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After waiting hours for their loved ones, families were reunited with released ICE detainees. FREE THEM ALL!!!

George W. Bush’s brother rarely posts about politics. Last Tuesday, he did. He voted for the Democrat in the Texas Senate race. His reason has Ken Paxton’s name in it.

There are so many different credible allegations about Donald Trump being a rapist, you can almost understand how The New York Times missed the new charges here, but uh, this is supposed to be The New York Times.

JUST IN: News consumers' suit over Trump's selective ban on White House press goes to Judge J. Paul Oetken (Obama/SDNY). Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

As Marcy has been repeating, this case is about the government even being able to conduct counterintelligence against (Russian) disinformation. It's clownish yet so important.

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

Overnight, DOJ rolled out a new (draft) complaint against Nikki Floris and Brad Benavides, the FBI agents Jeanine Pirro claims lied to cover up their knowledge of Hunter Biden investigation. It reveals the FBI had misrepresented a key witness' knowledge of the Hunter Biden investigation.

So to cover up that misrepresentation, Pirro 1) swapped FBI agents 2) added an obstruction charge to excuse the new affidavit. Basically, Pirro is charging the FBI agents with obstruction to cover up her cover up. 😳

ICE and CBP are terrorizing our communities and trampling on the Constitution. I wrote a bill to give Americans legal tools to sue and hold lawless agents accountable.

The fuck there's 'nothing they can do'.... They can go arrest those motherfuckers for assault and battery, intimidation, conspiracy to commit a felony, felonious destruction of property, and throw their asses in the crowbar hotel! They just don't WANT to do it. "Protect and Serve" my ass...

There is no recourse, no remedy and no justice when armed, masked government thugs assault you. If the law cannot protect us from unconstitutional actions like this, it has been perverted beyond repair. This is tyranny.

The original affidavit charging Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides relied on undisclosed hearsay and made some inaccurate claims about the Hunter Biden investigation. So FBI rolled out a new charge--obstruction!!--to try to clean that up. emptywheel.net/2026/10/27/f...

FBI Agent Byron Militello Gets Cold Feet on His Hearsay Witness in the Floris Case emptywheel.net/2026/10/27/f...

Note, the MOST IMPORTANT change is that they swapped FBI agents (and added critical elements that were missing from the original affidavit). This is clean up, the obstruction charge is likely only the excuse to do that.

Trump’s presidency is a wealth transfer from the bottom to the top

Our election research team put out an article today explaining how the prediction markets (e.g. Kalshi, Polymarket) — and social media posts featuring visualizations from those platforms — may feed election rumors & conspiracy theories around the U.S. midterms: uwcip.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...

Yes. Different FBI Agent, cleans up undisclosed hearsay testimony abt false claims investigative team made, tries to cushion some false representations about counterintelligence. They basically tried to clean up THEIR fuck-ups by adding obstruction. emptywheel.net/2026/10/27/f...

In the Floris case, DOJ filed what they call a "notice of superseding complaint," adding one obstruction charge, for which it adds speculation for proof of motive. But the new "complaint" is not signed: it may be a ploy to avoid today's preliminary hearing or to DQ Zia Faruqui.

Real screencaps from Don Jr's "hunting trip" in Mongolia with his new Kremlin handler, Umar Kremlev. Taxpayers paid $18,715 to put up his Secret Service details for 14 days, but if they were in hotel rooms, I guess they didn't get to hunt? www.ft.com/content/f41f...

Here's the schedule for briefing in Trump's attempt to steal Mary Petola's win. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Jon Ossoff’s closing argument went in for the kill.

C’mon Ohio

the P-3 cannot be trusted on this. if the UK & France want to prove they should actually remains as permanent members of the Security Council, they should move to block/veto both. otherwise what's their point of being there?

the thought of either the UAE candidate or Orban as plausible candidates as Secretary General shows just how much key states want to destroy the UN, the promise of the Charter, & a future that centers human rights.

Over public dissents from Justices Thomas and Alito, #SCOTUS *denies* the Trump administration’s request for emergency relief in the transgender federal prisoner medical care case—leaving in place lower court rulings requiring the continuing provision of care for gender dysphoria.

literally illegal

As with Trump's ballroom, the key issue may be standing. Judge Chutkan has asked the parties to propose a briefing schedule. Here’s plaintiffs motion for a preliminary injunction. 2/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Plaintiffs seek injunction blocking building of Trump’s Arch, set to begin 11/5. Govt admits Congress must approve the arch, but says it did so in 1913, when it approved Memorial Bridge, finished 90 yrs ago. Original 1924 plan called for 2 columns, tho not an arch. ... 1/2

Last night, in the Golf Course case, Judge Reyes refused to extend her TRO, which expires Monday. I assume that means she'll grant a preliminary injunction before then. She also ordered Dept of Int dep chief of staff Wischer—go-to guy for Trump's vanity projects—not to delete stuff from his phone.

In the case to block Trump's Arch, briefing will be complete Oct 30. Not clear if Judge Chutkan will order a hearing. If not enjoined, work could start 11/5.

And shows how Trump's arch would change the view of the Lincoln Memorial from Arlington House (the Custis-Lee Mansion). 3/3

In the article, she juxtaposes Trump's version & the original. 2/3

NYT has a great article (by @emmbadger.bsky.social) showing the 1924 vision of two slender, widely-spaced columns that the govt has been citing to argue that Congress *already* approved his Trump's Arch. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Full filing here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Govt succinctly lays down its marker: POTUS can gut any citizen's lawsuit to enforce federal environmental laws, despite Congress's express intent. (From filing to dismiss NAACP's Clean Air Act suit against Musk's gas-turbine-powered Colossus datacenter near Memphis.)

Filing here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kennedy Center plaintiff, protesting Trump's vast invocation of presidential comms privilege, says Trump's privilege log shows he has been in "near-constant" contact with mgmt, either directly or thru Natalie Harp or Howard Lutnick. (Lutnick is not an officer, employee or trustee of KC.)

Mark Bennett (Trump) and Gabriel Sanchez (Biden) were most skeptical of DOJ's arguments; Patrick Bumatay (Trump) most supportive.

Ninth Circuit just finished hearing oral argument in DOJ's case to sequester 20K mail-in ballots in California IMHO, most likely outcome: dismissal for lack of jurisdiction, with District Judge Carter hearing case Tuesday. Two of 3 on panel seemed skeptical of DOJ's case on merits too.

Govt's attempt to upend "long-settled case law" by invoking "stray language" from Slaughter and Trump v US is without merit and "would risk a return to the spoils system that Congress has sought to end since the 19th century."

In the seashells case, the FBI tried for a year to prove Comey was exposed to slang use of “86” to mean “kill” in Mafia cases. They found zero. Indicted anyway. Now a true expert says govt theory is “preposterous.” By me in @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Here's the excerpt I think @kyledcheney.bsky.social meant to append:

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Sadly, they do not follow the rules. #FreeMajorWatson

Big Angie Angie.  8 days to go, and Absent Ashley keeps going further into hiding.  Y’all know what to do. Let’s send Moody home.  Vote on or before Nov. 3 for ANGIE NIXON: Angie4Us.com/early

One thing people are missing from the new Jim Comey charges. They came 2 days after Aakash Singh was promoted to PADAG. Comey has been arguing that Trump keeps hiring people for the primary purpose to prosecute him, and this is consistent with that. emptywheel.net/2026/10/26/t...