Part of the large turnout for the No Kings protest in Patterson Park in SE Baltimore

Saw this at the “No Kings” protest in Baltimore

I know everyone is focused on the Israel-Iran war, but please don’t forget that Russia is still terrorizing Ukrainian civilians on an almost-daily basis

🤬 The moment cluster munitions hit Kyiv.

Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

Mike Johnson is delaying Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in because she’d be the 218th vote to unseal the Epstein files. The House Republicans is leaving Southern Arizonans without representation to protect pedophiles.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

WaPo flash poll of 1,010 people: 47% blame Trump and Republicans in Congress for the government shutdown, 30% say Democrats in Congress. Gift link wapo.st/4gNK7Zo

Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved. Trump today:

"The Refs are just following orders..." #WNBA #referees theguardian.com/sport/2025/oct…

"Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken money directly from Chinese investors, according to previously sealed testimony, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors." That’s not good.

In Warsaw, Poland🇵🇱, there is a statue to Pres. Reagan🇺🇸. 📌 Reagan, a Republican, understood the USSR was not an ally 📌 He knew it was an enemy to be stopped, not coddled 📌 He would be aghast by how many folks today forget this truth 👉 Putin won’t stop until he’s stopped.

Why are they throwing out tens of thousands of books and documents at NASA's biggest library

The boy killed in a russian missile strike on Kharkiv was only three years old. His name was Maksym. His mother is still considered missing. The photo shows all that remains of their home.

Phang: If Republican senators and congressmen have an issue with their cell records being obtained by Jack Smith, they should take it up with Trump. Because Trump himself ordered his co-conspirators, and Donald Trump himself made phone calls to delay and to make sure that those

Think about how insane it is that 1) the president of the United States is posting obsessively on this issue, 2) he can’t even post accurate or factchecks images, or doesn’t even care to 3) we had endless news cycles about the mental health and competence of his predecessor.

Iranian regime forces are dragging women off the streets for protesting equal rights all over the country. Where are the left wing protestors now?

Like Venezuelan ships, perhaps the mullahs should start flying the Russian flag to gain immunity from any Trump strikes.

Right now as you’re reading this, thousands of Iranians are undergoing intense interrogation, torture and possibly extrajudicial killings in prisons and unofficial detention centers across Iran. Thousands have already been killed in the streets . The free world must act urgently

Trump sends a deranged letter threatening to annex Greenland, rattling NATO as Europe pushes back. Putin invited to Trump’s “Board of Peace.” DOJ eyes charges over a church protest as free press comes under fire. Read it all and more in today's bulletin. meidasplus.com/p/today-in-pol…