Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell”

and said he has “a Nazi streak.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“Journalism is not a crime ... it’s the only profession that’s explicitly mentioned in the Bill of Rights,” an attorney told the City Council Wednesday. The city will pay $938K to journalists and legal observers targeted and attacked by police while covering the 2020 racial justice protests.

Divided Ninth Circuit panel stays injunction against President Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops in Portland:

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Judge Graber, who is no firebrand, wrote quite a dissent—encouraging en banc review and some patience on the part of the public:

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell”

and said he has “a Nazi streak.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Workers demolish portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom (📷: Washington Post)

"There are 2 things that are happening: Trump is doing incredible harm to the country and breaking things that are going to be difficult, if not impossible, to repair ... But the second ... and that’s equally important, is that he’s in physical, cognitive, and political decline." trib.al/q2i4yM6

Trump said the ballroom wouldn’t interfere with the existing structure.

If a Democrat did this MAGA would be furious.

WASHINGTON POST: White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

Ernst: "I think it is extremely important that we look at who is funding these protests. We have to get to the bottom of this. It could be the usual suspect -- George Soros."