remove the brutal fascist.

“Please be on the lookout for the following mothers, who are confirmed to be in possession of dangerous vehicles and should be met with extreme caution,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

Haven't posted a great deal about what's happening in Minnesota because I'm trying to keep in the deadline zone rather than spinning out for three days in a rage, but obviously that was murder and equally obviously our fascist government is spinning hard to pretend it was anyone's fault but theirs.

"We have been shouting from the rooftops for months: The kind of senseless, tragic killing we’ve just witnessed in Minneapolis is a predictable outcome of the current drive to take over communities, assert government power, and intimidate locals into submission." open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...

This tragedy was entirely predictable. Any reasonable person knew that an out-of-control, cruel, and lawless regime openly spouting xenophobic attacks on non-Whites and rushing to flood American cities with armed thugs would invariably hurt and kill innocent people open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

This is devastating. We cannot let this just be another outrage that gets forgotten when the next outrage happens. Her death has to mean something. We owe her that.

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

"I think of Ernesto Zedillo, probably the best president Mexico has had in modern times. He was asked “What three things does Mexico need most?” He answered, “The rule of law. The rule of law. And the rule of law.” This applies to many countries, including our own." open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

If a large share of voters in the political center feel unrepresented by today’s major parties, fusion voting offers them a way to express their true preferences — without wasting their vote. @rickpildes.bsky.social

Sending all the evil thoughts I can muster to the bro sitting in front of me who just HAD to pull a full recline on his seat for our 3+ hour flight.

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish. The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

Fuck these people for being cowards

“One atrocity after another just this past week…If you’re fine with all that, you should ask yourself what’s broken inside of you…The true danger of corruption is that evil ceases to be regarded as such by otherwise good people. It just becomes the new normal.” open.substack.com/pub/mattlaba...

It remains genuinely astonishing that someone as obsessed with tariffs as President Donald Trump can also be so maddeningly ignorant about how they actually work.

NEW. Powerful piece by Miles Bruner. "I know the thought of walking away from your career and your social network is terrifying...I urge you to recognize that our nation is heading down a very dark path. But it’s not too late to change direction...Take a stand." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

To be honest, the quality of call-center customer service has gotten so bad that it is usually worse than a chatbot. And since most chatbots seem to be just automated FAQs, that's pretty bad.