And Now the News — 10/19

Rubio promised to betray MS-13 informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

Supreme Court readies end to race-based electoral districts under the Voting Rights Act

This Supreme Court decision has been so plainly telegraphed, Republican states have already spent the past few months doing their race-based gerrymandering.

Trump orders another half dozen foreigners killed

A quarter of the Centers for Disease Control is gone

Welcome to the Dark Enlightenment. Basically, there’s enough science to keep Peter Thiel and Donald Trump alive, and the rest of us don’t matter, so it’s full speed ahead unplugging public health and safety.

Me, looking grumpy, reading the news

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Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

Texas Governor orders National Guard deployed for No Kings protest

“Antifa” protesters charged with terrorism for constitutionally-protected activity

House Speaker says No Kings is “Hate America Rally,” will be attended by “Antifa, Marxists, Anarchists, Pro-Hamas”

The highest-ranking leaders of the Republican Party are openly stating that any opposition is illegitimate and akin to terrorism. This is wildly dangerous and irresponsible, and furthers thee Republicans’ goal of violence.

Unfettered and unaccountable: Trump is building a violent, shadowy federal police force

Whatever’s the worst you can imagine — martial law, concentration camps, mass graves for dissidents — it’s being planned in high levels of the Trump regime.

California to close parts of I-5 today after military confirms it it will fire live artillery over freeway

Robby Roadsteamer detained by the regime’s paramilitary in Portland [VIDEO]

Trump’s secret police shot a citizen, and lied about it

Feds drag man away from Portland ICE facility, apparently for stepping over a blue line that must not be crossed

Massachusetts 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility

Masked goons chase people in Chicago Walgreens

Propublica found that more than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents. They’ve been kicked, dragged and detained for days.

At least 15 detained for leaving “protest zone” outside Chicago ICE center

A night of terror: Civil disobedience met with extreme force at Portland ICE facility

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow National Guard invasion of Chicago

ICE detains citizen after saying she doesn’t “look like” her last name

ICE goons are violently targeting brown people in Chicago

ICE goons vs East Side Chicago

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: ICE tactics are growing more violent

ICE threatened to shoot ambulance driver picking up injured Portland protester, medics say

As tensions rise in Chicago, volunteers patrol neighborhoods to oppose ICE and help migrants escape

Feds in Portland shove a protester to the ground, then fire pepper balls at another who tries to help

Clarinetist playing ‘Ghostbusters’ arrested at ICE facility

Goons jump and tackle Captain America in Portland

Second man dies in ICE custody at a Missouri detention center

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him.

Very soon, ICE will know exactly where you are all the time

Helicopters hover over occupied Chicago

White House is full of shit, of course, on “more than 1,000%” rise in assaults on ICE agents

Body cam footage shows ICE officer pulled over for drunk driving promptly pivots to racism against arresting officer

Microsoft ‘illegally’ tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

Epstein had dinners, went skiing with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show

Prosecutor who rejected Trump’s pressure to charge James is fired

Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Trump administration illegally rerouted $625 million originally intended for carbon capture programs and rural energy projects to finance its coal agenda

Trump administration illegally freezes $11-billion for infrastructure in Democratic states

Trump team preparing to install ‘allies’ at the IRS to target ‘major Democratic donors’ including George Soros: report

He tweeted Charlie Kirk “won’t be remembered as a hero,” so the State Dept revoked his visa

White House blasts Nobel Committee for not awarding Peace Prize to Trump

RFK Jr imagines second cause of autism: foreskin deficiency

One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery firms halts US exports over ‘hidden’ tariffs

Trump pulls cybersecurity experts off critical infrastructure defense to process deportation paperwork

Greta Thunberg describes beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages by Israelis

US military carries out strike on Scuffy the Tugboat

US tells airlines to disregard ‘X’ sex markers on passports and input ‘M’ or ‘F’

‘Fluoride disconnects one from God’: Inside the weekly call with RFK Jr.’s MAHA Hype Squad

How Bill Pulte learned the art of the attack, from his own family to Letitia James

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages reveal Young Republicans very similar to old Republicans

American swastika flag prominently displayed in Republican Congressman’s office

Trump commutes sentence of convicted Republican Congressman because he had the “Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN!”

Hackers dox hundreds of Trump’s masked ICE Agents

AMERICAN POLICE ARE OUT OF CONTROL

ANYTHING GOES

DEAD PEOPLE

EYE ON AI

THE LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS

MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN

That’s the way it is,
and nothing will
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives

10/19/2025

Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Bleepity-Bleep, Lorem Ipsum Dolor, Mitchipedia, Sloth Unleashed, Toad’s Lily Pad, Voenix Rising, We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.

Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.

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