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This is a remarkable document. here is a mayor restricting her constituents’ first amendment rights to (checks notes) protect them from (checks notes) the federal (really?) government.

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The proposed “compact” for universities replaces the regularity and fairness of law with highly discretionary systems that ensure all sorts of entities and institutions will face the government from a subservient position, as supplicants in need of largesse.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

UPDATE — Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling is hosting a press conference right now.

He says police officers do not arrest federal agents.

We'll have more details from that presser to come later in this story.

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LIVE: ‘I won’t back down,’ Pritzker says after Illinois and Chicago sues Trump to block National Guard deployment • The TRiiBE The plaintiffs are asking a judge to block Trump’s efforts to federalize and deploy troops to Illinois, and to declare the actions unlawful.

HAPPENING NOW — “The Trump admin is following a playbook: cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem like peaceful protesters are a mob by firing pellets and tear gas canisters at them. Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act."

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Pritzker: The [federal] court here has given the US Department of Justice two days to respond in writing to the state's TRO motion. They have to respond by midnight Wednesday night, and the next hearing will be on Thursday.

As Money Rushed In, ICE’s Rapid Expansion Stalled Out Immigration arrests have declined and jail overcrowding is worse despite billions in new funds.

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This shit has got to stop

It had been hours since the President had announced a tariff change, and all of this stability was killing the economy. He had to act to provide the American people with the uncertainty they deserve.

Same thing happened in LA, same thing happened in DC: prosecutors charged people with assaulting a federal officer and then furiously backpedaled when the evidence didn’t support it

Selling soul to devil not good.

How can we let such bloodthirsty fanatics roam free on our cities’ streets?

Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers accuse Pam Bondi of putting Trump over the constitution The former staffers warn that the Justice Department is failing its mission in an open letter released Monday.

JUST IN: Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers demand oversight ahead of Pam Bondi hearing, amid widespread questions about the department's decisions to target Trump's political foes such as former FBI director James Comey.

In Oval Office just now, Trump says "I'll have to take a look at it" .. when asked about a possible pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell

He adds: "I'll have to speak to the DOJ.. I have a lot of people asking me for pardons"

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm' Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

“We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it,” according to an open letter signed by 282 former officials.

It will take years to rebuild our Justice Dept.

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NO KINGS
Westborough, Massachusetts
Saturday, October 18

U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva won her election two weeks ago. Republicans refuse to seat her in Congress.

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

Brutal. Constituents in Jim Jordan's (R-OH) district would have to fork up an additional $16,846 every year to keep their coverage.

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn ) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

Stephen Miller is a dangerous madman living in a world of his own making. I really can’t believe there isn’t more discourse around the madness we are witnessing each day.

“…we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024

Graphic that shows Republicans absent when needing to vote on the Epstein files or prevent a shutdown, but celebrating when cutting taxes for billionaires.

Hmmm... weird.

Time is short for an ACA premium fix in the shutdown fight, says GOP insurance leader

While lawmakers debate the calendar, a top GOP insurance regulator is pulling the fire alarm on ACA subsidies. If Congress doesn't act before the Nov. 1 enrollment deadline, 24 million Americans will face sticker shock so severe it will crash the entire marketplace.

Imagine being so far gone mentally you can’t even remember the name of a book you wrote.

Trump Gave a Partisan Speech to Navy Sailors, to Mixed Reactions

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Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Use Emergency Powers to Bypass Courts and Deploy Troops

Insurrection Act? He just pardoned 1600 true insurrectionists and never once deployed troops as our Capitol was being ransacked, police officers beaten and killed and Congress persons running for their lives. This is Hitler all over again. October 18th!!!

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Pritzker: "I refuse to let Trump, Noem continue on the march towards autocracy. I am not afraid, state will use every lever to get Noem's thugs out of chicago."

Miller Shouts and Sneers His Way Through Off-the-Rails Interview Trump’s top aide gave a jarring, volatile interview to CNN.

The pressure appears to be getting to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.