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
• Trump’s strikes in the Caribbean are a dangerous, illegal abuse of wartime power—it won’t stop there
• Family of Trinidadian man believed killed in US strike demands proof of drug trafficking
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.

AND NOW THE NEWS
#553
OCTOBER 19, 2025
the news you need,
plus memes
& my brilliant opinions
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
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.
Robby Roadsteamer detained by the regime’s paramilitary in Portland [VIDEO]
Trump’s secret police shot a citizen, and lied about it

Massachusetts 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
Masked goons chase people in Chicago Walgreens
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
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

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 freezes $11-billion for infrastructure in Democratic states

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

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
Hackers dox hundreds of Trump’s masked ICE Agents

AMERICAN POLICE ARE OUT OF CONTROL
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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