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Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

Video from Trumpland!

If they shoot a praying white priest in broad daylight, knowing they are being filmed, do you really think YOU will be safe?

Today in Politics Chat, I talked about how power sloshes around when a president is checked out, and noted that right now unelected officials like Stephen Miller are trying to grab it. But instead, We the People can take it back and create a better nation.

Update from the war zone in Portland.

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Enforcing the law?
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I also doubt that Trump is reading ancient retracted papers in The Lancet.... Kennedy isn’t just reading the paper in question, he’s besties with the guy who wrote it, disgraced and disbarred physician Andrew Wakefield. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-monova...

But Thune is refusing to negotiate when the government is open too. So no negotiation - open or closed. Got it.

Why most polls overstate support for political violence Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

I pitched a version of this essay as an op-ed to several national news outlets last week, but they...passed. I’m sharing it... in the hopes I can persuade journalists and pundits to act more responsibly with public opinion surveys about political violence. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

It wasn’t a grant application. It was a loyalty test. /2

The Compact The ceiling fan ticked in uneven rhythm, a small mechanical reminder of how much still worked—even as everything else threatened to come apart.

The letter went to nine universities: MIT, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, Vanderbilt, Virginia, USC, Texas, and Arizona. Feedback was requested by October 20; the White House “aim[ed] to have a signed agreement by no later than November 21, 2025.”¹⁸ /1 substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Why Aren’t We Partying Like It’s 1999? Fear, not hope, permeates today’s technology hype

Speaking as a person whose conservative investments got even more conservative after the losses I suffered when the tech boom cratered, take heed. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...

New Article: "Retrieval from vacuolar and endosomal compartments underpinning the neofunctionalization of SNARE in plants" rdcu.be/eJOWx

Retrograde trafficking route from the plant vacuole; sorting nexins retrieve the plant-specific SNARE VAMP727.

Seventy-eight percent of Americans say they want Congress to extend the tax credits. That number includes 59% of Republicans and 57% of MAGA supporters.

This will not end until voters boot out MAGA lawmakers who refuse to rein in Trump. We will not be safe from a dictatorial presidency as long as the SCt refuses to check executive overreach. Meanwhile, all Americans must defend our neighbors, our deepest-held values, and what's left of our democracy

...private businesses can choose to display signage indicating that ICE cannot enter without a warrant—thereby designating “their property as part of a city-wide network of community spaces that stand together in affirming the safety, dignity, and belonging of all of our residents,” the mayor said.

The executive order establishes “ICE-free zones,” limiting ICE agents from using “city property and unwilling private businesses” as “staging grounds” for their raids, Johnson said at a press conference. /2

White House Flips Out After Chicago Mayor Announces “ICE-Free Zones” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has announced a new initiative to fight back against the Trump administration’s attacks on his city.

After a spate of appalling federal immigration operations in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday signed an executive order to curb abuses by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the city—which has already incensed the White House. /1 newrepublic.com/post/201393/...

How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers ‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.

ICE abducts people and then immediately moves them around to prevent access to lawyers and habeas corpus petitions. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story on this consistent game being played to frustrate due process.
prospect.org/justice/2025...

Source for Figure 3 above is Center for Strategic and International Studies: www.csis.org/analysis/lef...

What is true is that right-wing terrorism is way down this year, possibly because potential terrorists...who might have engaged in terrorist assaults may well be working for ICE instead. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/state-terr...

After staying out of the public eye since his performance last Tuesday in front of the nation’s top military leaders...Trump spoke to sailors in Norfolk, Virginia, today. The president arrived an hour late and delivered a meandering, political address much like the one he gave on Tuesday.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?

I love the smell of originalism in the morning.

Fitch Ratings declares a winner! Who did have the better answer for Austin's financial reserves?

Fitch Ratings declares a winner!
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Pertissue Fisher was among those taken out of her home in the middle of the night. “They just treated us like we were nothing,” she told ABC7 news. That was the point. /2

War on America, Chicago Theater of Operations In counter-insurgency warfare, any civilian can be a suspect

Chicago was a teaching moment for police and other state security forces nationally: they are being told by White House shadow chief Stephen Miller and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that they are now "unleashed" and their hands "untied." /1 lucid.substack.com/p/war-on-ame...

Nothing in ICE’s tweet contradicts anything in my thread. The guy had traffic violations from “years ago”. That does not make him a criminal. ICE does not even try to rebut the other facts bsky.app/profile/davi...