Legal. Undocumented. Refugee. Asylum Seeker. The distinctions don't matter to President Trump. If you're an immigrant, he believes you have no place in this country—even though, for 243 years, immigrants have made America the greatest nation the world has ever known.

This hateful, bigoted rule is a direct assault on our nation’s proud heritage as a beacon of hope and opportunity for all and a clear attempt to demonize and terrorize the newcomers who make America more American. It will be swiftly challenged and defeated in the courts.

Find you a man that creates a language and writes an entire Legendarium to profess his love for you 💋❤️ RIP JRR TOLKIEN who sailed West this day in 1973 to join his Edith

And there you have it. The president fired the ambassador to Ukraine because Rudy told him she was getting in the way Operation Get Biden. wsj.com/articles/trump…

Turkey’s conflict in Syria took a major turn today. First alleged atrocities by Turkish-backed Arab militias, executing Kurds. US military officials tell me it's true, and they are DEEPLY concerned it opens the door to BOTH ethnic cleansing of Kurds and return of ISIS/Al-Qaeda

Breaking: Bolton instructed aide to report Giuliani pressure campaign to White House lawyer. “I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton said, according to testimony to House investigators. Nicholas Fandos nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/…

Nicholas Fandos On another occasion, he said, "Giuliani’s a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up,” according to testimony by Fiona Hill.

Gen. McRaven: “one retired four-star general, grabbed my arm, shook me & shouted, “I don’t like the Democrats, but Trump is destroying the Republic!” “Easy to destroy an organization if you have no appreciation for what makes that organization great.” nytimes.com/2019/10/17/opi…

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Today, @DavidJollyFL stopped me in my tracks - listen:

Such a night.

For your enjoyment 😆

John Bolton The role of teasing ingenu does not suit you and it is not what your country requires of you. In announcing your Super Pac you say, “Let’s get back to discussing critical national security issues confronting America. The threats are grave and growing.” Indeed.

I was asked at a town hall “if there was ever a time in your life where somebody you really looked up to maybe didn’t accept you as much?” Here’s my answer:

In this age of corruption, weakness and fecklessness it borders on the shocking to see a genuine leader assert themselves. She is already a historic figure. I suspect she will be remembered one day as an essential one.

"What we have had is unfathomable amounts of war and bloodshed and... trillions of dollars spent, and the same conversation over and over and over again, about which new military action is going to put us in a better direction." - @ChrislHayes on.msnbc.com/36pajov

the world’s an awful place but also have you seen this video of a tiny deer meeting a tiny human

Conservative lawyer George Conway says the impeachment trial is “a very specific day of reckoning” for Republicans. “Are they going to stand for lies instead of truth? Are they going to stand for gaslighting instead of reality?” cnn.it/2NRqjbk

This Barr interview is DeNiro in Goodfellas yelling at Johnny Roastbeef for buying his wife a Cadillac after the Lufthansa heist.