Bolton's lawyer Abbe Lowell did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Lowell has previously denied that #JohnBolton engaged in wrongdoing & said that the records the #FBI seized were ordinary documents for a fmr govt official to possess.

#Trump, who campaigned for the presidency on a vow of #retribution after facing a slew of legal woes…[for crimes we all witnessed], has dispensed with the norms designed to insulate federal law enforcement from political pressure.

#law #LegalEthics

The possible #indictment comes 2 months after #FBI agents found documents labeled “confidential”in Bolton's Washington, DC office that referenced WMDs, unsealed court records show. It was not immediately clear whether the charges prosecutors would seek were related to those documents.

If the #GrandJury decides to indict #JohnBolton [it will, ham sandwich & all], it would mark the 3rd time in recent weeks that the #DOJ has secured #criminal charges against one of #Trump's critics.

#law

More #retribution

The #DOJ is expected to ask a grand jury on Thursday to indict #Trump's former #US national security adviser #JohnBolton, a person familiar with the matter said.

#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #fascism #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/justice-department-seek-indictment-ex-national-security-adviser-bolton-bloomberg-2025-10-16/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

#Trump killed funding for #PBS in July

With funding shortfalls, who will step up?

#BobRoss

30 of his #paintings will be auctioned by American Public #Television, 100% of proceeds benefiting APT and PBS

The first 3 paintings will be auctioned on November 11

Bob's paintings rarely hit the market

In fact, all 30 of the paintings up for auction haven't been seen since they were created on live #TV, they simply went into storage

🌲 Happy Little Trees 🌲

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/08/nx-s1-5566744/bob-ross-paintings-auction-public-media

#Art #Painting

Alt...

Bob Ross, ready to paint

#Trump #MAGA #NoKings #LetsGoTACO #MarcoRubio #protest #resist #solidarity

Alt...

Minterbruce The photographer deserves a medal [Image of Marco Rubio seeming to kiss Trump's hand but with the podium in the way, it looks like Marco Rubio is performing fellatio on Trump]

#Trump Admin Authorizes Covert #CIA Action in #Venezuela

The development comes as the #US #military is drawing up options for Trump to consider, including possible strikes inside the country.

#law #Congress #war #WarPowers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-covert-cia-action-venezuela.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"Someone needs to do a roundup article on 'Charlie Kirk censorship' because there's so much repression of free speech for anyone who had anything irreverent to say about him. From Jimmy Kimmel to these immigrants."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech
/2

https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.solnit/posts/pfbid02spFC2kvSPPciQxxmarveRsP8WprwwcLK8sFNj4BFV2fg5RLEehRKW65bKo3kGZDBl

"Essentially the administration is establishing a theocracy in which it's blasphemy to speak snark about Kirk (and the double standard, as cascades of hate speech from Young Republicans spill out in that Politico article, is the point…."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech
/3

Ben Meiselas discusses a secret directive of the Trump administration targeting Americans whose political or religious beliefs the administration wants to squelch. The document is called National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, or NSPM-7.

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech
/4

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/inside-trumps-nspm-7-the-secret-directive

"Unlike executive orders, which are public and typically govern daily administrative actions, a National Security Presidential Memorandum is a top-level directive used to coordinate military, intelligence, and law enforcement strategy. NSPM-7, signed quietly in the Oval Office, effectively redefines dissent as domestic terrorism."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech
/5

Meiselas notes that that Ken Klippenstein reports that "a 'Threat Screening Center' has been established in a secretive Northern Virginia office complex, just seven miles from CIA headquarters, to compile watchlists of Americans who meet these new 'terrorism indicators.' According to his reporting, staff there are analyzing social media posts, podcasts, and even public speeches to identify individuals considered 'anti-Christian' or 'anti-capitalist.'”

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech
/6

"President Trump’s son Eric has provoked confusion and anger online from critics with comments on Tuesday painting his father’s movement as responsible for saving Christianity and religion in general, while claiming a divine hand led his father back to the White House."

~ Josh Marcus

#Trump #EricTrump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech
/7

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/eric-trump-under-siege-president-god-b2845547.html

"'We're saving Christianity. We've saving God,' Eric Trump said Tuesday on the Benny Show podcast. 'We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation.'"

This is not unrelated, of course, to the stepped-up attack on anyone remembering Charlie Kirk as he was and remembering exactly what he said and did. The idea that the Trumps are "saving God" is rich and ludicrous, given who they are. But a certain kind of religion has utilitarian value for fascists….

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech
/8

“Around 14 percent of the US population, nearly 50 million people, identify themselves as white evangelical Protestants. ‘Though [white evangelicals] make up just 14% of Americans overall, they remain the largest single religious group among Republican voters with the power to sway party priorities,’ noted reporter Becky Sullivan on NPR's Morning Edition."

~ Talia Lavin, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America (NY: Legacy, 2024), p. 15

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech
/9

"The politics of evangelicals are overwhelmingly conservative. Though a minority, they punch far above their weight politically, with reliable votes, full coffers, and lockstep political ideology, pulling the nation ever further toward a straight, white theocracy.”

~ Ibid.

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
/10

“Beyond our zealous faith, the other Great American preoccupation—the one we're most famous for, the one that makes our streets proverbially paved with gold unless proverbially paved with strip malls—is money.

It would be a great mistake to think that money and faith live in separate realms. Faith can be the biggest cash cow of them all.”

~ Ibid., p. 33

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #capitalism #money #God
/11

Marcy Wheeler comments on the Trump administration revoking visas for six people with claims that these people criticized Charlie Kirk after his death:

"It’s one thing to find Palestinian supporters targeted by a hate group. It’s another thing to find people with an opinion about Charlie Kirk, because one’s opinion about Charlie Kirk has no conceivable tie to national security or even foreign policy."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech
/1

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/15/the-fascist-dragnet-to-avenge-charlie-kirks-honor/

#SCOTUS is hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the #VotingRightsAct that is designed to protect racial minorities.

Lawyers for #Louisiana & the #Trump admin [the first admin ever to challenge the law] will try to persuade the justices to wipe away the state’s 2nd majority Black congressional district & make it much harder, if not impossible, to take account of #race in #redistricting.

#law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-voting-rights-arguments-updates?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-15-Live+updates

The other lawyers are the #Trump administration’s deputy solicitor general, Hashim Mooppan, #Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga & Edward Greim, the lawyer for the #white voters who sued over the map with 2 majority #Black districts.

Louisiana switched sides after the court ordered new arguments.

#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy

Nancy Youssef: "Starting Wednesday, for the first time since the Pentagon opened in 1943, there will be likely no major news outlets accredited to cover the department, the one spending nearly $1 trillion of taxpayer money."
#Trump #paranoia #UnnecessarySecrecy #politics

@kbsez Anyone who believes there isn't a #GunRegistry in the #USA has never filed a #Form4473!

• It's not the #SRA but still...

source via @ChuckMcManis

#SocialistRA #2A #Trump #USpol #fascism #Bondi #PamBondi

One of the best articles I have read from Paul #Krugman

It explains how #Trump not only has betrayed the world's trust, but also dismantled US #science. Other countries take over while he also threw America’s system of #alliances in tatters. The USA lost the power they had via strategic partnerships.

This week Trump starts his next fight with China, while within a year, America has become more vulnerable to a rupture than #China.
(PS: just ask US #farmers)

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-making-china-great

#randomthoughts...

I am presuming that under the protection of:-

#tRump...
#sir starmer...
#Macron... and the leaders of many other countries,

that Benjamin Netanyahu, his government cabal and many of his IDF troops will not be going on trial at the Hague...

If not, there is #NoJustice...

Interesting

#Trump says his administration 'identified funds' to pay #troops during #shutdown

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-his-administration-identified-funds-pay-troops-during-shutdown-2025-10-11/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Editorial: "Trump Disgraces American Justice":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/opinion/letitia-james-indictment-trump.html
"The damage is not just to Mr. Comey, Ms. James, and anyone else who is prosecuted. It is also to the foundations of American democracy and law."
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #politics copy: @renewedresistance

@TomSullivan I thought this was the red line for many to go #2A but alas #Amerikkka is content with #AmericanGestapo terrorizing entire 'hoods...

#Trump #USpol #fascism #racism #FuckICE #ICE

"Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin on Friday praised U.S. Pres. Donald Trump’s peace efforts, despite not winning a Nobel":
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/world/article_7bae801c-ec6a-5511-871f-0ae017827292.html
Putin praised #PutinsPuppet, but if Putin wanted Trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Putin would have helped Trump bring an end to Putin's war in Ukraine.
#Trump #undeserving. #Putin #WarCriminal. #politics

"#Pressefreiheit" in Finnland à la #Trump:

vom #ClashReport:

Der finnische Journalist wurde verhaftet, nachdem er dem finnischen Präsidenten #AlexanderStubb eine Frage zu den #Waffenverkäufen seines Landes an #Israel gestellt hatte.

Quelle: https://www.trtworld.com/article/c3534215346e

#Finnland #EU #Europa #Freiheit #Demokratie #Völkermord #Palästina #Israel #Nachrichten

cc
@ml

"Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue."

~ Joshua McElwee

#PopeLeo #Trump #migrants #immigrants #EconomicDisparity #poverty #EconomicElites
/1

https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-leo-tells-us-bishops-address-trumps-immigration-crackdown-2025-10-08/

A win in Illinois, at least for now. Let's hope judicial pushback on Trump's plans continues...

' A judge in Chicago on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois, finding that the Trump administration’s directive violates the Constitution and would “only add fuel to the fire that the defendants themselves have started.” '

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/chicago-portland-trump-national-guard-deployments-court-hearings-rcna236201

#ICE #Trump #NationalGuard #Chicago

Remember how batshit crazy the #FarRight got when they thought #Biden standing with #Ukraine meant boots on the ground, even though it didn’t?

The #US is sending ~200 troops to #Israel to help *support* & *monitor* #ceasefire deal in #Gaza

#Trump is sending ~200 troops to Israel to help support & monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations & “private sector players” [ummm…?].

https://apnews.com/article/mideast-gaza-israel-hamas-us-military-c19caf7b193dbb3bfaf056366f9e2369?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-09-Breaking+News

"As Trump grows increasingly incoherent and emotionally labile, Miller grows more and more influential. He is the president’s brain, his discipline. Where Trump has no guiding principles, Miller is a resolute ideologue of white, western supremacy and a tactician of final solutions. Trump is easily lampooned, but Miller is the grimmest of reapers."

~ Judith Levine

#StephenMiller #Trump #fascism #cruelty #military #PlenaryPower #InsurrectionAct
/1

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/10/stephen-miller-trump-administration

Federal workers: If you were impacted by the Trump administration's just-announced mass layoffs, our reporters are here to listen.

We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously.

Here's how to get in touch securely 👇
https://www.propublica.org/tips/

#Government #Vought #Trump #Layoffs #WhiteHouse

Gosh! Maybe if he ends the Russian war on Ukraine? Pathetic.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-misses-out-on-nobel-peace-prize-729973788d8953da9af1cbc136232e96
#Trump #NobelPrize #Trump&Epstein #Epstein&Trump #Peace #WarInLosAngeles #WarInChicago #WarInPortland

Ron Filipkowski captures some of the toxic nonsense with which Trump and RFKJr are now trying to flood the zone, re: matters of science and health:

“There are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol.”

#RFKJr #Trump #Tylenol #circumcision #autism #science #medicine #FloodingtheZone
/1

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-225-10925

Robert Reich in this article:

“Trump and his enablers want violent confrontations in order to justify their moves. So, please, remain peaceful if you protest, or if you encounter ICE agents, or National Guard troops where you live. Do not give Trump what he wants.”

---

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

And then to never release power.

@keesdejong
#Reich #Trump #Resist #Peaceful

Mike Johnson is refusing to reconvene the House of Representatives to protect a rapist.
#Trump&Epstein #Epstein&Trump

Robert Reich says that "Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to punish anyone who opposes him." And to do this, he is following a four-step plan:

1. Step one: "Deploy ICE into so-called blue cities."

2. Step two: "Exaggerate the scale and severity of the protests."

3. Step three: "Deploy National Guard troops."

4. Step four: "Invoke the Insurrection Act."

#Trump #StephenMiller #InsurrectionAct #PlenaryPower #military #Chicago #Portland
/1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31X8vrfgHqs

"The statement [of the Defense Department announcing deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago] said the National Guard soldiers 'are under federal command and control in a Title 10 status.'”

#Trump #StephenMiller #InsurrectionAct #PlenaryPower #Title10 #military #Chicago #Portland
/2

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-8-2025

"The section of the legal code to which the announcement pointed was the one permitting the president to call into federal service members of the National Guard whenever the U.S. is invaded or in danger of invasion by a foreign nation, there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the U.S. government, or the president cannot execute the laws of the United States with the power of regular law enforcement."

#Trump #StephenMiller #InsurrectionAct #PlenaryPower #Title10
/3

"It is this power under Title 10 that White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller yesterday claimed was 'plenary,' or absolute. The idea that exceptions to the rule of law reveal who is really in charge of the government was central to the political philosophy of German political theorist Carl Schmitt, who joined the Nazis and whose work is increasingly popular among the radical right in the U.S. these days."

#Trump #StephenMiller #InsurrectionAct #PlenaryPower #Title10
/4

"Since taking office in January, Trump has declared at least eight national emergencies that the administration has used to justify the use of emergency powers."

#Trump #StephenMiller #InsurrectionAct #PlenaryPower #Title10 #military #Chicago #Portland
/5

"Trump himself gave up the game [in the ludicrous Antifa video yesterday]. Anyone involved with Antifa — which does not exist — would 'probably' be committing treason.

This event might have resembled a clown car but it is anything but. In fact, the noose is getting tighter and tighter for us all — precisely because Antifa does not exist."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #StephenMiller #InsurrectionAct #PlenaryPower #Title10 #military #Chicago #Portland #Antifa
/6

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/trumps-plan-for-us

"Trump claims the unreviewable authority to substitute his 'alternate facts' emergency for reality and flood Democratic strongholds with troops from other states. And if courts block him, he threatens to declare an even more fantastical emergency to allow soldiers to occupy blue states as 'police' men."

~ Liz Dye

#Trump #StephenMiller #InsurrectionAct #PlenaryPower #Title10 #military #Chicago #Portland #SupremeCourt
/7

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-insurrection-act

"It’s a wild assault on state sovereignty, bringing us ever closer to the brink of civil war.

This is despotism, and whatever chaos and violence is about to be unleashed lies squarely on the robed shoulders of Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett."

#Trump #StephenMiller #InsurrectionAct #PlenaryPower #Title10 #military #Chicago #Portland #SupremeCourt
/8

"The words 'plenary authority' are found nowhere in 10 U.S. Code. Miller’s assertion of those kinds of powers is shocking, but unsurprising. That is exactly what Trump is doing by sending National Guard troops from one state to another state, the governor of which has not activated his own national guard or authorized out-of-state National Guard soldiers to be deployed on the soil of his state."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #StephenMiller #PlenaryPower #Title10
/9

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-end-of-politics