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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

So Well Done @schumer.senate.gov !

She was particularly combative and unhelpful. Not even a performative level of deference.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

They’re really excelling at selecting woefully underqualified individuals. The Justice Department has appointed retired Marine Corps Colonel Daren K. Margolin as the new head of its immigration court system.

From a rooftop!

Trump Is Destroying One of America’s Oldest Traditions America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.

Donald Trump’s deployments of the National Guard to American cities “are best understood as an effort to erode the nation’s sense that such use of the military is unacceptable,” Quinta Jurecic argues.

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

“In one case, a Florida state trooper tried to tase a US citizen in a vehicle stop as the citizen shouted, ‘I’m from here!’

'You’ve got no rights here. You’re illegal, brother,’ a trooper is heard saying on video, a phrase that is simultaneously factually incorrect and deeply chilling.”

yes. as is being honest about where the funding is coming from and adhering to legal budget processes.

Virginia is the last line of defense for reproductive rights in the South — and women in Virginia deserve to know that it will stay that way.

My position is clear: as Governor, I will always protect reproductive freedom in Virginia.

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Someone wrote somewhere that "AI was supposed to free me from work so I could spend more time on art, not free me from art so I could spend more time on work", and I feel like that fully encompasses how backwards the use of AI has been.

🧵🧵 Texas Republicans have been increasingly open and aggressive about Christianizing America via schools - to, in the words of the state education board chair, center classrooms around "GOD, GOP & USA."

That fight just escalated, and you should pay attention - because your state could be next.

The unprecedentedly illegal & unconstitutional crimes are also linked to the unprecedentedly wild corruption. Every day, things that make Nixon's presidency-ending crimes look like harmless middle school pranks. But we used to have a functioning legislative branch, so what can you do? 🤷‍♂️

Remember, a major component of the MAGA cult establishing an alternate reality—a term I use here literally rather than figuratively—is getting Trump supporters to *actually* (not merely rhetorically) believe that Joe Biden was president in 2020, when the pandemic started.

This cannot be overstated.

Tommy Tuberville on the 2020 census: "The Democrats were letting illegals come in for a different count. They obviously had a census going that was all rigged. The 2020 election basically was rigged."

(Believe it or not, Donald Trump was president in 2020.)

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world's shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

A huge clean energy milestone and a reminder of how far we’ve come ⚡

Every panel installed, every homeowner who went solar, and every conversation about energy independence adds up.

We’re proud to be part of this progress, helping more people take control of their power, one home at a time.

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Interesting: Just reviewed all the federal charges from Chicago in the last week.

Just a single one was at the ICE location at Broadview.

A bunch were charges by Kendzie.

They have not yet docketed the alleged Latin Kings charge pertaining to Greg Bovino.

I did not know this:

Why won’t MAGA Bondi answer about supposed photos in Epstein safe of Trump with half-naked young women?

(No wonder House has fled rather than face vote on Epstein files.)

She has a list of attacks to make instead of answering. It’s rehearsed and weird and she needs to be exiled to whatever island we can find that is disconnected from all media to send this administration to.

Latest Updates Nebraska: Republican Gov. Jim Pillen expresses openness to redraw, but GOP would face serious obstacles. (Oct. 7) Utah: Republicans pass new map, but it must win court approval first. (Oct. 7) Kansas: Republicans start circulating petition to convene a special session of the legislature. (Oct. 1)

We've had several updates this month—including a couple of new ones today—for our live redistricting tracker, which will keep you up to date on what's going on in *every* state.

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Supreme Court poised to rule that religious beliefs allow for child abuse over the states interest in preventing child abuse.

Fuck this.

This is nothing but red meat for Trump’s base. A federal law that *Trump* signed into law guarantees backpay to furloughed workers. There’s no disputing this.

Shaheen, a retiring Dem Rs are looking to flip on shutdown, says of OMB threats on back pay: “It would be a lot easier to resolve the situation if Russ Vought would stop talking.”

I'm on the record saying that Russ Vought will do things during the shutdown that will make his illegal rescissions visible in the way they otherwise weren't. And boy howdy, threatening to ignore the law on backpay is a great example. [corrected]

If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no.

Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.