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Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.

Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
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Starting now: Press conference announcing a motion for a temporary restraining order challenging USDA's unlawful attempt to withhold SNAP benefits, featuring Attorneys General of CA, NY, MN, NJ and leaders from City Harvest, Food Action Research Center and No Kid Hungry.

BREAKING:

A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc

How news coverage eases us into tyranny When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us

That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
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John Niven über Trump und die BBC: Keine Angst, die Wahrheit zu sagen Der amerikanische Präsident hat den Rücktritt des Chefs der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalt eines anderen Landes gefordert – und durchgesetzt. Wie bitte?

I've been obsessed with Trump for a long time and followed the whole thing live and in real time back then. And you know what? It's true that Trump encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol, and then he was very pleased with what they did there—i🧵

BREAKING: #SCOTUS will decide an issue near and dear to President Trump: whether federal law allows states to tally ballots in federal elections after Election Day. 5th Circuit ruled it does.

YouTube video by Izaak Atlas Schwartz 🌟 Joe Newberry!🎩#clawhammer #appalachianmusic #banjo

I had a great time doing a session at Ashokan Banjo Weekend on Hobart Smith's tune "Wabash Blues." Izaak Atlas Schwartz, along with the rest of this class, was a joy to teach. youtube.com/shorts/Z4IWF...

Johnson’s a thousand times worse than McCarthy, which is why MAGA wanted him.

Mike Johnson (among others) practices violent innocence. Which is a conscious method people use to defend their self image against the reality of the damage and pain they are causing. Claiming ignorance is very popular for him

Asked point-blank if he’ll bring ACA extensions to the floor, Speaker Johnson bolted. We know the answer already. He won’t.

Further proof that Republicans don’t care about bringing your health care costs down.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

A Dutch province has asked the US ambassador in the Netherlands to return two panels about African American soldiers to the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery, located in Margraten (Limburg). The two panels were recently removed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).

Freedom is Action -- Finishing the Job Help save the lives of the courageous

When Ukrainian soldiers are wounded in action, Russian drones target both them and the people who come to rescue them.
Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
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BURRY won’t let up — now arguing that Oracle and Meta are overstating earnings by understating depreciation:

“.. By 2028, $ORCL will overstate earnings 26.9%, $META by 20.8%, etc.”

I’ll believe it when it happens. This corrupt choir boy would lie to Jesus’s mom.

Felon Freed by Trump Is Set to Be Sentenced Again in Brooklyn

We need a Trump Pardon Recidivism Tracker.

Hang this shit around his and his supine Congress' neck.

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Well, my federal employee family members and their consortia clamoring at their reps to do something, anything, tells me that this demographic was speaking. The congresspersons on the record for having had their travel impeded are all Republicans, who could have done something had they wanted to.

Rep. Adrian Smith R-NE ignores Democrats on the floor and adjourns the House until Wednesday. Adelita Grijalva was elected on Sept. 23 and still has not been sworn into office. It may finally happen later this week.

We’re in Brazil — one of the world’s great democracies, one of our biggest trading partners — and not a single person from the Trump Administration showed up.

That’s shameful.

GOP operatives (including two Trump pollsters) have long called for reinstituting the ACA credits, warning that the GOP is on track to pay a “political penalty” for its actions.
As Jeffries points out, the largest percentage of voters who make use of the enhanced ACA tax credits are Republicans.

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

Minds over AI: To tackle disinformation, look to education Nov 10, 2025 // As AI makes misinformation and disinformation faster, cheaper, and more convincing, we need the tools to tell veracity from virality. The foundational pillar of those tools must be edu...

Minds over AI: To tackle disinformation, look to education www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/minds-...

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Felony Murder: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Ooh, @lastweektonight.com did a whole thing on Felony Murder last night.

Didn't mention my book chapter on the matter. :( But still, I happy to remind you that these laws are shitty and need to be repealed.

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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

An order from Justice Jackson ordering briefs on the latest developments in the SNAP case.

An early Monday morning order from Justice Jackson in the SNAP case—ordering DOJ to file any further briefs responding to last night's First Circuit ruling by 4:00 this afternoon, and allowing the plaintiffs to respond by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow.

For how we got here: www.stevevladeck.com/p/191-taking...

I don’t honestly believe the 8 Dem senators were worried about their Thanksgiving flights. That’s a bit disingenuous. I think they should have held out, but agree intense pressure from federal employee constituents is also hard to ignore. This bill is not the same that they’ve voted down before.

“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.”

@bloomberg.com $HD
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The Week Ahead November 9, 2025

Sunday overnight is the new top of the news-cycle, with the 1st circuit refusing Trump the stay he thought from having to make SNAP payments & now, Justice Jackson ordering briefs in SCOTUS. Get up to speed on what it all means here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

President Trump is pursuing a policy of climate-change acceleration. His actions are fueling global warming—and may leave places in the United States uninhabitable by mid-century, Vann R. Newkirk II writes.