Thanks so much for joining me today. The other night, Trump stood in front of a rally in Nebraska and said, “Let them take out Los Angeles.” His crowd cheered. I didn’t. Today I share my thoughts on that, plus three stories about people who wouldn’t back down.
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California Is Not Trump’s Small Price To Pay
On Monday night in Nebraska, Trump told a rally that high prices from his war with Iran are “a small price to pay.” Then he said: “They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.”
Two American cities, by name, in the middle of an unhinged rant about what things cost. And his crowd clapped. Sit with that. The man who’s supposed to protect this country waved off two of its cities for a cheer. He’s a coward with a microphone.
I was a deputy director on Barack Obama’s first inaugural committee. I helped run his train ride from Philadelphia to DC. And I stood next to him on stage on inauguration night. If Obama had said anything like this, they’d have impeached him by breakfast. Trump says this and gets applause from his cult.
His communications director claims that Trump meant a nuclear-armed Iran would’ve threatened American cities, even though his own Defense Intelligence Agency reported last year that Iran had no missile able to reach America. That’s the job working for the regime these days: follow Trump around with a mop. He’s the least serious man ever to hold the office, holding it in the middle of a war he started.
Gov. Gavin Newsom called him “deranged and dangerous,” then went further: “TIME FOR THE 25TH!” San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria fired back: “We are not expendable. And we are never a ‘small price to pay.’”
Notice which places came to mind for Trump. Not Mississippi or Alabama—but California, where he already sent in the Marines. Nearly 13 million people live in and around the two cities he mentioned. Not one of them is a price for Trump to set. He has spent his whole life sending the bill to someone else, and now he’s pricing cities like they’re one more thing somebody else will cover.
I ran the first campaign for Trump’s impeachment, so people ask me all the time if he’ll get impeached again. Here it is straight: You’re damn right he will, as long as everyone who can vote does. In 26 days voters can take this rubber stamp Congress away from him, and the people who’ve been clapping for him for a decade will start pretending they never did.
I’ve watched Trump since he first came down that tacky gold escalator. He’s not strong. He never has been. He’s a loud manbaby surrounded by greedy monsters in Congress who are terrified of him. In 26 days, we can throw these cowards out of power. Let’s go get it done.
The FBI Analyst Who Wouldn’t Investigate Protesters
In February 2025, a TikTok video showed people in Alhambra, California, using megaphones to warn neighbors that immigration officers were nearby and not to open the door without a warrant signed by a judge.
A whistleblower complaint sent to senators Monday says FBI bosses were told that Trump saw it, got angry, and wanted the people with megaphones investigated and arrested.
The FBI squad that chases bank robbers was told to look into them. Two days later Jill Fields, a supervisory intelligence analyst in the Los Angeles office, read what the squad found: free speech, and nobody had blocked an arrest. That same morning, she says, word came that a case would be opened anyway, because “the President wants this investigation.”
Fields wouldn’t take part. Her boss agreed it was unconstitutional, the complaint says, but warned her she could be fired over it anyway.
A little over a month later, the FBI began taking away the programs she ran. She resigned, never learning whether a formal case was opened. The DOJ calls her complaint politically motivated. It would know a thing or two about that. But Fields kept handwritten notes. Sen. Alex Padilla, who says the complaint shows these investigations pulled FBI employees off drug trafficking, violent crime, and organized crime cases, has told the attorney general and the FBI director to answer his questions by October 12.
One supervisor said no, and now it’s Trump’s FBI getting the questions.
A Judge Just Froze Trump’s Million-Dollar Fines
An Army soldier on active duty, his spouse, and their four American children depend on his paycheck. Trump’s regime sent that family a bill for more than a million dollars. Some thanks for a soldier.
The spouse is A.T. in court papers. An immigration judge had ordered A.T. deported, and the fine is for staying. But the government had also approved the soldier’s petition to sponsor his spouse. After the bill came, the Treasury moved to take A.T.’s wages and seized the couple’s tax refund. Then the government sued to collect.
Last year, the regime rewrote the rule so the bill comes by regular mail with no warning first. A robbery victim got one for about $1.8 million and swore, “At first, I thought this was a scam.”
The regime says it will forgive the bill for anyone who leaves the country through its phone app. It’s a threat with a dollar sign on it. But in a ruling posted Monday, Judge George O’Toole froze last year’s rule and every fine issued under it while the case goes on.
These families were told to pay up or get out. They went to a federal court instead, and the regime is the one that got told no.
Pittsburgh’s Strikers Just Won At The Supreme Court
In July 2020, the Block family’s company, which published the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, declared contract talks with its journalists deadlocked and imposed its own terms. Its final offer had cut their health care. That fall, the paper endorsed Trump.
I pulled the donation records. Allan Block, then a co-owner, has given more than $22,000 to Trump’s campaigns and fundraising committees, including $5,600 that same year.
Union journalists walked out in October 2022 and stayed out three years. The federal labor board found the company had bargained in bad faith, and in November 2025 an appeals court agreed: union members “would have been afforded more rights working without a contract” than under the company’s proposals. The court enforced the board’s order to make employees whole for the pay and benefits they lost, with interest, and to cover the union’s bargaining costs.
In January the Supreme Court refused to put that ruling on hold. That same day the Blocks’ company said it would close the Post-Gazette, citing the rulings and years of losses. Told to follow the law, it reached for the off switch. The paper was sold instead. On Monday, the Court refused to hear the company’s appeal, and the ruling against it now stands for good.
Union officials expect staff to be owed several million dollars. Guild president Andrew Goldstein credits “the sheer willpower of a few dozen workers who decided to stand up and say enough was enough.”
Trump would love owners like the Blocks running every newsroom in the country. A few dozen journalists in Pittsburgh who went on strike outlasted them.
We have 26 days until the midterms, and the last month is when you run like you’re behind, no matter what the polls say.
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Scott
If Obama had said “let them take out Los Angeles,” what do you think the Republicans who are silent now would be saying?
What’s the bravest act of defiance you’ve seen against the regime this year?
Good morning, everyone. Four letters today, about a minute each:
Tell Congress to start drafting articles of impeachment against Trump.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-begin-drafting-articles-of-impeachment-against-trump/
Ban Flock's license plate cameras.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-ban-flock-mass-surveillance-cameras/
Demand every page of the Epstein files.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-demand-acting-ag-blanche-release-all-of-the-epstein-files-now/
Ban AI nobody can control.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-pass-the-ban-on-ai-we-cant-control/
Twenty-six days and I am done being polite about it. He priced two cities for a cheer. The answer is a vote so loud he cannot pretend he never said it. I am finishing this sprint and I'm grateful to have this Dworkin Report community on my side. Who is with me?