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"#Vance lies — and he does it well. It’s why he was brought on as #Trump‘s 2nd in command. . . .Vance is betting that the typical Trump voter would rather lose his own health insurance than see a dark-skinned immigrant receive medical treatment. This strategy presents itself as esp. vile, b/c it depends on the #MAGA base being so racist that they would choose bankruptcy, or even death, over having to share a dr's waiting room w/people speaking Spanish.

https://www.salon.com/2025/10/03/jd-vances-shutdown-bet-maga-loves-racism-more-than-health-care/

#USPol
#Racism

Via Kevinly Father on Twitter:

The Republican party is literally suing to prevent legal votes from being counted.

Bartiromo: I see that the RNC is filing a lawsuit in a battleground state to stop counting ballots past election day.

Lara #Trump: Yeah. Well, that's exactly right. You cannot have ballots counted after elections are over.

Anyone who thinks the #UnitedStates is still a #democracy that adheres to the founders’ #Constitution needs to check their head.

“Attack on #FreeSpeech”:

#Journalist #MarioGuevara Deported After Covering #AntiTrump #Protest

Mario Guevara was deported from the #US early on Oct 3, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists

#law #FreedomOfThePress #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #FuckSCOTUS #immunity
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/3/mario_guevara_deportation_freedom_of_press

Via Kyle Griffin:

White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates on #Trump's gestapo remark:

"Instead of echoing the appalling rhetoric of fascists, lunching with Neo Nazis, and fanning debunked conspiracy theories that have cost brave police officer their lives, President #Biden is bringing the American people together around our shared democratic values and the rule of law — an approach that has delivered the biggest violent crime reduction in 50 years."

AYFKM???

#Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former US #House Rep #GeorgeSantos, who is serving more than 7 years in federal #prison after pleading #guilty to #fraud & #IdentityTheft charges.

The #NY Republican was sentenced in April after admitting last year to deceiving donors & stealing the identities of 11 people — including his own family members — to make donations to his campaign.

#criminal #law #pardon #commutation
https://apnews.com/article/trump-george-santos-commutation-pardon-8ae46d6351cefe01d79f74920521b7a2?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-17-Breaking+News

Massive #immigration raid on #Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

#DHS said federal agents with #CBP, the #FBI & the #ATF arrested 37 people in the raid.

#Trump #law #US #MilitaryState #democracy #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #coup #TrumpCoup2
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated

"[At Quantico], the Trump administration was presenting a holistic plan to shift the culture and conduct of the United States military to accommodate the lawless character of this nascent regime. Not only is this a plan to make the military an authoritarian institution on and off the battlefield, but to adapt the very notion of the battlefield, and the enemy, for domestic use."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/a-holistic-plan-for-an-authoritarian

#GovernmentShutdown: #Trump Promises Cuts to ‘Democrat Agencies’ — There is no such thing as a “Democrat Agency”

Trump redoubled his threat to use the shutdown to slash the federal bureaucracy as #Democrats & #Republicans dug in for an extended battle.

#OrchestratedShutdown #law #RevengePolitics #CultureWars #SCOTUS #immunity #ExecutiveBranch #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/02/us/trump-government-shutdown?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Federal Appeals Court Upholds #SteveBannon’s #Contempt #Conviction

Stephen# Bannon, a longtime ally of #Trump, had been found #guilty of defying a subpoena from the House #Jan6 committee.

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/us/politics/stephen-bannon-contempt-upheld.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

#TrumpTrial 🧵 starts HERE. #Trump #legal

Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

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Pagliery:

Today's session starts with prosecutors asking for a sidebar with the judge. Lawyers on both sides are now discussing something in hushed tones.

Attorney General #PamBondi is set to testify before #Congress Tuesday amid mounting *concerns* [evidence] that the #DOJ under her leadership is being weaponized to go after Trump's perceived enemies.

Bondi's appearance before the #Senate #Judiciary Committee comes less than 2 weeks after the DOJ secured an indictment against former #FBI Director #JamesComey following public demands from #Trump to do so.

#law #LegalEthics #tyranny #RevengePolitics
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/07/nx-s1-5563934/bondi-senate-judiciary-committee-testify

#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal 1/…

Bower:

Justice Merchan starts off will the prosecution motion for contempt.

He tells Trump he's about to issue his ruling, in which he will again find Trump in contempt of court.

The last thing I want to do is put you in jail, Justice Merchan says to Trump. You are the former President of the United States and possibly the next President as well.

But "going forward," he continues, "this court will have to consider jail sanctions" if necessary.

The #Trump admin plans to #federalize 300 members of the #Illinois #NationalGuard, Democratic Gov #JBPritzker says.

Pritzker, who called the move “absolutely outrageous & un-American,” said the Guard received word from the #Pentagon on Saturday morning that the #troops would be called up. He did not specify when or where they would be deployed, but Trump has long threatened to send troops into #Chicago.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-trump-national-guard-acbf033191926157c5771825470eb2f8?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-04-Breaking+News

Via Kyle Griffin (stating the obvious, of course):

#JDVance says a future #Trump administration would defund Planned Parenthood.

🚨#CBP agents shoot woman in #Chicago as #protesters confront #immigration personnel

REMINDER THERE IS NO #BORDER IN #ILLINOIS CBP HAS NO BUSINESS THERE

US #BorderPatrol personnel shot a woman in Chicago on Saturday, who #DHS said was armed, as scores of protesters faced off against federal immigration agents on the city's southwest side.

#Trump #shooting #law #PoliceBrutality #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/border-patrol-agents-shoot-woman-chicago-protesters-confront-immigration-2025-10-04/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

The WH confirmed Saturday it has “authorized” the deployment of #NationalGuard units to #Illinois over opposition from Gov #JBPritzker…

Brace for the #propaganda:

“Amidst ongoing violent riots & lawlessness, that local leaders like Pritzker have refused to step in to quell, President Trump has authorized 300 national guardsmen to protect federal officers & assets,” White House spox Abigail Jackson said in a statement issued late Saturday afternoon.

#Trump #law #Chicago
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10/04/donald-trump-jb-pritzker-illinois-national-guard

Via Lisa Rubin:

Former #Trump Org. comptroller Jeff McConney is now off the stand, but centerpiece of his direct exam wasn't even something he said. It was handwriting he recognized, specifically that of Allen Weisselberg, on doc

It's Weisselberg's handwriting McConney testified, in which Weisselberg sketched out the plan to repay Cohen = $180k for the Stormy payment and another, unrelated $50k, doubled to "gross up" Cohen for tax purposes, & w another $60k on the top for a "bonus" #legal

Katie Phang:

NEW: The Manhattan DA’s Office advises Judge Merchan that they expect to be done with their case-in-chief two weeks from tomorrow.
#TrumpTrial #legal #Trump

It’s Trump’s Party Now
Following the installation of Trump’s daughter-in-law, the #RNC has hired a 28-yr-old fmr bikini model as its new spox. Elizabeth Pipko, who has posed for SportsIllustrated, Maxim, & Esquire, a longtime admirer of #Trump, previously worked on his 2016 campaign. “The things he’s been through have been unreal. A lot of people look at what he’s up against every day & see his real character”
[I can hear her eyelashes batting in that quote]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rnc-hires-ex-bikini-model-as-its-new-spokesperson-report

As I was unable to do a #TrumpTrial 🧵 today, here’s a #GiftArticle on the day’s proceedings:

“After 2 wks of enthralling jurors w/stories of sex & scandal, prosecutors delved into the documents at the heart of Trump’s #criminal trial on Mon, a pivotal turn in the case that came on the same day the judge held #Trump in #contempt & threatened to #jail him.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/nyregion/trump-trial-gag-order-hush-money.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE0.n_ZD.uV0sWrjJseUt&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Emptywheel:

Tommy Tuberville says he went to Gotham to help an accused felon threaten a judge's family.

Via David Lurie:

Tuberville is a bad co-conspirator.

Aaron Rupar:

Tommy Tuberville admits on Newsmax that "one of the reasons he went" to NYC yesterday was to "overcome this gag order" #Trump #GagOrder

NEW #TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

1/… First, via Lawrence O'Donnell:

J.D. Vance was on the phone the entire time. He wasn’t taking in a word of testimony. Tuberville, to his credit, looking straight ahead, taking it all in as best he can, whatever sense he can make of it

Mary Trump: 'Republican Geoff Duncan, the former Lt. Governor of Georgia, endorsed President Biden in a scathing op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“Unlike Trump,” he writes, “I’ve belonged to the GOP my entire life. This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass.”

https://marytrump.substack.com/p/endorsement-of-biden-burns-donald?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 #Trump #GeoffDuncan

Pres. #Biden tweet:

Donald #Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate.

Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again.

Well, make my day, pal.

Roger Parloff did a 🧵on #Trump #documents trial. Sigh.

As Trump’s classified docs prosecution goes forward, now w no pretense of trial before the election, Judge #Cannon appears poised to permit him to use pub hearings in the case to sound his campaign themes. 1/… #legal